Exclusive: Elizabeth Taylor’s son will be interviewed on TV for the first time about his mother in the upcoming Kim Kardashian-produced doc about one of Hollywood’s ultimate leading ladies.
Kari Lia, one of the EPs behind Passion Pictures’ Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar [working title] for the BBC, revealed to Deadline that Chris Wilding, Taylor’s son with her second husband Michael Wilding, will speak after many decades.
Former film editor Wilding will feature in the upcoming doc series alongside Todd Fisher, Carrie Fisher’s brother, and Aileen Getty, Taylor’s daughter-in-law who campaigned alongside her to help those with HIV/Aids. The new interviewees will contribute alongside the likes of Kardashian, Joan Collins and Margaret O’Brien, all of whom knew Taylor personally.
Lia said Wilding had been “shy” in the past to discuss his mother’s legacy but, as what would have been her 92nd birthday approaches, he felt...
Kari Lia, one of the EPs behind Passion Pictures’ Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar [working title] for the BBC, revealed to Deadline that Chris Wilding, Taylor’s son with her second husband Michael Wilding, will speak after many decades.
Former film editor Wilding will feature in the upcoming doc series alongside Todd Fisher, Carrie Fisher’s brother, and Aileen Getty, Taylor’s daughter-in-law who campaigned alongside her to help those with HIV/Aids. The new interviewees will contribute alongside the likes of Kardashian, Joan Collins and Margaret O’Brien, all of whom knew Taylor personally.
Lia said Wilding had been “shy” in the past to discuss his mother’s legacy but, as what would have been her 92nd birthday approaches, he felt...
- 2/27/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Actors Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are considered to be one of Hollywood’s most timeless love stories. The iconic celebrity couple made multiple movies together and were married twice; they divorced for good in 1976. After Burton died in 1984, he did not leave any money to Taylor.
Richard Burton | Evening Standard/Getty Images Richard Burton left most of his money to his fourth wife
Throughout his lifetime, Burton was married four times. He was married to actor Sybil Christopher from 1949 until 1963.
Burton married Taylor for the first time in 1964 and divorced in 1974. The two married for a second time in 1975 until they divorced again in 1976.
In 1976, Burton married Suzy Miller. They divorced in 1982. He married his fourth wife Sally Hay in 1983, and they were married until Burton’s death in 1984.
According to the Associated Press, Burton “left the bulk of his 2.7 million estate to his fourth wife and nothing to Elizabeth Taylor.
Richard Burton | Evening Standard/Getty Images Richard Burton left most of his money to his fourth wife
Throughout his lifetime, Burton was married four times. He was married to actor Sybil Christopher from 1949 until 1963.
Burton married Taylor for the first time in 1964 and divorced in 1974. The two married for a second time in 1975 until they divorced again in 1976.
In 1976, Burton married Suzy Miller. They divorced in 1982. He married his fourth wife Sally Hay in 1983, and they were married until Burton’s death in 1984.
According to the Associated Press, Burton “left the bulk of his 2.7 million estate to his fourth wife and nothing to Elizabeth Taylor.
- 2/13/2023
- by Eryn Murphy
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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“HITCH, The Unreliable NARRATORâ€.
By Raymond Benson
The decade of the 1950s is generally considered to be director Alfred Hitchcock’s most glorious period, stocked with some of his acknowledged masterpieces of cinema. Those ten years didn’t begin so promisingly, though.
In the late 1940s, Hitchcock had finally broken away from the smothering contract he had under producer David O. Selznick, and he had set out with a partner to form his own production company, Transatlantic. The company made two box office losers—Rope, and Under Capricorn. Transatlantic bombed, but Hitchcock continued to work with Warner Brothers, the studio that had distributed these two titles.
Stage Fright was made at Elstree Studios in England and employed an all British crew and cast except for the two female leads, Jane Wyman (under contract at Warners) and veteran star Marlene Dietrich. The male...
“HITCH, The Unreliable NARRATORâ€.
By Raymond Benson
The decade of the 1950s is generally considered to be director Alfred Hitchcock’s most glorious period, stocked with some of his acknowledged masterpieces of cinema. Those ten years didn’t begin so promisingly, though.
In the late 1940s, Hitchcock had finally broken away from the smothering contract he had under producer David O. Selznick, and he had set out with a partner to form his own production company, Transatlantic. The company made two box office losers—Rope, and Under Capricorn. Transatlantic bombed, but Hitchcock continued to work with Warner Brothers, the studio that had distributed these two titles.
Stage Fright was made at Elstree Studios in England and employed an all British crew and cast except for the two female leads, Jane Wyman (under contract at Warners) and veteran star Marlene Dietrich. The male...
- 2/5/2022
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Alfred Hitchcock puts Jane Wyman in harm’s way, as she tries to rescue her unworthy boyfriend Richard Todd from a murder charge. Is Jane proving her love, or are both of them being manipulated by a scheming actress, Marlene Dietrich? This is the movie in which Hitch inflicts a ‘frump complex’ on Ms. Wyman — she looks demoralized whenever she shares the screen with Dietrich. It’s also the movie that ponders the cinematic concept of ‘The Lying Flashback,’ which made perfect sense to Hitchcock but frustrated his audience. Also starring Michael Wilding, Alastair Sim and a cherry-picked list of English acting royalty.
Stage Fright
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1950 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 110 min. / Available at Amazon.com / Street Date January 25, 2022 / 21.99
Starring: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Miles Malleson, Joyce Grenfell, André Morell, Patricia Hitchcock, Alfie Bass, Irene Handl. Lionel Jeffries.
Cinematography:...
Stage Fright
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1950 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 110 min. / Available at Amazon.com / Street Date January 25, 2022 / 21.99
Starring: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Miles Malleson, Joyce Grenfell, André Morell, Patricia Hitchcock, Alfie Bass, Irene Handl. Lionel Jeffries.
Cinematography:...
- 1/29/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Director Paolo Sorrentino and his wife, Daniela D’Antonio, know how to celebrate his Oscar-buzzy film “The Hand of God.”
By throwing parties.
They recently hosted two dinners for friends at their Los Angeles Airbnb. And it’s not just any rental. Netflix has put up the couple, along with the movie’s young star Filippo Scotti and others from the “Hand of God” team, in a six-bedroom home that once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor, who lived there in the 1950s with then-husband Michael Wilding.
D’Antonio prepared the poolside meals for guests using old family recipes for pasta e patate con la provola, paccheri al ragù, parmigiana di melanzane, timballo di maccheroni con melanzane and pasta e ceci. Desserts included pandoro farcito, zeppole fritte and sfogliatelle.
Among the guests were David O. Russell, Craig Gillespie, Julianne Nicholson, Sorrentino’s UTA agent Rich Klubeck and Silvia Chiave, consul general of Italy in Los Angeles.
By throwing parties.
They recently hosted two dinners for friends at their Los Angeles Airbnb. And it’s not just any rental. Netflix has put up the couple, along with the movie’s young star Filippo Scotti and others from the “Hand of God” team, in a six-bedroom home that once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor, who lived there in the 1950s with then-husband Michael Wilding.
D’Antonio prepared the poolside meals for guests using old family recipes for pasta e patate con la provola, paccheri al ragù, parmigiana di melanzane, timballo di maccheroni con melanzane and pasta e ceci. Desserts included pandoro farcito, zeppole fritte and sfogliatelle.
