Butterfield 8 review
Added 1/31/2010
Elizabeth Taylor plays Gloria in one of her earlier films. Gloria tries to become respectable but it leads to tragedy when she dies in a car accident. Worth seeing.Also good performances by Laurence Harvey and Eddie Fisher
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A Monument to Ms. Taylor and Past Times...
Added 12/28/2009
I mourn the passing of the glamorous Hollywood movie and the Stars who made them. It seems to me that the big money in todays films go to pay for technology, rather than the actual production and the humans performing in the film.
Styles may change, but good acting is good acting. That doesn't change.
Whenever I need a shot of the 50's style movie, this is one of the films that I pull from my collection to watch and enjoy. This is the quintessential 50's melodrama.
Ms. Taylor didn't want to make this film. At the time, she was suffering from
"Cleopatra-itis" and tried every excuse to avoid making "Butterfield 8," so she could go ahead and make her first million dollar role as the Egyptian Queen.
I think of Ms. Taylor as the last of the glamourous Movie Stars and BUtterfield 8 being one of the last melodramas. What a fantastic combination.
I love it every time I watch it. I hope you do too.
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One amazing star: Elizabeth Taylor
Added 4/17/2009
Gotta say, I've always been saddened to know that Elizabeth hated this movie and referred to it as "smut". Her performance is so much fun to watch: this woman could ACT. Look at her face when she writes "NO SALE" on wealthy Weston's bathroom mirror. Wow! Another fav moment is in the bar when she digs her stiletto heel into the top of his shoe to get him to let go of her arm. That is one amazing scene.
As a total guilty pleasure, I enjoy watching "BUtterfield 8" and "Suddenly Last Summer" one after another, a movie none of the other reviewers mentioned. Sometimes I'll follow that up with a viewing of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" for a total immersion into the wit, passion, talent and amazing beauty that Elizabeth Taylor brought to the big screen. I'm too young to have seen them as theatrical releases, so hooray for DVDs!
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Liz hated this film.
Added 4/18/2008
Butterfield 8 is pure camp, plain and simple! Elizabeth Taylor is the best thing in this uneven film, she won her first Oscar. Her character is anything but an angel, she drinks, swears, sleeps around with every man in town. I heard that Taylor tried to get out of making this film but she is a great actress so she knew she could pull this off. The ending is tragic and who said Eddie Fisher could act?! Definitely a movie to watch on a rainy afternoon.
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Favorite
Added 12/16/2007
Lola Ray
Although I've always loved Elizabeth Taylor in all her movies, I believe Butterfield 8 is my very favorite. Here, she was at the zenith of her beauty - My opinion - I never thought her more beautiful and talented. And her acting, of course, was nothing less the superb. She is and always has been one of my favorite actors. Definitely five stars. I'd give it ten if I could.
Sandra E. Waldron is the author of "Lola Ray" and "The Demise of Sarah Mae: Murder in the Swamp" among other novels, and has shorts in the Amazon Shorts section.
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Butterfield 8 review
Added 1/31/2010
Elizabeth Taylor plays Gloria in one of her earlier films. Gloria tries to become respectable but it leads to tragedy when she dies in a car accident. Worth seeing.Also good performances by Laurence Harvey and Eddie Fisher
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A Monument to Ms. Taylor and Past Times...
Added 12/28/2009
I mourn the passing of the glamorous Hollywood movie and the Stars who made them. It seems to me that the big money in todays films go to pay for technology, rather than the actual production and the humans performing in the film.
Styles may change, but good acting is good acting. That doesn't change.
Whenever I need a shot of the 50's style movie, this is one of the films that I pull from my collection to watch and enjoy. This is the quintessential 50's melodrama.
Ms. Taylor didn't want to make this film. At the time, she was suffering from
"Cleopatra-itis" and tried every excuse to avoid making "Butterfield 8," so she could go ahead and make her first million dollar role as the Egyptian Queen.
I think of Ms. Taylor as the last of the glamourous Movie Stars and BUtterfield 8 being one of the last melodramas. What a fantastic combination.
I love it every time I watch it. I hope you do too.
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One amazing star: Elizabeth Taylor
Added 4/17/2009
Gotta say, I've always been saddened to know that Elizabeth hated this movie and referred to it as "smut". Her performance is so much fun to watch: this woman could ACT. Look at her face when she writes "NO SALE" on wealthy Weston's bathroom mirror. Wow! Another fav moment is in the bar when she digs her stiletto heel into the top of his shoe to get him to let go of her arm. That is one amazing scene.
As a total guilty pleasure, I enjoy watching "BUtterfield 8" and "Suddenly Last Summer" one after another, a movie none of the other reviewers mentioned. Sometimes I'll follow that up with a viewing of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" for a total immersion into the wit, passion, talent and amazing beauty that Elizabeth Taylor brought to the big screen. I'm too young to have seen them as theatrical releases, so hooray for DVDs!
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