lounge while waiting for the fog to clear. Aside from that, there’s not much noteworthy about this “Grand Hotel” in an airport drama, which finds a group of delayed travelers hanging out in the V.I.P. Starring Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Maggie Smith, Orson Welles, Rod Taylor, Elsa Martinelli, Margaret Rutherford.Īmong the cinematic turkeys Taylor made with her on-again-off-again husband, Richard Burton, this one holds a special distinction in cinema history since it brought Margaret Rutherford a Supporting Actress Oscar. Tour our photo gallery of Taylor’s best movies, including a few for which she should’ve earned Oscar nominations.ĭirected by Anthony Asquith.
DeMille Award at the Golden Globes in 1985 and the SAG Life Achievement prize in 1998. In addition to her two Oscar wins, Taylor also received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993 for her humanitarian work, particularly in AIDS research. It was a stunning transformation, and proof that she was more than just a beauty queen. Taylor gained weight and died her hair to play a bitter middle-aged wife in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966), who spars with her professor husband (the star’s own on-again off-again spouse Richard Burton) during an all-night slugfest with a pair of newlyweds ( George Segal and Sandy Dennis).
Her next win came for a much more acclaimed performance, and a truly surprising one. (When asked about its success, she famously said, “I still think it stinks.”) Her win probably had more to do with an emergency tracheotomy she underwent right before the ceremony than the performance, but either way, Taylor was finally crowned the Queen of Hollywood. She collected her first statuette playing a prostitute with man troubles in “Butterfield 8” (1960), a film she openly hated. Subsequent bids for “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (1958) and “Suddenly, Last Summer” (1959) quickly followed. She quickly transitioned into adult stardom, earning her first Oscar nomination as Best Actress for “Raintree County” (1957). But how many of those titles remain classics? Let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.īorn in 1932, Taylor began her career as a child actress, landing her first leading role when she was just 12-years-old with “National Velvet” (1944). Elizabeth Taylor was the glamorous Hollywood icon who starred in dozens of movies throughout her career, collecting two Best Actress trophies at the Oscars and three additional nominations.
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