What movies should Elizabeth Taylor had been in that she wasn't?
And what movies did she turn down, not get, want to do that she didn't, did she regret not doing, do you wish she would have been in, that you think she would have been good in, etc., and why?
Also, what movies did she not want to do, dislike doing, regret doing, etc.?
Let's discuss...
by Anonymous | reply 208 | February 8, 2023 10:21 PM
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[QUOTE]had been in
I'll let that slide, OP.
But I could have been a total bitch about it.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 2, 2022 9:19 PM
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She wanted to be in JAWS (as the 1st woman who is attacked ), but Spielberg felt that the audience would not believe the shark would still be hungry in the rest of the picture.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 2, 2022 9:33 PM
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She had such a lovely sense of humor I wish she'd played in more comedies.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 10 | December 2, 2022 9:34 PM
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She and Burton were supposed to make : The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 2, 2022 9:38 PM
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She was so fat! She would have been perfect in the title role in "The Blob"!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 2, 2022 9:47 PM
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she was injured during her wardrobe test for THE PRIME OF MISS BRODIE. She was just supposed to stand in front of the school in her yellow dress, but all the 26 schoolgirls tried to board her.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 2, 2022 9:50 PM
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She and Montgomery Clift wanted to do a comedy together. It was "The Owl and the Pussy Cat." It would've been wonderful.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 2, 2022 9:57 PM
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R1, I used the proper grammar
by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 2, 2022 10:08 PM
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I always felt that it was a tragedy that she didn't get Cassie in A Chorus Line.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 2, 2022 10:10 PM
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Forty Carats instead of the wildly glamorous and laugh riot Liv Ullman. It would have been the perfect vehicle for Liz.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 2, 2022 10:17 PM
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Orca, as the killer whale.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 2, 2022 10:22 PM
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[quote]It would have been the perfect vehicle for Liz.
Particularly because she was 40 and Liv was 35, r27.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 2, 2022 10:24 PM
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Is it true that she wanted Audrey Hepburn's role in My Fair Lady?
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 2, 2022 10:46 PM
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[QUOTE]I used the proper grammar
I don't think so.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 2, 2022 11:12 PM
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R33 I don’t know, but I could see it.
What about “Hello, Dolly” or “Mame”?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 2, 2022 11:17 PM
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The Glass Menagerie. She would've made an interesting Amanda Wingfield.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 2, 2022 11:21 PM
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R36. Excellent idea. She should have played Amanda on stage after Little Foxes where she gave a truly memorable performance (at least for me).
by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 2, 2022 11:26 PM
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Hairspray (playing Divine's role.)
by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 2, 2022 11:33 PM
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Is it true that Elizabeth was supposed to play the little girl in Gone With The Wind?
by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 3, 2022 12:05 AM
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Butterfield 8 was her favorite
by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 3, 2022 1:34 AM
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I had a fucking name, R39
by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 3, 2022 1:42 AM
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This Property Is Condemned
by Anonymous | reply 43 | December 3, 2022 2:34 AM
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i watched Ash Wednesday the other night, quite hilariously bad. Richard Burton famously didn’t want her to do the film but i wonder what her take on it was? it’s not as if he had good taste in roles.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 45 | December 3, 2022 3:11 AM
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Liz' approach was: Show me the money and I'll do it.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 3, 2022 3:22 AM
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R47 "....charming social introductions, expert mandolin instructions...." I can hear it.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 3, 2022 3:44 AM
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Jesus, isn't being stuck with her Desiree bad enough?
by Anonymous | reply 49 | December 3, 2022 3:46 AM
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Elizabeth Taylor didn't accept roles. Her good taste was in paychecks. There's no part she should have played because she played nothing very well. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is so hard to understand how she managed it. Yes the part was close to home but she was only 33 years old and not all the way gone then. She ACTED. Must have been a golden time in her marriage and career. She WAS good. Very good and different. Mike Nichols might have been a genius. but I suspect that Burton coached her and she went for broke. It's for sure Burton's best film work. The showstopping part is Martha. Elizabeth could have played other cruel monsters. Without the prestige production. But that was too close to her own life. That weird movie she did with Warren Beatty is kind of interesting. Where she looks like a 50 year old showgirl at 38. Only Game in Town? God gave her a face to launch ships. As long as she didn't speak. Or move.
