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Bookmark this pageThe Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Like The Bad and the Beautiful, this starts with a funeral, then moves into flashback with three different guides to the scandalous life of a movie queen who started in the Spanish slums and liked to keep her feet in the dirt. Not as incisive as Minnelli's film, but still a heady Mankiewicz brew of Hollywood trash and wit. Also something of a film à clef, in which the millionaire producer is Howard Hughes, there are disguised caricatures (Farouk, the Duke of Windsor), and the Contessa herself is a tactful mixture (mostly Rita Hayworth).Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Cast: Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring, Rossano Brazzi, Elizabeth Sellars, Valentina Cortese full cast
Duration: 128 mins
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