What do you think of Elizabeth Taylor's looks in Butterfield 8?

mesmerizing

Well, she's no [Joan Crawford, Madonna, Barbara Stanwyck, ....]!

Simply gorgeous.

memorable scene is in the bar where she is squashing the man's foot with her high heel

Where's the photo?

I think she bore an uncanny resemblance to herself.

I have avoiding seeing this movie because it co-stars the slimy Larry Skickney.

She was gorgeous

But she was also starting to look a little matronly, which happened early because she was only 37 when filming.

She looks like the slut of all time!

She looked like she 8 it...

The character is an aging party girl, a blown out beauty, so Elizabeth's looks fit perfectly. Was part of the special impact. It fit the character and pleased the men.

I think every hetero guy with a pulse would want to fuck Gloria Wandrous, from college boy to senior citizen. From the nice guys to the very bad men. That's the aesthetics of the time.

Fucking terrible. Oh Liz....how could you?

I agree that she had the looks for it, but I've always been a little fascinated with how she could look like the most beautiful, lovely woman in the world, then turn her head a little and look like a blowsy fishwife in a bad wig and too much makeup.

None. No thoughts whatsoever.

R9, 37? Try 27.

[quote]R9, 37? Try 27.

Oh jeez, you're right, I was going by memory. She looks a decade older than 27, my god.

People did back then, r18.

She looked just like the biggest slut on the Upper West Side.

Excellent movie. Watch it about once every two years. Could have done without Eddy Fisher.

I always found it interesting that J.G. Ballard based the premise of his now-classic and violent 1973 novel Crash on the imagined car crash with Taylor at the end of the film, which happens off screen. I wonder what Taylor thought of the book?

“…tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an intentionally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor...”

R9, why matronly?

Did she ever show her titties on film?

Liz was a poor custodian of her fabulous looks. She’d started drinking after Mike Todd’s death, and it had started to affect her appearance by the time of this film.

Of course, Gloria paid the price for her slutty ways--dying in a car crash at the end of the film. So 1950s morality and so today's.

She looks like a "hefty Hooker". Seriously, it's the perfect part for that "thick Homewrecking Slut"

No sale!

R25, what don't you like about her looks in this movie?

[quote] what don't you like about her looks in this movie?

She was a woman and I am not a heterosexual.

She was an ample woman, an excessively female woman. Not to my taste.

R29, she has that slightly swollen or thick look that drinkers get. She was still beautiful, but it was a noticeable change.

She looks FAT!

This is on the list of my all-time-favorite movies. That said, I like my women model-thin -- but Liz is an incredible actress and can make you believe that every man is filled with lust for her.

R33, when do you think liz looked her best? Just wondering.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

I love her style and beauty in that picture.

R34 -- what R35 said.

Elizabeth was breathtaking in "A Place in the Sun".

Allegedly, Robert Taylor kept experiencing erections during his love scenes with Elizabeth in "Conspirator".

I don't understand why people are so harsh about Elizabeth Taylor's looks. Particularly the way she aged.

^ At 47, she doesn't look great here. What a picture, though!

R34 - A Place in the Sun

R41 - No one looks good in that picture but like you said, "What a picture, though!".

R41, this was the apex of her abusive period- she sobered up and I think was incredibly beautiful from then on until her late 60s when her health problems caught up with her.

She looked better in the late 80s, during her friendship with Malcolm Forbes. She lost a lot of weight and had some work done. She was in her early 50s then. She regained her gorgeousness. She was stunning during the 1950s... but the 60s and 70s weren't her best physically.

I thought she looked a little hard in Butterfield 8, but then...she did play a busy party girl prostitute.

I never got the worlds attraction for Elizabeth Taylor, as a small kid I figured it was just because I was attracted to men but as an old man I still just don't get it. Different people see beauty differently.

On the occasions when she forgot to shave off her beard and mustache every morning she'd be mistaken for Raul Julia by Stanley Donen, the director of Butterfield 8.

Liz Taylor always looked older than her real age, even as a child star it was extremally difficult to think she was a child ( in Little Women she is 17 and she looks 25). In Butterfield 8 she looks gorgeous as usual, i consider her trademark that mature almost decadent kind of beauty.

"Ah do declar, Ah swar Ah nevuh seen a pertier woman in awl mah laaaf!" - fuckin Oprah introducing Liz when she appeared on her show, words dripping in juicy sarcasm

She looked like an overstuffed couch.

To R50, Orca's a Fat Cunt but Elizabeth has "high hair" to deflect away from her speed habit(and face)

That is some hair (wig?) at r50. It’s out of proportion to her head.

