Over the course of a distressing night, a bitter aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young guests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor made her film debut in ‘There’s One Born Every Minute’ (1942) I a small role. After her first starring-role in ‘National Velvet’ (1944), Taylor appeared as a teen-star in few other movies. She graduated to adult roles with ‘Conspirator’ (1949). Thereafter, the comedy film ‘Father of the Bride’ (1950) and its sequel brought commercial success to her.
Taylor’s performance in ‘A Place in the Sun’ (1951) earned her praise. She portrayed ‘Rebecca’ in the historical epic ‘Ivanhoe’ (1952). 1954’s ‘The Last Time I saw Paris,’ and 1956’s epic ‘Giant’ brought her acclaim. Her performance in ‘Raintree County’ (1957) fetched her a Oscar nomination.
Adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ ‘Cat on the Hot Tin Roof’ (1958) and 1959’s ‘Suddenly, Last Summer’ won her several nominations and awards. She won her first Academy Award for ‘BUtterfield-8’ (1960).
After the popular epic ‘Cleopatra’ (1963), Taylor and Burton co-starred in 11 films, including ‘The VIPs’ (1963), and ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ (1966) which earned her high acclaim and awards. ‘Taming of the Shrew’ (1967), too, was very successful.
Her notable stage performances include ‘The Little Foxes’ (1981), and ‘Private Lives’ (1983). Later in her career, she featured in many TV-films and series.Â
Over the course of a distressing night, a bitter aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young guests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
Brick Pollitt, an alcoholic ex football player injures himself while he was drunk. Shortly after, he goes with his wife Maggie to visit his family’s plantation in Mississippi, for his father’s 65th birthday. His father wants to know why they are still childless, unlike Brick’s brother.
A Place in the Sun is a romantic drama film which tells the story of George Eastman whose uncle is a wealthy industrialist. However, he is excluded from high society and is given a job at his uncle’s factory, involving manual labor. He soon finds himself involved with a co-worker named Alice. However, when he is introduced to Angela Vickers, a socialite, he falls for her as well.
Giant is a Western drama film, which tells the story of a Texas ranching family, as they are fighting to survive the changing times.
Suddenly, Last Summer is a mystery drama film which revolves around a young woman, who is being evaluated for lobotomy by a psychiatric doctor, after she feels traumatized by the mysterious death of her cousin. It soon seems that her aunt is trying to hide something from her.
A former jockey, Mi Taylor mentors Velvet Brown, a young girl who wants her horse to win the England's Grand National race. Velvet gets her steed with her determination and encouragement of her family. However, on the big day, some last-minute issues arise with the jockey resulting in an unexpected rider to take over as a replacement.
Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, Little Women is a romantic comedy drama film which revolves around four sisters named Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth, who are raised by their mother, while their father is away fighting in the Civil War. Despite harsh times where they have to struggle to make ends meet, they remain positive, and try to find love and peace in their lives.
Stanley Banks is a successful suburban lawyer whose daughter Kay announces casually that she is in love with a man named Buckley, and that she has accepted his proposal. Although this makes Stanley uneasy, he realizes that his daughter is now grown up, and this day is inevitable. He tries to deal with the emotional pain of separating from her, and does his best to arrange for the wedding.
The Taming of the Shrew is a romantic comedy drama film which tells the story of a woman named Katherine, whose father Baptista Minola, will marry off his youngest daughter Bianca, only if someone will marry Katherina, his eldest one. Problem is that Katherina is quite a shrewish and ill-tempered woman. A young British nobleman named Petruchio takes on the challenge of taming and marrying her.
Lassie Come Home is an adventure film which tells the story of a boy Joe and his dog Lassie. However, when Joe’s family is hit by hard times, they are forced to sell Lassie to a wealthy man, the Duke of Rudling. Without his closest friend, Joe becomes quite depressed, but he is unaware that Lassie has started a cross-country trip back home to return to her former owners.
This epic historical drama film chronicles the story of Queen Cleopatra, who in order to save her kingdom from the imperial ambitions of Rome, became the mistress of Julius Caesar.
A London chorus girl tries to mend her relationships with her daughter, whom she had given up long ago, as well as with her estranged husband.
Wilfred of Ivanhoe is a loyal British knight who sets out on a mission to free the King of England, Richard the Lionheart, after he gets kidnapped. He wants to put King Richard back on the throne, to prevent the evil Prince John from ruling the country. However, he encounters various obstacles on the way, and also finds himself attracted to two beautiful maidens.
A Date with Judy is a musical romantic drama film which revolves around the life of a teen girl Judy as she struggles with love and other issues in her life.
In this British American suspense thriller, an unhappy housewife - Ellen Wheeler - who is recovering from a nervous breakdown claims to have witnessed a murder in the neighbourhood. However, upon investigation, the police does not find anything. Her husband John and friend Sarah have their doubts too, but Ellen soon claims she saw yet another murder.
BUtterfield 8 is a drama film which tells the story of a woman named Gloria Wandrous, who has a very active night-life. However, things take a turn when she finds herself falling for a married man, leading to tragic consequences.
A young woman follows her partner to Zurich, where the latter is meant to study violin. She meets a piano student at the conservatory who proclaims his lover for her, causing her to make a a choice between him and her partner.
Larry falls for a girl named Louise in high school. Although they both have dreams of traveling to Vienna, Austria, to continue their education, things take a turn as Louise gets pregnant during college, and they are forced to move to a small town called Napoleon.
