The Barefoot Contessa
Time Out says
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
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UK release:
1954
Duration:
128 mins
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Cast:
Elizabeth Sellars, Rossano Brazzi, Marius Goring, Edmond O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Valentina Cortese
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