Among the guests were David O. Russell, Craig Gillespie, Julianne Nicholson, Sorrentino’s UTA agent Rich Klubeck and Silvia Chiave, consul general of Italy in Los Angeles.
- 12/21/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
The writer/director of The Love Witch talks about her favorite classic women’s pictures.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Love Witch (2016)
Baby Face (1933)
Stromboli (1950)
Europa ’51 (1951)
Fear (1951)
Duel In The Sun (1946)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Blonde Venus (1932)
Nora Prentiss (1947)
Woman On The Run (1950)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Imitation of Life (1969)
Little Women (2019)
Emma (2020)
My Cousin Rachel (2017)
Sex and the City (2008)
Mamma Mia! (2008)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
Sudden Fear (1952)
Torch Song (1953)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Other Notable Items
The Captain Trips virus in Stephen King’s novel The Stand (1978)
Marlene Dietrich
Mae West
Jennifer Jones
Joan Crawford
Joan Bennett
Gene Tierney
Barbara Stanwyck
The Hays Code
Cary Grant
Marilyn Monroe
Ingrid Bergman
Roberto Rossellini
The Academy Awards
Bette Davis
Jennifer Jones
Gregory Peck
Joseph Cotten
Travis Banton
Josef von Sternberg
Catherine the Great
The Criterion Collection
Kent Smith
Dan Duryea
Douglas Sirk
Jane Austen
Mildred Pierce TV miniseries...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Love Witch (2016)
Baby Face (1933)
Stromboli (1950)
Europa ’51 (1951)
Fear (1951)
Duel In The Sun (1946)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Blonde Venus (1932)
Nora Prentiss (1947)
Woman On The Run (1950)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Imitation of Life (1969)
Little Women (2019)
Emma (2020)
My Cousin Rachel (2017)
Sex and the City (2008)
Mamma Mia! (2008)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
Sudden Fear (1952)
Torch Song (1953)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Other Notable Items
The Captain Trips virus in Stephen King’s novel The Stand (1978)
Marlene Dietrich
Mae West
Jennifer Jones
Joan Crawford
Joan Bennett
Gene Tierney
Barbara Stanwyck
The Hays Code
Cary Grant
Marilyn Monroe
Ingrid Bergman
Roberto Rossellini
The Academy Awards
Bette Davis
Jennifer Jones
Gregory Peck
Joseph Cotten
Travis Banton
Josef von Sternberg
Catherine the Great
The Criterion Collection
Kent Smith
Dan Duryea
Douglas Sirk
Jane Austen
Mildred Pierce TV miniseries...
- 5/19/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Review by Roger Carpenter
Even the great Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, was capable of producing a flop now and then, and Under Capricorn was just that—a big budget, star-studded, Technicolor affair that failed miserably at the box office as well as in the critic’s circle. In fact, even after a half-century to re-evaluate the film, many critics and Hitchcock fans dismiss Under Capricorn as merely a blip in Hitchcock’s oeuvre, which is unfair as the film, while not the standard fare one would expect from the filmmaker, is still a quality gothic romance.
Joseph Cotton stars as Sam Flusky, a one-time inmate in Australia’s penal colony who was released after completing his sentence and has become one of the wealthiest denizens of New South Wales. Flusky is married to Henrietta Flusky (Ingrid Bergman), who is a very sick woman and rarely leaves her bedroom.
It...
Even the great Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, was capable of producing a flop now and then, and Under Capricorn was just that—a big budget, star-studded, Technicolor affair that failed miserably at the box office as well as in the critic’s circle. In fact, even after a half-century to re-evaluate the film, many critics and Hitchcock fans dismiss Under Capricorn as merely a blip in Hitchcock’s oeuvre, which is unfair as the film, while not the standard fare one would expect from the filmmaker, is still a quality gothic romance.
Joseph Cotton stars as Sam Flusky, a one-time inmate in Australia’s penal colony who was released after completing his sentence and has become one of the wealthiest denizens of New South Wales. Flusky is married to Henrietta Flusky (Ingrid Bergman), who is a very sick woman and rarely leaves her bedroom.
It...
- 8/23/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
What could go wrong? Alfred Hitchcock directs Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten in a mysterious tale of marital intrigues and social bigotry in a land populated by ex-convicts. Bergman is the long-suffering wife and Jack Cardiff is behind the Technicolor camera, which swoops through several amazing unbroken moving camera master shots, one fully five minutes long. What could go wrong?
Under Capricorn
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1949 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 117 min. / Street Date June 19, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker, Denis O’Dea.
Cinematography: Jack Cardiff
Film Editor: A.S. Bates
Original Music: Richard Addinsell
Written by James Bridie adapted by Hume Cronyn from a play by John Colton & Margaret Linden, from a novel by Helen Simpson
Produced by Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Under Capricorn is Alfred Hitchcock’s sophomore try with his own TransAtlantic pictures, after servitude...
Under Capricorn
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1949 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 117 min. / Street Date June 19, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker, Denis O’Dea.
Cinematography: Jack Cardiff
Film Editor: A.S. Bates
Original Music: Richard Addinsell
Written by James Bridie adapted by Hume Cronyn from a play by John Colton & Margaret Linden, from a novel by Helen Simpson
Produced by Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Under Capricorn is Alfred Hitchcock’s sophomore try with his own TransAtlantic pictures, after servitude...
- 7/7/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Tony Award-winning actress, singer, dancer and cabaret star Liliane Montevecchi has died in New York City. She was 85 and passed away from colon cancer.
Born in Paris in 1932, Montevecchi was best known for her performance in the musical ‘Nine,’ which won her a Tony Award.
Montevecchi started her career as a ballerina in the company of Roland Petit. She moved to Hollywood in the 1950s, where she worked as an MGM contract player. She had small roles in such films as The Glass Slipper with Michael Wilding, Daddy Long Legs with Fred Astaire, and The Sad Sack with Jerry Lewis.
In 1958, she made her Broadway debut in the musical revue La Plume de Ma Tante. After that, she had a starring role in the Folies Bergere, appearing throughout the 1970s in a touring company.
Her biggest success came in 1982, when she appeared on Broadway in Nine, a musical based on...
Born in Paris in 1932, Montevecchi was best known for her performance in the musical ‘Nine,’ which won her a Tony Award.
Montevecchi started her career as a ballerina in the company of Roland Petit. She moved to Hollywood in the 1950s, where she worked as an MGM contract player. She had small roles in such films as The Glass Slipper with Michael Wilding, Daddy Long Legs with Fred Astaire, and The Sad Sack with Jerry Lewis.
In 1958, she made her Broadway debut in the musical revue La Plume de Ma Tante. After that, she had a starring role in the Folies Bergere, appearing throughout the 1970s in a touring company.
Her biggest success came in 1982, when she appeared on Broadway in Nine, a musical based on...
- 7/1/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
(See previous post: Fourth of July Movies: Escapism During a Weird Year.) On the evening of the Fourth of July, besides fireworks, fire hazards, and Yankee Doodle Dandy, if you're watching TCM in the U.S. and Canada, there's the following: Peter H. Hunt's 1776 (1972), a largely forgotten film musical based on the Broadway hit with music by Sherman Edwards. William Daniels, who was recently on TCM talking about 1776 and a couple of other movies (A Thousand Clowns, Dodsworth), has one of the key roles as John Adams. Howard Da Silva, blacklisted for over a decade after being named a communist during the House Un-American Committee hearings of the early 1950s (Robert Taylor was one who mentioned him in his testimony), plays Benjamin Franklin. Ken Howard is Thomas Jefferson, a role he would reprise in John Huston's 1976 short Independence. (In the short, Pat Hingle was cast as John Adams; Eli Wallach was Benjamin Franklin.) Warner...