The Mirror Crack’d is a mystery thriller film which revolves around Jane Marple, a detective who is called in to investigate, after a local woman in an English village is poisoned and killed. The locals however believe that the intended victim was actually a visiting movie star, who is filming a drama about Mary, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, former Queen of England.
Courage of Lassie is an adventure war drama film which tells the story of Bill, a dog and his young companion, Kathie Merrick. After an accident, Bill is separated from Kathie, and is trained as a war dog.
Based on Dylan Thomas’s famous radio play, the film portrays a day in the life of the peculiar residents of a fictional seaside Welsh village, ‘Llareggub'. As the wizened Captain Tom Cat, who is going blind, walks with a stranger down the village street, he reminisces about many incidences and people, including his ship-mates and love of his young age, Rosie Probert.
A wealthy architect starts falling for a good natured young widow, with a dark past. However, his wife is unable to bear this and tries to break up their romance.
Fran Walker, an aging dancer, starts having an affair with Joe Grady, a lounge pianist who is also a compulsive gambler. She is also waiting for her husband Thomas Lockwood, to finalize the divorce which is pending for five years.
A small-town-girl Anastacia falls for a smart theater agent Jud Parker. Although he reciprocates her feelings, he doesn’t like her well enough to give up his bachelor life. However, Anastacia decides to set up a trap for him.
There’s One Born Every Minute is a comedy film which tells the story of Lemuel Twine, who decides to enter the political scene by running for mayor. However, he is unaware that his financial backer Lester Cadwalader is making him run only to see the current mayor re-elected. Things take a turn when Lemuel’s daughter Helen bumps into her ex- boyfriend Jimmy Hanagan. Jimmy becomes an advertising director for her father’s pudding company, and within a short time he manages to sky-rocket the business.
This romantic drama film tells the story of Steve Latimer, a defense attorney, who had recently agreed to defend a gambler Victor Raimondi, in a trial. Things get interesting when Jane, Steve’s daughter gets acquainted with Victor, and they start feeling attracted to one another.
Fredrick Egerman is yet to consummate his marriage with the virgin Anne. A bit frustrated, Fredrick goes to see his old lover, actress Desirée Armfeldt. Desirée wants Fredrick to marry her, in spite of her own married lover Count Mittelheim. Things reach a climax when all lovers and the Count’s wife get together at a party.
This American comedy drama film is about a devilish inmate who is admitted to a psychiatric hospital run by a doctor. He offers an innocent orderly vast riches if the latter helps him to escape.
Dr. Faustus uses necromancy to conjure up a demon called Mephistopheles. He then goes on to sign a pact with Lucifer, bargaining his soul in exchange of Mephistopheles serving him as his slave for twenty-four years. Very soon he starts indulging in all kinds of whims. But as time passes, the excitement wears off and he decides to repent. But Lucifer is not ready to let him off.
This Italian crime drama film revolves around a mentally unstable middle-aged woman named Lise, who experiences a series of bizarre encounters while she is in Rome, as she searches for someone who is going to kill her.
In this US-Soviet co-production, peasant kids, Tyltyl and Mytyl, set out to look for the Blue Bird of Happiness to make a young sick girl in the neighbourhood happy. The journey takes the two siblings to the kingdoms of past and future as well as the land of night and luxury. Accompanying them on their journey are human forms of various living and non-living things.
After being married for 30 years, Barbara Sawyer starts feeling worried thinking that she is losing her husband. Fearing that she is also losing her beauty, she undergoes an expensive plastic surgery. While waiting for her husband to return so that she can surprise him, she soon finds herself drawn to a young man.
The live-action adaptation of the beloved cartoon franchise finds the dim-witted but good-hearted Fred Flintstone promoted to his company’s vice president post after his best friend, Barney, replaces Fred’s test score with his own. But Fred’s good fortune turns sour when he unwittingly becomes involved in his boss Cliff Vandercave’s villainous schemes.
King Henry installs his close friend Thomas Becket as the Archbishop of Canterbury, as he hopes that his old friend will help him and be compliant in his ongoing battles with the church. However, things don’t go according to the King’s plans.
Jane Eyre is a romantic drama film which tells the story of a young woman named Jane, who takes up a job at Thornfield Hall, after being hired by its owner Edward Rochester, to care for his young daughter. Over time, she begins to fall for Edward, although he is much older to her.
King Henry VIII of England discards his wife Catharine of Aragon, after she fails to provide him with a male heir. He chooses a young and beautiful woman named Anne Boleyn, but even she is unable to give him a male child. Her daughter Elizabeth is a disappointment to Henry, but eventually he claims that he will make Elizabeth the next Queen, if Anne can find Jane Seymour, her former maid, whom she had banished as the King was attracted to her.
This romantic drama historical film revolves around Marcus, a Roman general, and how his love for a Christian slave encourages him to protect her and her family, when there are atrocities on the Christians.
This Western drama film tells us the story of two smart marketing executives who hire a cowboy to impersonate a fading star for public appearances. However, things get quite messy when the real star shows up as well.
Scent of Mystery is a mystery film which revolves around a novelist, who discovers a plan to murder an American heiress. He decides to prevent the crime, and save her life, and for this, he enlists the help of a taxi driver.
Elizabeth Taylor Awards
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1967 |
BUtterfield 8 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1961 |
Winner | World Film Favorite - Female | 1974 |
Suddenly, Last Summer | Best Actress - Drama | 1960 |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Best British Actress | 1967 |