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 ...
She wrote her first cookbook in 1999 and named it "The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook." Since then, each cookbook cover has featured her friendly, smiling face and text identifying itself as a ...