- 7/5/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
During her life in the spotlight, Elizabeth Taylor was quadruple threat: a world-renowned actress, businesswoman, activist and a beauty and fashion icon. But with three children, the star’s role as a mother was the most sacred. Taylor once said about her children, “They make me the proudest of anything that I’ve ever done.”
And now, six years after her death, we’re getting an intimate look at Elizabeth Taylor the mom role with rarely before seen photos of the actress and her kids in the video above.
The short film, which was created by the Elizabeth Taylor Trust...
And now, six years after her death, we’re getting an intimate look at Elizabeth Taylor the mom role with rarely before seen photos of the actress and her kids in the video above.
The short film, which was created by the Elizabeth Taylor Trust...
- 5/9/2017
- by Jillian Ruffo
- PEOPLE.com
It’s been 25 years since Elizabeth Taylor appeared at the 1992 Oscars, wearing a small accessory that made a very large impact.
That night, as she presented the award for Best Picture with her Cat on a Hot Tin Roof co-star Paul Newman, it wasn’t her fabulous jewelry, her legendary décolletage or those violet eyes that had people talking, but the red ribbon she wore on her white gown, bringing the world’s attention to the fight against AIDS.
“She wore it proudly and and she wore it the rest of her life,” says her granddaughter Laila Wilding, 45, the eldest daughter of Taylor’s son,...
That night, as she presented the award for Best Picture with her Cat on a Hot Tin Roof co-star Paul Newman, it wasn’t her fabulous jewelry, her legendary décolletage or those violet eyes that had people talking, but the red ribbon she wore on her white gown, bringing the world’s attention to the fight against AIDS.
“She wore it proudly and and she wore it the rest of her life,” says her granddaughter Laila Wilding, 45, the eldest daughter of Taylor’s son,...
- 2/26/2017
- by Liz McNeil
- PEOPLE.com
A friend of mine told me this story about her memories of Debbie Reynolds, and I was so touched that I am writing it here:
Of course I saw “Singing in the Rain”, Debbie Reynolds’ first film. I don’t think anyone could ever forget that movie. And I loved “Tammy and the Bachelor” and can still sing “Tammy’s in Love” by heart. But the one that I loved the most was the one I most identified with when I was 10 and saw “Susan Slept Here”. I was struggling with my own pre-teen “jv” secret wishes. Growing up in what was a pretty anti-semitic Culver City neighborhood, I really wanted to be a “pachuca.” And with my own lack of a father-figure since my father died when I was eight, I fell in love with Dick Powell. And I fell in love with the green dress Tammy wore as...
Of course I saw “Singing in the Rain”, Debbie Reynolds’ first film. I don’t think anyone could ever forget that movie. And I loved “Tammy and the Bachelor” and can still sing “Tammy’s in Love” by heart. But the one that I loved the most was the one I most identified with when I was 10 and saw “Susan Slept Here”. I was struggling with my own pre-teen “jv” secret wishes. Growing up in what was a pretty anti-semitic Culver City neighborhood, I really wanted to be a “pachuca.” And with my own lack of a father-figure since my father died when I was eight, I fell in love with Dick Powell. And I fell in love with the green dress Tammy wore as...
- 1/17/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
'Saint Joan': Constance Cummings as the George Bernard Shaw heroine. Constance Cummings on stage: From sex-change farce and Emma Bovary to Juliet and 'Saint Joan' (See previous post: “Constance Cummings: Frank Capra, Mae West and Columbia Lawsuit.”) In the mid-1930s, Constance Cummings landed the title roles in two of husband Benn W. Levy's stage adaptations: Levy and Hubert Griffith's Young Madame Conti (1936), starring Cummings as a demimondaine who falls in love with a villainous character. She ends up killing him – or does she? Adapted from Bruno Frank's German-language original, Young Madame Conti was presented on both sides of the Atlantic; on Broadway, it had a brief run in spring 1937 at the Music Box Theatre. Based on the Gustave Flaubert novel, the Theatre Guild-produced Madame Bovary (1937) was staged in late fall at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre. Referring to the London production of Young Madame Conti, The...
- 11/10/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Ingrid Bergman ca. early 1940s. Ingrid Bergman movies on TCM: From the artificial 'Gaslight' to the magisterial 'Autumn Sonata' Two days ago, Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” series highlighted the film career of Greta Garbo. Today, Aug. 28, '15, TCM is focusing on another Swedish actress, three-time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman, who would have turned 100 years old tomorrow. TCM has likely aired most of Bergman's Hollywood films, and at least some of her early Swedish work. As a result, today's only premiere is Fielder Cook's little-seen and little-remembered From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973), about two bored kids (Sally Prager, Johnny Doran) who run away from home and end up at New York City's Metropolitan Museum. Obviously, this is no A Night at the Museum – and that's a major plus. Bergman plays an elderly art lover who takes an interest in them; her...
- 8/28/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
'Father of the Bride': Steve Martin and Kimberly Williams. Top Five Father's Day Movies? From giant Gregory Peck to tyrant John Gielgud What would be the Top Five Father's Day movies ever made? Well, there have been countless films about fathers and/or featuring fathers of various sizes, shapes, and inclinations. In terms of quality, these range from the amusing – e.g., the 1950 version of Cheaper by the Dozen; the Oscar-nominated The Grandfather – to the nauseating – e.g., the 1950 version of Father of the Bride; its atrocious sequel, Father's Little Dividend. Although I'm unable to come up with the absolute Top Five Father's Day Movies – or rather, just plain Father Movies – ever made, below are the first five (actually six, including a remake) "quality" patriarch-centered films that come to mind. Now, the fathers portrayed in these films aren't all heroic, loving, and/or saintly paternal figures. Several are...
- 6/22/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Veterans Day movies on TCM: From 'The Sullivans' to 'Patton' (photo: George C. Scott in 'Patton') This evening, Turner Classic Movies is presenting five war or war-related films in celebration of Veterans Day. For those outside the United States, Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day, which takes place in late May. (Scroll down to check out TCM's Veterans Day movie schedule.) It's good to be aware that in the last century alone, the U.S. has been involved in more than a dozen armed conflicts, from World War I to the invasion of Iraq, not including direct or indirect military interventions in countries as disparate as Iran, Guatemala, and Chile. As to be expected in a society that reveres people in uniform, American war movies have almost invariably glorified American soldiers even in those rare instances when they have dared to criticize the military establishment.
- 11/12/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
It was the eighth - and final - trip she would ever make down the aisle. And now, for the first time, the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation has released photos of Elizabeth Taylor and Larry Fortensky's lavish 1991 wedding at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch exclusively to People. This inside look commemorates People's Oct. 21, 1991, cover story on the biggest and most media-saturated wedding in Hollywood history. (Remember, this was in the days before weddings like George and Amal Clooney's and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's.) In the photos, the blushing, bronzed bride is dressed in a pale yellow...
