The Barefoot Contessa Quotes

The Barefoot Contessa is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . The Barefoot Contessa ended its run in 1970.

It features Joseph L. Mankiewicz (uncredited) as producer, Mario Nascimbene in charge of musical score, and Jack Cardiff as head of cinematography.

The Barefoot Contessa is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Barefoot Contessa is 130 minutes long. The Barefoot Contessa is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Humphrey Bogart as Harry Dawes, Ava Gardner as Maria Vargas, Diana Decker as Drunken blonde, Elizabeth Sellars as Jerry, Marius Goring as Alberto Bravano, Warren Stevens as Kirk Edwards, Mari Aldon as Myrna, Rossano Brazzi as Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini, Rossano Brazzi as Eleanora Torlato-Favrini, and Edmond O'Brien as Oscar Muldoon.

The Barefoot Contessa Quotes

Rossano Brazzi as Eleanora Torlato-Favrini

• (Rossano Brazzi) "It is time for the Torlato-Favrinis to get off the world."
• (Rossano Brazzi) "The fact remains that we are neither unique nor important to the world. And it will go on without us."

Marius Goring as Alberto Bravano

• (Marius Goring) "How many millions have you in tax-exempt bonds, and oil wells whose power of production your government so generously protects, while it denies similar benefits to the human brain?"

• (Marius Goring) "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."

Edmond O'Brien as Oscar Muldoon

• (Edmond O'Brien) "You mean they're throwing punches?"
• (Elizabeth Sellars) "Don't be silly; neither one of them has had his hands closed since the day he was born."

Diana Decker as Drunken blonde

• (Diana Decker) "I don't even believe you're playing Pinochle."

Humphrey Bogart as Harry Dawes

• (Humphrey Bogart) "Her name is Jerry."
• (Ava Gardner) "She has the name of a man."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "That's where the similarities end."

Mari Aldon as Myrna

• (Mari Aldon) "I'm a frightened tramp."

Warren Stevens as Kirk Edwards

• (Warren Stevens) "You've never done an honest day's work in your life."
• (Marius Goring) "I have never done a day's work in my life; honest OR dishonest, but neither have you -- To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable."

Ava Gardner as Maria Vargas

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