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    Butterfield 8

    Butterfield 8

    Presented by The Colonial Theatre

    August 21, 2011


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    This is the film for which Liz Taylor won her first Academy Award, in the role of a high class call girl searching for love, but finding only Lawrence Harvey, as the ultimate heel. Although, at the time, Ms. Taylor didn't like her work in this film, the Academy felt differently.

    Butterfield 8 came out at around the time that Liz was being seen by the public, and her peers, as the “bad guy” for stealing sweet Debbie Reynolds' then-husband, Eddie Fisher, who also has a role in this film. However, this animosity turned to sympathy when Liz caught pneumonia in London, and had to undergo an emergency tracheotomy to save her life, shortly before the Academy Awards. Was the award just a gesture of sympathy, or was it well-earned for her sexy, sensitive performance? See it and decide for yourself. (Bill Roth)

    Directed by Daniel Mann. US. 1960. NR. 109 min. WB. DVD.

     


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        Tickets:

        $8 / $6 / $5

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        August 21, 2011

        Times:

        2:00PM


         

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