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Vintage Liz: International Film Posters

Cleopatra
1963 (Hungary)


A Place in the Sun
1951 (Germany)


Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 (Sweden)


Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 (Czechoslovakia)


Giant, 1956


The Sandpiper
1965 ( Japan)


BUtterfield 8
1960 (France)


National Velvet
1944 (Sweden)


The V.I.P.s
1963 (France)



SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER 1959
France

Italy

Germany

This poster has the film title in French and Dutch. A reader suggests that it is from Belgium.

NOTES: Links are to IMDb film information. Date is year of the movie, not the poster.
Poster Sources: Movie Goods, Listal

MAGGIE the CAT

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one of Elizabeth Taylor's best-and there are many- performances Maggie Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 


here-starring as Best Actress in a Beautiful Baby's Beautiful Bedroom.




"You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it." maggie the cat




“I tried to make it fit into the rest of the apartment while still staying girly,” says Laura of baby Georgiana’s room. “I painted it light gray, but I hung this hot-pink painting of Elizabeth Taylor by Russell Young. This room is my favorite.” from vogue.com



 

 

 

“My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.”  Elizabeth Taylor








 Photographed by Claiborne Swanson Frank
from the pages of  VOGUE.com
 
 
 
I don't often blog these stories from vogue.com. they have some gorgeous HOME stories - and you can view them all- 
go to vogue.com, Culture, Homes. this one is  APT with LSD: Laura and Diego Garcia,  here
 
 
 
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Elizabeth Taylor in Iran

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Wearing a chador at the Shah Cheragh Shrine, Shiraz, 1976
Photo: Firooz Zahedi




 
 
 
LACMA here


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furious love

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They say her eyes were the color of violet. 



"I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. 
Our love is so furious that we burn each other out."









She was an extraordinary beauty.



'At thirty-four she is an extremely beautiful woman, lavishly endowed by nature with a few flaws in the masterpiece: She has an insipid double chin, her legs are too short and she has a slight potbelly. She has a wonderful bosom, though'









 "Elizabeth has great worries about becoming a cripple because her feet sometimes have no feeling in them. She asked if I would stop loving her if she had to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. I told her that I didn`t care if her legs, bum and bosoms fell off and her teeth turned yellow. And she went bald. I love that woman so much sometimes that I cannot believe my luck. She has given me so much."









She was a child star that exuded innocence and knowing .



'She is a wildly exciting love-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody's fool, she is a brilliant actress, she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography... she is an ache in the stomach when I am away from her, and she loves me! ... And I'll love her till I die.'







'I love her, not for her breasts, her buttocks or her knees but for her mind. It is inscrutable. She is like a poem. '








 Celluloid loved her. Men adored her.



' My blind eyes are desperately waiting for the sight of you. You don’t realise of course, E.B., how fascinatingly beautiful you have always been, and how strangely you have acquired an added and special and dangerous loveliness.'











'You will never, of course, because you are too young, understand the idea of loneliness. I love you better than buckets of brine poured over a boiling body, than ice cream laved on a parched mouth, than sanity smoothed over madness ...'







 what do you expect from such a woman?





Elizabeth Taylor
requiescat in pace
February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011









all quotes are Richard Burton's

 their story here
extracts from Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor And Richard Burton And The Marriage Of The Century by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger,



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liz taylor

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happy birthday today Elizabeth Taylor
two time OSCAR winner










she might not be every one's style-
but she was The Goddess of the Silver Screen in the 1950's & 1960's

her OSCAR winning films:"Butterfield 8" 1960  &  "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in '66

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Happy Dysfunctional Xmas


Had enough of It's a Wonderful Life? Here's tonight’s movie lineup on Turner Classic Movies. I’m not kidding.

8:00pm THE LION IN WINTER (1968)
Christmas 1183--an aging and conniving King Henry II plans a reunion where he hopes to name his successor. He summons the following people for the holiday: his scheming but imprisoned wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine; his mistress, Princess Alais, whom he wishes to marry; his three sons (Richard, Geoffrey, and John), all of whom desire the throne; and the young but crafty King Philip of France (who is also Alais' brother). With the fate of Henry's empire at stake, everybody engages in their own brand of deception and treachery to stake their claim.


10:30pm WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
A bitter aging couple with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.


1:00am CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958)Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.


3:00am ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980)The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.