Most beautiful in A Place in the Sun and Father of the Bride, most whoa-talented-after-all in WAFoVWoolf.
RIP, Miss Tits (Burton's nickname for her).
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
morbs otm
damn
― BIG GERTRUDE aka the steindriver (history mayne), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
"only" 79!
― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Best in Virginia Woolf, but pretty damned memorable in Suddenly Last Summer, no more so than when she's in heels on a platform suspended over the snake pit.
― it also takes hip-hip with it (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, she was luminous in A Place in the Sun...
RIP, Liz.
― exécutés avec l’insolence accoutumée du (Michael White), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
haven't really seen any of her reputedly terrible post-prime vehicles except John Waters' fave, Boom!
A strike against talkies: that face, and then.... that voice.
was her last film appearance The Flintstones?
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
wikipedia says she did a TV movie, These Old Broads, in 2001
― we can't rule out the supernatural no matter how much I would like to (stevie), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
see, that's not film.
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Neither is The Flintstones.
― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought she was terrific and believably old and slow in Giant.
Her child performances (National Velvet especially) are guileless.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP. She had the most beautiful eyes in the world.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
One prominent and perhaps surprising dissenter about her looks was Richard Burton, who was twice her husband. The notion of his wife as “the most beautiful woman in the world is absolute nonsense,” he said.
“She has wonderful eyes,” he added, “but she has a double chin and an overdeveloped chest, and she’s rather short in the leg.”
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP
My favourite real life Liz moment: at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert where she told a heckler to STFU
― a murder rap to keep ya dancin, with a crime record like Keith Chegwin (snoball), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
her and newman were about the hottest screen couple ever got imo
― the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
magma hot
RIP beautiful crazy ladyi always loved your teeth
― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
― the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 14:56 (17 minutes ago)
otm
― ENBB, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Mmmmmmmmmmmontgomery Clift?
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
so great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp1uMe4vdBg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
(whose face she held together after a car wreck, btw)
xp
montgomery cleft
― the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
too soon...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
My family claims we saw her picnicking with John Warner at a horse race in Virginia, but I have no memory of it whatsoever.
― Virginia Plain, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
R.I.P.
Love this interview about A Place in the Sun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZv8HVkT3TY
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
from twitter
Slate Mel Gussow, author of the NYT's Taylor obit, died in 2005. http://bit.ly/ePzTdv
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
written by a ghost!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
well, she won her Oscar for Butterfield 8 for almost dying. She also survived her career by about 35 years.
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Until three weeks I had NO idea she was once Mrs. John Warner.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius)
― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.)
No argument, but you know it was the F'stones '90s movie starring John Goodman she was in, right?
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Farewell Liz. Damn she was a beautiful vibrant thing in her day. Grew up watching all of her films...National Velvet was a recurring favorite for a long long time. Always loved her turn as Kate in Taming of the Shrew.
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.thefancarpet.com/uploaded_assets/images/gallery/829/The_Flintstones_9688_Medium.jpg
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
End of an era, this is. RIP
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy shit! RIP.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
can't think of a single decent film she was in
― Hyper Rescue Troop (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
guess I should see Virginia Woolf tho
― Hyper Rescue Troop (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Virginia Woolf is awesome. RIP
― Darin, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I know, joeks, etc. (e.g., "That's not writing, it's typing.")
― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
"can't think of a single decent film she was in"
national velvet little women father of the bride a place in the sun giant raintree county cat on a hot tin roof butterfield 8 who's afraid of virginia woolf? the taming of the shrew reflections in a golden eye secret ceremony night watch the driver's seat winter kills
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah well of those I've seen on that list (which is, I dunno, half of them?) can't say I liked any of 'em
― Hyper Rescue Troop (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Trying to give my grade 6s an idea of the scope of her celebrity this morning...best I could come up with was that it exceeded Lady Gaga's. That seems woefully short of the mark.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
found Cat on a Hot Tin Roof really painful to sit through, altho Burl Ives was entertaining
― Hyper Rescue Troop (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
when you say grade 6 you make me think about trailer park boys and i love trailer park boys!
x-post
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
so, thanks.
Can't believe anyone could dislike Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Such a good movie.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Sort of the (an?) Angelina Jolie of her time. Her stardom transcended the quality of her films.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh, no
Movies actually mattered when Taylor became a star. They stopped being central to the culture at least 55 years ago.
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually, I think it's pretty apt. Just as (Oscar winner!) Jolie has been great in some films, she's also been in a bunch of dreck, and the reason most know here is not for her acting but for her tabloid stuff. Same with Taylor. Sure, once movies "mattered" more, but Taylor was a tabloid fixture for reasons beyond her roles.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
uh uh Suddenly Last Summer should be on the good films list there.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Never change, Shakey.
― Peyton Flanders (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
A friend noted on Facebook that he asked the editor of the National Enquirer 14 or so years ago what their biggest stories tended to be, and he cited "deaths" and "Elizabeth Taylor." So by my friend's measure, this is the biggest tabloid story of all time!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
at least we don't have to hear what michael jackson thinks about the whole thing. cuz that would have been a whole thing right there.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I think she reworked her old reviews for the mini-reviews that made up the 5001 Nights at the Movies compilation (per the Letterboxd tag).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 September 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
Aug 12 71 the only time I get testy with E is when she has had a couple & has taken a pink pill..in conjunction with the booze gives her a kind of false euphoria & becomes sentimental & a reminiscent of her mother. Since her mother is the bore of all epochs this can be a bit hard— Richard Burton (@BurtonDiaries) August 12, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 August 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
Have been quarantining with Liz Taylor movies I've missed.
Father of the Bride (1950): Spencer Tracy's film really, and I've never seen him better. Something very real about the dad who puts up with all kinds of craziness to make his daughter happy. Witty, satirical script. This and the sequel Father's Little Dividend were Joan Bennett's last big movies before her "scandal," and she is enjoyable as always. Liz was 17 playing 20 in this, which is kind of unusual.
A Place in the Sun (1951): More noir-ish than I expected. Liz really glows. Montgomery Clift's problem is he falls in love too quickly.
Ivanhoe (1952): Not sure why she felt she was miscast in this role because she's fine and convincing playing the Jewish girl Rebecca (years before she converted irl). Robert Taylor perhaps too old to play Ivanhoe, but this is classic old school MGM.
Elephant Walk (1954): Certainly nice to look at. Very 1950s psychology with Peter Finch driven to madness trying to live up to the greatness of his deceased father. Liz wears awesome clothes. The film is generally nutty but it only gets truly laughable at the climax when the elephants take more control of things. This is the Rebecca plot essentially.
― Josefa, Friday, 27 March 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link