Best Actress 1961: Elizabeth Taylor wins for Butterfield 8

[@rychartist]

Am I the only one who thought Elizabeth Taylor had great penmanship on that mirror?

[@RobbDelman]

😂😂🤣🤣

[@JennyB957]

Being feminine is feminine even with the claws out lol .

[@simonhbrooke]

It's beautiful isn't it?!

[@AfroSamurai1089]

Can you imagine the number of takes it must have taken?!

[@ferociousgumby]

Maybe only one. She was a pro.

[@famco_inc737]

Taylor being framed as a vilain who stole a man is still very used today. They did the same to Angelina Jolie. It's as if the man had to decision in theses affairs!

[@davids9520]

Poor Brad Pitt!

[@christopherbrown2706]

@Gary Henzler or maybe she had an affair with a friend's husband

[@maggiemae7749]

It takes 2 to tango

[@lewalcindor9356]

Of course the men are at fault too. But let's not act like Liz wasn't a repeat offender, lol.

[@TheSongwritingCat]

@@lewalcindor9356 Right. Like at what point can we say that Miranda Lambert only seems to be attracted to men who are already in relationships? Some people's type is taken.

[@abc92800]

"Personal narratives matter" --- this is something casual oscar watchers never seem to get lol. It's always that they think it's the quality that gets trophies, about who THEY think should win based on how they love it, but they dont understand that the context of the whole year leading up to the campaign is what puts the actors over to get that Oscar. 🙂

[@jessicaclakley3691]

Thank you for sharing! I actually don’t watch the Oscar’s (or any award show) personally but am loving the history that BKR does a beautiful job of conveying to her audience. I was completely oblivious to the scope and, as alluded to, the narratives that seem to frequently win actors their Oscars.

[@mthivier]

I’ve always loved the story where she writes “piece of sh*t” in lipstick after the screening. I’d love to see I’d love to see an analysis on her later win for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”, IMO, her greatest performance ever.

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

Absolutely-boom she became a n extremely complicated character, around which all of the others rotate and without which, they could not have existed. Mike Leigh did talk about the film on DVD, and he spoke about how important it was for his very first film to have Elizabeth there-in that she understood acting for cameras. Unfortunately, he wasn’t asked about her acting, per se, yet he references the terrible things that they, as a couple, had to endure, and also spoke of the fact that Elizabeth Taylor never saw status, quote, “-to Elizabeth, people were just people’…I think that you would like it. If you haven’t heard it already.

[@robindore258]

Yes yes it's one of my favorite films

[@harrietcraig6716]

TOTALLY AGREE

[@amylouise9853]

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is one of the best films ever by far. Endless amazing performances.

[@gennybaratta2460]

Amy Louise right? My only problem is the way they mangled the ending. In the play Brick still remains married to Maggie but Williams makes it clear that their marriage remains deeply unhappy and is most likely going to end in divorce in the near future. Contrast that to the film were Liz’s magic vagina Brick from *gasp* homosexuality

[@flower_girl4983]

The film version was clearly different from the play. This play has 3 different endings

[@sylviacarlson3561]

Tennessee Williams didn't care for the film because in true Hollywood fashion they changed the ending that's not in the play.

[@swarnimasingh1598]

Elizabeth Taylor was great in these films: A Place In The Sun Giant Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Suddenly, Last Summer And best of all Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

[@hello2jello4mellow34]

Yes, yes, yes!

[@liljimlambert7]

A Place in the Sun is my personal favorite of Elizabeth's films.

[@vinista256]

... and "National Velvet" :D Seriously, that film may not have featured the adult sex-goddess Liz who became so iconic, but she gave a radiant performance nevertheless.

[@enagyb]

And in Huston's Reflection on a Golden Eye

[@jjh2456]

She should have won for Cat...period.

[@AliciaNyblade]

"Elizabeth sought comfort and found it in Eddie Fisher, Mike's best friend and husband to Carrie Fisher." So a guy has an affair with the widow of his dead best friend and yet the public eye casts HER as the villain? Wow. And how gross that such sexism and misogyny still exists in Hollywood and in our culture at large.

[@KookiesNolly]

not just a guy, a married man and a father. he's the one who had no concern for his family but she is the one who destroyed it? Lmao. Nobody can make you cheat unless you want to.

[@AliciaNyblade]

@@KookiesNolly Exactly.

