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Elizabeth

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by J. Randy Taraborrelli


  SCREENWRITER: George Tabori

  Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold, John Colicos, Irene Pappas, Anthony Quayle, Elizabeth Taylor (a courtesan, unbilled) Universal

  PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis

  DIRECTOR: Charles Jarrott

  SCREENWRITERS: John Hale, Bridget Boland

  Filmography

  527

  The Only Game in Town (1970)

  Elizabeth Taylor (Fran Walker), Warren Beatty,

  Charles Braswell, Hank Henry

  20th Century-Fox

  PRODUCER: Fred Kohlmar

  DIRECTOR: George Stevens

  SCREENWRITER: Frank Gilroy

  Under Milk Wood (1971)

  Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor (Rosie Probert), Peter O’Toole, Glynis Johns, Vivien Merchant, Sian Phillips, Victor Spinetti Timon/The Rank Organisation

  PRODUCER: Hugh French, Jules Buck

  DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Andrew Sinclair

  X, Y and Zee (Zee and Co. , U.K. ) (1972) Elizabeth Taylor (Zee Blakeley), Michael Caine, Susanna York, Margaret Leighton, John Standing

  Columbia

  PRODUCER: Alan Ladd Jr., Jay Kanter, Elliott Kastner DIRECTOR: Brian G. Hutton

  SCREENWRITER: Edna O’Brien

  Hammersmith Is Out (1972)

  Elizabeth Taylor (Jimmie Jean Jackson), Richard Burton, Beau Bridges, Peter Ustinov, Leon Ames, John Schuck, George Raft

  Cinerama Releasing Corporation

  PRODUCER: Alex Lucas

  DIRECTOR: Peter Ustinov

  SCREENWRITER: Stanford Whitmore

  Night Watch (1973)

  Elizabeth Taylor (Ellen Wheeler), Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw, Robert Lang

  528

  Filmography

  Avco Embassy

  PRODUCERS: George W. George, Bernard Straus, Martin Poll, David White

  DIRECTOR: Brian G. Hutton

  SCREENWRITER: Tony Williamson

  Ash Wednesday (1973)

  Elizabeth Taylor (Barbara Sawyer), Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter, Monique Van Vooren

  Paramount/Sagittarius

  PRODUCER: Dominick Dunne

  DIRECTOR: Larry Peerce

  SCREENWRITER: Jean-Claude Tramont

  That’s Entertainment! (1974)

  Narration by: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart, Bing Crosby, Liza Minnelli, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra

  MGM/United Artists

  EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Daniel Melnick

  PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Jack Haley Jr.

  Identikit (aka The Driver’s Seat) (1974) Elizabeth Taylor (Lise), Ian Bannen, Guido Mannari, Andy Warhol, Mona Washbourne

  Avco Embassy

  PRODUCER: Franco Rosselli

  DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Guiseppe Patroni-Griffi

  CO-SCREENWRITER: Raffaele La Capria

  The Blue Bird (1976)

  Elizabeth Taylor (Queen of Light, Mother, Witch, Maternal Love), Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner, Cicely Tyson, Harry Andrews, Will Geer, Mona Washbourne, George Cole

  20th Century-Fox

  Filmography

  529

  EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Edward Lewis

  PRODUCER: Paul Maslansky

  DIRECTOR: George Cukor

  SCREENWRITERS: Hugh Whitemore, Alfred Hayes

  A Little Night Music (1977)

  Elizabeth Taylor (Desiree Armfeldt), Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Leslie-Anne Down, Hermione Gingold

  Sacha Film/S & T/New World Pictures

  EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Heinz Lazek

  PRODUCER: Elliott Kastner

  DIRECTOR: Hal Prince

  SCREENWRITER: Hugh Wheeler

  Winter Kills (1979)

  Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Sterling Hayden, Elizabeth Taylor (Lola Comante, unbilled), Eli Wallach, Dorothy Malone, Richard Boone, Toshiro Mifune,

  Ralph Meeker

  Avco Embassy

  PRODUCERS: Fred C. Caruso, Daniel H. Blatt

  DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: William Richert

  Genocide (1979)

  Narrated by Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles

  A Simon Wiesenthal Center Release

  PRODUCER: Marvin Segelman

  DIRECTOR: Arnold Schartzman

  SCREENWRITER: Arnold Schwartzman

  The Mirror Crack’d (1980)

  Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, Elizabeth Taylor (Marina Rudd), Edward Fox

  EMI

  530

  Filmography

  PRODUCERS: John Brabourne, Richard Goodwin

  DIRECTOR: Guy Hamilton

  SCREENWRITERS: Jonathan Hales, Barry Sandler

  Young Toscanini (1988)

