The Barefoot Contessa

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While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella's castle of dreams has become a pumpkin.

actors:

Humphrey Bogart	as Harry Dawes
Ava Gardner	as Maria Vargas
Edmond O'Brien	as Oscar Muldoon
Marius Goring	as Alberto Bravano
Valentina Cortese	as Eleanora Torlato-Favrini
Rossano Brazzi	as Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini
Elizabeth Sellars	as Jerry
Warren Stevens	as Kirk Edwards
Franco Interlenghi	as Pedro Vargas
Mari Aldon	as Myrna
Bessie Love	as Mrs. Eubanks
Diana Decker	as Drunken blonde
Bill Fraser	as J. Montague Brown
Alberto Rabagliati	as Nightclub proprietor
Enzo Staiola	as Busboy

directors:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
rating:6.90

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Spanish Dancer in Madrid is discovered by Hollywood executives and is
groomed before stardom in his premature death. Bitter
soap opera is more about ill-fated love that this is the movie business, and
that is part of the problem: Rossano Brazzi, playing another in his series of thorns
Prince Charmings, never connects with Ava Gardner,
that is beautiful but empty (bent and sounds). Humphrey Bogart, cast as an alcoholic
filmmaker, across the coast on auto-pilot, both
never cracking a smile. Edmond O'Brien managed to win an Oscar for Supporting
striking role as an agent of the press, but "The Barefoot Contessa" makes
tiptoeing too much and never a company. * 1 / 2 to ****
It has been stated - often in these pages - that cinema is a visual aid.
There is nothing wrong with that until you start thinking about all those
'Movie-Quote' that books are gradually becoming a mini industry. Any real
film buff worth his or her salt can cite at least forty percent of the
Dialogue "Casablanca", but still I hear even one erupt over the opening
despite mounting that was shot from Don Siegel or
speak in reverential terms about camera angles, kitchen, Dolly shootings, etc. I am, of course
, talking about the buff-in - the-street, the real film buff whose only
subject of a movie is pure enjoyment, as opposed to academics
and / or film 'scholar' who has opted to make a living with
dark writing on the film rather than stack shelves Safeways.
Therefore, here we have a great movie dialogue and since the dialogue was written by
Mank - the man who gave "A Letter to Three Wives' and 'All
About Eve ', but remains perhaps best known as the guy who had the chutzpah to rewrite
Scott Fitzgerald (Mank was producer of "Three comrades' in which Fitzgerald received his only
'Screenplay' credit) - we know that going in the sense that
will be out of the bottle right. In fact, for some, including myself, Mank
name as a writer-director was the main selling point though Bogie and Ava Gardner
are not exactly chopped liver. In the event that dialogue is one that
a distance of making this movie, none more relevant than Oscar Muldoon's
bitter sense of betrayal at learning that Mary intends to
listed his father's murder trial ... "There will be a solo cornet
Wednesday evening.
If the film is ultimately disappointing, it is only because
promised a review of warts and all Hollywood, in the tradition of
Sunset Boulevard, The Bad and the Beautiful, etc. and changed mid-course
to concentrate on the eponymous character outside of Sunset and Vine. Of course
in a way that you could argue that Mank was prudent to take this course
because after all, WHO or what might compete with Wilder and Minelli,
among them, said almost everything to say that Tinseltown
Behind Closed blinds.
What remains is a richly cynical Hollywood and seeing the Jet Set
Bogie concisely conveyed through the voice of credits (both for a visual aid) and a
turn virtuoso Eddie O & # 39; Brien who really deserved his Best Actor Oscar
- an Oscar to another, as you might say. Mank (Joe, who is
) as his older brother Herman stressed in dialogue and fragile in his best
(wife, Eva) gave us lasting masterpieces, this only loses, but still worth
the penalty hearing, if not to see. 7 / 10

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