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This post is part of the fall blogathon: .

Throughout her five-decade career, Ava Gardner often played complicated, emboldened women. Beautiful, but

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Barefoot Contessa Poster

“Of all the pictures I’ve made, and honey, you better believe I have no idea exactly how much territory that covers, there’s no doubt that The Barefoot Contessa is the one that most people identify

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