Anyway - get a LOOK at the SIZE of Audrey Hepburn's FEET. Think of the parts she might have played!!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 50 | December 3, 2022 4:04 AM
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She would have been really fun in something like 40 Carats or Mame. This guy's website seems more reliable than notstarring for missed roles. Of these, I think I can easily see La Liz in Irma La Douce and What a Way To Go. Myra Breckenridge would have BONKERS. Would love to see her and Monty in The Owl and the Pussycat.
She was a great actress when she was pushed. Her problem was laziness and indulgence.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 51 | December 3, 2022 4:14 AM
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Director Frank Capra wanted Elizabeth Taylor and Cary Grant for "Roman Holiday," but Paramount said "No." Capra sold the film rights to William Wyler, who wanted an "anti-Italian" actress, meaning someone who wasn't curvy like Silvana Mangano, Gina Lollobrigida or Sophia Loren. He found her in Audrey Hepburn.
A role that Liz coveted was Maria Vargas in "The Barefoot Contessa," which went to fellow MGM colleague, Ava Gardner, on loan to Figaro/UA.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | December 3, 2022 5:35 AM
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Terms of Endearment between Jennifer Jones giving up the rights and Shirley taking the role.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | December 3, 2022 5:43 AM
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R51, thank u for that link...very informative !
by Anonymous | reply 54 | December 3, 2022 7:37 AM
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I really wish Elizabeth would have filmed a movie in early 1957. I think she looked her best then and it's a shame that great look was not preserved on film and wasted.
Anyone know why she didn't make a movie that year?
by Anonymous | reply 56 | December 3, 2022 7:45 AM
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[quote] Is it true that Elizabeth was supposed to play the little girl in Gone With The Wind?
True. They tested her, but instead of flying over the fence, she crushed the poor poney, and that was the end of it. Same reason why she lost ROMAN HOLIDAY to Hepburn. When she climbed on that vespa, the thing collapsed. Why did you think it took a giant sphinx and 12 nubien slaves to carry her through the arch in Cleopatra ?
by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 3, 2022 10:59 AM
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She was offered a part in TITANIC, (the boat) , but Cameron couldn't meet her price. Same with THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. (as the house)
by Anonymous | reply 59 | December 3, 2022 11:27 AM
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I was up for that role in Titanic too.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | December 3, 2022 11:29 AM
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Did she ever do a film noir?
Anyone know why she didn't?
I wish she would have.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | December 3, 2022 5:39 PM
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Enough with body shaming jokes. Shame on all of you. ENOUGH !!
by Anonymous | reply 63 | December 3, 2022 5:42 PM
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[quote]Did she ever do a film noir?
She was on Here's Lucy.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | December 3, 2022 5:43 PM
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These joke replies are not funny at all.
I only want serious replies.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | December 3, 2022 6:06 PM
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R62, that genre was mostly played out by the late fifties. There were still low-budget noirs, but Liz wasn’t a low-budget kind of star.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | December 3, 2022 6:29 PM
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You can't always get what you want, r65/OP.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | December 3, 2022 6:31 PM
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Belle Rosen in THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | December 3, 2022 6:32 PM
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[quote]I only want serious replies.
NOW a warning?
by Anonymous | reply 69 | December 3, 2022 6:50 PM
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[quote]These joke replies are not funny at all. I only want serious replies.
Is this your first time on DL?
by Anonymous | reply 70 | December 3, 2022 6:53 PM
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[quote]These joke replies are not funny at all. I only want serious replies.