- 10/21/2014
- by K.C. Baker @kcbaker77777
- PEOPLE.com
Alfred Hitchcock silent movies added to Unesco UK Memory of the World Register (photo: Ivor Novello in The Lodger) The nine Alfred Hitchcock-directed silent films recently restored by the British Film Institute have been added to the Unesco UK Memory of the World Register, "a list of documentary heritage which holds cultural significance specific to the UK." The nine Hitchcock movies are the following: The Pleasure Garden (1925), The Ring (1927), Downhill / When Boys Leave Home (1927), The Lodger (1927), Easy Virtue (1928), Champagne (1928), The Farmer’s Wife (1928), The Manxman (1929), and Blackmail (1929) — also released as a talkie, Britain’s first. Only one Hitchcock-directed silent remains lost, The Mountain Eagle / Fear o’ God (1926). Most of those movies have little in common with the suspense thrillers Hitchcock would crank out in Britain and later in Hollywood from the early ’30s on. But a handful of his silents already featured elements and themes that would recur in...
- 7/18/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Paulette Goddard: An Ideal Husband and Paris Model on TCM Paulette Goddard height: Supposedly 5’4″. Paulette Goddard age: Well… Goddard would have turned 108 today. Or 103. Or 102. Or 98. It all depends on the source, though Goddard herself apparently — and not at all surprisingly — preferred the 1915 birth date, which would have made her 98 years old in 2013. Whether a centenarian or a nonagenarian, Paulette Goddard is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Day. TCM has already shown several Goddard movies, among them Charles Chaplin’s Modern Times and the Luise Rainer star vehicle Dramatic School, and it’s currently showing An Ideal Husband. (Picture: Paulette Goddard publicity shot, ca. 1940.) Made in England for London Films, An Ideal Husband (1947) was quite a prestigious production so as to justify the presence of a top Hollywood star in a British film. No less a figure than London Films founder Alexander Korda directed this movie adaptation of...
- 6/3/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Richard Madden: Game of Thrones’ King of the North to play Prince Charming in Cinderella Richard Madden, Game of Thrones‘ King of the North Robb Stark, has been cast as Prince Charming in Disney’s live-action retelling of the Cinderella fairy-tale. A few days ago, Lily James (Wrath of the Titans, Downton Abbey) was announced as the actress to try on Cinderella’s tiny glass slippers. The other major Cinderella cast member announced so far is Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett (Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator), who’ll play the evil Lady Tremaine, Cinderella’s wicked stepmother — perhaps with shades of Queen Elizabeth I? Cinderella follows in the (sizable) footsteps of other fairy-tales that have reached the world’s screens in recent years: Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010), starring Mia Wasikowska as Alice and Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, grossed $1.02 billion worldwide. Tarsem Singh’s Mirror Mirror...
- 5/8/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Being a film star not high up on the list of 1950's children's career ambitions
Only 2 per cent of the boys and 5 per cent of the girls answered "Film actor" or "Film actress" to the question in a Government "quiz" on cinema-going "What would you most like to be when you grow up?" When they were asked which of sixteen film stars they would like to be nearly one in seven said "None." The children's ambitions were, on the whole, very practical, says the report, issued to-day, of a social survey made by the Central Office of Information in 1948 for the Departmental Committee on Children and the Cinema.
Answering the careers question, which was put only to children in the 10-15 age group, 58 per cent of the boys made "realistic" choices. So did 73 per cent of the girls. Compared with 36 per cent of the boys, only 15 per cent of the...
Only 2 per cent of the boys and 5 per cent of the girls answered "Film actor" or "Film actress" to the question in a Government "quiz" on cinema-going "What would you most like to be when you grow up?" When they were asked which of sixteen film stars they would like to be nearly one in seven said "None." The children's ambitions were, on the whole, very practical, says the report, issued to-day, of a social survey made by the Central Office of Information in 1948 for the Departmental Committee on Children and the Cinema.
Answering the careers question, which was put only to children in the 10-15 age group, 58 per cent of the boys made "realistic" choices. So did 73 per cent of the girls. Compared with 36 per cent of the boys, only 15 per cent of the...
- 11/9/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Eunice Gayson (Sylvia Trench in Dr. No & From Russia With Love) & Shane Rimmer (Captain Carter in The Spy Who Loved Me & The voice of Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds) will be appearing at The Beaulieu National Motor Museum on Saturday 6th October 2012. Eunice will be signing the limited edition version of her new autobiography The First Lady Of Bond (not available in the shops) whilst Shane will be signing his autobiography (book & audio cd) From Thunderbirds to Pterodactyls. They will be joined by veteran stunt man Paul Weston.
For more information please visit: http://www.beaulieu.co.uk/news/book-signing-2012
Beaulieu Press Release:
Eunice Gayson who played James Bond’s girlfriend Sylvia Trench in both Dr No and From Russia With Love, will be at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, on Saturday, 6th October, to sign copies of her autobiography, The First Lady Of Bond, the inside story of an original...
For more information please visit: http://www.beaulieu.co.uk/news/book-signing-2012
Beaulieu Press Release:
Eunice Gayson who played James Bond’s girlfriend Sylvia Trench in both Dr No and From Russia With Love, will be at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, on Saturday, 6th October, to sign copies of her autobiography, The First Lady Of Bond, the inside story of an original...
- 10/2/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
As the My Favourite Hitchcock series continues, we asked members of the guardian.co.uk/film community to tell us about their preferred films from the master of suspense. Today's contribution is from Joe Walsh, who writes about film at Little White Lies, CineVue and New Empress. Follow Joe on Twitter
Historical romances are not what audiences traditionally associate with Alfred Hitchcock. Yet in 1949, after returning from America, this was the story he decided to tell – although it almost never saw the light of day. If Under Capricorn is not Hitch's crowning glory, it is undeniably his most underrated film.
The story opens as the new governor of New South Wales arrives in Australia with his dandy relative Charles Adare, played with a deliciously camp swagger by Michael Wilding. In an attempt to find his fortune, Adare meets the roguish Sam Flusky (Joseph Cotten). He is married to Charles's childhood friend Lady Henrietta,...
Historical romances are not what audiences traditionally associate with Alfred Hitchcock. Yet in 1949, after returning from America, this was the story he decided to tell – although it almost never saw the light of day. If Under Capricorn is not Hitch's crowning glory, it is undeniably his most underrated film.
The story opens as the new governor of New South Wales arrives in Australia with his dandy relative Charles Adare, played with a deliciously camp swagger by Michael Wilding. In an attempt to find his fortune, Adare meets the roguish Sam Flusky (Joseph Cotten). He is married to Charles's childhood friend Lady Henrietta,...
- 8/14/2012
- by Guardian readers
- The Guardian - Film News
Lindsay Lohan / Elizabeth Taylor Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor in the Lifetime movie Liz & Dick. Lohan, 26 next July 2, plays Elizabeth Taylor (apparently) at about the time she met Richard Burton in the early ’60s. (Though the Lohan/Taylor picture above looks like something out Richard Brooks’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, with Lohan as Maggie the Panther.) Grant Bowler, best known for True Blood and the box-office and critical cataclysm Atlas Shrugged: Part I, plays Richard Burton. The makeup job looks quite impressive, helping to transform Lohan into Taylor. We’ll see — or rather, hear — if Lohan is able to reproduce Taylor’s tones as well. A tabloid queen in her heyday, Elizabeth Taylor won two Best Actress Academy Awards: Daniel Mann’s Butterfield 8, 1960; Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966. Taylor was nominated three other times: Edward Dmytryk’s Raintree County, 1957; Brooks’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,...
