Poll: Which of these Elizabeth Taylor movies is your favorite? / LJWorld.com

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Response		Percent	Votes
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”		23%	126
“National Velvet”		20%	111
“Cleopatra”		20%	111
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”		17%	96
“The Flintstones”		10%	59
Other (tell us in the comments!)		6%	34
Total	537

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rockchalker52 2 years, 2 months ago

"Who's afraid of Virginia Wolfe?"

wmathews 2 years, 2 months ago

You're right! I've added that in as a choice.

scopi_guy 2 years, 2 months ago

Boom! I think it was from around 1967 or 68.

scary_manilow 2 years, 2 months ago

THIS.

RoeDapple 2 years, 2 months ago

Taming of the Shrew

jrlii 2 years, 2 months ago

I'll second Taming of the Shrew. Of course I haven't seen a lot of the others.

But before I saw Taming of teh Shrew, I wondered why Ms. Taylor was such a big deal. She managed to sell Katherina's climactic speech without seeming broken and that's darn near impossible.

An outstanding performance by an astoundingly beautiful actress.

riverdrifter 2 years, 2 months ago

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

stops4armadillos 2 years, 2 months ago

AGREED!

scary_manilow 2 years, 2 months ago

And THIS.

ilovelucy 2 years, 2 months ago

Butterfield 8. She was terrific in that. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Suddenly Last Summer, Raintree County, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Place in the Sun. Early on, she did a version of Ivanhoe and played Rebekah. She was stunningly beautiful in that movie. I loved her.

Raiden 2 years, 2 months ago

YES, YES, YES to all of these. A great talent, an even greater humanitarian and far more intelligent then often given credit for. I am sad for her loss, but glad she is no longer in pain.

yankeevet 2 years, 2 months ago

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof!!!

blindrabbit 2 years, 2 months ago

Not a movie; but a supposed Elizabeth Taylor local story. According to the rumors, I heard that she stayed one night at the small motel between Lawrence and Ottawa; the one that is now 8 small free standing buildings that recently operated as antiques stores. Can't vouch if true but the story has been around for years; kinda like George Washington "slept here" maybe.

wissmo 2 years, 2 months ago

I've heard the same story. She was traveling by auto and wanted to stop to get her feet beneath her for a few days. It is a nice spot.

BigPrune 2 years, 2 months ago

would that be when she was traveling to Menningers in Topeka for psycho logical treatment?

Xwards 2 years, 2 months ago

Yeah and I heard that she had fried chicken there too.

Hoots 2 years, 2 months ago

That's easy. For me it's GIANT with James Dean. It's a great story with nice cinematography, legendary actors, and it holds up over time.

wissmo 2 years, 2 months ago

Hands down Giant.

independent_rebel 2 years, 2 months ago

I've never understood the fascination with Taylor. She's done nothing for 40 years. She was hot back in the day, I'll give her that.

Pywacket 2 years, 2 months ago

That's so not true and so not fair. Her ever-fragile health, coupled with Hollywood's legendary tendency to kick women over 35 or so to the curb (fortunately, that is slowly changing) might mean that she hasn't done any important movies for a long time, but she has done things that were so much more meaningful.

She was an early and tireless campaigner for HIV/AIDS research--raising the awareness of the disease back when most of the rest of the world was ignoring it. She took Congress and the first G. Bush to task for not moving fast enough to fund research for the growing epidemic and used her considerable fame to raise the public's interest in a disease that (at the time) was still largely a mystery and largely fatal.

Whatever else she did in her life (and like the rest of us, she certainly made her share of mistakes), she was a great humanitarian and advocate for many who desperately needed a voice. Even if she did not leave behind a stunning catalogue of work, I would respect her for that and think of her fondly.

Oh, but that catalogue of work.... You look at her in her prime, and there is not a Hollywood diva today who can begin to hold a candle to her. Watching her and Paul Newman (YUM) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a feast for the eyes, as they were both utterly gorgeous--and fine actors, as well. The chemistry between them---smoldering!

Raiden 2 years, 2 months ago

Indeed, she faced down the ignorance, fear, stigma and hatred that was spewed forth in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. She modeled great courage in a time when it was easy to run or look the other way. Her leadership gave footing to earlier research and compassion without which there would have been so much more loss and despair. Elizabeth was, in Hollywood, without equal in her humanitarian work. She put herself on the line for what she knew was right and didn't let up on others until they took action. Had she never made one movie her loss would be equally as great.

Pywacket 2 years, 2 months ago

Very well said! And I wonder what "Independent rebel" will do in the last 40 years of his/her life that will be noteworthy upon his/her death...

independent_rebel 2 years, 2 months ago

I was talking strictly about her movie career. Sorry I was not clear about that. I just never understood her wasting her talent in The Flintstones.

srj 2 years, 2 months ago

How about what Entertainment Weekly said was her last moved she cared about..."Reflections of a Golden Eye". What a weird movie.

jayhawklawrence 2 years, 2 months ago

Dick Cavett said it best. The last of the Redwoods has fallen. Only the small trees remain.

If you grew up watching Elizabeth you would understand.

grammaddy 2 years, 2 months ago

So true. Last of the truly fabulous broads.

wissmo 2 years, 2 months ago

Independent, Hollywood is our Royalty. I too only liked her for a few films, but her life was so fascinating. Liz was a queen.

artichokeheart 2 years, 2 months ago

Elephant walk

cait48 2 years, 2 months ago

Life with Father. Little Women (her beauty as Amy was a great foil for June Allyson's Jo). Giant. When she became an older adult and became the embodiment of "Martha" in "Woolf" (a movie I despised and found incredibly boring) I pretty much lost interest in her.

cait48 2 years, 2 months ago

Pywacket 2 years, 2 months ago

Cait~ The posting gods are punishing you for not appreciating "Who's Afarid..." ;-) I think it is a brilliant play and they did a great job with the movie.

Uhlrick_Hetfield_III 2 years, 2 months ago

Which movie? How about none of them. I personally just found her to be tedious and boring on screen. RIP she seemed to have a good heart.

Cappy 2 years, 2 months ago

Truly memorable Liz moment: she was the voice of Maggie Simpson when she said her first word, "Dada".

CWGOKU 2 years, 2 months ago

I suppose Cat on a hot tin Roof, because of the great cast. She was beautiful, but not the greatest actress, I never really cared for any of her movies. She was before my time, but I must say, she was one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen.

IMO 2 years, 2 months ago

Other! Taming of the Shrew. have a great day :D

yourworstnightmare 2 years, 2 months ago

Definitely "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf".

oneeye_wilbur 2 years, 2 months ago

Virginia Woolf and was as good as KU's Who's Afraid of Virginina Woolf. 4 characters .

One thing for certain about Liz Taylor, these whackos now, like Lindsay Lohan will never , ever acclaim star status. I bet even the Phelps clan wouldn't picket Lohan's funeral. In fact, the missed Liz Taylors.

The day will come when the Phelps family will take the place in history books along with the Donner clan, Jeffrey Dahmer and others like them. One thing about the Phelps though, they will starve as none of them want to feast on the other.

Liz Taylor pulled a fast one on them. 48 hours and the funeral was over.