The Silver Screen Oasis

Found this link from The Courage Of Lsssie. I'm not sure if Liz is still a child or an adult in this film

From the TCM Website:
The following is a complete schedule of TCM's April 10 memorial tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (all times Eastern):

6 a.m. - Lassie Come Home (1943), with Roddy McDowall and Edmund Gwenn; directed by Fred M. Wilcox.
7:30 a.m. - National Velvet (1944), with Mickey Rooney, Anne Revere and Angela Lansbury; directed by Clarence Brown.
10 a.m. - Conspirator (1952), with Robert Taylor and Robert Flemyng; directed by Victor Saville.
11:30 a.m. - Father of the Bride (1950), with Spencer Tracy, Billie Burke, Joan Bennett and Don Taylor; directed by Vincente Minnelli.
1:15 a.m. - Father's Little Dividend (1951), with Spencer Tracy, Billie Burke, Joan Bennett and Don Taylor; directed by Vincente Minnelli.
2:45 p.m. - Raintree County (1957), with Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor and Agnes Moorehead; directed by Edward Dmytryk.
6 p.m. - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), with Paul Newman and Burl Ives; directed by Richard Brooks.
8 p.m. - Butterfield 8 (1960), with Laurence Harvey and Eddie Fisher; directed by Daniel Mann.
10 p.m. - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), with Richard Burton, George Segal and Sandy Dennis; directed by Mike Nichols.
12:30 a.m. - Giant (1956), with James Dean and Rock Hudson; directed by George Stevens.
4 a.m. - Ivanhoe (1952), with Robert Taylor and Joan Fontaine; directed by Richard Thorpe.

In addition to TCM's on-air tribute to Taylor, the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood will feature a special 60th anniversary screening of her brilliant performance opposite Montgomery Clift in George Stevens' A Place in the Sun (1951). The TCM Classic Film Festival takes place April 28-May 1.

A column by my friend Bill Eggert (founder of the sadly now-defunct Silent Film Society of Atlanta) on Elizabeth Taylor.

http://tribune-democrat.com/billeggert/ ... -the-Great

The French Cinémathèque has put online various objects from its collection as a tribute to Elizabeth Taylor. I thought it might interest some of you. Here they are:

Original sketch by Edith Head for Liz's dress in A Place in the Sun (1951)


Dress by Walter Plunkett for Liz in Little Women (1949, M. LeRoy)


Dior suit (made by designer Marc Bohan) for Liz in Secret Ceremony (1968, J. Losey)

I saw the Little Women dress in the former Cinémathèque museum in Chaillot. Alas, in its new building, the collection on display has shrunk considerably and most of the costumes are in storage...

The fact that Edith Head could sketch like that, AND make the Place in the Sun dress, and THEN have it come out as beautiful as it is on screen is really something. I think it's even more beautiful in those pale watercolors....I didn't think such a thing was possible.

I was just thinking Elizabeth would have still have been young enough, at 46, to play Velvet Brown in the National Velvet sequel International Velvet in 1978. I'm not sure what shape she was in at that point, but IMO looked better than ever when she came out of The Betty Ford clinic. However, it was a Bryan Forbes production, so it's no surprise that his wife Nanette Newman (44)played the role herself, making a good job of it too. I think However, Elizabeth would also have been good with Christopher Plummer and Tatum O'Neil

One thing though NV was set in the 1920s, while IV is in the 70s, so the sums don't add up. If NV had been set in 1944 when it was made, then the sums would then have added up