Elizabeth Taylor

Hal Prince. Out of his record-setting 21 Tony Awards, eight were as Best Director of a Musical for the following: Cabaret (at the 1967 ceremony), Company (1971), Follies (1972, with Michael Bennett), Candide (1974), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Evita (1980),…

Boom! movie with Elizabeth Taylor: Critically panned box office disaster featuring memorable headwear and situations. ‘Boom!’ movie: Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton critical & box office bomb reappraised as ‘cult classic’ fare If you’ve never seen Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s 1968 vanity production Boom!,…

Judgment at Nuremberg with Maximilian Schell. Stanley Kramer’s most effective “message movie,” the 1961 courtroom/political drama Judgment at Nuremberg is a fictionalized restaging of the post-World War II Judges’ Trial of Nazi Germany judges and prosecutors, which was held in the Bavarian city of Nuremberg…

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in 7th Heaven. Long history of real and manufactured box-office-boosting off-screen romances Long before tabloids and tabloid-wannabes took over as the purveyors of entertainment “news,” throughout the decades the studios themselves have publicized idyllic off-screen love stories, whether real or…

Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor in the Lifetime movie Liz & Dick. Lohan, 26 next July 2, plays Elizabeth Taylor (apparently) at about the time she met Richard Burton in the early 1960s. (Though the Lohan/Taylor picture above looks like something out Richard Brooks’ Cat…

Elizabeth Taylor diamond ring & jewelry collection fetch exorbitant amounts; Richard Burton was a long-ago “benefactor.” In addition to being wife and husband a couple of times, Taylor and Burton were also co-stars in ten big-screen features + one TV movie. On the big screen:…

Tura Satana in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. One of the film world’s personalities seen in this year’s “TCM Remembers” video homage, Tura Satana owes her cult fame to one single movie: Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965). Following that low-budget “exploitation” romp, Satana would…

Laurence Olivier = Kenneth Branagh in My Week with Marilyn. Once upon a time, Kenneth Branagh was hailed as the new Laurence Olivier. Back in early 1990, Branagh was nominated for two Academy Awards for directing and starring in Henry V, an adaptation of William…

Rudolph Valentino in ‘Blood and Sand’ Rudolph Valentino Movies: ‘Blood and Sand,’ starring Hollywood’s foremost Latin Lover, at the Hollywood Heritage Museum The Hollywood Heritage Museum will celebrate the birthday of silent movie icon and Latin Lover emeritus Rudolph Valentino on Wednesday, May 11. The…

Elizabeth Taylor eyes: Actress’ trademark. I wonder if Elizabeth Taylor would have become a legend, still remembered more than 40 years after the release of her last major box office hit, had it not been for her multiple marriages and divorces, the Eddie Fisher-Debbie Reynolds…

Elizabeth Taylor: Oscar winner ca. 1950s. Elizabeth Taylor: Oscar winner hospitalized with congestive heart failure Two-time Best Actress Oscar winner Elizabeth Taylor has been hospitalized for treatment of congestive heart failure. Taylor has suffered from this condition for several years. The 78-year-old Who’s Afraid of…

Turner Classic Movies presents Katharine Hepburn in Little Women 1933: Up to the Christmas Day viewer to decide whether George Cukor’s Best Picture Academy Award nominee is immensely moving or immeasurably cloying. Either way, Little Women was a major critical and commercial hit, solidifying Katharine…

Elizabeth Taylor movies: A Place in the Sun with Montgomery Clift. Elizabeth Taylor can be found in 11 movies to be presented on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, Aug. 23, as part of TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” series. (See below TCM’s full Elizabeth Taylor…

Noel Coward with Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Boom! (top); with Marlene Dietrich, 1937 (bottom) Noel Coward – playwright, composer, director, actor, (purported) spy, nationalist, propagandist, semi-closeted gay guy – is the subject of an exhibition currently being held at the Academy of Motion…

Avatar war: Titanic or Cleopatra? Not taking inflation into account, James Cameron’s futuristic 3D action fantasy is the most expensive 20th Century Fox production ever. Once inflation is factored in, Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s CGI-less Cleopatra remains not only Fox’s costliest production but also the second…

Joseph L. Mankiewicz ‘Suddenly Last Summer,’ starring Elizabeth Taylor. Four-time Academy Award winner screenwriter-director-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz will be saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a special 50th anniversary screening of a recently restored print of Suddenly Last Summer, starring…