  C. Thomas Howell, Elizabeth Taylor (Nadina Bulichoff), Sophie Ward, Pat Heywood, Franco Nero, John Rhys-Davies, Valentina Cortese (unbilled)

  Carthago Films

  EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Mark Lombardo

  PRODUCERS: Fulvio Lucisano, Tarak Ben Ammar

  DIRECTOR: Franco Zeffirelli

  SCREENWRITER: William H. Stadiem

  The Flintstones (1994)

  John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Rosie O’Donnell, Elizabeth Taylor (Pearl Snaghoople), Kyle MacLachlan, Halle Berry Universal /Amblin /Hanna-Barbera

  PRODUCERS: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Kathleen Kennedy, David Kirschner, Gerald R. Molen, Bruce Cohen

  DIRECTOR: Brian Levant

  SCREENWRITERS: Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein,

  Steven E. deSouza

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  TELEVISION MOVIES AND MINISERIES

  Divorce His-Divorce Hers (1973)

  Elizabeth Taylor (Jane Reynolds), Richard Burton, Carrie Nye ABC-TV

  EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: John Heyman

  PRODUCERS: Terence Baker, Gareth Wigan

  DIRECTOR: Waris Hussein

  SCREENWRITER: John Hopkins

  Filmography

  531

  Victory at Entebbe (1976)

  Elizabeth Taylor (Edra Vilnofsky), Helmut Berger, Theodore Bikel, Linda Blair, Richard Dreyfuss, Kirk Douglas, Helen Hayes, Anthony Hopkins, Burt Lancaster

  ABC-TV

  EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: David L. Wolper

  PRODUCER: Robert Guenette

  DIRECTOR: Marvin J. Chomsky

  SCREENWRITER: Ernest Kinoy

  Return Engagement (1978)

  Elizabeth Taylor (Dr. Emily Loomis), Timothy Bottoms, Allyn Ann McLerie, Peter Donat

  NBC-TV

  PRODUCERS: Franklin R. Levy, Mike Wise

  DIRECTOR: Joseph Hardy

  SCREENWRITER: James Prideaux

  Between Friends (aka Nobody Makes Me Cry) (1983) Elizabeth Taylor (Deborah Shapiro), Carol Burnett, Barbara Bush, Henry Ramer

  HBO

  EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Robert Cooper, Marian Rees PRODUCERS/WRITERS: Shelly List, Jonathan Estrin DIRECTOR: Lou Antonio

  Malice in Wonderland (1985)

  Elizabeth Taylor (Louella Parsons), Jane Alexander, Richard Dysart, Joyce Van Patten

  CBS-TV

  EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Judith A. Polone

  PRODUCER: Jay Benson

  DIRECTOR: Gus Trikonis

  SCREENWRITERS: Jacqueline M. Feather, David Seidler 532

  Filmography

  North and South (1985)

  Kirstie Alley, David Carradine, Leslie-Anne Down, Genie Francis, Patrick Swayze, Elizabeth Taylor (Madam Conti) ABC-TV

  EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David L. Wolper, Chuck McLain PRODUCER: Paul Freeman

  DIRECTOR: Richard Heffron

  SCREENWRITERS: Douglas Heyes, Paul F. Edwards,

  Kathleen A. Shelley, Patricia Green

  There Must Be a Pony (1986)

  Elizabeth Taylor (Marguerite Sydney), Robert Wagner, James Coco, William Windom

  ABC-TV

  EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Robert Wagner

  PRODUCER: Howard Jeffrey

  DIRECTOR: Joseph Sargent

  SCREENWRITER: Mart Crowley

  Poker Al
ice (1987)

  Elizabeth Taylor (Alice Moffit), George Hamilton, David Wayne, Richard Mulligan

  CBS-TV

  EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Harvey Matofsky

  PRODUCER: Renee Valente

  DIRECTOR: Arthur Allan Seilelman

  SCREENWRITER: James Lee Barrett

  Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)

  Elizabeth Taylor (Alexandra Del Lago, the Princess Kosmonopolis), Mark Harmon, Rip Torn, Valerie Perrine NBC-TV

  EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Donald Kushner, Peter Locke, Linda Yellen DIRECTOR: Nicholas Roeg

  SCREENWRITER: Gavin Lambert

  Filmography

  533

  These Old Broads (2001)

  Elizabeth Taylor (Beryl Mason), Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, Jonathan Silverman, Peter Graves, June Allyson (unbilled)

  ABC-TV

  EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Ilene Amy Berg, Laurence Mark CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Carrie Fisher, Elaine Pope DIRECTOR: Matthew Diamond