Sure, Jan.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | December 3, 2022 7:27 PM
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R62, MGM churned out some classic film-noirs, e.g. The Postman Always Rings Twice, Lady in the Lake, Undercurrent, etc., but by the 1950s, when Taylor's star was ascendant, her studio, MGM, was run by Dore Schary, whose focus was on lavish technicolor musicals, adventure epics, romantic comedies/dramas, and message movies. The stark cynicism of film noir was banished to 2nd tier B double features or left to the independents to produce.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | December 3, 2022 9:47 PM
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R73, did any other studios do film noirs in the 1950's?
by Anonymous | reply 74 | December 3, 2022 10:00 PM
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Louise Schumacher (the Beatrice Straight part) in "Network"
The Sylvia Miles role in "Midnight Cowboy"
Elizabeth I in "Mary, Queen of Scots"
The Lee Grant role in "Shampoo"
by Anonymous | reply 75 | December 3, 2022 10:03 PM
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R74, Warner Bros. was always up for some gunfire and crime, as were other studios (Allied Artists, etc.), but at MGM Liz was stuck in "Beau Brummell" and "Elephant Walk."
by Anonymous | reply 76 | December 3, 2022 10:25 PM
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She did a lot of shit movies. Always great to look at, though.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | December 3, 2022 10:48 PM
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I would have loved to see her as a true villain. And she could have easily done Angela Lansbury's part. How delicious that would have been.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film).
by Anonymous | reply 78 | December 3, 2022 11:29 PM
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I also wish she would have done a Hitchcock film.
Anyone know why she didn't?
Also, did Taylor and Hitchcock ever say anything about each other?
by Anonymous | reply 80 | December 4, 2022 1:20 AM
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Is it true that Elizabeth and Alain Delon were supposed to be in a movie together?
by Anonymous | reply 81 | December 4, 2022 2:18 AM
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Hitch wasn't as big on the brunettes...
by Anonymous | reply 82 | December 4, 2022 2:21 AM
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I'd say "The Fat Whore Homewrecker Gangbang Weekend."
by Anonymous | reply 83 | December 4, 2022 2:47 AM
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[quote]R80 I also wish she would have done a Hitchcock film. Anyone know why she didn't?
He didn’t like sexy types who “hang their sex round their neck like baubles.”
Even if Liz could have toned it down, he didn’t favor brunettes in general.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | December 4, 2022 4:14 AM
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Margaret White in Carrie.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | December 4, 2022 4:47 AM
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People are just throwing out roles for middle aged women. There’s nothing about Liz Taylor that suggests she would be an even competent Margaret White.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | December 4, 2022 4:56 AM
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She was a very beautiful woman but I don’t find her at all compelling as an actress.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | December 4, 2022 5:56 AM
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She was a pretty lousy actress and only once went outside her comfort zone. Within her very small range, she was probably most beautiful and effective in Cat on A Hot Tin Roof and A Place in the Sun. After superstardom and too much sex - she was already a bloating, hardened harlot by 27 years old.
Elizabeth Taylor was famously offered Three Faces of Eve - she read the script and thought it was a comedy. Bitch was dumb.
She might have been suited and GOOD in Kim Novak's part in Picnic or Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat or Hope Lange in Peyton Place. Taylor was still very young in the fifties but not only wanted STARRING roles in which she could hide her short fate legs and whisper/shriek from A to B.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | December 4, 2022 6:11 AM
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*but ONLY wanted STARRING roles
*hide her short fat legs
Short Fate Legs is the title of her unpublished autobiography.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | December 4, 2022 6:15 AM
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[quote]I would have loved to see her as a true villain. And she could have easily done Angela Lansbury's part. How delicious that would have been.
She could have done it, but not nearly as well. Lansbury is fucking brilliant in "The Manchurian Candidate." Liz would have been . . . shrewish. And she also would have looked way too young to play Laurence Harvey's mother. Angela was only slightly older than Harvey, but she tended to be cast older than her years. Also, unlike Taylor, she was a real actress.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | December 4, 2022 6:56 AM
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R89, you are an idiot.
Elizabeth was considered to be the world's most beautiful woman all throughout her 20's (and before)...
by Anonymous | reply 92 | December 4, 2022 7:08 AM
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She started shooting LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN but sunk the canoe, and they had to replace her with Tierney, bacause the scene didn't work anymore.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 93 | December 4, 2022 8:15 AM
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poor OP, she's d have had better luck with Natalie Wood. La fat Liz is not well like around here. Wood just filled a 600 reply thread and launched a part II...
by Anonymous | reply 94 | December 4, 2022 8:17 AM
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[quote] This Property Is Condemned
She should have been in it. When she jumped in the tank that was supposed to be the river, for the skinny dipping scene, all the water went overboard, and Charles Bronson fell flat on his ass. the insurance company demanded she be replaced with Wood
by Anonymous | reply 96 | December 4, 2022 8:21 AM
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[quote] whisper/shriek from A to B.
Add the odd breath intakes AND.THE.SCREAMING.
Fun fact; you can make a perfect Liz Taylor doll just by putting an apple on a pair of toothpicks
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 97 | December 4, 2022 8:29 AM
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Shelley Winters told how she asked Liz what day it was in their dressing room for A PLACE IN THE SUN. Liz answered she didn't know, Shelley told her to look on the magazine she was holding, and la liz replied, "it's no good, it's yesterday's"
by Anonymous | reply 98 | December 4, 2022 10:14 AM
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Whats Eating Gilbert Grape.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | December 4, 2022 10:19 AM
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No one on here will ever be considered the world's most beautiful like Elizabeth was in her day.
Ugly and jealous people on here.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | December 4, 2022 3:32 PM
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[quote]Shelley told her to look on the magazine she was holding
It was a newspaper on the couch.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | December 4, 2022 4:35 PM
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Liz was a awful actress and just about wrecked every film she was in. She really had a voice made for silent films.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | December 4, 2022 4:49 PM
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[quote]No one on here will ever be considered the world's most beautiful like Elizabeth was in her day. Ugly and jealous people on here.
Wow, what a trenchant observation. You must be a psychologist or some other mental health professional.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | December 4, 2022 6:04 PM
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I'm sorry your thread failed, OP, but she was never gonna be one of those timeless stars, like A.Hepburn, .N.Wood or Bacall. Her physique was very much of her era. Fat women are not in vogue anymore, and will likely never be again, at least not before many decades.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | December 4, 2022 6:20 PM
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[QUOTE]What movies should Elizabeth Taylor had been in that she wasn't?
The Hindenburg
by Anonymous | reply 106 | December 4, 2022 6:42 PM
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[quote] Liz was a awful actress and just about wrecked every film she was in
she was good when she was the joke in the movie, like in SECRET CEREMONY. And Richard Brooks really knew what to do with her in CAT. (TBH she was both heavily sedated and emotionally charged during the shooting, which probably helped her performance. Every body else around her was awful, too)
by Anonymous | reply 107 | December 4, 2022 6:45 PM
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Not a movie but she SHOULD have played Alexis' much more beautiful, much younger sister in Dynasty.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 108 | December 4, 2022 6:48 PM
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[quote]I would have loved to see her as a true villain.
Years ago, somebody posted outtakes of Taylor's stint as Helena Cassadine in General Hospital, and Liz was unbelievably amateurish and played the part like a Disney villain instead of a real flesh and blood person.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | December 4, 2022 6:54 PM
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[quote]Fat women are not in vogue anymore, and will likely never be again, at least not before many decades.
When we were roommates, Marilyn Monroe and I wore the same size!
by Anonymous | reply 110 | December 4, 2022 7:25 PM
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[quote]R101 Bonnie And Clyde.
At age 35?
And this was the American New Wave cinema. They didn’t need a middle aged star from the Golden Age of Hollywood extinguishing the freshness.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | December 4, 2022 7:58 PM
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[quote] r109 Years ago, somebody posted outtakes of Taylor's stint as Helena Cassadine in General Hospital, and Liz was unbelievably amateurish and played the part like a Disney villain instead of a real flesh and blood person.
Plus she didn’t know her lines and Couldn’t pronounce her own character’s last name, requiring take o after take after take.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 112 | December 4, 2022 8:11 PM
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In the Wayne Knight role?
