Elizabeth Taylor - RIP

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).

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damn

"only" 79!

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.

Man, she was luminous in A Place in the Sun...

RIP, Liz.

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?

wikipedia says she did a TV movie, These Old Broads, in 2001

see, that's not film.

Neither is The Flintstones.

I thought she was terrific and believably old and slow in Giant.

Her child performances (National Velvet especially) are guileless.

RIP. She had the most beautiful eyes in the world.

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.”

RIP

My favourite real life Liz moment: at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert where she told a heckler to STFU

her and newman were about the hottest screen couple ever got imo

magma hot

RIP beautiful crazy lady
i always loved your teeth

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 (17 minutes ago)

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Mmmmmmmmmmmontgomery Clift?

so great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp1uMe4vdBg

(whose face she held together after a car wreck, btw)

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montgomery cleft

too soon...

My family claims we saw her picnicking with John Warner at a horse race in Virginia, but I have no memory of it whatsoever.

R.I.P.

Love this interview about A Place in the Sun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZv8HVkT3TY

from twitter

Slate Mel Gussow, author of the NYT's Taylor obit, died in 2005. http://bit.ly/ePzTdv

written by a ghost!

well, she won her Oscar for Butterfield 8 for almost dying. She also survived her career by about 35 years.

Until three weeks I had NO idea she was once Mrs. John Warner.

see, that's not film.

― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius)

Neither is The Flintstones.

― 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?

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.

http://www.thefancarpet.com/uploaded_assets/images/gallery/829/The_Flintstones_9688_Medium.jpg

End of an era, this is. RIP

Holy shit! RIP.

can't think of a single decent film she was in

guess I should see Virginia Woolf tho

Virginia Woolf is awesome. RIP

No argument, but you know it was the F'stones '90s movie starring John Goodman she was in, right?

I know, joeks, etc. (e.g., "That's not writing, it's typing.")

"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

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

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.

found Cat on a Hot Tin Roof really painful to sit through, altho Burl Ives was entertaining

when you say grade 6 you make me think about trailer park boys and i love trailer park boys!

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so, thanks.

Can't believe anyone could dislike Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Such a good movie.

Sort of the (an?) Angelina Jolie of her time. Her stardom transcended the quality of her films.

ugh, no

Movies actually mattered when Taylor became a star. They stopped being central to the culture at least 55 years ago.

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.

uh uh Suddenly Last Summer should be on the good films list there.

Never change, Shakey.

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!

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.

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).

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

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.