Elizabeth Taylor Articles

Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Hollywood Chinese Theatre Why Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner Deserve Chinese Theatre Cement Honor The list below (and the one on the next page) features those who have left their handprints and footprints at Hollywood’s Chinese Theatre. Curiously, during the studio era, most of the stars and directors who took part in the ceremony were employed by one of three [...]

Kate Winslet (Titanic) as Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra) Kate Winslet just recently played Joan Crawford — well, if you want to be technical about it, she played the title role in Todd Haynes‘ Mildred Pierce, a remake of Michael Curtiz’s 1945 noirish melodrama starring Joan Crawford. Now, with the assistance of thick black eyebrows, Academy Award winner Kate Winslet (The Reader) plays two-time Academy Award winner [...]

Ernst Lubitsch’s The Merry Widow, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald (top); George Stevens‘ A Place in the Sun, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor (bottom) If the more rabid elements within the Republican party don’t succeed in their attempts to shut down the US government, the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation, located in Culpeper, VA, will have a number of goodies to offer in [...]

Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean in George Stevens‘ Giant Elizabeth Taylor died two days ago, her remains were laid to rest yesterday, and a revelation about Taylor’s past was made public today. Well, in all truth, the revelation is actually about James Dean’s past. Taylor is the alleged vehicle for a story published in The Daily Beast by actor-writer Kevin Sessums, among whose credits are an [...]