The Barefoot Contessa

The Barefoot Contessa is a 1954 film about a Spanish dancer named Maria Vargas who becomes a Hollywood movie star with the help of washed-up director Harry Dawes.
 * Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

Harry Dawes

 * Life, every now and then, behaves as though it had seen too many bad movies, when everything fits too well - the beginning, the middle, the end - from fade-in to fade-out.

Alberto Bravano

 * To make a hundred dollars into a hundred and ten dollars - this is work. To make a hundred million into a hundred and ten million, this is inevitable.

Dialogue

 * Drunken, envious blonde [of Maria]: She hasn't even got what I've got.
 * Jerry: What she's got, you couldn't spell...and what you've got, you used to have.




 * Maria Vargas: In Hollywood, it is not easy to become a star.
 * Harry Dawes: Ah, where is it easy?

Cast

 * Humphrey Bogart - Harry Dawes
 * Ava Gardner - Maria Vargas
 * Marius Goring - Alberto Bravano
 * Elizabeth Sellars - Jerry Dawes
 * Diana Decker - Drunken Blonde