Download Barefoot Contessa, The
(crime, drama, mystery, romance)
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 |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
rating:6.90
See also: Crime: Dancer Upstairs, The
See also: Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca