The Barefoot Contessa is a 1954 romantic drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz about the life and loves of fictional Spanish sex symbol Maria Vargas. It stars …

Sep 29, 2020 · Despite her lower pay, Ava was excited for the chance to film the movie in Italy. She had recently separated from her husband Frank Sinatra, so she was eager to get away …

Jun 3, 2020 · According to Server, in the fall of 1949, the very married and very drunk Sinatra convinced an equally inebriated Gardner to leave a Palm Springs party hosted by studio head …

Aug 19, 2013 · She refuses to come out, but Harry Dawes, a down-on-his-luck writer and director (Humphrey Bogart), barges into her dressing room, where he notices her bare feet below a …

Mar 6, 2021 · In 1950 Sinatra came to Spain to be with Ava who was living in Tossa de Mar while shooting Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. They tried to be discreet about their affair but as …

The Barefoot Contessa: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring. This is the life of a Hollywood movie star named Maria, as …

The statue of Ava Gardner used in the film was by Bulgarian artist Assen Peikov. After the film Frank Sinatra bought the statue and installed it in the garden of his Coldwater Canyon home.

Humphrey Bogart co-stared with Ava Gardner in The Barefoot Contessa. He was pretty blunt about his opinion of her break-up with Frank Sinatra. From the...

Jul 31, 2023 · Ava Lavinia Gardner (1922 – 1990), an Academy Award-nominated actress and singer listed on the American Film Institute’s roster of 25 Greatest Female Screen Legends, …

1923: Young Frank Sinatra (1915-1989) (1st row, R) sitting barefoot in a large group portrait of his family and other guests at the Sinatra family's favorite summer place, the Echo Farm House in …