BB
(out of 5)
Even Elizabeth Taylor insisted that it was her life-threatening illness and emergency tracheotomy that inspired the Academy to award her a Best Actress Oscar for this mundane film. She plays a high-class call girl who falls in love with swanky Laurence Harvey. It should work out for them both, but naturally it can’t because she’s too much of a party girl. Taylor isn’t bad in the role, it’s more that the screenplay is too bland to really accommodate her fiery personality. It also couldn’t have helped her confidence much to win a pity Oscar after years of great, award-worthy performances.
USA, 1960
Directed by Daniel Mann
Screenplay by Charles Schnee, John Michael Hayes, based on the novel by John O’Hara
Cinematography by Charles Harten, Joseph Ruttenberg
Produced by Pandro S. Berman
Music by Bronislau Kaper
Production Design by George W. Davis, Urie McCleary
Costume Design by Helen Rose
Film Editing by Ralph E. Winters
Golden Globe Awards 1960