That’s cruel.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 114 | December 4, 2022 10:40 PM
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La Liz left us with a hot grandson, with dramatic good looks inherited from her and Mike Todd. 36 and unmarried. Well hello there.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 115 | December 4, 2022 11:14 PM
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Nicki Brand in Videodrome. Serena in Supergirl.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | December 4, 2022 11:31 PM
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R100 DL is probably the only website nowadays that the majority of posters can even name their favorite Liz Taylor film. We are allowed to have a little bit of cunty fun about a figure we all respect.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | December 5, 2022 12:16 AM
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[quote]These joke replies are not funny at all. I only want serious replies.
Fair enough, OP. I won't suggest Babe.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | December 5, 2022 12:23 AM
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...Jane Russell's part.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | December 5, 2022 1:15 AM
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Elizabeth Taylor and Ellen Burstyn were the same age. Liz should've played Ellen's part in "Requiem for a Dream."
by Anonymous | reply 120 | December 5, 2022 1:59 AM
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Liz could have played Ellen’s part in The Exorcist.
Or the Gena Rowlands part in Gloria.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | December 5, 2022 2:36 AM
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[quote]R121 Liz could have played Ellen’s part in The Exorcist. Or the Gena Rowlands part in Gloria.
Sure. If she could act.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | December 5, 2022 6:01 AM
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[quote] Liz could have played Ellen’s part in The Exorcist. Or the Gena Rowlands part in Gloria.
a) we're not talking about the same "Liz" b) you've never seen Elizabeth Taylor in a movie c) you're deaf, and blind, and someone has tried describing her to you, but failed d) you haven't seen Gloria, nor The exorcist, you're just taking a chance with famous parts.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | December 5, 2022 9:47 AM
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I can't even see her in "the Gena Rowlands part in Gloria" if it's a pastiche directed by Pedro Almodovar
by Anonymous | reply 128 | December 5, 2022 9:49 AM
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the chin implant at R115 is aggressive
by Anonymous | reply 130 | December 5, 2022 10:01 AM
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I think it's very telling that the minute she stopped wearing a corset, her box-office appeal died. her oscar for Virginia Wolf was pure shock value, and then she was a freak show for the camp lover.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | December 5, 2022 10:05 AM
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[quote] Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...Jane Russell's part.
couldn't have MM and her in the same frame, then. They would have to stay on opposite side of the boat at all time
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 132 | December 5, 2022 10:19 AM
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She could have played the part of Charlton Heston’s alcoholic, over the hill wife in the 1974 movie 🎥 Earthquake.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | December 5, 2022 12:25 PM
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When does everyone on here think she looked her best?
by Anonymous | reply 136 | December 5, 2022 2:47 PM
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She looked great as Fred Flintstone.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | December 5, 2022 6:44 PM
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The Prince And The Showgirl
by Anonymous | reply 141 | December 6, 2022 4:13 AM
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"The Lindsay Lohan Story."
by Anonymous | reply 142 | December 6, 2022 9:59 AM
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[quote] I also wish she would have done a Hitchcock film. Anyone know why she didn't? Also, did Taylor and Hitchcock ever say anything about each other?
Hitch wanted to cast her in NORTH BY NORTHWEST, as Mount Rushmore.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | December 6, 2022 11:51 AM
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interesting trivia : ELEPHANT WALK was originally shot with Vivien Leigh, under the title "Desire in Ceylon". Leigh had a nervous breakdown, was replaced with Taylor , and the movie re-titled accordingly. Leigh can still be seen in the scenes where the character rides a horse. They couldn't shoot those with ET. But when the house crumbles under her feet, they could save a lot of $$ in special effects. "One shot Liz" was worth the $ 1million fee.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | December 6, 2022 12:31 PM
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Desperately seeking susan
by Anonymous | reply 150 | December 7, 2022 1:10 AM
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The Mirror Has Three Chins
by Anonymous | reply 151 | December 7, 2022 1:40 AM
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Weight Watchers night watch
by Anonymous | reply 152 | December 7, 2022 11:12 AM
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[quote] Desperately seeking susan
Found her!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 161 | December 7, 2022 3:39 PM
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"Attack of the 500 Pound Woman"
by Anonymous | reply 166 | December 9, 2022 5:56 PM
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman
by Anonymous | reply 167 | December 9, 2022 6:09 PM
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Oh, I just loved her—not as an actress but as a person. She was fun, completely unrepentant and unapologetic about her wild life choices and seemed to be truly compassionate and a loyal friend.