- 6/6/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Celebrity psychic John Cohan is set to stun fans of the late Elizabeth Taylor by revealing the lovechild the movie icon paid an Irish family to bring up as its daughter was the product of a tryst with a Hollywood studio carpenter.
Cohan, who was Taylor's longtime confidante and spiritual guide, went public with the news of the baby born out of wedlock last year shortly after the actress' death, revealing his client had asked him to reveal all about the child she never knew after she had passed.
Cohan told the New York Post's gossip columnist Cindy Adams that Taylor called her daughter Norah, adding, "Money was exchanged. Living in Ireland, the child, resenting the mother who gave her up, wanted nothing to do with Elizabeth."
He told Adams Taylor was not sure who the father was, as she had been with three men at the time the baby was conceived.
But now he tells WENN the actress' husband Mike Todd tracked the child down in Ireland and, in describing her to his wife, Taylor determined that the father was a carpenter she had once romanced.
Cohan says, "Mike Todd tracked down the child many years later. There was the hope of a reunion but the child and her family wanted nothing to do with Elizabeth and she never met the daughter she gave away. She was devastated.
"But at least she discovered who the father was - she was convinced he was a carpenter she had briefly romanced. As my client, I never pressed her for a name or any other details. She just told me to get this out when she was gone."
Cohan claims his late friend never got over the guilt she felt about giving up her baby daughter - and this led to her adopting a child, called Maria, from Germany while she was married to singer Eddie Fisher, her fourth husband.
The psychic adds, "She thought having her daughter Liza with Mike Todd would erase the guilt but it didn't; that's why she adopted Maria."
Taylor also had two sons with her second husband, British actor Michael Wilding.
Cohan will reveal all about his famous client's confessions in biographer Darwin Potter's new book Elizabeth Taylor, which is set for release this autumn.
Cohan, who was Taylor's longtime confidante and spiritual guide, went public with the news of the baby born out of wedlock last year shortly after the actress' death, revealing his client had asked him to reveal all about the child she never knew after she had passed.
Cohan told the New York Post's gossip columnist Cindy Adams that Taylor called her daughter Norah, adding, "Money was exchanged. Living in Ireland, the child, resenting the mother who gave her up, wanted nothing to do with Elizabeth."
He told Adams Taylor was not sure who the father was, as she had been with three men at the time the baby was conceived.
But now he tells WENN the actress' husband Mike Todd tracked the child down in Ireland and, in describing her to his wife, Taylor determined that the father was a carpenter she had once romanced.
Cohan says, "Mike Todd tracked down the child many years later. There was the hope of a reunion but the child and her family wanted nothing to do with Elizabeth and she never met the daughter she gave away. She was devastated.
"But at least she discovered who the father was - she was convinced he was a carpenter she had briefly romanced. As my client, I never pressed her for a name or any other details. She just told me to get this out when she was gone."
Cohan claims his late friend never got over the guilt she felt about giving up her baby daughter - and this led to her adopting a child, called Maria, from Germany while she was married to singer Eddie Fisher, her fourth husband.
The psychic adds, "She thought having her daughter Liza with Mike Todd would erase the guilt but it didn't; that's why she adopted Maria."
Taylor also had two sons with her second husband, British actor Michael Wilding.
Cohan will reveal all about his famous client's confessions in biographer Darwin Potter's new book Elizabeth Taylor, which is set for release this autumn.
- 5/18/2012
- WENN
She had a way with men, but also great humour and humanity, recalls her friend and fellow actress
I will remember looking at her jewellery in the sun. In recent years, I would go up to Elizabeth's home all the time to make sure she was exercising or I would send someone else to make her get in the pool. She was not a fan of exercise, so most of the time we would end up taking out her jewellery and just looking at it in the sunlight.
We first met when I was 21 and she was 23 and found we were very relaxed together. I can't remember how it happened, but then I can't remember much now about when I was 21. A man I knew was in love with Elizabeth, I think, and I knew both of them.
At that time, people were not fawning all over her – except the men,...
I will remember looking at her jewellery in the sun. In recent years, I would go up to Elizabeth's home all the time to make sure she was exercising or I would send someone else to make her get in the pool. She was not a fan of exercise, so most of the time we would end up taking out her jewellery and just looking at it in the sunlight.
We first met when I was 21 and she was 23 and found we were very relaxed together. I can't remember how it happened, but then I can't remember much now about when I was 21. A man I knew was in love with Elizabeth, I think, and I knew both of them.
At that time, people were not fawning all over her – except the men,...
- 12/12/2011
- by Shirley MacLaine
- The Guardian - Film News
Burbank, Calif. — Colin Farrell, Michael Caine and Elton John joined family and friends of Elizabeth Taylor during a private memorial service for the Oscar-winning star.
Son Michael Wilding told the 400 people gathered Sunday in a theater at the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank that it was especially meaningful to have so many friends on hand to celebrate his mother's spirit.
The Academy Award-winning star of "Butterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" was 79 when she died on March 23 of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles.
Spokeswoman Sally Morrison says Farrell hosted a service, which featured memories of the violet-eyed beauty.
"Virginia Woolf" director Mike Nichols put together a touching video message, grandson Rhys Tivey played "Amazing Grace" on the trumpet and John performed "Blue Eyes."...
Son Michael Wilding told the 400 people gathered Sunday in a theater at the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank that it was especially meaningful to have so many friends on hand to celebrate his mother's spirit.
The Academy Award-winning star of "Butterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" was 79 when she died on March 23 of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles.
Spokeswoman Sally Morrison says Farrell hosted a service, which featured memories of the violet-eyed beauty.
"Virginia Woolf" director Mike Nichols put together a touching video message, grandson Rhys Tivey played "Amazing Grace" on the trumpet and John performed "Blue Eyes."...
- 10/17/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Close friends and family of the late Elizabeth Taylor gathered Sunday afternoon to remember the beloved Hollywood legend during a private memorial on the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank, People has learned. With Taylor's good friend Colin Farrell hosting the 75-minute celebration in the lot's Steven J. Ross Theater, the tribute was attended by Taylor's children Michael and Christopher Wilding, Liza Tivey and Maria Burton, as well as close friends Michael Caine, stepdaughter Kate Burton and Sir Elton John, who sang a stirring rendition of "Blue Eyes" to close the program. "To say that the world got smaller, emptier, darker...
- 10/17/2011
- by Elizabeth Leonard
- PEOPLE.com
Marlene Dietrich on TCM Pt.2: A Foreign Affair, The Blue Angel Schedule (Et) and synopses from the TCM website: 6:00 Am The Monte Carlo Story (1957) Two compulsive gamblers fall in love on the French Riviera. Dir: Samuel A. Taylor. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O'Connell. C-101 mins, Letterbox Format. 7:45 Am Knight Without Armour (1937) A British spy tries to get a countess out of the new Soviet Union. Dir: Jacques Feyder. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Van Brugh. Bw-107 mins. 9:45 Am The Lady Is Willing (1942) A Broadway star has to find a husband so she can adopt an abandoned child. Dir: Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Fred MacMurray, Aline MacMahon. Bw-91 mins. 11:30 Am Kismet (1944) In the classic Arabian Nights tale king of the beggars enters high society to help his daughter marry a handsome prince. Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig.
