The Barefoot Contessa
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| United Artists | Release Date: September 30, 1954 |
Starring:
Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Elizabeth Sellars, Franco Interlenghi, Humphrey Bogart, Mari Aldon, Marius Goring, Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese, Warren Stevens
Summary:
This is the life of a Hollywood movie star named Maria (Ava Gardner), as told by writer/director Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), from being discovered in Madrid, Spain, until her funeral in Italy.
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Mankiewicz's classic Hollywood backstage tale of a tragic sex goddess/superstar (Ava Gardner), her gloomy, intellectual director (Humphrey Bogart) and the retinue of glamorous and/or exploitive movie types around them. [05 Nov 2004, p.C6]
THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA is marked by Mankiewicz's sharp wit--sometimes too much wit. When there is one character cracking wise, fine. When you have two, okay. But when almost all the characters sound as though they were sitting around the writer's table at the MGM commissary, suddenly credibility goes out the window.
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The movie is so ornate and so garrulous about telling the dirty truth that it's a camp classic: a Cinderella story in which the prince turns out to be impotent.
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