1954 Dramatic Classic
Oldie Movie DVD Digitally Mastered from Archival Prints
Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart in
"The Barefoot Contessa"
Oscar Academy & Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actor, and one other Oscar Nomination
Starring: Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Edmond O'Brien
Down on his luck, veteran movie director and writer Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart) is reduced to working for abusive, emotionally stunted business tycoon Kirk Edwards, who has decided he wants to produce a film to stroke his monumental ego. Looking for a fresh leading lady, they discover, in a Madrid night club, stunning dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner), a blithe but proud spirit who likes to go barefoot and has a troubled home life.
Maria takes an instant dislike to Kirk but trusts Harry, whose work she knows. Thanks to his expertise and the help of sweaty, insincere publicist Oscar Muldoon (Edmond O'Brien), her film debut is a sensation. Kirk tries to control Maria's life by publicly ordering her to stay away from wealthy Latin American playboy Alberto Bravano, but Maria rebels.
She is a great star, but Maria is not satisfied. She envies the happiness her friend Harry has found with his wife Jerry and wants a prince charming of her own. Alberto is too frivolous and shallow for her. When he berates her in public for supposedly ruining his luck at a gambling table, he receives a slap in the face from a stranger. This turns out to be Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini, who offers Maria his arm...
Digital Repaired High Quality DVD
English Language, 130 min.
Color, with removable sub-titles
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