Father of the Bride
After the legendary Elizabeth Taylor died last month, DVD sets of her films were inevitable, and Warner Home Video scheduled the first one in its TCM Greatest Classic Films line. The DVD set TCM Greatest Classic Films: Legends — Elizabeth Taylor was released on July 12, 2011.
The two-disc package includes four of Taylor’s best movies:
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play starring Taylor as frustrated Southern belle wife Maggie the Cat and Paul Newman (The Hustler) as her disillusioned ex-athlete husband.
Father of the Bride (1950), in which Taylor is the bride and Spencer Tracy (State of the Union) is her harried father in this comic celebration of an American rite (and wrongs) of passage.
Butterfield 8 (1960), which won Taylor won her first Best Actress Academy Award, as she played a call girl whose life comes with a complete set of emotional baggage, courtesy of married lover Laurence Harvey (Romeo and Juliet) and stalwart friend Eddie Fisher (TV’s The Eddie Fisher Show).
The Sandpiper (1965), in which a minister (Taylor’s ex-husband Richard Burton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) is torn between his yearnings for a beautiful free spirit (Taylor) and his love for his wife (Eva Marie Saint, North By Northwest).
The DVD includes these special features:
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof — commentary by biographer/film historian Donald Spoto • featurette “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Playing Cat and Mouse”
Father of the Bride — two newsreels • production notes
Butterfield 8 — notes on Taylor
The Sandpiper — two featurettes: “The Big Sur” and “A Statue for The Sandpiper.”
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