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Ava Gardner as Pandora Reynolds in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, wearing a sheer dark blouse and green earrings, with styled brown hair and red lipstick. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

film by Lewin [1951]
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Ava Gardner as Pandora Reynolds in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, wearing a sheer dark blouse and green earrings, with styled brown hair and red lipstick.
Gardner, Ava Ava Gardner in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951), directed by Albert Lewin.

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 film directed by Albert Lewin. The movie is a romantic mystery that features Ava Gardner as Pandora, an American playgirl whose love for a drifter, played by James Mason, is doomed.1

The "Flying Dutchman" is a figure from European maritime legend. It refers to a spectral ship, or a ghostly mariner, condemned to sail the seas eternally. The legend often involves a captain who made a rash pledge and is now doomed to sail forever, with the appearance of the ship signaling imminent disaster. This legend has inspired various artistic works, including Richard Wagner's opera Der fliegende Holländer.23

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