Revisiting "The Barefoot Contessa": An Insider's View of Hollywood Stardom and Its Painful Price
Save this story for later. Humphrey Bogart is famous for playing tough guys, criminals, and fast operators on the margins of society, but he was at his best playing what he wasâan artist. Thatâs just what he did in his two greatest films, which, not coincidentally, are also among the greatest of all inside-Hollywood movies: âIn a Lonely Placeâ (1950), in which he plays a screenwriter, and âThe Barefoot Contessaâ (1954), which is running through August 5th as part of the final week of Film Forumâs Humphrey Bogart series. (It is also widely available streaming...