[@ellemathews9840]

Well, eddie being her 4th husband probably had something to do with it. The 50s was a whole other world , darling.

[@AliciaNyblade]

@@ellemathews9840 Yes, I'm quite aware things were different in the 1950s, thank you very much. Yet even with this in mind, I thought the "Having an affair with your best friend's widow" thing would be viewed for the sleaziness it is no matter what the era.

[@ellemathews9840]

@@AliciaNyblade Elizabeth taylor was one of the biggest stars back then. Eddie Fisher not so much. And back then it was "a man is boss " way of thinking. They probably knew it wouldnt be a big story making fisher the bad guy because Todd was dead , nothing he can say or do and people move on when someone dies. People really only cared because they saw Debbie as America's sweetheart and just had a baby.

[@larrydirtybird]

Before I watched Butterfield 8 the first time, I had read that the movie was crap, her performance undeserving, etc etc. But I was surprised-- she did really well in that movie. It was as Oscar worthy as her previous nominations. I think her back-to-back losses and recent surgery was why she won, but this movie is not that bad and she was really excellent considering the screenplay she was given to work with. It is a lot easier to act well in something written by Tennessee Williams than it is acting a script like Butterfield 8.

[@dazeddarla2275]

Agreed And I never think someone should win an oscar for looking gorgeous, but if ever there was someone that should have, it was her... in that nightgown she is sublime... and acting well at all, and having not won one for other roles... I get it.

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

I agree, with strong reservations. It had fine acting, with a strong and loving interaction between Taylor and Lawrence Harvey. I never understood the length of time that Nora’s jealousy must’ve endured. Still, it’s the core of the film that was left closed. Taylor eventually expresses the fact that her Mother’s boyfriend had abused her sexually, and in a line that was the terrible touchstone of her self loathing, she said, ‘and I loved it!’ This was a shocking revelation, and yet it’s merely left there. As if her assessment was correct, and she had not been wronged, but reacted wrongly-we hear Lawrence Harvey saying, ‘-she had strived so hard for respectability.’ Once child sexual abuse is introduced, yes, the terrifying framework of her behavior is presented, yet something in the film’s attitude *must change* and yet nothing did. We the audience are left with this stagnant lack of reaction to the revelation that our main character was raped as a *child*

[@melindawakley7859]

@Subversively surreal Yes, the themes are not exactly fiction…as Butterfield 8 is the movie from from the 1935 Novel Butterfield 8. About the doomed call girl Starr Faithfull who washed up dead on a shore in Long Island in 1931. Later it was revealed, She had suffered childhood abuse from an old guy who was a friend of her parents. She’d been sent to live with him. I believe Starr Faithfull was murdered. Another thing, the actor Lawrence Harvey was a good friend of Elizabeth’s. He died fairly young. And Elizabeth being the good friend she always tended to be, flew a long way to be with him when he died. Good friends!

[@manthony225]

I think its tricky to categorize Shirley's role in The Apartment. It's not a supporting role but it's also not quite a lead role.

[@lray1948]

The same thing was said of Patricia Neal's role in "Hud"

[@oriond8527]

Elizabeth definitely deserved her second Oscar though

[@ahyan6681]

yes i just watched Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf she was so good she defintely deserved it

[@brandonlambert586]

Ms. Taylor was not only one of the most beautiful women in the world, if not the most beautiful woman in the world, she was a talented actress.

[@SummerofKittyLove]

She was shockingly good in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

[@sylviacarlson3561]

Many thought that Richard Burton and Liz basically played themselves. Richard told her that this will be the first time that a couple both get an Oscar. He was very disappointed that she got one and he didn't.

[@evielevin1221]

y’all should do vivien leigh in the 1952 awards for streetcar!!!

[@sylviacarlson3561]

Interesting how Vivien played 3 Southern Women in her life although she was British.

[@wookong1723]

she did

[@adamodeo9320]

there will never be another Elizabeth Taylor - the greatest of all movie stars - a truly great human being and the most beautiful woman inside and outside - met her 3 times and it was like meeting an angel!

[@delaney5607]

Something that’s amazing to me as I binge the content on your channel is how no matter how far back I go, I am still given quality content!

[@Zeldarw104]

yes! Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Maggie the cat one of her best performances to me.

[@michaelodonnell824]

"Compensatory" Oscars are so short-sighted. They deny rightful winners and therefore propogate the need for even more "Compensatory" Oscars. Any possibility of a separate film covering all of such Oscars, maybe listing them all and naming the proper deserved winners?

