BAREFOOT CONTESSA (1954)

JOSEPH L MANKIEWICZ

Classics Drama Romance Recommended Kelly's Heroes Ade Tastics

Cast

HUMPHREY BOGART AVA GARDNER EDMOND O'BRIEN MARIUS GORING VALENTINA CORTESE ROSSANO BRAZZI WARREN STEVENS BESSIE LOVE ELIZABETH SELLARS MARIO NASCIMBENE

Plot

Ava Gardner is superb in this glitzy Hollywood reprise of the Cinderella story. She is Maria, the Hollywood starlet who rises from poverty and spends all her time trying to deny and forget her past, much to her own unhappiness. Touching glamorous and superbly directed by Mankiewicz.