Elizabeth Taylor has died

JP Liz V1

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/2011-03-23-elizabeth-taylor-obit_N.htm

RIP

Ann22

Feck! No way:(. I didn't hear that. Beautiful woman in her day. RIP Liz.

OutlawPete

National Velvet always reminds me of Sundays as a kid for some reason.

Here's the trailer, great film if you haven't seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NYsONLJUTQ

Azureus

Just heard this a few minutes ago, had a Liz Taylor movie night in my house a few days back weirdly enough.
RIP, such a star.

Renn

I've never had a Liz Taylor movie night...hardly surprising as I've never seen a film with Liz Taylor in it.

Lady Chatterton

Elizabeth Taylor (RIP)

February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011

rednik

One of the greatest actresses ever and certainly one of the world's most beautiful women. RIP

krudler

rednik wrote: »

One of the greatest actresses ever and certainly one of the world's most beautiful women. RIP

an icon for who she was , like Marilyn Monroe. Stunning beautiful woman in her heyday though. She's more known for her romances and personal life than her films, ask anyone to name one aside from Cleopatra or National Velvet and they'll struggle to recall one.

Lady Chatterton

krudler wrote: »

an icon for who she was , like Marilyn Monroe. Stunning beautiful woman in her heyday though. She's more known for her romances and personal life than her films, ask anyone to name one aside from Cleopatra or National Velvet and they'll struggle to recall one.

I think she also gave fantastic performances in "Who is afraid of Virginia Wolf" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

geekychick

krudler wrote: »

an icon for who she was , like Marilyn Monroe. Stunning beautiful woman in her heyday though. She's more known for her romances and personal life than her films, ask anyone to name one aside from Cleopatra or National Velvet and they'll struggle to recall one.

"Icon" is all well and good, but this was one of the great film actresses of the last century.

Watch:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer (as the great Katharine Hepburn said: "She's especially good with the Tennessee stuff"),

Giant

Cleopatra

The Taming of the Shrew

BUtterfield 8

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Reflections in a Golden Eye

I like Marilyn, but that comparison just does not stand up as far as acting is concerned.

"There are three things I never saw Elizabeth Taylor do: Tell a lie; be unkind to anyone; and be on time." Mike Nichols

RIP

Lady Chatterton

Richard Burton was interviewed sometime after his second divorce from Elizabeth Taylor and he said

"There is an emptiness in my life that only Elizabeth can make less empty. A love affair like ours is never ended -- only temporarily abandoned."

It would be nice to think that at last they have been reunited for good!

Cianan2

Just read that the guy who wrote her obituary in the NY Times actually died 6 years before her... Weird!!

Lady Chatterton

It is commonplace for newspapers to prepare some obituaries for older famous people in advance so that the paper has loads of coverage available to them at short notice. (One fo the best examples of this was the Queen Mother).

Nolanger

krudler wrote: »

ask anyone to name one aside from Cleopatra or National Velvet and they'll struggle to recall one.

Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf?
Butterfield 8
Lassie come home
Father of the bride
Place in the sun
Giant
Cat on a hot tin roof

Nolanger

krudler wrote: »

ask anyone to name one aside from Cleopatra

Doubt many people alive today have actually sat through the full four hours of this movie?

ztoical

Nolanger wrote: »

Doubt many people alive today have actually sat through the full four hours of this movie?

it's a gulity xmas pleasure of mine ever year along with my fair lady, singing in the rain and Die Hard