[@IllumiNatetheOracle]

Butterfield 8 was trash, but Liz's performance was not. She could act her way out of a paper bag, of course, anytime she wasn't on screen it all fell apart.

[@theexmann]

Agreed. She did a great job and looked fantastic in that movie. But, yes, the movie sucked.

[@sylviacarlson3561]

She herself said that the only reason she got the Oscar for Butterfield 8 was because she ended up in the hospital. The Academy was especially very sentimental about that sort of thing back then.

[@jsmith034086]

She was in show business 2 decades by that time.

[@jeffreyturner7678]

sincerely cant wait for more videos...these are incredible!

[@GG1Productions]

I love this series! You should do either Geraldine Page for Trip to Bountiful or Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost. Either way you can address one of the most glaring Oscar snubs in history

[@brandonlambert9768]

Elizabeth played this role perfectly and looked stunning.

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

So much the better that Elizabeth Taylor won Best Actress for a truly difficult, complicated role-creating Martha for the must see film, ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?’ Bravo, Elizabeth !! 🌹👏🏾

[@dkaf1000]

I think I'm the only one on earth who thinks Elizabeth Taylor in "Butterfield 8" actually gives a brilliant performance.

[@rbfrondoso320]

Sandy Weinhold i do so too! But it does not matches Shirley's.

[@chuckcummins9149]

As do many others. ..... remember, this was the sixties Taylor, was not only the biggest box office draw in the World, but the publicly didn't hurt MGM either ... 😊

[@knowzmyname]

I also think Elizabeth gave a good acting performance In Butterfield 8, better in Suddenly Last Summer, and best in Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf

[@manthony225]

I agree. It might not be a great movie ( although it was better than I expected) her performance was terrific.

[@abc92800]

yes you are

[@acb9542]

I never knew any of this! Love these videos. Thanks for sharing.

[@emilyrussell8847]

Elizabeth is one of my heroes. She was confined as a child actor into the studio system and rebelled against that experience for the rest of her life. I read that she knew life was a piece of fruit to squeeze the juice out of, not to preserve in wax. So true. And her talent was volcanic. Thank you for this great video about the Oscar she shouldn't have won. I'm so glad she later won one for a much better performance too!!

[@Syuhnebba1]

You have to do the tie one between Katharine and Barbara VERY SOON it was AMAZING!

[@cam21333]

This is actually my number 1 Oscar upset of all time. Shirley MacLaine’s performance in The Apartment is extraordinary.

[@ckotcher1]

Mine is Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a dream (Julia Roberts won Erin Brokovich 🙄) and Judy Garland for a star is born. Grace Kelly won for Country Girl. I love Grace but Judy deserved that Oscar. Just another cross she had to bear

[@josefinamautone1293]

This is like the fourth time i'm watching this video. Do "Who's Afraid of V Woolf" next and include some Taylor/Burton drama! Love, love, love, love your videos. Always soothing and informative and entertaining as hell. Thanks so much for making them.

[@MrStGeorgeIllawarra]

"Personal narratives matter" still true. I mean look at Eddie Murphy not winning for Dreamgirls.

[@ayindestevens6152]

I'm STILL upset about that!

[@jjh2456]

Eddie should have won for that. He stole that movie.

[@ashIesha]

What did he do

[@hardkore628]

@@ashIesha He made Norbit.

[@vistaestrada]

I love your channel! Thank you for taking the time to create these videos.

[@stanleycoleman]

The best Oscar acceptance speech ever imo.

[@sylviacarlson3561]

stanleycoleman - whose?

[@outinsider]

You know, for a performance in a film that she did not like doing and giving, Elizabeth Taylor didn't act like that in BUtterfield 8. Call me controversial, but I think she deserved her first Oscar.

[@m.e.d.7997]

She was wonderful in the role.

[@outinsider]

Also- I think that it is such a disrespectful reduction to say that classic movie stars were just personalities. They had talent. Immense talent- but the studios sold their personalities well. That is the difference. That being said, I do agree that personal narratives matter. But, I think that is a problem, because it does tell a lot about the Academy's voting bloc, and why women of color do not get more leading Oscar nominations and wins.

[@IllumiNatetheOracle]

You're so right. Actors today would probably be purposely dreadful in movies they didn't want to do... Liz was such a professional, because I would have never known she hating the role from her performance.

