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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play With extraordinary beauty talent and grace Spanish dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) was born to be a star Aided by American movie director Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart) she attains great success and fortune in Hollywood&39;s land of dreams But though she gives her all for stardom there is one thing Maria will never compromise - her soul No matter what the cost The Barefoot Contessa will dance to no one&39;s music but her own

The beautiful Hollywood film star Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) is shot dead by her aristocratic husband. At her funeral the men who knew her recount, in flashback, her rise from nightclub dancer to countess, telling of her fierce independence, and slowly revealing the events which lead up to her death. Although strenuously denied by writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz ('All About Eve', 'Cleopatra'), it has often been rumoured that the characters in the film were based on real people such as Rita Hayworth, Howard Hawks and King Farouk.