She was good in Giant and Virginia Woolfe but I don’t think very good in much else. But who the hell cares! She gave some pep to a dreary world and that’s quite an accomplishment.
But to answer OP’s original question—she should have been in more comedies, but ones where she could play an even more outlandish version of herself—Sally Field’s character in Soapdish.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | December 9, 2022 6:41 PM
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I think she was excellent in Giant. No one talks much about her performance in that movie, but she was understated and great.
I also think she does truly underrated work in Reflections in a Golden Eye and X, Y and Zee.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | December 9, 2022 7:26 PM
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Also Liz was not really fat until the 1970s, she was always curvy with a large chest.
Shelley wasn't fat either until the early 60s, where she switched her look to play frau parts. She had a great body.
Marilyn herself wasn't "plus size" but she was a size 6-8 for most of her career, which would be unspeakable in Hollywood today.
They both looked like actual flesh and blood women rather than the insect childish sticks you see right now.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | December 9, 2022 7:28 PM
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[quote]I also think she does truly underrated work in Reflections in a Golden Eye and X, Y and Zee.
Both of those movies have lunatic screenplays.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | December 9, 2022 7:38 PM
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What movie(s) could/should she have filmed in 1957, the only year in her prime that she didn't make a movie?
She looked her best in early 1957.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | December 10, 2022 10:26 PM
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R173 Raintree County for which she received her first Oscar nomination was released in 1957 between Giant and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 175 | December 10, 2022 10:46 PM
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R175, Raintree County was filmed in 1956 through.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | December 11, 2022 12:33 AM
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and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof released in 1958 was filmed in 1957 R176
by Anonymous | reply 177 | December 11, 2022 12:36 AM
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I was going to suggest age her for the old woman in Titanic, but Liz would never have thrown a diamond necklace into the ocean
by Anonymous | reply 178 | December 11, 2022 12:58 AM
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She could have had a great last hurrah as Mrs. Lovett in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd movie.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | December 11, 2022 1:00 AM
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R177, Cat was filmed in 1958
by Anonymous | reply 180 | December 11, 2022 1:28 AM
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As Miss Havisham in Great Expectations
by Anonymous | reply 181 | December 11, 2022 1:28 AM
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My bad R180 it was filmed in the spring of 1958 during the time Mike Todd was killed in the plane crash. But many feel Taylor was at her most gorgeous in Cat and 1959s Suddenly Last Summer.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 182 | December 11, 2022 2:18 AM
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[quote]She could have had a great last hurrah as Mrs. Lovett in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd movie.
I can't even begin to imagine how dreadful she would have been in that role. She might have made me appreciate Helena Bonham Carter's whole-lot-of-nothing performance.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | December 11, 2022 2:27 AM
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I'm going to derail this thread if it's the last thing I do, and I hope it will be a cautionary tale for cunt OP, who can't even speak proper english, and is probably a frau, or anyone who tries to star a thread about that fat swine Taylor
by Anonymous | reply 185 | December 11, 2022 10:16 AM
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R185, you're just upset and jealous that Natalie was never considered as beautiful and as famous as Elizabeth.
Natalie had a plain face and the body of a 12 year old boy.
Never once was she considered to be the world's most beautiful woman like Elizabeth was. Show me some proof that she ever was...
by Anonymous | reply 187 | December 11, 2022 4:31 PM
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FYI, R186 has a rockin' bod (and proportionate fingers to boot.)
by Anonymous | reply 189 | December 11, 2022 8:29 PM
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R187 why pitch women against one another ? Natalie was ethereally beautiful, thin, gracious , talented and mourned and beloved by legions of fans, Elizabeth was short, fat, vulgar and a big ham, largely forgotten except for a few old rancid queens on DL, they both have their place in the pantheon of Hollywood
by Anonymous | reply 190 | December 11, 2022 8:34 PM
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R190, they were both the same height
by Anonymous | reply 191 | December 11, 2022 8:45 PM
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But one was the double in width
by Anonymous | reply 192 | December 11, 2022 9:04 PM
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[quote]R187 Never once was she considered to be the world's most beautiful woman like Elizabeth was. Show me some proof that she ever was...