[@sylviacarlson3561]

Wouldn't it have been wonderful if Liz had gotten up there and refused to accept her Oscar because she said the only reason she got it was because she at death's door. Now THAT would have been interesting and rather scandalous!

[@outinsider]

@@sylviacarlson3561 It would also have set a precedent, as we have only seen men refuse their Oscars publicly. I know there was a tiny demand that Meryl Streep go on stage and humbly refuse her Oscar to Viola Davis in The Help, but Harvey Weinstein wouldn't have allowed that.

[@tiagofincher]

Please please do a video for the 1984 win of Shirley MacLaine. Her acceptance speech was my favorite of all time. Tks!!!

[@MrRickyMoody]

Tiago Melo agree

[@josefinamautone1293]

more liz taylor! (and burton) love your videos and think you're doing a great service!!! love learning from you.

[@ninethreefivesix]

Aw Paul Newman and Montgomery Clift. Some of my all time favorite Hollywood Stars.

[@addabboo]

You should have added that Elizabeth Taylor won another oscar for Who's afraid ofVirginia Wolf, considered one of the best performances by an actress ever. She did deserve the oscar for Cat, but my oh my in Suddenly last Summer she was out of this world. To me Elizabeth Taylor should have had 3 Oscars. Buterfiled 8 was trash, but she was "Glorious" in it!!!! Those coats!!!!

[@kevlow9494]

Luís Terra I hope she does a review of All actresses and mentioned, can't wait to see the Second Oscar win video

[@benny4700]

Really? I ,mean, I like Elizabeth Taylor, she seemed like she must've been really fun to be around, but I don't think she's that great of an actress, hell, even she said she didn't consider herself a proper actress.

[@fonteluminosa-alojamentolo3986]

Ben Oldfield She herself said that, but she is AFI's 7th best actress. We should watch her movies and let her performances show how good she was. A place in the Sun, Giant, Cat on a hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last summer (my favourite) and Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf are all good examples. She should have won the Oscar for Cat on a hot Tin Roof or even Suddenly Last summer. People forget that Taylor was nominated 4 years in a row, 1957,1958,1959 and 1960. How many actors can be proud of that?

[@jaydefelice9895]

Bette Davis (1938-1942) & Greer Garson (1941-1945) were nominated 5 years in a row. Besides Taylor, Thelma Ritter (1950-1953), Marlon Brando (1951-1954) and Al Pacino (1972-1975) also managed 4 in a row. Slim and great company for sure.

[@carljcreighton]

you should stop shoulding

[@keithsimon3667]

love your channel! Thanks for the history lessons!

[@beau__bubbles]

I absolutely love these videos I love the information and insight! I’m hooked I want more!!!!!

[@Starkardur]

The most underserving Oscar for years. This taught the Academy a lesson but Taylor deserved her 2nd oscar though.

[@sylviacarlson3561]

Gunnar Edvardsson - I mean the award is for acting, not if you ended up half dead in a hospital. Oh! Please!!

[@Yondainc]

Monster Ball

[@everydaymarvin2490]

Ok this was wonderful! I totally knew about her being recognized for Butterfield 8 but I didn't know the whole back story of that year. It is very interesting to say the least. Thank you for putting this together so well. I am going to have to watch some more of your videos! #elizabethtaylor #goldenageofhollywood

[@wendyp8488]

I love the depth of your analysis and your entertaining presentation style ⭐️

[@blippp4082]

I'm so excited that you're going to be posting a video for every best actress oscar that happened! it'll be great to watch these videos in chronological order of the oscar wins. Thank you for the upload!

[@jackanthony976]

I don't care what anyone says, I loved Butterfield 8!!

[@aagold76]

Fortunately- she won a deserved Oscar for Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf....and Shirley eventually won for Terms of Endearment- though, you have to wonder, had Shirley won for The Apartment, would Debra Winger had won for Terms.....???

[@Starkardur]

Probably as Debra Winger gave a much stronger performance in that film

[@gabeguarin1096]

Maybe. Or Shirley could've gone on to win for Terms of Endearment regardless of if she had won before. Kind of how like Frances McDormand won for Three Billboards 21 years after she won for Fargo.