Ava Gardner was as beautiful as Elizabeth Taylor.

Ava was as beautiful as Liz, and half as talented.

R45, I don't think too many people will agree that Taylor looked better in the 80's than in Butterfield 8.

R50, why sarcasm? Are you saying Taylor wasn't pretty?

Today, 3/03, at 2:00 p.m.

TCM---"Butterfield 8."

The people that think she looked bad in this need to get their eyes checked and get out more to see what most women really look like.

Quite big tits.

At the time she was thought to look a bit bloated. And she mainly won her Oscar because she had been sick and people thought she was about to die.

Hourglass figure

Close to perfection

She hated the movie and until her dying day referred to it as "a piece of shit".

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Gorgeous

She was still in her prime in this movie.

she was so PHAT the idea she could be any kind of model is laughable, and the movie doesn't work.

I knew misss Taylor very well when I was a child. Because my uncle was her attorney and I was Christopher's age, we had playdates. I remember that one time, around "butterfield 8 "shooting, when she came to pick me up at school. She was wearing a bright yellow tunic, and all my classmates tried to board her.

One can see she had lots of rice , yam, and even goat's milk to eat, several times a week

Beautiful. She is beautiful and always was.

[quote]R9 But she was also starting to look a little matronly, which happened early because she was only 37 when filming.

This is the movie where he weight started to fluctuate.

[quote]She was a woman and I am not a heterosexual.

I am not into bestiality, yet I can say that, for eg. tiger is a beautiful animal.

I remember that one time I saw Elizabeth Taylor in person. It was in San Diego , in the late 50's. I was at SeaWorld, and when Shamu the whale jumped out of the water, I heard a woman's voice behind me exclaiming : " does it come with mustard ?". turned around and it was her. she was huge at the time.

[quote]She was an ample woman, an excessively female woman. Not to my taste.

I am Kinsey 6, but I don't understand your fags' taste for masculine or boyish lookin women. You are man when media try to sell you Chalamet as ideal of masculine beauty, yet you are thrilled by his female versions.

meant: you are mad

Elizabeth was one of the most talented actresses ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood. At a time when gay people were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with her struggles and she theirs.

I don't see how some people think she was overweight in this movie. She still had a small waist.

R54 And Jean Simmons

I’m listening to the podcast Elizabeth the First. Narrated by Katy Perry. Rehashes a lot but also some interesting interviews. Love sing the photos everyone posted.

Gorgeous

Were there any scenes cut/edited from this movie?

If so, then what?

I can never finish this movie.

R83, why? Just wondering

I fall asleep! It just seems to move at a glacial pace for me.

Beautiful, sexy, can't take your eyes off of her.

Taylor was at her loveliest as Rebecca in “Ivanhoe” (1952), but the most full-grown in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” By “Butterfield 8,” she had begun to thicken, a struggle she continued to deal with for the rest of her career.

But I loved her in “Cleopatra.”

R87, I thought she was still in her prime until she hooked up with Richard Burton.

She'd had 3 kids by then, so have a little understanding.

I find it interesting that her next movie "The V.I.P.s" was 3 years later- an eternity in a young actor's career. Then there was only "The Sandpiper" before Virginia Woolf. Granted she made a bundle on Cleopatra- and Mike Todd left her wealthy- but it's like she didn't want to act anymore.

Of course her career started as a wee child.

Gloria !

Could someone post some images where she looks overweight in this movie because I don't see it?!

Yawn

R19 I didn't.

John, the Used Textbook Troll™ keeps surveying us to plan his own plastic surgery. No, honey, you will *never* look like Liz Taylor.

R19 Neither did I.

I don't see how she looked a decade older in this movie.

I see no wrinkles, gray hairs, etc.

Can someone explain?

R96 Actually, she didn't. Dumbbells see anyone with a hairstyle and clothes from another era when grown women didn't try to look like they were in high school, and think it's "matronly".

R97, I totally agree!

Underrated

Wasn’t she filming this movie when she had the emergency tracheotomy?

I’ve never seen this movie, but thought I remember hearing that people claimed her near-death experience contributed to her Oscar win.

NO SALE

Oh, my!

Looks like Madonna in it.

NO SALE

Her eyes always look smoldering.

She was abusing booze and pills big time, as well as dealing with stress and probably depression. Mike Todd died less than two years earlier; she was married to Fisher and she was forced to do the film by MGM. With the way she ate it’s amazing she doesn’t look more like Studio 54 era Liz.

R106, she wasn't eating that much back then and she didn't drink excessively until she hooked up with Burton.

She had a strange look at the Oscars (taken directly from Getty Images).