Movies by Elizabeth Taylor
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Wishful Drinking (2011)
Cast: Carrie Fisher, Eddie Fisher, Harry Karl …
Directed by: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Most know Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia from the Star Wars films, but in this one-woman stage performance, she reveals a more personal story. Raised in a family of movie stars, Fisher went…
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Michael Jackson: Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson (2009)
Cast: Michael Jackson, Princess Diana, Nelson Mandela …
Learn the truth about Michael Jackson's last years from the people who knew him best. This documentary focuses on the King of Pop's self-indulgent celebrity lifestyle and…
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Michael Jackson: Life of a Superstar (2009)
Cast: Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Sheryl Crow …
In the wake of his untimely death, those who knew the King of Pop best -- including Janet Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, Quincy Jones and Diana Ross -- provide fond remembrances…
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Michael Jackson: A Troubled Genius (2009)
Cast: Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, La Toya Jackson …
They called him the "King of Pop," but Michael Jackson often wore a heavy crown -- a paradox that's explored in this independently produced documentary examining the late artist's…
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The Century That Made America Great (2003)
Cast: Charles Osgood, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope …
America grew to be a world leader through its many notable triumphs and accomplishments, most of which occurred during the 20th century. This collection consists of three volumes full of…
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The Fabulous '50s (2002)
Cast: Nat King Cole, Liberace, Jerry Lee Lewis …
What's the best way to revisit one of America's defining decades? Travel back to the 1950s -- the decade of the hula hoop, the Civil Rights movement, the Cold War -- by way of its…
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These Old Broads (2001)
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Debbie Reynolds, Joan Collins …
Directed by: Matthew Diamond
When one of their old movies becomes an unexpected cult hit after being rereleased, Hollywood legends Kate Westbourne, Addie Holden and Piper Grayson sign on to film a reunion special.…
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The Flintstones (1994)
Cast: John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis …
Directed by: Brian Levant
Modern Stone Age family the Flintstones hit the big screen in this live-action version of the classic cartoon. Fred (John Goodman) helps Barney (Rick Moranis) adopt a child. Barney sees an…
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Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (1992)
Cast: Elton John, George Michael, Queen …
Superstar musicians come together to pay tribute to the late Freddie Mercury in this sold-out 1992 Wembley Stadium concert. Artists such as Metallica, Def Leppard, Guns N' Roses,…
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Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Mark Harmon, Valerie Perrine …
Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Hoping to jump-start his acting career, an opportunist romances an aging movie star in this adaptation of Tennessee Williams's play. Chance Wayne (Mark Harmon) seduces fading actress…
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Michael Jackson: Moonwalker (1988)
Cast: Michael Jackson, Sean Lennon, Elizabeth Taylor …
Directed by: Jim Blashfield, Jerry Kramer, Colin Chilvers …
A peek inside the wildly creative mind of Michael Jackson, this entertaining film showcases the King of Pop in a fun claymation sequence, a special effects-filled adventure, and music videos…
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The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986)
Cast: Joan Bennett, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor …
Directed by: David Heeley
Spencer Tracy was a true Hollywood legend who starred in dozens of films, including such classics as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. In this tribute…
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Malice in Wonderland (1985)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Alexander, Richard A. Dysart …
Directed by: Gus Trikonis
In the 1930s and '40s, Louella Parsons (Elizabeth Taylor) was the leading Hollywood gossip columnist and managed to get the scoop on everyone and everything with help from her…
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Genocide (1981)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles
Directed by: Arnold Schwartzman
This 1981 Oscar-winning documentary tells the chilling, unforgettable story of the millions of men, women and children who were caught up in Hitler's World War II reign of terror.…
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Agatha Christie's The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson …
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Jane Marple (Angela Lansbury) is thrilled when two glamorous Hollywood actresses, Marina Rudd and Lola Brewster, arrive in her quaint English village to shoot a movie. It's soon…
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A Little Night Music (1977)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou …
Directed by: Harold Prince
Stephen Sondheim's shimmering musical (based on Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night) transfers from the Broadway stage to the silver screen with a who's-who cast along…
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That's Entertainment 2 (1976)
Cast: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Katharine Hepburn …
Directed by: Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire host this nostalgic look at classic scenes from some of MGM's most-beloved comedies and musicals. The collection of clips features silver screen stars…
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James Dean: The First American Teenager (1975)
Cast: Stacy Keach, James Dean, Carroll Baker …
Directed by: Ray Connolly
Stacy Keach narrates this documentary that chronicles the abbreviated life and career of iconic brooding bad boy James Dean, from his obscure early days working in television to his rise to…
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That's Entertainment (1974)
Cast: Fred Astaire, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra …
Directed by: Jack Haley Jr.