[@TavoRuiz]

Oh my god, great video, where have you been all this time!! PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING!!!! AWESOME CONCEPT FOR US OSCAR LOVERS!!! :D :D

[@Hryanw]

I LOVE this series! Personally, I would like to see videos on: Judi Dench- Shakespeare in Love, Gwyneth Paltrow- Shakespeare in Love, Anne Hathaway- Les Miserables, Renee Zellweger- Cold Mountain, Anna Paquin- The Piano, Marisa Tomei- My Cousin Vinny, Julia Roberts- Erin Brockovich, Reese Witherspoon- Walk the Line

[@Rida_H_A]

I need to watch all your video's again just to like them all

[@xSTTS]

"old timey logic" I saw many villains die in telenovelas

[@domshaheen7356]

“a ruinous nymphomaniac looking for homes to wreck” - perfect descriptor for how she was viewed. Also 🤣

[@d.w.1805]

Thank you for these videos!

[@pedrosorio89]

Miss or Mrs. Be Kind Rewind, I love your videos. They are brilliant! Keep up the great work.

[@liljimlambert7]

Taylor was a great actress.

[@kennethfrawley]

BKR, have recently discovered your work, and am absolutely gobsmacked by it. Well done, you! Such brilliant research, editing and commentary. Again, very well done, you!

[@aronc24]

I’ve noticed a lot of oscars awarded are retroactive. I’d love to see an in depth video on who judges and the history of how that panel was first created and maintained every year.

[@darbystlawrence1509]

new favorite channel. you’re so funny, so intelligent, and great at editing! these are documentary-level videos. I am starting to watch a ton of classics so your videos have been so helpful and fun for me.

[@barttanner8162]

This Oscar was a consolation prize on par with Bette Davis' Oscar for Dangerous.

[@aiseakonrote5381]

Wat a wonderful in depth info & leadup to each nominee for an Oscar...Thank you.

[@jojog11]

I watch your videos over and over they are SO great and I learn so much. Quoting the oh-so-not-oscar-nominee Madonna : 'I want more!!!!'

[@jaymesguy239]

Butterfield 8 is what I would consider a 'good bad movie' which, in spite of itself, had some really fine cinematic, writing and acting moments, like the sarcastic friend of Gloria's mother shooting off her jibes, played by Betty Field, which were actually quite funny; or Kay Medford as 'Happy' the former Vaudevillian owner of a 'heavily mortgaged roadside brothel', in her own words, (actually, just a motel that rents by the hour where Gloria and Liggett go for their trysts), or Dina Merrill and Carmen Mathews as the male lead's (miscast with poor Laurence Harvey) long-suffering wife and her mother. It's really a typical 'code' movie melodrama but with the added difference of so obviously trading off the star's scandalous private life, but that makes it all the more fun. It has some of the most quotable lines in cinema history: Gloria, considering her manicure: "I think I'll do my nails." Mrs. Thurber: "Yeah, sharpen 'em!" Gloria: "For you, Mrs. Thurber, I would." And don't forget the marvellous Mildred Dunnock as her mother: "Now, Frances, don't joke about Gloria's work, you know how seriously she takes it. She's one of the few girls of her kind in the city." Mrs. Thurber: "I pass!" And later, at Happy's Motel: Liggett: "I see you have the 'no occupancy' sign lit up." Happy: "Well, I wouldn't be "Happy' if I didn't! Ha ha ha. But don't worry, Mr. Liggett, there's always room for two more weary travellers. Hey, did I ever tell you the one about the two old maids? Now there might be some words in it you're not familiar with..." Liggett: "Later, Happy, right now we're in a hurry." "Oh, yeah, I get it. A man's gotta get his rest, he's gotta get it regular." And, when all is said and done, Liz Taylor gave a wonderful and nuanced performance as the audience's perception of herself, not an easy thing to do at all and raised a tale of a shallow call girl and her cheating lover into high kitsch art. And that opening scene in the bedroom after a night of drinking and illicit sex was just stupendous and I imagine really pushed the envelope on the 'code' and what they could show onscreen. And how she brushes her teeth with whiskey was priceless. All done without words, like a silent movie of an R-rated Goldilocks, as she tests the wife's various perfumes and wanders through the apartment preparing for the walk of shame.

[@psychobillycadillac]

Man I don’t know who does these videos but the politics behind the oscars and all the things I didn’t know about the Hayes code and women. These are my new obsessions please make more!

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

It wasn’t just women who were punished but everyone who didn’t act morally. This video just mentioned the women in comparison.