- 9/1/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Forsaking All Others Joan Crawford on TCM: Mildred Pierce, Flamingo Road, When Ladies Meet Schedule (Et) and synopses from the TCM website: 6:00 Am Forsaking All Others (1934) A woman pursues the wrong man for almost twenty years. Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable. Bw-83 mins. 7:30 Am I Live My Life (1935) A flighty society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist. Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Frank Morgan. Bw-97 mins. 9:15 Am Love On The Run (1936) Rival newsmen get mixed up with a runaway heiress and a ring of spies. Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone. Bw-80 mins. 10:45 Am When Ladies Meet (1941) A female novelist doesn't realize her new friend is the wife whose husband she's trying to steal. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard.
- 8/22/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Orson Welles, Ruth Warrick, Citizen Kane Orson Welles on TCM: The Third Man, The Lady From Shanghai Schedule (Et) and synopses from the TCM website: 6:00 Am The Tartars (1961) A barbarian army attacks Viking settlements along the Russian steppes. Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Victor Mature, Orson Welles, Folco Lulli. C-83 mins, Letterbox Format 7:30 Am Tomorrow Is Forever (1946) A scarred veteran presumed dead returns home to find his wife remarried. Dir: Irving Pichel. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent. Bw-104 mins. 9:30 Am Moby Dick (1956) Epic adaptation of Herman Melville's classic about a vengeful sea captain out to catch the whale that maimed him. Dir: John Huston. Cast: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn. C-115 mins, Letterbox Format 11:30 Am The V.I.P.S (1963) Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials. Dir: Anthony Asquith. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan.
- 8/8/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, The Lady from Shanghai Orson Welles' career as an actor was both fruitful and frustrating. From Citizen Kane (1941) to Someone to Love (1987), Welles appeared — mostly in supporting roles — in about 70 features made in various parts of the world. There was one brilliant performance in one brilliant film, Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane, but the rest of what I've seen has been either forgettable or memorable for the wrong reasons. Subtlety is a quality with which Welles the Actor was totally unfamiliar. Whether or not you admire Orson Welles' work in front of the camera, Welles fans are being treated to 13 films featuring Welles as both leading man and supporting player, all day Monday, August 8, on Turner Classic Movies. The only TCM premiere in this "Summer Under the Stars" Orson Welles Day is the 1952 British-made crime drama Trent's Last Case, directed by veteran Herbert Wilcox,...
- 8/8/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Paulette Goddard, Modern Times Paulette Goddard on TCM Part I: Modern Times, Reap The Wild Wind I've never watched Alexander Korda's British-made An Ideal Husband, a 1948 adaptation (by Lajos Biro) of Oscar Wilde's play, but it should be at least worth a look. The respectable cast includes Michael Wilding, Diana Wynyard, C. Aubrey Smith, Hugh Williams, Constance Collier, and Glynis Johns. George Cukor's film version of Clare Boothe Luce's hilarious The Women ("officially" adapted by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin) is definitely worth numerous looks; once or twice or even three times isn't/aren't enough to catch the machine-gun dialogue spewed forth by the likes of Goddard, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Mary Boland, Phyllis Povah, Lucile Watson, et al. A big hit at the time, The Women actually ended up in the red because of its high cost. Norma Shearer, aka The Widow Thalberg, was the nominal star; curiously,...
- 8/2/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Montgomery Clift, I Confess Alfred Hitchcock is the focus of tonight's programming on Turner Classic Movies, which will be showing five of the director's films: Stage Fright, I Confess, Dial M for Murder, The Wrong Man, and Strangers on a Train. None of them is a masterpiece; all of them are worth your time. My favorite of the five is I Confess, partly because of its intriguing plot about a murderer who confesses his crime to a priest who later becomes the chief suspect in the case; and partly because Montgomery Clift is quite good as the tormented priest. Anne Baxter is his leading lady. However flawed, I find both Stage Fright and Dial M for Murder enjoyable. The former is immensely helped by Alastair Sim's performance, though Jane Wyman does solid work as the heroine while Marlene Dietrich gets to sing a song or two. In Dial M for Murder,...
- 6/28/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
TCM cordially invites film lovers and royal watchers to celebrate next Friday the nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton with an evening of romance fit for a king and queen.
Friday, April 29
8 p.m. - Royal Wedding (1951)
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell find love in London
just as Queen Elizabeth II prepares to walk down the aisle.
10 p.m. - Roman Holiday (1953)
Audrey Hepburn won an Oscar® for her performance
as a spritely princess opposite Gregory Peck.
12:15 a.m. - The Glass Slipper (1955)
Leslie Caron stars in this lush adaptation of the Cinderella story
co-starring Michael Wilding and featuring the music of Bronislau Kaper.
2 a.m. - The Swan (1956)
Grace Kelly became a real princess the same year she starred
in this comedy with Louis Jourdan and Alec Guinness.
4 a.m. - The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
Ramon Navarro stars in the title role in this silent...
Friday, April 29
8 p.m. - Royal Wedding (1951)
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell find love in London
just as Queen Elizabeth II prepares to walk down the aisle.
10 p.m. - Roman Holiday (1953)
Audrey Hepburn won an Oscar® for her performance
as a spritely princess opposite Gregory Peck.
12:15 a.m. - The Glass Slipper (1955)
Leslie Caron stars in this lush adaptation of the Cinderella story
co-starring Michael Wilding and featuring the music of Bronislau Kaper.
2 a.m. - The Swan (1956)
Grace Kelly became a real princess the same year she starred
in this comedy with Louis Jourdan and Alec Guinness.
4 a.m. - The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
Ramon Navarro stars in the title role in this silent...
- 4/20/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A number of AIDS charities are expected to benefit from Elizabeth Taylor's death. The Hollywood star passed away from congestive heart failure at the age of 79 on Wednesday, March 23, and although the details of her will have not yet been made public, a number of charities including the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation and amfAR are set to receive proceeds from the sale of her jewelery.
Christie's auction house in London will oversee the sale of $240 million worth of the "Cleopatra" star's jewel collection, including a Cartier necklace from husband Mike Todd and the famous 69.42-carat pear-shaped Burton-Taylor diamond which cost former husband Richard Burton over $1 million in 1969, with the money set to be shared among the two charities.
Elizabeth raised $270 million for her AIDS Foundation during her lifetime after taking up the cause when her close friend Rock Hudson died from the illness in 1985. The savvy actress amassed the...
Christie's auction house in London will oversee the sale of $240 million worth of the "Cleopatra" star's jewel collection, including a Cartier necklace from husband Mike Todd and the famous 69.42-carat pear-shaped Burton-Taylor diamond which cost former husband Richard Burton over $1 million in 1969, with the money set to be shared among the two charities.
Elizabeth raised $270 million for her AIDS Foundation during her lifetime after taking up the cause when her close friend Rock Hudson died from the illness in 1985. The savvy actress amassed the...
- 3/31/2011
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Screen icon Elizabeth Taylor, who died last week at age 79, was famously known for the great loves of her life, including Richard Burton and Mike Todd -- but she also had a close bond with her seventh and final husband, construction worker Larry Fortensky, according to his sister.
Linda Untiet told the Daily Mail that her former sister-in-law loved her brother until the end. "Elizabeth wrote Larry a love letter at the end of last year.
Linda Untiet told the Daily Mail that her former sister-in-law loved her brother until the end. "Elizabeth wrote Larry a love letter at the end of last year.