I think Natalie Wood was a routinely stiff actress, but I remember when I saw “Marjorie Morningstar” I thought she was pretty much perfect looking. Liz Taylor had a beautiful face… but time has cheapened her. And she just seemed short and squat much of the time.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 193 | December 12, 2022 6:52 AM
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I adore them both. Time has enhanced Natalie's exquisite beauty and her acting at its best is still vibrant, whereas Liz 's image seems stilted and stuck in 50's hell (- short, fat, coiffed matron with pretty make-up) and she 's more of a shriek and shrill MGM breathy performer, but despite the tacky and the bloat, she's still, after all, an Eisenhower era icon.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | December 12, 2022 11:29 AM
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I don't see what was so pretty about Natalie. Her eyes were too big, nose too short and snubbed, lips too thin especially the top one, bland coloring, etc. And yes the body of a 12 year old boy.
And I don't see how her look was modern.
Can someone explain?
by Anonymous | reply 196 | December 12, 2022 5:11 PM
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Natalie looked her best when she freed herself of all the 1950s to early '60 heavy makeup and teased hair and went for a more natural look, which made her look youthful and modern.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 197 | December 12, 2022 5:21 PM
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Natalie, styled à la Elizabeth Taylor, aged her.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 198 | December 12, 2022 5:29 PM
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[quote]I don't see what was so pretty about Natalie. Her eyes were too big, nose too short and snubbed, lips too thin especially the top one, bland coloring, etc. And yes the body of a 12 year old boy. . . . Can someone explain?
What is it you want "explained" to you? If you don't see it, you don't it.
by Anonymous | reply 199 | December 12, 2022 6:14 PM
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Natalie looked her best in the totally manufactured, red lipped studio era, r197. She was a completely contrived starlet marketed for mass consumption, a porcelain doll throughout all that.
When she went independent later on and styles softened she just looked like your pretty neighbor.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | December 12, 2022 10:52 PM
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Natalie was very pretty, but I agree she wasn’t some kind of drop dead knockout. Her look was more appealing in an aesthetic sense - most extremely thin women aren’t fuckable to men.
Liz had both outright beauty and a desirable figure, her only downside was being so short it made her seem fat whenever she gained a pound or two.
To put it simply, Natalie was a girl, Liz was a woman.
by Anonymous | reply 201 | December 12, 2022 10:59 PM
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Stupid thread de-railers.
Fuck off.
by Anonymous | reply 202 | December 13, 2022 11:49 PM
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She would have been interesting in the Shelley Winters role in The Poseidon Adventure, or even better in the Jennifer Jones role in The Towering Inferno.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | January 2, 2023 3:11 AM
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I watched her in Night Watch the other day on TCM and was surprised how much I enjoyed it and Taylor’s performance. It’s a fun popcorn horror flick.
The TV movie she did with Carol Burnett I thought was one of those that’s certainly not a classic but enjoyable.
No way in hell would she come close to topping what Beatrice Straight did in Network. A masterclass in acting and Straight knocked it out of the park in 5 minutes of screen time.
I think of Taylor wanted to act more she would’ve done supporting roles in ensemble movies like Grumpy Old Men. Really the all star disaster movies of the 70s like Airport were made for her.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | January 2, 2023 3:39 AM
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Liz would’ve been a better fit for the Stella Stevens part R204 in Poseidon. She would’ve been good in Shampoo and her playing Carrie Fishers mother would’ve been brilliant casting.
by Anonymous | reply 206 | January 2, 2023 3:46 AM
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The Toni Collette role in Hereditary.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | February 8, 2023 3:13 PM
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