Take a trip back to Hollywood's golden age with this tribute to MGM musicals that features scenes from nearly 100 celluloid gems, such as An American in Paris and Singin' in the…
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The Driver's Seat (1974)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen
Directed by: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
One of the odder movies to come out of the 1970s, this over-the-top melodrama based on a novel by Muriel Spark features Elizabeth Taylor chewing acres of scenery as a mad spinster who travels…
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Divorce His, Divorce Hers (1973)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Thomas Baptiste …
Directed by: Waris Hussein
In a story containing more than a few parallels to their own, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton play a divorced couple who reflect on the dissolution of their 18-year marriage. While the…
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Ash Wednesday (1973)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger …
Directed by: Larry Peerce
After 30 years, the spark has gone out of the marriage of the Sawyers -- Barbara (Elizabeth Taylor) and Mark (Henry Fonda) -- and Barbara is determined to reignite it. Emerging from the…
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Under Milk Wood (1972)
Cast: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole …
Directed by: Andrew Sinclair
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas's radio play comes to life in this delightful adaptation vibrantly narrated by fellow Welshman and Thomas devotee Richard Burton and co-starring Glynis Johns and…
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Under Milk Wood (1972)
Cast: Richard Burton, Philip Burton, Meredith Edwards …
Directed by: Les Orton
Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole, Glynis Johns and Vivien Merchant lend their voices to this animated treatment of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas's witty and intense…
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X, Y and Zee (1972)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York …
Directed by: Brian G. Hutton
The verbal game-playing is so intense in the marriage of Zee and Robert Blakeley that Robert seeks respite with simple country girl Stella. But the affair is too much for Zee, even in the…
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Doctor Faustus (1968)
Cast: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Andreas Teuber …
Directed by: Nevill Coghill, Richard Burton
In this intriguing adaptation of the classic stage play, medieval scholar John Faustus (Richard Burton) makes a deal with the devil, selling his soul in exchange for a more youthful body,…
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The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack …
Directed by: Franco Zeffirelli
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton seem to be channeling the legendary dramas of their marriage in this boisterous and bawdy adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic comedy, directed…
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Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith …
Directed by: John Huston
Carson McCullers's Southern drama comes to the big screen with Marlon Brando as Maj. Weldon Penderton, a repressed homosexual married to the carping Leonora (Elizabeth Taylor),…
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The Comedians (1967)
Cast: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness …
Directed by: Peter Glenville
Famous couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton team up in this drama based on Graham Greene's novel. During the era of Papa Doc Duvalier's despotic rule of Haiti, hotel owner…
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal …
Directed by: Mike Nichols
On a serene New England campus, emasculated professor George (Richard Burton) and his rancorous wife, Martha (Elizabeth Taylor), turn an evening of cocktails into an unrelenting onslaught of…
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The Sandpiper (1965)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint …
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Featuring the Oscar-winning song "The Shadow of Your Smile," this tale of illicit love between a free-spirited single mother and a married minister is driven by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard…
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The V.I.P.s (1963)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan …
Directed by: Anthony Asquith
This glossy drama set in London's Heathrow Airport follows a handful of passengers whose lives are changed when fog delays all flights overnight. The script profiles a wife (Elizabeth…
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Cleopatra (1963)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison …
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Darryl F. Zanuck
This epic saga of love, greed and betrayal stars Elizabeth Taylor as the Egyptian queen who's determined to hold on to the throne and seduces Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is…
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Butterfield 8 (1960)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher …
Directed by: Daniel Mann
Elizabeth Taylor won a Best Actress Oscar as Gloria Wandrous, a stylish call girl who yearns to go straight, especially after she thinks she's found Mr. Right. But self-loathing…
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Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift …
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
In Tennessee Williams's tale of sexual repression set in 1937 New Orleans, rich widow Mrs. Venable (Katharine Hepburn) is distraught over the death of her son Sebastian during his…
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Cast: Jack Carson, Larry Gates, Vaughn Taylor …
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Members of an avaricious Southern clan scramble to curry favor with dying, wealthy patriarch Harvey "Big Daddy" Pollitt (Burl Ives) in this Oscar-nominated adaptation of playwright Tennessee…
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Raintree County (1957)
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
In this star-studded Civil War epic, spoiled Southern belle Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) lures pacifist abolitionist John Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) away from his high school sweetheart…
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Giant (1956)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean …
