'The Killers'

This adaptation was the first to pull Ernest Hemingway's short story onto the big screen. Actually, only the first 20 minutes or so are from Hemingway's story. The rest is completely original.

It would be remade two other times, the first by a 19-year-old Andrei Tarkovsky and then 10 years after that with Angie Dickinson and Lee Marvin.

Ava Gardner had a thing for Hemingway. She not only starred in The Killers, but also The Snows of Kilmanjaro and The Sun Also Rises.

Gardner was a bit of a vixen. She married Mickey Rooney (how he got so much tail, I don't know), Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra, and she had an affair with Howard Hughes. After her divorce with Sinatra in 1957, she went off to Spain and lived with Hemingway, althought it's not certain they were necessarily lovers.

Reportedly, she skinny dipped in his pool and he ordered that the water never be drained.

Anyway, I doubt it's an accident that Gardner was in all these Hemingway adaptations and she goes and hangs out with him, going to bullfights.