This board needs... ELIZABETH TAYLOR

LOL! Judi Dench should be so lucky.

Journalist, and I used the term loosely, should have quit while she was behind.

I think that journalist did exactly the right thing! I would have done cartwheels after that.

Don't poke the crazy, especially when the crazy is helpless and clutching tattered pretensions to elegance.

I agree with that 100% except for the "Don't" part.

(Also I know that Liz is now crazy but the way she handled that didn't seem crazy to me as much as "ask a ludicrous question, get a ludicrous answer".)

tuesday bump

Oh come on, everyone knows that one of the privileges of being a dowager type is that you get to screech at people and order them around. I for one am greatly looking forward to that time in my life.

but Liz has been screeching since she was about 30.

Perhaps she suffered from premature dowagerization. It can be corrected with hormones, but maybe she never got the right ones.

Catherine O'Hara did her screech/giggle/overmedicated voice perfectly on SCTV.

the Photoplay covers are great

http://www.theawl.com/2012/11/11-quick-liz-taylor-things

DOES GOD ALWAYS PUNISH?

yes, liz, he does.

This is a soft woody floral in the classic mold, slightly low-budget but pretty good—lush, creamy, and sweet, with a tropical white-flowers accord smelling slightly like ripe bananas, all bolstered by some of those big, powdery musks you'll recognize from your laundry soap. Seems designed to waft up from cleavage.

Nov 1 69 I got the bloody thing for ,100,000 pic.twitter.com/4tzNxTEnK3

— Richard Burton (@BurtonDiaries) November 1, 2018

https://www.tiktok.com/@ohnoitsbilly/video/6941574577692642566

A very popular (and normally witty) Twitter account just tweeted out the fact that Liz Taylor was only 34 (actually 33) when she was in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and all the commenters were like "OMG, WHAT? KILL ME NOW" etc. Nobody pointed out the obvious fact that she was *playing* 52 in it, which is why she put on weight and put grey in her hair, duh.

Via TCM:

Conspirator's most prominent attribute is that it gave 17-year-old Elizabeth Taylor her first grown-up role, playing wife to more than twice her age co-star Robert Taylor, a continued sore point of embarrassment for the latter. Vanity aside, the veteran leading man later admitted that young Liz's beauty and sexuality would drive him crazy on the set, causing the actor to become so aroused that re-takes would be necessary, lest some sharp-eyed censors took note of unsightly bulges in the trouser area.

Robert Taylor? Barbara Stanwyck’s second husband?

Yes the droopy man

He was a big star at some point. Hard to imagine now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umcQbYSL1yU

When he is young you can cock your head and see it from a modern POV but he gets leathery and smoked out pretty quickly

See also: George Brent.

George Brent's primary value was in remembering his lines and not upstaging his leading ladies.

Robert Taylor? Barbara Stanwyck’s second husband?

Great Real Names: Spangler Arlington Brugh

Also George Brent was in the IRA!

Forgot about that. There’s something else about him too, some sort of personal excitement Bette Davis mentions which didn’t really translate to the screen for whatever reason.

Great Real Names: Spangler Arlington Brugh

Ha, I just went looking and did find a book on George Brent which has kind of a hilarious (sub)title.

Apparently it was one of HuffPo’s Best Film Books of 2013.

Maybe the book that was listed was another by the same author, perhaps about one of Brent’s wives, Ruth Chatterton.

Forgot about that. There’s something else about him too, some sort of personal excitement Bette Davis mentions which didn’t really translate to the screen for whatever reason.

singing this thread title like the Taylor Swift song

Ruth Chatterton married to George Brent boggles the mind.

Ha, I just went looking and did find a book on George Brent which has kind of a hilarious (sub)title.

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Do you refer to "George Brent - Ireland's Gift to Hollywood and its Leading Ladies"? The author was active (maybe still is?) on some online film forums when the book was published.

As for the IRA revelation, Brent in The Rains Came (1939) has a speech praising a statue of Queen Victoria as a symbol of Empire rule in India. And he is professional enough to sell it.

Yes, referring to that

I gave him his own thread recently, but no one has shown up.

Post here when you watch on old George Brent movie