[@lizlovely6591]

I decided to subscribe. This content is right up my alley. I need more stories of successful ladies to inspire me.

[@justinepress2118]

Fascinating! I love the Apartment - still a great movie 😍

[@ghosttrain9022]

"Greer Garson as Eleanor Roosevelt" I... wait, what?

[@audreyquinn73]

This trope has been perpetrated in the 80's "slasher films" as well. Only the virgin survives. But recent cinema re-writes, such as "Cabin in the Woods" and (more overtly) "It Follows" challenges slut-shaming. Still... We, women, have a long way to go.

[@lifesjourney9801]

One thing also, we cant blame Elizabeth for getting the award. Its probably in her destiny to receive it at the time.

[@RabidChild82]

I know that you mostly do Best Actresses but I've never understood why Richard Burton never managed to win an Oscar (I think the biggest upset was his losing as George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to John Wayne in True Grit---even Wayne told Burton that Burton should have won). Why was Taylor ultimately forgiven for scandal and Burton punished by Hollywood?

[@ethannielson942]

bean shadow Richard Burton lost the Oscar that year (1966) to Paul Scofield for A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. Richard Burton nominated for ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS in 1969 lost the Oscar to John Wayne for TRUE GRIT. www.ethansfilmreviews.com

[@Noah_z_Ark]

Some biographers theorize that Burton took Elizabeth to Europe during the 60s and 70s, the period they were negotiating their own contracts, and away from Hollywood where she should've been.

[@archer1949]

Wow. That was a solid group that year.

[@Waffletigercat]

Personal narratives SHOULDN'T matter though. It should just be about who did the best job. Period.

[@tedwatson9929]

Is Oscar voting always like this? Doesn't anybody ever win due to an outstanding performance? This kind of award system needs to be scrapped.. I'm not against awards but there has got to be a better way. Academy voters should be evaluated on their fitness to honor an actor's work.,,, their fitness in terms at ignoring any other factor save the performance. "Campaigning" has to be scrapped as well.

[@kitkeller5831]

Liz was great in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but Susan Hayward was superlative in I Want to Live! Hayward’s greatest threat was Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame.

[@fareedmalik6777]

Kit Keller Hayward over acted by today’s under stated acting demand. Throwing tantrums is BAD acting . Hence currently there has been a re assessment of Ava Gardner’s acting. She NEVER over acted like all the GREAT actresses of yesteryears

[@mamadouaziza2536]

Fareed Malik We ain't talking about today, we are talking about 1958 and Susan Hayward was damn good in 'I want To Live'. Watch her technique as an actress and how she does her scenes and watch her emotional range...

[@fareedmalik6777]

Mamadou Aziza see the film today. A great performance should stand the test of time. Hayward’s acting is shit over acting. Painfully poor. That is why Susan Hayward is a forgotten name. Throwing tantrums on the screen is NOT great acting!!!

[@SDoesNotKnow]

@@fareedmalik6777 If shit over acting isn't appreciated today, then how did Jennifer Lawrence win an Oscar in Silver Linings Playbook for doing the exact same thing? She yelled, screamed, and cried and yet still had dead eyes.

[@fareedmalik6777]

SDoesNotKnow AGREED!

[@oldhollywoodlover1]

I love seeing these videos and the backstories. Do you think you could do one for the 1962 awards when Patty won that year?

[@chuckcummins9149]

Many greater Actresses for sure .... we all know that, Taylor's life literally played out itself on the screen .... how many of us really went to see the character Liz was portraying .... I, for one paid my $$... just to look at her .... regardless of the film, when Taylor is in full view ...one forgets the other actors !! 😊

[@michaelreilly3513]

While she was amazing to look at, thankfully, I and many others are not that shallow, and actually thought her acting in Suddenly last Summer, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, A place in the Sun, Giant, The last Time I saw Paris, Little Women and many more were a major part of why we went to see her in films.

[@chuckcummins9149]

Couldn't agree with you more

[@Lgevirtz]

The winner that year should have been Deborah Kerr, who was superb in "The Sundowners."

[@XX-gy7ue]

they were all good , and ' the apartment ' is a masterpiece - BUT ' NEVER ON SUNDAY ' IS A WATERSHED MARK IN THE HISTORY OF ART , AND MELINA MERCOURI , BESIDES GETTING THE OSCAR , SHOULD BE CANONIZED FOR WHAT SHE DID IN THAT ROLE !

