Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor
Photograph by Philippe Halsman

I just heard about Elizabeth Taylor. I can’t say I’ve seen all of her movies, but what I have seen was pretty good. Her performances in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Butterfield 8 and Suddenly Last Summer were incredible. Watching her work with Richard Burton in The Taming Of the Shrew and Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf always amazes me. I’ve seen I don’t know how many live performances of Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, and I always compare everyone’s Martha & George to Liz & Dick.

She was one of those old breed actors that are pretty much gone. People always ask why they never make movies like they used to. It’s because there aren’t people like Elizabeth Taylor around anymore.


There's One Born Every Minute
directed by Harold Young
starring Hugh Herbert, Peggy Moran, Edgar Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor

Lassie Come Home
directed by Fred Wilcox
starring Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester, Elizabeth Taylor, Lassie

Jane Eyre
directed by Robert Stevenson
written by John Houseman, Aldous Huxley, Robert Stevenson
produced by Orson Welles
starring Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner, Agnes Moorehead, Elizabeth Taylor

The White Cliffs of Dover
directed by Clarence Brown
starring Irene Dunne, Roddy McDowall, Van Johnson, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor

National Velvet
directed by Clarence Brown
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Angela Lansbury

Courage of Lassie
directed by Fred Wilcox
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lassie, Frank Morgan

Life with Father
directed by Michael Curtiz
starring William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, ZaSu Pitts

Cynthia
directed by Robert Z Leonard
written by Charles Kaufman & Buster Keaton
starring Elizabeth Taylor, George Murphy, Mary Astor

A Date with Judy
directed by Richard Thorpe
written by Dorothy Cooper & Dorothy Kingsley
starring Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Carmen Miranda, Xavier Cugat

Julia Misbehaves
directed by Jack Conway
starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Cesar Romero

Little Women
directed & produced by Mervyn LeRoy
starring June Allyson, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Mary Astor

Conspirator
directed by Victor Saville
written by Sally Benson
starring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng

Father of the Bride
directed by Vincente Minnelli
starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Billie Burke

The Big Hangover
directed & written by Norman Krasna
starring Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor, Fay Holden, Leon Ames

Father's Little Dividend
directed by Vincente Minnelli
starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Billie Burke

A Place in the Sun
directed & produced by George Stevens
starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Kathleen Freeman

Callaway Went Thataway
directed, written & produced by Melvin Frank & Norman Panama
starring Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel, Elizabeth Taylor

Love Is Better Than Ever
directed by Stanley Donen
written by Ruth Brooks Flippen
starring Larry Parks, Elizabeth Taylor, Elinor Donahue, Kathleen Freeman

Ivanhoe
directed by Richard Thorpe
starring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

The Girl Who Had Everything
directed by Richard Thorpe
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Fernando Lamas, William Powell, Gig Young, James Whitmore

Rhapsody
directed by Charles Vidor
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman

Elephant Walk
directed by William Dieterle
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch

Beau Brummell
directed by Curtis Bernhardt
starring Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov

The Last Time I Saw Paris
directed by Richard Brooks
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed

Giant
directed & produced by George Stevens
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Mercedes McCambridge, Carroll Baker, Dennis Hopper, Rod Taylor, Sal Mineo

Raintree County
directed by Edward Dmytryk
starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor, Agnes Moorehead

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
directed by Richard Brooks
written by Richard Brooks & James Poe
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives

Suddenly, Last Summer
directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz
written by Gore Vidal & Tennessee Williams
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Mercedes McCambridge

Scent of Mystery
directed by Jack Cardiff
produced by Mike Todd
starring Denholm Elliott, Peter Lorre, Elizabeth Taylor

BUtterfield 8
directed by Daniel Mann
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill

Cleopatra
directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau, Hume Cronyn, Carroll O'Connor

The VIPs
directed by Anthony Asquith
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Margaret Rutherford, Maggie Smith, Rod Taylor, Orson Welles

The Sandpiper
directed by Vincente Minnelli
written by Dalton Trumbo
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
directed by Mike Nichols
written & produced by Ernest Lehman
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis

The Taming of the Shrew
directed & written by Franco Zeffirelli
produced by Elizabeth Taylor
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Michael York, Victor Spinetti

Reflections in a Golden Eye
directed & produced by John Huston
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, Julie Harris

Doctor Faustus
directed by Richard Burton & Nevill Coghill
written by Nevill Coghill
produced by Richard Burton
starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor

The Comedians
directed & produced by Peter Glenville
written by Graham Greene
starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Georg Stanford Brown, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson

Boom!
directed by Joseph Losey
written by Tennessee Williams
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward

Secret Ceremony
directed by Joseph Losey
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum, Peggy Ashcroft

The Only Game in Town
directed by George Stevens
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty

Under Milk Wood
directed & written by Andrew Sinclair
starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole, Victor Spinetti

X,Y & Zee
directed by Brian Hutton
written by Edna O'Brien
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York, Margaret Leighton

Hammersmith Is Out
directed by Peter Ustinov
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Beau Bridges

Divorce His, Divorce Hers
directed by Waris Hussein
starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor

Night Watch
directed by Brian Hutton
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw

Ash Wednesday
directed by Larry Peerce
produced by Dominick Dunne
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Keith Baxter

Identikit
directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen

That's Entertainment!
directed, written & produced by Jack Haley
starring Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor

The Blue Bird
directed by George Cukor
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cicely Tyson, Ava Gardner

Victory at Entebbe
directed by Marvin Chomsky
starring Anthony Hopkins, Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Dreyfuss, Linda Blair, Kirk Douglas, Helen Hayes

A Little Night Music
directed by Harold Prince
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Lesley-Anne Down

Winter Kills
directed & written by William Richert
starring Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Toshiro Mifune, Eli Wallach, Elizabeth Taylor

The Mirror Crack'd
directed by Guy Hamilton
starring Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, Kim Novak, Geraldine Chaplin

Between Friends
directed by Lou Antonio
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Carol Burnett

Malice in Wonderland
directed by Gus Trikonis
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Alexander, Richard Dysart, Joyce Van Patten

North and South
directed by Richard Heffron
starring Patrick Swayze, James Read, Lesley-Anne Down, Elizabeth Taylor

There Must Be a Pony
directed by Joseph Sargent
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Wagner, James Coco

Poker Alice
directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Skerritt, George Hamilton, Richard Mulligan

Young Toscanini
directed by Franco Zeffirelli
starring C Thomas Howell, Elizabeth Taylor, Franco Nero

Sweet Bird of Youth
directed by Nicolas Roeg
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mark Harmon, Valerie Perrine, Seymour Cassel, Rip Torn

The Flintstones
directed by Brian Levant
starring John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Elizabeth Perkins, Rosie O'Donnell, Halle Berry, Elizabeth Taylor, Mel Blanc

These Old Broads
directed by Matthew Diamond
written by Carrie Fisher & Elaine Pope
starring Shirley MacLaine, Debbie Reynolds, Joan Collins, Elizabeth Taylor