Butterfield 8 (DVD)

Product Description Butterfield 8 (DVD)The most desirable woman in town and the easiest to find ... just call BUtterfield 8. Elizabeth Taylor delivers a searing, Academy Award-winning performance as Gloria Wandrous, a model and party girl who lives for pleasure and uses her beauty to get what she wants from men--until she meets wealthy, handsome, married and emotionally cold Weston Liggett (Laurence Harvey). Now, the two are drawn into a stormy relationship that painfully rips away the emotional masks they both use to conceal their desperate insecurity.]]> Amazon.com "I was the slut of all time!" declares Elizabeth Taylor in the role for which she won her first Academy Award®. Taylor plays Gloria, a model of loose morals who discovers a last chance at love and redemption when she spends a week with Weston Ligget (Laurence Harvey), a man who married into money and hates himself for it. They fall in love, but before they can find happiness they have to overcome their own worst natures. BUtterfield 8 (named after Gloria's answering service) is a big boozy melodrama, full of gorgeous clothes, catty comments, and emotional showdowns--but along the way it plumbs some genuine sadness. No one can be simultaneously overblown and utterly sincere like Elizabeth Taylor; the movie is mired in the morality of the time, but her performance makes Gloria's mixture of grief and anger seem immediate and genuine. --Bret Fetzer