[@QueenOfHeartsx]

4:16 i'm so intrigued. when did the shift happen from the academy being "notoriously conservative" to hollywood now being known as ~bleeding heart liberal~? could you do a video on hollywood's...evolving political sensibilities?

[@slc2466]

Minority opinion, but I think Taylor is close to untouchable in her movie-star turn in "8," clearly not trying to 'act' every moment to command attention, as she did impressively in some roles, such as "Suddenly, Last Summer" and parts of "Virginia Woolf." As Gloria she holds the screen in a more effortless (or seemingly effortless) manner, and even gets a chance with a funny line here and there (I really, really wish Taylor had done more comedy- she's great at being low-down and bawdy). I'd probably go with MacLaine or Kerr this year, but Taylor did receive her nomination before the illness, and no one cried foul when that happened, for good reason, I think.

[@bradleywaye4285]

Greatest actress of all time

[@markallen4356]

You've got to be kidding

[@jaydefelice9895]

Contender for greatest movie star of all time I could agree with. Greatest actress, I couldn't agree with at all. She gave a few really good performances. Her greatest being WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? I know I will get flack for this, but let's not forget the written Martha character itself deserves just as much or maybe more credit than Taylor's acting ability.

[@65wiseman]

Ugh!

[@juffan]

These videos are so good. Thank you

[@jainck4]

I love watching these things. They are refreshing and really astute. But why do you have this weird background music playing all the time? Just curious. Otherwise, most excellent.

[@henriettahenson]

You put this together well.... My mom used to talk about the film Butterfield eight and she liked it... I never saw it but now listening to you I. Think I have to go watch it and draw my ow.n opinion 💙🙏💙

[@hectorbarbosa3945]

It has always been about favorites at the time they hand out the award. Let's just that Taylor did the best she could with the character she had to play, and Maclaine was perfect with a role that suited her! Now, switch them around, Shirley does Butterfield 8 and Elizabeth does The Apartment, what would have been the outcome of that?

[@sandrasanders706]

McClain should have won that Oscar..she was just fantastic!

[@G1biru-b4f]

Academy: Elizabeth do you want a Oscar? YES PAPA

[@kittyviveen9448]

She herself said she won because she almonst died just before Butterliefd 8. Just before the Awards she wrote on the mirror in the ladies room with a lipstick: Piece of shit. And she meant it. She hated that movie.

[@andreabricenoortega5087]

I love your videos please don't stop making them :)

[@arman0612]

Great video. I also prefer MacLaine's performance, but I also like Taylor's performance in BUtterfield 8 (but her second win was much more deserved for sure).

[@lizzieallen3473]

Jean Simmons, arguably a much better film actress than Elizabeth Taylor, should have been nominated that year for Elmer Gantry, a wonderful performance.

[@lizzieallen3473]

Agreed. My favourite Jean Simmons performance is All the Way Home.

[@esquibelle]

You must be from the Dust Bowl era. Love 2U :)

[@007lamiss]

Hi I love your content and I really appreciate your background music choices thank you xx

[@ronnie6902]

I think Elizabeth should have won for Suddenly Last Summer. The academy should make the decision on who the best actor was that year, and who deserves it. not on an actors personal life and what is right or wrong.

[@jlopink]

I should be working but here I am watching my 9th video in a row. This channel is amazing.

[@paulsuchy6210]

As the sympathy for Elizabeth Taylor was so overwhelming at that time, Debbie Reynolds was quoted as saying, "Hell, even I voted for her!"

[@sirgeorge152]

Yes, as per the previous post, could you make a video about her Oscar for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? That's an interesting story too.

[@matthewharrison6227]

I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!! SO GOOOD!!!

[@MissKilman]

The other woman from Butterfield 8 even looks a bit like Debbie Reynolds in that scene with Eddie Fisher

[@quintonmaduro8558]

“Personal narratives matter” and yet Roman Polanski received best director for the pianist. The “for women” is as silent as the G lasagna

[@whalesnamedshark]

I think BUtterfield 8 is a good example of "oh how the 60s have begun"

[@andraste6746]

The Apartment is such a great movie.

[@JohnJones-fg1dd]

I would have picked Kerr in The Sundowners.

[@user-ye8zk8ku7s]

Wow. Butterfield 8 was so brazen lmao. It almost seemed to capitalize on the Kennedy/Jackie/Marilyn trope