- 3/28/2011
- Extra
Glendale, Calif. -- Elizabeth Taylor's family mourned the screen legend in a brief private funeral service Thursday at a Southern California cemetery famous for being the final resting place of Hollywood celebrities, including her good friend Michael Jackson.
Inside the sprawling Forest Lawn Cemetery, barricades blocked access to the funeral, where about four dozen family members mourned the actress during a service that lasted about an hour, said Glendale police spokesman Tom Lorenz. Five black stretch limousines transported Taylor's family to and from the funeral, but no procession was held.
The service began 15 minutes after its announced start time in observance of Taylor's parting wish that her funeral start late, her publicist Sally Morrison said.
Taylor had left instructions asking for the tardy start and had requested that someone announce, "She even wanted to be late for her own funeral," Morrison said.
Taylor died early Wednesday of congestive heart...
Inside the sprawling Forest Lawn Cemetery, barricades blocked access to the funeral, where about four dozen family members mourned the actress during a service that lasted about an hour, said Glendale police spokesman Tom Lorenz. Five black stretch limousines transported Taylor's family to and from the funeral, but no procession was held.
The service began 15 minutes after its announced start time in observance of Taylor's parting wish that her funeral start late, her publicist Sally Morrison said.
Taylor had left instructions asking for the tardy start and had requested that someone announce, "She even wanted to be late for her own funeral," Morrison said.
Taylor died early Wednesday of congestive heart...
- 3/25/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Service attended by friends and family comes day after death, in keeping with Jewish faith
Elizabeth Taylor has been buried at a cemetery in Los Angeles favoured by film stars and other celebrities, including her friend Michael Jackson.
The service came a day after her death, in keeping with the Jewish faith to which she converted in her 20s. It was attended only by about 40 friends and members of her family. A public memorial service is planned for a later date.
Taylor, who was married eight times, had four children, who were all at the funeral: daughters Maria Burton-Carson and Liza Todd-Tivey and sons Christopher and Michael Wilding.
Sergeant Tom Lorenz, a police spokesman, said Taylor was placed in the great mausoleum in Forest Lawn memorial park but in a different wing from Jackson.
"There's nowhere in the world where more famous people are laid to rest," Lorenz was...
Elizabeth Taylor has been buried at a cemetery in Los Angeles favoured by film stars and other celebrities, including her friend Michael Jackson.
The service came a day after her death, in keeping with the Jewish faith to which she converted in her 20s. It was attended only by about 40 friends and members of her family. A public memorial service is planned for a later date.
Taylor, who was married eight times, had four children, who were all at the funeral: daughters Maria Burton-Carson and Liza Todd-Tivey and sons Christopher and Michael Wilding.
Sergeant Tom Lorenz, a police spokesman, said Taylor was placed in the great mausoleum in Forest Lawn memorial park but in a different wing from Jackson.
"There's nowhere in the world where more famous people are laid to rest," Lorenz was...
- 3/25/2011
- by Ewen MacAskill
- The Guardian - Film News
Elizabeth Taylor has been laid to rest in a small, private funeral service. Around four dozen family members and close friends gathered at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California on Thursday afternoon, March 24 to bid their final goodbyes to the 79-year-old screen legend, Glendale police spokesman Tom Lorenz told the Associated Press.
Five stretched limousines transporting Liz's family began pulling up to the mausoleum at 2 P.M. for the service that lasted for about one hour. No procession was held. While helicopters buzzed overhead and camera crews gathered outside, Tom said that inside the sprawling memorial park, barricades blocked access to the funeral site.
Liz Taylor passed away early Wednesday, March 23. Having been hospitalized for about six weeks before her death, she was surrounded by her four children at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The two-time Oscar winner converted to Judaism before her 1959 wedding to Eddie Fisher, and according to traditional Jewish law,...
Five stretched limousines transporting Liz's family began pulling up to the mausoleum at 2 P.M. for the service that lasted for about one hour. No procession was held. While helicopters buzzed overhead and camera crews gathered outside, Tom said that inside the sprawling memorial park, barricades blocked access to the funeral site.
Liz Taylor passed away early Wednesday, March 23. Having been hospitalized for about six weeks before her death, she was surrounded by her four children at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The two-time Oscar winner converted to Judaism before her 1959 wedding to Eddie Fisher, and according to traditional Jewish law,...
- 3/25/2011
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Elizabeth Taylor has been laid to rest in a small, private funeral service. Around four dozen family members and close friends gathered at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California on Thursday afternoon, March 24 to bid their final goodbyes to the 79-year-old screen legend, Glendale police spokesman Tom Lorenz told the Associated Press.
Five stretched limousines transporting Liz's family began pulling up to the mausoleum at 2 P.M. for the service that lasted for about one hour. No procession was held. While helicopters buzzed overhead and camera crews gathered outside, Tom said that inside the sprawling memorial park, barricades blocked access to the funeral site.
Liz Taylor passed away early Wednesday, March 23. Having been hospitalized for about six weeks before her death, she was surrounded by her four children at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The two-time Oscar winner converted to Judaism before her 1959 wedding to Eddie Fisher, and according to traditional Jewish law,...
Five stretched limousines transporting Liz's family began pulling up to the mausoleum at 2 P.M. for the service that lasted for about one hour. No procession was held. While helicopters buzzed overhead and camera crews gathered outside, Tom said that inside the sprawling memorial park, barricades blocked access to the funeral site.
Liz Taylor passed away early Wednesday, March 23. Having been hospitalized for about six weeks before her death, she was surrounded by her four children at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The two-time Oscar winner converted to Judaism before her 1959 wedding to Eddie Fisher, and according to traditional Jewish law,...
- 3/25/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
She was a Hollywood original to the end. Elizabeth Taylor was laid to rest Thursday at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif., in a small, private funeral attended by friends and family that began 15 minutes after schedule - under instructions she left. "She even wanted to be late for her own funeral," a family rep said in a statement. Taylor's casket was closed and draped with gardenias, violets, and lily of the valley. She was interred in The Great Mausoleum, the same resting place for her longtime friend Michael Jackson. Photos: Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood's QueenThe one-hour, multi-denominational service...
- 3/25/2011
- by Elizabeth Leonard and Mike Fleeman
- PEOPLE.com
Elizabeth Taylor was married eight times to seven husbands. When asked why she married so often, she answered, "I don't know, honey. It sure beats the hell out of me."
The Great Loves of Elizabeth TaylorConrad "Nicky" Hilton
On May 6, 1950, 22-year-old Elizabeth Taylor married hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton. The couple divorced 9 months later.
Michael Wilding
February 21, 1952 Taylor married British actor Michael Wilding, who was 20 years her senior. Wilding is the father of Taylor's first two children,...
The Great Loves of Elizabeth TaylorConrad "Nicky" Hilton
On May 6, 1950, 22-year-old Elizabeth Taylor married hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton. The couple divorced 9 months later.
Michael Wilding
February 21, 1952 Taylor married British actor Michael Wilding, who was 20 years her senior. Wilding is the father of Taylor's first two children,...
- 3/24/2011
- Extra
Elizabeth Taylor will be buried at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California, according to her death certificate. A private memorial service will be held today at Forest Lawn cemetery as well.
Taylor died Wednesday morning at 79 from congestive heart failure. She has been praised by many in Hollywood for her contribution to the industry and is considered a Hollywood legend.