Directed by: George Stevens
In Oscar-winning director George Stevens's sprawling epic, Texas cattleman Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) journeys to Virginia in the early 1920s, falls in love with aristocratic,…
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The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon …
Directed by: Richard Brooks
After journalist Charles (Van Johnson) marries Helen (Elizabeth Taylor) in Paris, he supports her with a low-level reporting job while writing a novel at night. But frequent rejections…
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The Last Time I Saw Paris / Father's Little Dividend (1954)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon …
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli, Richard Brooks
This set spotlights two of Elizabeth Taylor's better-known works from the 1950s. In The Last Time I Saw Paris, Charles Wills (Van Johnson) returns to the City of Lights to reminisce…
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Elephant Walk (1954)
Cast: Dana Andrews, Peter Finch, Elizabeth Taylor …
Directed by: William Dieterle
Lush cinematography elevates this slick drama about wealthy John Wiley (Peter Finch), who returns to his Ceylon tea plantation with his English bride, Ruth (Elizabeth Taylor). Her delight…
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Ivanhoe (1952)
Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine …
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Wilfred of Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor) challenges the corrupt Norman monarchy of Prince John (Guy Rolfe) and his minions, De Bois-Guilbert (George Sanders) and De Bracy (Robert Douglas) -- with…
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Father's Little Dividend (1951)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett …
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Hard on the outside, soft and gooey on the inside, Stanley Banks (Spencer Tracy) returns in Vincente Minnelli's charming Father of the Bride sequel. Stanley's heart rate finally…
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Quo Vadis (1951)
Cast: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn …
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy's Hollywood epic recounts the sweeping saga of star-crossed lovers General Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor) and Lygia (Deborah Kerr). The smitten Marcus pursues Lygia, but to…
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A Place in the Sun (1951)
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: George Stevens
Dirt-poor George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) lands himself a factory job thanks to a well-to-do uncle's largesse and has a tryst with co-worker Alice (Shelley Winters) to combat his…
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Classic Cinema: Richard Burton Triple Feature (1951)
Cast: Richard Burton, Roger Livesey, Honor Blackman …
Directed by: Derek N. Twist, Terence Young, Waris Hussein …
Richard Burton fairly exuded gravitas in his many roles, as evidenced by this trio of classic films. In The Klansman, Burton battles racism (and a nasty hangover!) in the Deep South. In…
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Father of the Bride (1950)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett …
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Spencer Tracy renders one of his most endearing roles as Stanley Banks, the befuddled title character in this charming comedy directed by Vincente Minnelli. Stanley gets caught up in the…
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Little Women (1949)
Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien …
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
This 1949 screen version of Louisa May Alcott's beloved novel is packed with star power. Marmee Marach (Mary Astor) attempts to raise her four teenage daughters in a time of deprivation…
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A Date with Judy (1948)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Powell, Robert Stack …
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Teenage best pals Judy (Jane Powell) and Carol (Elizabeth Taylor) find their friendship put to the test when they both fall for the same suave fellow (Robert Stack) in this breezy musical…
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Life With Father (1947)
Cast: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor …
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Based on Clarence Day Jr.'s memoirs about growing up with his semi-tyrannical father, this wonderful comedy is truly one of the classics. William Powell stars as Father, a Wall Street…
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Elizabeth Taylor Triad (1947)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon …
Directed by: Michael Curtiz, Vincente Minnelli, Richard Brooks …
Three great Elizabeth Taylor movies on a single disc! In The Last Time I Saw Paris, veteran Van Johnson meets the lovely and lively Elizabeth Taylor in Paris after the war and falls in love.…
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Classic Cinema: Elizabeth Taylor Triple Feature (1947)
Cast: Spencer Treat Clark, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett …
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli, Michael Curtiz, Richard Brooks …
A stunningly beautiful Elizabeth Taylor stars in three vintage films. In Father's Little Dividend (a sequel to Father of the Bride), Liz is in a family way, much to the chagrin of her…
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The Courage of Lassie (1946)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan, Tom Drake …
Directed by: Fred M. Wilcox
When a playful Collie pup is shot by a young boy (Carl Switzer), young Kathie Merrick (Elizabeth Taylor) rescues the injured canine and nurses him back to health. Kathie nicknames the dog…
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National Velvet (1944)
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp …
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Although it's a vintage flick resurrected from Hollywood's vaults, National Velvet is first-rate entertainment. Among its highlights are a young and beguiling Elizabeth Taylor as…
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Lassie Come Home (1943)
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty …
Directed by: Fred M. Wilcox
After falling on hard times, the parents of Joe Carraclough (Roddy McDowall) are left with no choice but to put his adored dog, Lassie, up for sale. The dog is bought by the Duke of Rudling…