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Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited", The Last Time I Saw Paris tells the story of American Charles Wills (Van Johnson) who returns to Paris and reminisces about his life there after its liberation following WWII. It was then he met Marion (Donna Reid) and also Helen (Elizabeth Taylor), whom he married. Following a tragedy, Charles left Paris but now back, does not know what the future may hold. Director Richard Brooks went on...
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Lämmin ja haikean kaunis romaani vanhuudesta, rakkaudesta ja yllättävästä ystävyydestä.
Hiljattain leskeksi jäänyt rouva Laura Palfrey asettuu miehensä kuoleman jälkeen asumaan vaatimattomaan hotelliin Lontoossa. Kun omat lapset eivät ehdi kiireiltään vierailla Lauran luona, hän löytää uusia tuttavuuksia muista hotellin asukkaista. Asukkaiden joukosta löytyy suuria persoonia, joista kaikki tuntuvat olevan loputtoman uteliaita, joten...
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Una lluviosa tarde de domingo, poco después de haber enviudado, Laura Palfrey llega al Claremont para iniciar una nueva vida. En el hotel la esperan cuatro huéspedes permanentes, días ordenados en torno a las rutinas de las comidas y los programas de televisión. Solo modifica el tedio la visita esporádica de algunos familiares. Pero nadie va a ver a Laura. Cuando de pronto conoce en la calle a Ludo, un joven a quien desvela el deseo de ser escritor,...
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For more than 60 years, Elizabeth Taylor's dazzling beauty and scandalous life captured our fascination, provoked our envy, teased our curiosity and, at times aroused our pity. She was American royalty and the undisputed queen of the tabloids. See her life unfold from her first film through her last marriage and hear her thoughts on being a star, marriage and being what Hollywood tried to make her.
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The Battle of amfAR presents the little-known story of how in the early days of the AIDS pandemic an unlikely alliance between a celebrity and a scientist helped changed the public perception of the disease and led to the search for a cure. Hollywood superstar Elizabeth Taylor and Sloan-Kettering research scientist Dr. Mathilde Krim joined forces to create greater AIDS awareness, fight government indifference and public stigma, and establish amFAR,...
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New York Times–Bestselling Author: “A compelling biography of Daniel Murray and the group the writer-scholar W.E.B. DuBois called ‘The Talented Tenth.’” —Patricia Bell-Scott, National Book Award nominee and author of The Firebrand and the First Lady
In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter...
In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter...
9) Angel
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A darkly witty classic about literary worth, ambition, and romantic idealism set in turn-of-the-century England, with an introduction from Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall)
“A delicious satire on the career of schoolgirl sensation Angelica Deverell. She's a truly magnificent comic creation: petulant, paranoid and frighteningly prolific." –The Guardian
Angelica Deverell lives above her diligent, drab mother’s...
“A delicious satire on the career of schoolgirl sensation Angelica Deverell. She's a truly magnificent comic creation: petulant, paranoid and frighteningly prolific." –The Guardian
Angelica Deverell lives above her diligent, drab mother’s...
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Elizabeth Taylor is finally beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the best English writers of the postwar period, prized and praised by Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel, among others. Inheriting Ivy Compton-Burnett’s uncanny sensitivity to the terrifying undercurrents that swirl beneath the apparent calm of respectable family life while showing a deep sympathy of her own for human loneliness, Taylor depicted dislocation with the...
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A decade-spanning love story from an author who is “the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike” (The Independent)
Haunted by unspoken tensions and stifled ardor, two lovers navigate shifting expectations and societal changes in inter-war England.
The mid-twentieth century British novelist Elizabeth Taylor numbered among her admirers Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and Kingsley Amis....
Haunted by unspoken tensions and stifled ardor, two lovers navigate shifting expectations and societal changes in inter-war England.
The mid-twentieth century British novelist Elizabeth Taylor numbered among her admirers Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and Kingsley Amis....
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Tory, recently divorced, is having an affair with her neighbor Robert, a doctor, whose wife, Beth, is Tory's best friend. Beth notices nothing--an author of melodramatic novels, she is too busy with them to mind her house or its inhabitants--but her daughter Prudence knows what is up and is appalled. Gossip spreads in the little community, and Taylor's view widens to take in a range of characters from senile, snoopy Mrs. Bracey; to a young, widowed...
15) Lassie come home
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The collie is sold and makes a cross-country journey back to her original family.
16) National Velvet
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Academy Award winners Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney star in this children's classic about the friendship that develops between a headstrong jockey and a young English girl as they work together to turn an "unbreakable" horse into a champion.
17) Life with Father
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A financier from New York runs his family, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulousness of a bookkeeper.
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Elizabeth Taylor delivers an Academy Award-winning performance opposite Richard Burton in this adaptation of Edward Albee's groundbreaking Broadway play that rips the façade of civility off the dysfunctional marriage between an alcoholic college professor and his shrew of a wife during a dinner party the two host for a young couple.