  SCREENWRITERS: Carrie Fisher, Elaine Pope

  Index

  Abrams, Bob, 187

  Alexander, Jane, 390

  Academy Awards

  Alexander the Great (film), 170

  Anne of a Thousand Days, 278

  All About Eve (film), 160

  Around the World in Eighty Days, 122, 125, Allyson, June, 70

  128

  American Musical and Dramatic Academy of

  Cleopatra, 217

  New York, 241, 250

  Burton Best Actor nominations, 171, 267,

  American Tragedy (Dreiser), 118

  267n, 268, 271, 277, 278–79

  amfAR (American Foundation for AIDS

  Elizabeth Best Actress awards, 161–62, 226,

  Research), 400–401, 406, 417, 421

  260, 267–69, 267n

  Andrews, Dana, 112

  Elizabeth Best Actress nominations, 133,

  Andrews, Julie, 460, 461

  144, 147, 164, 267

  Anger, Kenneth, 333

  Elizabeth as presenter, 75–76, 278

  Anne of the Thousand Days (film), 273, 277, Giant, 122

  278–79

  A Place in the Sun, 119

  Archerd, Amy, 398

  The V.I.P.s, 227

  Armocida, Rose Marie, 260

  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 260–61, Armstrong, Louis, 218

  267, 267n

  Around the World in Eighty Days (film), 122, Advocate magazine, 120

  125, 128,, 132 208, 324

  Aga Khan, 218

  Ash Wednesday (film), 265

  AIDS, 249, 331, 395–402, 405–6, 407, 420,

  421, 426, 450–60, 461

  Bacall, Lauren, 251

  Aileen Getty and, 399–400

  Bacharach, Burt, 404, 431

  Commitment to Life Dinner, 399,

  Bacon, James, 134, 259

  400

  Bagnold, Enid, 48, 51

  Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, 421,

  Baldrige, Annabelle, 29–31

  433, 451, 452

  Baldrige, Marshall, 20, 27–32, 33, 34, 45–46,

  Project Angel Food, 417

  105, 222, 271–72

  AIDS Medical Foundation, 400

  Ball, Lucille, 277–78

  AIDS Project Los Angeles (ALPA), 397, 400

  Bancroft, Anne, 268

  Albee, Edward, 256–57

  Bankhead, Tallulah, 336, 359

  Alcott, Louisa May, 70

  Bardot, Brigitte, 218

  Alemán, Miguel, 131

  Barefoot in the Park (play), 257

  536

  Index

  Barr, Roseanne, 450

  259, 260, 268, 272–74, 275–76, 278,

  Beatty, Warren, 272

  289, 302, 303, 311–12, 346–47, 348–49,

  Beau Brummel (film), 123

  381–82, 384

  Becket (film), 216, 229, 279

  Anne of the Thousand Days, 273, 277,

  Been There, Done That (Fisher), 199

  278–79

  Bellows, Brian, 433–34, 445, 457

  awards, 171

  Belushi, John, 329

  background and acting career, 123, 168–71,

  Bennett, Joan, 82

  173, 216, 263, 274–75, 278–79

  Bennett, Michael, 406

  Becket, 216, 229, 267, 279

  Bennett, Tony, 254, 347

  Best Actor nominations, 171, 267, 267n,

  Bentkover, Marie, 248, 249, 253

  268, 278–79

  Bergman, Ingrid, 43

  Bluebeard, 281

  Berkeley, Ron, 365

  Boom!, 263

  Berman, Pandro S., 47, 48, 52–53, 149, 151

  Boston mobbing by fans, 242–44

  Betty Ford Center, 373, 374–81, 408, 409–12,

  breakup with Elizabeth (1962), 192–95

  440

  Céligny residence, 218, 220, 237, 382

  Between Friends (TV movie), 358–59

  chooses Elizabeth over Sybil, 225–28, 278

  Beverly Hills Hotel, 35, 36, 77, 277–78

  Cleopatra and, 163, 164, 165, 167–68,

  Big Hangover, The (film), 76

  171–73, 178–91, 178–91, 195–97, 202–5,

  Blondell, Joan, 125

  214–17, 248

  Bloom, Claire, 170

  The Comedians, 272, 274

  Bluebeard (film), 281

  death, 231, 381–86, 402, 407

  Blue Bird, The (film), 301–2

  divorce from Sybil, 237

  Bocelli, Andrea, 458

  Divorce His, Divorce Hers, 281

  Bonaventure Hotel, 400

  divorces from Elizabeth, 300, 309–13, 317

  Boom! (film), 263

  Doctor Faustus, 261

  Bottoms, Joseph, 327

  earnings, 171, 227, 258, 297, 366, 370

  Boyd, Stephen, 155, 163

  Elizabeth’s children and, 208–9, 220, 233,

  Bragg, Melvyn, 364

  282–85, 470

  Brando, Marlon, 163, 261–62

  Elizabeth’s illnesses and, 109

  Bridges, Jeff, 323

