O'Brien played sleazy show biz publicist Oscar Muldoon in 1954's "The Barefoot Contessa," which starred Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner. Bogart had been crowned Best Actor of 1951 for "The African ...

A barefoot contessa, a screwed-up princess, an exquisite drunk, a bawdy aristocrat, a nightmare for puritanical America and the moguls of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ava Gardner never stopped loving ...