O'Brien played sleazy show biz publicist Oscar Muldoon in 1954's "The Barefoot Contessa," which starred ... thriller "Seven Days in May" (1964). The film tells of a plot by a group of government ...
Ava Gardner is the contessa of the title ... might be an only slightly distorted mirroring of Howard Hughes. 1954: Best Supp. Actor (Edmond O’Brien).