The barefoot contessa
(1954)

Fiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : MGM, 1954
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DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 130 min.)) : sd., col

ISBN/ISSN
MWT15183489, 15183489
LANGUAGE
English
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Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring, Valentina Cortesa, Rossano Brazzi, Warren Stevens, Bessie Love, and Elizabeth Sellars

Writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz gives us a bitter tale of stardom won and wasted in "The Barefoot Contessa," a film à clef about a Rita Hayworth-style Spanish dancer (Ava Gardner) who becomes an international movie star. Her sympathetic guide is Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), a nearly-has-been writer/director trying to restart his career. Edmond O'Brien won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar® playing the public relations lackey of a Howard Hughes-like mogul (Warren Stevens)

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