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The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

NR09/29/1954Drama2h 8m
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Overview

Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when the independently wealthy tycoon Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid to find Maria Vargas, a dancer who will star in the film.

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    Humphrey Bogart

    Harry Dawes

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    Ava Gardner

    Maria Vargas

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    Edmond O'Brien

    Oscar Muldoon

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    Marius Goring

    Alberto Bravano

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    Valentina Cortese

    Eleanora Torlato-Favrini

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    Rossano Brazzi

    Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini

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    Elizabeth Sellars

    Jerry

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    Warren Stevens

    Kirk Edwards

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    Franco Interlenghi

    Pedro Vargas

Occasionally narrated by Humphrey Bogart, he regales us with his story as the down on his luck Hollywood writer/director "Dawes" who alights on a tavern dancer in Madrid. "Maria Vargas" (Ava Gardner) is a woman with striking good looks and an aloofness that he immediately sees stardom in. Luckily his spoilt rich-kid backer "Edwards" (Warren Stevens) agrees to give her a screen test, but a combination of his own fecklessness and some competitive manoeuvring from "Dawes" creates quite an interest, an interest well fanned by PR man "Muldoon" (Edmond O'Brien). We know right from the start that she...

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