Humphrey Bogart

Ava Gardner

Edmond O'Brien

Marius Goring

Valentina Cortese

Rossano Brazzi

Elizabeth Sellars

Warren Stevens

Franco Interlenghi

Mari Aldon

Enzo Staiola

Bill Fraser

Alberto Rabagliati

Maria Zanoli

Renato Chiantoni

John Parrish

Jim Gérald

Diana Decker

Riccardo Rioli

Tonio Selwart

Margaret Anderson

Gertrude Flynn

Bessie Love

John Horne

Ugo Mari

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Forrest E. Johnston

Bernard Vorhaus

Charles Knott

Jean-Pierre Mocky

Rosi Gori

Michał Waszyński

Peter T. Davies

Franco Magli

Arrigo Equini

Italo Tomassi

Claude Hitchcock

Mario Nascimbene

William Hornbeck

Jack Cardiff

Angelo Rizzoli

Robert Haggiag

Drama

The Barefoot Contessa

Figaro Incorporated Production

Transoceanic Film

United Artists

United States of America

Italy

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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 has died - we turn up at her funeral - and this film has something of a piece of musical vinyl to it. The first half side illustrates her rise to fame and fortune, her marriage and her death. Flip it over and we get a tale of just how she fell in love with "Count Torlato-Favrini" (Rossano Brazzi) and ultimately came a cropper. The constant being the increasing affection "Dawes" and "Vargas" share as their professional paths diverge and their friendship - entirely platonic - solidifies. Gardner could look quite cold sometimes on screen, but here she and Bogart exude a certain warmth through their characters, goaded nicely by the increasingly exasperating and brattish "Edwards" and also by the rather cruel and bullying "Bravano" - another solid effort from Marius Goring. It takes quite a swipe at the film industry - people obsessed with finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow - regardless of whether there's any gold or any rainbow, and the threads tie rather poignantly, if a little sadly, at the conclusion. It's a stylishly photographed production that looms great and showcases a strong ensemble of talent.

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