The Barefoot Contessa
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Humphrey BogartStardom: The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and The African Queen…Beat the Devil (1953), and The Barefoot Contessa (1954) to achieve cult status.
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Ava GardnerMany feel Mankiewicz’s The Barefoot Contessa, in which she costarred with Humphrey Bogart, to be the definitive Gardner film, in that the rags-to-riches story roughly parallels Gardner’s own life. Although a lesser film than either of the aforementioned, Cukor’s Bhowani Junction (1956) features Gardner in what may be…
Read MoreMany feel Mankiewicz’s The Barefoot Contessa, in which she costarred with Humphrey Bogart, to be the definitive Gardner film, in that the rags-to-riches story roughly parallels Gardner’s own life. Although a lesser film than either of the aforementioned, Cukor’s Bhowani Junction (1956) features Gardner in what may be…
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