Been reading Elizabeth Taylor’s Angel (deliciously awful heroine). I don’t believe in reincarnation. But if I did, my money is that Elizabeth Taylor was once called Maria Edgeworth. @bookstodon #elizabethtaylor
3 things about Brian G. Hutton’s ZEE AND CO. [1972]
1. “There’s nothing I hate more than soulful people. She’s always a little out of breath and sees beauty in everything. Especially in shit.”
2. Margaret Leighton’s enormous wig and glasses.
3. Dumping his suitcase on the hood of his car.
#3things #MichaelCaine #ElizabethTaylor #trash #London #moviestills #movies #cinema #cinemastodon
#cinemastodon #cinema #Movies #moviestills #London #trash #ElizabethTaylor #MichaelCaine #3Things
🎬 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1966) is screening at #TCM.
#ElizabethTaylor won the #Oscar for her performance as "Martha." #RichardBurton is her husband "George."
It's a juicy role, full of venom and rage, and Taylor went absolutely *beyond and DGAF what anyone thought!
Must-see, if you haven't. It's full of shouting and drinking and some violence, so not for everyone.
#TCMParty #edwardalbee #drama #60s #Movies #BlackAndWhite #richardburton #oscar #ElizabethTaylor #tcm
Tonight in 1993 — #ElizabethTaylor was presented w/ an A.F.I. Lifetime Achievement Award on ABC.
She used the national platform to call to attention to AIDS.
“We've come a long way in the last decade,” she said. “And I know you are willing to go the whole mile and do whatever it takes.”
#oldhollywood #onthisday #ElizabethTaylor
“I wish I had some brandy .. it steadies me so..” #classicmovies #movieclips #1960s #whosafraidofvirginiawoolf #sandydennis #elizabethtaylor #richardburton #roadhouse scene
#roadhouse #richardburton #ElizabethTaylor #sandydennis #whosafraidofvirginiawoolf #1960s #movieclips #classicmovies
I’m halfway through and loving it. I’m learning so much about this classic movie star and her tumultuous life. #elizabethtaylor #biography #nonfiction #books #audiobooks
#audiobooks #Books #nonfiction #biography #ElizabethTaylor
🎬 "Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf" with #ElizabethTaylor and #RichardBurton is an outstanding and disturbing movie. Screening now @ #TCM. #TCMParty https://youtu.be/4vIUGN8CGjE
#TCMParty #tcm #richardburton #ElizabethTaylor
Had the very pleasant experience I haven't had in a while, of reading TWO books in a row I discovered completely serendipitously (scrolling through #libby) and THOROUGHLY enjoyed:
"The Crocodile" by #MaurizioDeGiovanni
and "Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont" by #ElizabethTaylor (no, not THAT Elizabeth Taylor)
#libby #mauriziodegiovanni #ElizabethTaylor #books #bookstodon
🎬 #TCM is #screening its 4th #movie today based upon Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play—"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958) starring #PaulNewman and #ElizabethTaylor.
Newman's "Brick" is an ex-jock, the scion of a wealthy Southern family. He has "latent homosexual feelings" for his jock buddy "Skipper" who recently died.
But when the smash-hit #Broadway play was adapted for film:
"'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' not only conforms with the [rules to self-#censor] #HaysCode but, through revisions, is made an exemplar of it. Director and co-writer #RichardBrooks neatly erases the #narrative’s knottiest questions and replaces them with the kind of perfect #Christian values the code sets out to propagate. The #film became the kind of #homophobic attack on #queerness that Williams sought to #critique, inverting his complex progressives in favor of easily digestible #moralizing.
https://filmdaze.net/homosexual-erasure-in-cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof/
#tcm #screening #movie #paulnewman #ElizabethTaylor #broadway #censor #hayscode #richardbrooks #narrative #christian #film #homophobic #queerness #critique #moralizing
Henry Fonda & Elizabeth Taylor for "Ash Wednesday," 1973
Photo: Paramount via eBay
#AshWednesday #AshWednesdayMovie #HenryFonda #ElizabethTaylor
#ashwednesday #ashwednesdaymovie #henryfonda #ElizabethTaylor
We're watching a #Travel programme in #PuertoVallarta in #Mexico and I just have to share my favourite photo from our visit there a few years ago. We were at #ElSet - a restaurant frequented by #ElizabethTaylor and #RichardBurton while he was filming #NightOfTheIguana - and one old local nearby decided to #moon us, thinking we couldn't see him. My #photography speed is legendary. His mate saw me shoot, laughed, told his friend I'd caught him, and he shuffled off quickly.
#travelphotography #Photography #moon #nightoftheiguana #richardburton #ElizabethTaylor #elset #Mexico #puertovallarta #Travel
3 things about Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER [1959]
1. Trails of debris.
2. Daiquiris at 5 o’clock.
3. “We procured for him!”
#3things #ElizabethTaylor #gay #KatharineHepburn #MontgomeryClift #movies #TennesseeWilliams
#tennesseewilliams #Movies #montgomeryclift #katharinehepburn #gay #ElizabethTaylor #3Things
#OilPainting #tradionalart
#art #painting #artgallery #artcollector #gallery #williammerrittchase #parrishmuseum #ElizabethTaylor
My version of "The Big Bayberry Bush" by William Merritt Chase.
#ElizabethTaylor #parrishmuseum #williammerrittchase #gallery #artcollector #artgallery #painting #art #tradionalart #oilpainting
#CelebrityBiography - shallow fun AND a deep pop culture analyst’s dream! 💭
How to write ✍️ , what’s best to read, how to rate objectivity?
“Is an #author stuck in the #bubble of #adoration, working to convince us of the subject’s #worthiness?
Or is the author outside the bubble, assaying the ups & downs, ins & outs, of a famous person with #clarity & #context?” 🤔
-#WSJ, Ty Burr’s review of a biography of #ElizabethTaylor
#ElizabethTaylor #wsj #context #clarity #worthiness #adoration #bubble #author #celebritybiography
💖 Elizabeth Taylor (1932 – 2011) British-American actress 🌸
#ElizabethTaylor #oldhollywood
#ElizabethTaylor #oldhollywood
James Dean playing with the Siamese cat he was given by Elizabeth Taylor. He named the cat, Marcus, after his little cousin.
~ Sanford Roth
#JamesDean #ElizabethTaylor #SanfordRoth #blackandwhitephotography #vintage #oldhollywood
#oldhollywood #vintage #blackandwhitephotography #sanfordroth #ElizabethTaylor #JamesDean