BUtterfield 8
A Manhattan call girl (Elizabeth Taylor) has a tragic affair with a rich married man (Laurence Harvey). However, her desire for respectability causes her to reconsider her lifestyle.
13 February 1932, New York City, New York, USA
1 October 1928, Joniskis, Lithuania
18 October 1921, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
8 February 1916, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
5 September 1932, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 June 1905, Sázava, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
26 November 1907, New York City, New York, USA
8 May 1914, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
16 February 1909, Auburn, Massachusetts, USA
29 July 1932, Dayton, Ohio, USA
27 February 1932, Hampstead, London, England, UK
10 August 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
14 September 1919, New York City, New York, USA
25 October 1914, San Antonio, Texas, USA
December 3, 1916 in Rathdowney, Ireland
25 January 1901, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
13 January 1926, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
8 March 1926, San Juan, Puerto Rico
26 June 1925, The Bronx, New York, USA
29 December 1923, New York City, New York, USA
1 October 1912, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
October 28, 2005
Mostly crap, but Elizabeth Taylor is hot
March 23, 2011
It's just about as awful as you'd expect, despite the presence of two first-class screenwriter.
March 23, 2011
Glossy trash with the star at full throttle, it's the quintessental La Liz movie.
October 23, 2003
Taylor's heralded performance as the archetypal hooker ('the slut of all time!') with a heart of gold is a bit overrated.
May 29, 2008
When viewed today it's a work of considerable dreck, it's badly dated and unappealing.
March 23, 2011
A sleek and libidinous lingerie meller.
March 26, 2009
Under director Daniel Mann's guidance it is an extremely sexy and intimate film, but the intimacy is only skin deep, the sex only a dominating behavior pattern.
April 09, 2007
"Mama face it, I was the slut of all time," Liz Taylor's hooker confronts her mother, and that's pretty much sums up the nature of this glossy, trashy melodrama that Hollywood used to make until TV appropriated the genre.
November 06, 2001
Though it's generally true that nothing dates faster than Hollywood's idea of what's daring, Butterfield 8 can be viewed as a fascinating artifact from the days when movie stars' offscreen myths were carefully woven into their on-screen roles.
May 09, 2005
The dialogue is rough. Let's say O'Harrowing. And the ending is absurd. But so is most of it for that matter. It's the living it up that gets you in this film.
May 24, 2003
Taylor won an Oscar for her role in this, but holds the movie in scant regard compared to the rest of her work. And with good reason.
June 24, 2006
Once thought of as racy and adventurous in its treatment of sex, this turgid nonsense about a high-class whore with love in her heart has dated atrociously.