  end of first marriage to Elizabeth, 65

  British Film Institute, 460, 461

  Equus, 306–12

  Bronson, Charles, 254

  fiftieth birthday and health problems,

  Brooks, Richard, 55, 135, 151

  Brown, Clarence, 52

  303–4

  Brown, David, 415

  grave, 387–89

  Brown, Helen Gurley, 56, 178, 375, 415

  Gstaad separation from Elizabeth (1962),

  Brynner, Yul, 161

  218–25

  Bufman, Zev, 336, 347, 353, 356, 357

  Hamlet, 238, 240–42, 244, 245–47, 361

  Bujold, Geneviève, 278

  Hammersmith Is Out, 264–65

  Burnett, Carol, 358–59

  health deterioration, 346–47, 353, 369, 384

  Burnett, Hodgson, 19

  hemophilia, 248–50

  Burr, Robert, 241

  infidelity, 170, 172, 173, 185, 191, 304–6

  Burton, Jessica, 170–71, 212, 285

  jewelry and gifts to Elizabeth, 231–32, 239,

  Burton, Kate, 170, 171, 282, 285

  265–67, 284–85, 297, 300, 303

  Burton, Maria (Maria Burton Carson

  The Klansman, 298–99

  McKeown, adopted daughter), 174–77,

  The Lucy Show, 277–78

  201, 206, 208, 230, 233, 246, 252–53,

  marriage to Sybil, 170–71, 172, 179, 188,

  284, 285, 300, 347–48, 354–55, 360,

  189, 191–92, 212, 213, 220, 223–24,

  381, 383, 440, 461, 470–71

  225, 228

  Burton, Philip, 169–70, 223, 241, 246, 250

  meeting Elizabeth, 167–68, 171–72

  Burton, Richard, 95n, 450, 462, 463–64
, 473

  My Cousin Rachel, 171, 267

  abuse and domestic conflict, 211–14, 219,

  The Night of the Iguana and Elizabeth in 231, 247–48, 252, 259–60, 265, 275–77,

  Mexico, 229–33, 279, 363

  298–300, 304, 442

  1984 (film), 381

  affair with Elizabeth ( Cleopatra set), OBE (knighthood), 462

  178–91, 195–97, 202–5

  personality, 167–70, 172–73, 181, 182–84,

  alcoholism and substance abuse, 171, 173,

  189, 223, 230

  180–81, 183, 212, 223, 238, 246–47,

  Private Lives, 353, 356–71, 380

  Index

  537

  reconciliation with Elizabeth (1973–1974),

  Chapman, Ceil, 82

  296–300

  Château de Chillon, Switzerland, 222

  relationship with Elizabeth, continuation in

  Chen Sam (Chenina Samin), 303, 304, 351,

  1980s, 341, 343–44, 346–53, 356–65

  355, 367, 381, 397, 403, 423, 448

  remarriage, Elizabeth (1975), 302–6

  Christian Science, 8, 11, 20–21, 28, 35, 57,

  The Robe, 171, 267

  109, 144, 145, 155, 270, 295–96

  Sally Hay and, 352, 356, 360, 362, 365–71,

  Christie, Agatha, 335

  381–86

  Christopher, Jordan, 455, 474, 475

  The Sandpiper, 230, 252, 253–54, 259, 274 Churchill, Winston, 22

  scholarship of, 60

  Church of the Good Shepherd, Beverly Hills,

  separation from Elizabeth (1972, 1973),

  82

  281–82, 289–93

  Cleopatra (film), 118, 148, 155, 156, 160, sexual revolution and Elizabeth, 200–202

  163–73, 214–17, 225–26, 239, 461

  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 267, Academy Award nominations and awards,

  273, 279

  217

  Staircase, 272, 279

  affair on set, 178–91, 195–97, 202–5

  Suzy Hunt and, 304–6, 307, 309, 312, 341

  Burton and, 167–68, 171–73

  The Taming of the Shrew, 259, 262, 265 Cinecitta Studios, 163, 165, 184, 193, 203

  Under Milk Wood, 264, 346, 349–50

  deal for the movie, 165–66, 167

  The V.I.P.s, 226–27, 248

  Eddie Fisher on the set, 165, 179–80, 182,

  The Voyage, 289, 291, 298

  187

  Wagner, 352

  Clift, Montgomery, 119–21, 133, 147, 251,

  wedding to Elizabeth (March 15, 1964),

  262, 396

  237–42

  Clutter, Beth, 283, 469

  wedding to Elizabeth two (October 10,

  Cohn, Art, 126, 134

  1975), 303

  Cohn, Marta, 134

  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 256–61, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 263

  267, 267n, 279

  Collins, Joan, 404, 471

  “World Enough and Time,” 250–51

  Comedians, The (film), 272, 274

  yacht, Kalizma, 270, 300

 

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