
The Barefoot Contessa
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- 1954
- 128 min
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of your life in one profession
you develop what could be called
an occupational point of view
So maybe I can be forgiven
thought of that morning
Because I found myself thinking that
the staging and the setting
even the lighting of Maria's funeral
were just what she would have wanted
My name is Harry Dawes
I've been a writer
and director of movies
for longer than I like to remember
I go way back:
backto when the movies
had two dimensions,
and one dimension
and sometimes no dimension at all
I wrote and directed all three
of the movies Maria D'Amata was in
Her short, full career,
from start to finish
On the screen, that is
What was I doing there?
The Fates or the Furies
directed her short, full life
they took care of that
Anyway, there I stood
halfway around the world
from Hollywood and Vine
in a little graveyard
near Rapallo, Italy
watching them bury the
Contessa Torlato-Favrini
in ground she'd never
heard of six months ago
with a stone statue to mark the spot
Life, every now and then, behaves
as if it had seen
too many bad movies
When everything fits too well:
The beginning, the
middle and the end
from fade-in to fade-out
the contessa was not a contessa
She was not even a movie
Where I faded in,
her name was Maria Vargas
and she danced in a
nightclub in Madrid, Spain
Ol!
Ol!
And so, once upon a time, three
years ago, we came to Madrid
to a not very fashionable
nightclub, to see Maria Vargas dance
Let me tell you who "we" were
The man with the sweaty
face and frightened eyes
was and is Oscar Muldoon
He's a public relations
man, which can be many things
unrelated and not public at all
The blonde was made
in Hollywood, USA
Her name was Myrna,
and she travelled
I was a writer and/or director,
who hadn't been doing too well
We were all in the
employ of Kirk Edwards
Meet Kirk Edwards
You're saying to yourself
"So, that's what he looks like"
"A Wall Street wizard who came
up from the streets of New York"
"Who came up from the bottom,
Don't feel sorry for Kirk Edwards
Not unless you're a
hungry psychiatrist
Kirk was producing a
motion picture, his first
He had as much in common
with anything creative
as I have with nuclear physics
Well, we'd been scouting for
what is called,
delicately, a new face
By most standards, flying all the
way to Madrid to look for a new face
would seem like going
to a lot of trouble
But I've known producers
who'd travel further
for a good smoked whitefish
Hey, um... Hey, Mac!
"S, seor"
How come the band is takin' a break?
- Uh, please. Don't...
- Signorina
Seorita. You're
in Spain now, buster
Seorita whatsis... Maria Vargas.
She does not dance no more?
No more, seor
You mean she dance only
one time, then "finito"?
"S, no ms. " One
time, then "finito"
Well, maybe she could dance one
more time, just for tonight, eh?
One time and no more.
Well, why you not make her
dance more? You the boss, eh?
Is Maria Vargas. Nobody
boss. Maria Vargas
Funny, I always thought a woman
was a two-time thing. Sing it, Oscar
Oscar, have her come to the table
I'm very sorry, seor,
but Seorita Vargas
does not sit at the
tables with the guests
Now, I'm sure you don't consider
Mr Kirk Edwards just
an ordinary guest
Well, I have said, it is not
possible with Seorita Vargas
Well, maybe just this once,
for Mr Kirk Edwards
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