Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher.
And I love her mother's sassy friend!
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 15, 2022 7:09 AM |
I watched it knowing Elizabeth Taylor won an Oscar for her role, but it is one of the most unintentionally hilarious films I've ever seen.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 28, 2021 12:29 AM |
Watching this movie, I'm finally starting to understand why Liz was such a star.
She not only had the beauty, but she had the personality. She could really act.
Most of the other actresses of her day had either looks or ability. Liz had both.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 28, 2021 12:44 AM |
This is the first movie she was heavily corseted in. The Wardrobe Department started getting concerned.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 28, 2021 12:53 AM |
Yeah R4, you can tell this is when she first started gaining weight. She looks very bloated.
I'm guessing that Liz started drinking heavily around this time. The scene where she ordered more french fries from the waitress, made me laugh.
This is such a good movie, though. It's so sophisticated. And the writing is fantastic.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 28, 2021 1:01 AM |
Face it, Mama, I was the SLUT OF ALL TIME!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 28, 2021 1:04 AM |
Excuse me, but can anyone change a $100,00.00 bill?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 28, 2021 1:13 AM |
I'm still trying to decide if Liggett's wife is smart, or a complete idiot.
That's the beauty of this movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 28, 2021 1:17 AM |
[quote]R5 you can tell this is when she first started gaining weight. She looks very bloated.… I'm guessing that Liz started drinking heavily around this time. The scene where she ordered more french fries from the waitress, made me laugh.
She’d just spent a year shooting CLEOPATRA in Italy, getting a huge daily per diem to spend on throwing lavish dinner parties, etc. And she was turning 30. So the bloat was creeping in.
PS: this is a fairly awful movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 28, 2021 1:18 AM |
^^^ Butterfield was filmed in early 1960, long before her scenes in Cleopatra were made.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 28, 2021 1:28 AM |
Why awful, R9?
I think it's amazing.
Considering when it was made, this movie must have been ground breaking.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 28, 2021 1:32 AM |
I never thought much about Eddie Fisher before, but he was kind of attractive.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 28, 2021 1:38 AM |
I can't believe that Liz Taylor was only 28 in this movie.
She seemed older.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 28, 2021 1:42 AM |
[quote]Face it, Mama, I was the SLUT OF ALL TIME!
And how many of you have said the same thing to your own mothers? Fess up!
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 28, 2021 1:44 AM |
Based on a real life incident, very interesting. This film is really all about Taylor looking incomparably beautiful.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 28, 2021 1:45 AM |
Laurence Harvey is a wet noodle. Mildred Dunnock and Betty Field are fabulous. Liz is a star baby! Gotta run. Gloria is about to have an accident.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 28, 2021 1:45 AM |
[quote]R10 Butterfield was filmed in early 1960, long before her scenes in Cleopatra were made.
Oh, you’re right!
I guess she just started the slide into permanent plumpdome all on her own.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 28, 2021 1:46 AM |
So he chases her, she dies, then he goes back to his wife and lives happily ever after?
That's fucking BULLSHIT!
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 28, 2021 1:53 AM |
Speaking of TCM, whose idea was it to have this astrologer on babbling about "the moon in Jupiter"?! Talk about cringe -- Robert Osborne must be spinning in his grave.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 28, 2021 2:01 AM |
Faithfull's story has inspired several fictional works, the best known of which is John O'Hara's 1935 novel BUtterfield 8.[1][3][5] The case has been explored in numerous non-fiction books, including British crime historian Jonathan Goodman's 1990 true crime book The Passing of Starr Faithfull,[6] which won a Gold Dagger award.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 28, 2021 2:10 AM |
One of Betty's favorite movies
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 28, 2021 2:15 AM |
Liz’s looks didn’t start deteriorating until she hooked up with Richard Burton.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 28, 2021 12:10 PM |
R17, I think Taylor said that she started drinking after the death of Mike Todd, her third (?) husband, in 1958. That might account for the swollen look.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 28, 2021 2:06 PM |
R16 I think Laurence Harvey was a dreamboat in this movie. Also great with her in the 1973 horror film Night Watch.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 28, 2021 10:38 PM |
Did Laurence Harvey ever manage to muster an iota of chemistry with anyone?
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 28, 2021 10:41 PM |
[quote] Did Laurence Harvey ever manage to muster an iota of chemistry with anyone?
Yes, they look pretty hot and heavy here.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 28, 2021 10:44 PM |
Harvey was always a cold fish as an actor. That's why he's so perfect in ROOM AT THE TOP (he does manage some chemistry with Signoret) and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 28, 2021 11:52 PM |
I loved Harvey in DARLING with Julie Christie. They had chemistry. More than she had with Dirk Bogarde.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 29, 2021 1:11 AM |
Harvey to Dina: But I can't go on disappointing you. Dina: Couldn't you try? I think John O'Hara also wrote the book that the movie with Suzanne Pleshette playing a nympho is based on.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 29, 2021 2:19 AM |
And that would be the potboiler A Rage To Live with a very sexy Ben Gazzara. I don't think TCM would show it, but they may have.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 29, 2021 2:26 AM |
TCM has shown A Rage To Live. Mediocre, and not one of Pleshette's finest hours.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 29, 2021 2:53 AM |
I stole a grapefruit from a tree at Laurence Harvey's house in Palm Springs. He'd been dead for about 30 years so I don't think he minded.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 29, 2021 9:35 PM |
r35=Lucy Ricardo
Did you get it autographed?
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 29, 2021 10:54 PM |
Anyone read the original novel by John O’Hara? I like his writing.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 29, 2021 11:13 PM |
Paperback Writer O'Hara was no doubt a closet gay given his ouevre.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 9, 2021 2:22 AM |
I found the novel easy to get into and hard to put down. The characters and their backgrounds are very convincing. It's a sad book, but I liked it.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 9, 2021 2:32 AM |
I couldn't watch A Rage to Live without laughing.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 9, 2021 8:04 AM |
Wasn’t RAGE supposed to be Suzanne’s breakout movie role? Who was her agent?
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 9, 2021 12:45 PM |
R40, Duh, that's what made it bearable! That and Brett Somers and Ben Gazzara shirtless.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 9, 2021 5:20 PM |
Brett Somers was shirtless?
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 9, 2021 11:12 PM |
I was the slut of all time!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 15, 2022 7:09 AM |
