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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