The actress appeared in many movies throughout the '50s and '60s, most notably Cleopatra, alongside Richard Burton, whom she married two times.
She won two best actress Academy Awards for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Butterfly 8.
She was surrounded by her four children when she died.
"My Mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love," her son, Michael Wilding, told ABC News. "Though her loss is devastating to those of us who held her so close and so dear,...
Taylor died Wednesday morning at 79 from congestive heart failure. She has been praised by many in Hollywood for her contribution to the industry and is considered a Hollywood legend.
The actress appeared in many movies throughout the '50s and '60s, most notably Cleopatra, alongside Richard Burton, whom she married two times.
She won two best actress Academy Awards for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Butterfly 8.
She was surrounded by her four children when she died.
"My Mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love," her son, Michael Wilding, told ABC News. "Though her loss is devastating to those of us who held her so close and so dear,...
- 3/24/2011
- by alyssa@mediavine.com (Alyssa Caverley)
- Reel Movie News
Elizabeth Taylor, who converted to Judaism for her marriages to Mike Todd and Eddie Fisher, is following the rules of the religion by being buried soon after her death Wednesday. The funeral for the star, who succumbed to congestive heart failure at age 79, is taking place at Forest Lawn, Glendale, on Thursday, say reports. It will be strictly for family members, including her 10 grandchildren. The cemetery is also where Taylor's friend, Michael Jackson, is buried. It is expected that a public memorial for Taylor will take place at a later date. Taylor had four children: Michael and Christopher Wilding...
- 3/24/2011
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Her tenacity, adventures in immorality and profound talent made Liz Taylor the star other stars wanted to be associated with
Elizabeth Taylor died on Joan Crawford's birthday: a wholly fitting date. The two leading ladies met on the set of Torch Song in the early 50s, a movie Crawford was filming with Taylor's second husband, Michael Wilding. And they did not hit it off; Crawford could see the future, and it was Taylor. When the younger actor declined to treat Crawford as the movie queen she was, the star branded her "a little bitch" and threatened to teach her some manners. Taylor rebuffed her with typical nonchalance, saying how lucky Wilding was to play a blind man in the movie and therefore be spared the horror of looking at Crawford.
If anything sums up Taylor's personality it's probably this meeting of minds, for it perfectly encapsulates her fierce independence,...
Elizabeth Taylor died on Joan Crawford's birthday: a wholly fitting date. The two leading ladies met on the set of Torch Song in the early 50s, a movie Crawford was filming with Taylor's second husband, Michael Wilding. And they did not hit it off; Crawford could see the future, and it was Taylor. When the younger actor declined to treat Crawford as the movie queen she was, the star branded her "a little bitch" and threatened to teach her some manners. Taylor rebuffed her with typical nonchalance, saying how lucky Wilding was to play a blind man in the movie and therefore be spared the horror of looking at Crawford.
If anything sums up Taylor's personality it's probably this meeting of minds, for it perfectly encapsulates her fierce independence,...
- 3/24/2011
- by La JohnJoseph
- The Guardian - Film News
Child actor who became a Hollywood film star known for her dazzling beauty and her eight marriages
The film star Elizabeth Taylor, who has died of heart failure aged 79, was in the public eye from the age of 11 and remained there even decades after her last hit movie. She managed to keep people fascinated, by her incandescent beauty, her courage, her open-natured character, her self-deprecating humour, her eight marriages (two of them to the actor Richard Burton), her many brushes with death, her seesawing weight, her diamonds and her humanitarian causes, all of which often obscured the reason why she was famous in the first place – she had a tantalising screen presence, in films including A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Butterfield 8 (1961), Cleopatra (1963) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).
Taylor was born in Hampstead, north London, of American parents. Her mother, Sara, was...
The film star Elizabeth Taylor, who has died of heart failure aged 79, was in the public eye from the age of 11 and remained there even decades after her last hit movie. She managed to keep people fascinated, by her incandescent beauty, her courage, her open-natured character, her self-deprecating humour, her eight marriages (two of them to the actor Richard Burton), her many brushes with death, her seesawing weight, her diamonds and her humanitarian causes, all of which often obscured the reason why she was famous in the first place – she had a tantalising screen presence, in films including A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Butterfield 8 (1961), Cleopatra (1963) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).
Taylor was born in Hampstead, north London, of American parents. Her mother, Sara, was...
- 3/24/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Elizabeth Taylor found getting old "really s**t". The actress, who died of congestive heart failure on Wednesday, March 23 at the age of 79, was in a lot of pain towards the end of her life, but did her best to "hang in there", says her friend Debbie Reynolds.
Recalling their final conversation a few weeks ago, Debbie, whose husband George Fisher left her for Elizabeth in 1957, told Access Hollywood, "I said, 'Getting old is really s**t. And she said, 'It certainly is. It certainly is, Debbie. This is really tough.' I said, 'Well, you just hang in there now, Elizabeth.' And she said, 'I'm really trying.' "
Though Debbie, 78, is sad her friend, who she has known since they were both 17, has passed away, she thinks her death was a "blessing in disguise" because she was in so much pain. She said, "God bless her, she's on to a better place.
Recalling their final conversation a few weeks ago, Debbie, whose husband George Fisher left her for Elizabeth in 1957, told Access Hollywood, "I said, 'Getting old is really s**t. And she said, 'It certainly is. It certainly is, Debbie. This is really tough.' I said, 'Well, you just hang in there now, Elizabeth.' And she said, 'I'm really trying.' "
Though Debbie, 78, is sad her friend, who she has known since they were both 17, has passed away, she thinks her death was a "blessing in disguise" because she was in so much pain. She said, "God bless her, she's on to a better place.
- 3/24/2011
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Eddie Fisher, Conrad Hilton, Richard Burton and more: The Elizabeth Taylor ex-husband power rankings
Elizabeth Taylor, who died Mar. 23, was an iconic actress, a great philanthropist, successful perfume pitch-woman and the center of the 20th century pop culture universe.
She also really liked dudes.
In her 79 years of life, she had eight marriages with seven different men. Her mates included hotel heirs, construction workers, politicians and fellow actors. But they weren't created equal.
So instead of revisiting Elizabeth Taylor's many men in chronological order, we've ranked them by awesomeness and how their respective unions have stood the test of time. Let's begin...
7. Michael Todd (1957-1958)
Poor Michael. Having fathered one of Liz's four children should spare him from being in last place, but, alas, he's the only husband of Taylor's who exited the marriage by dying. Little more than a year after their 1957 wedding, his unfortunately-titled plane, "Lucky Liz," crashed in New Mexico, killing him and three other passengers.
6. Michael Wilding (1952-1957)
A...
She also really liked dudes.
In her 79 years of life, she had eight marriages with seven different men. Her mates included hotel heirs, construction workers, politicians and fellow actors. But they weren't created equal.
So instead of revisiting Elizabeth Taylor's many men in chronological order, we've ranked them by awesomeness and how their respective unions have stood the test of time. Let's begin...
7. Michael Todd (1957-1958)
Poor Michael. Having fathered one of Liz's four children should spare him from being in last place, but, alas, he's the only husband of Taylor's who exited the marriage by dying. Little more than a year after their 1957 wedding, his unfortunately-titled plane, "Lucky Liz," crashed in New Mexico, killing him and three other passengers.
6. Michael Wilding (1952-1957)
A...
- 3/24/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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