Alice Moffit, ‘Poker Alice’, has been disowned by her Boston family because of her incurable penchant for gambling. Read More »
Tag Archives: Elizabeth Taylor
The Only Game in Town (1970) George Stevens, Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty, Charles Braswell
While waiting in vain for her married lover to get a divorce, Fran Walker, a lonely chorus girl approaching middle age Read More »
Under Milk Wood (1972) Andrew Sinclair, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O’Toole
This is a delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called “Llareggub” (read it backwards). Read More »
A Little Night Music (1977) Harold Prince, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou
Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Read More »
Ivanhoe (1952) Richard Thorpe, Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine
In the centre of this Walter Scott classic fiction inspired film the chivalrousness and the daring stand. Read More »
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986) David Heeley, Joan Bennett, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor
Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn formed one of the greatest couples of Hollywood’s Golden Era — both on screen and off. Read More »
Conspirator (1949) Victor Saville, Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Drama, Thriller
On a visit to London, 18 year-old American Melinda Greyton goes to her first party, a Regimental ball. Read More »
The Blue Bird (1976) George Cukor, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cicely Tyson, Ava Gardner, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. Read More »
Secret Ceremony (1968) Joseph Losey, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Mia Farrow, Drama, Thriller
Leonora, a prostitute, mourns the death by drowning years earlier of her daughter. Read More »
The Drivers Seat (1974) Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen, Guido Mannari, Drama
Lise, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged woman travels toward a fatal destiny that she had helped to arrange Read More »
Zee and Co. (1972) Brian G. Hutton, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York, Drama
Zee and Robert Blakeley are members of swinging London’s upper crust whose unique love-hate marriage heads towards destruction when Robert falls in love Read More »
Fathers Little Dividend (1951) Vincente Minnelli, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Comedy, Romance
In this sequel to Father of the Bride (1950), newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby Read More »
Love Is Better Than Ever (1952) Stanley Donen, Larry Parks, Elizabeth Taylor, Josephine Hutchinson, Comedy, Romance
The dancing teacher Anastasia falls in love with the smart theatre agent Jud. He likes her, too, but does not want to give up his solo life at all. Thus she plans a trap for him… Read More »
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A wealthy harridan, Violet Venable, attempts to bribe Dr. Cukrowicz, a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans mental hospital that is desperately in need of funds Read More »
Giant (1956) George Stevens, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Drama
Jordan ‘Bick’ Benedict Jr., is a wealthy landowner and cattle rancher who marries a spoiled and wealthy Virginian woman. When the two return to his cattle empire in Texas, conflicts around race, class and changing traditions including former cowboy and now rich oil tycoon Jett Rink rise to epic proportions through the years and test the unity of the family and surrounding community.
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