Butterfield 8

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Daniel Mann seated on film equipment next to Elizabeth Taylor, who is standing and smiling, on the set of Butterfield 8, with a city street and crew members in the background.

Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8

Butterfield 8

film by Mann [1960]

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Daniel Mann
Mann then helmed Butterfield 8 (1960), which won Elizabeth Taylor her first Academy Award, for her portrayal of a New York call girl. Despite her performance, the melodrama, a bowdlerized version of the John O’Hara novel, was widely dismissed by critics. It was a box-office success, however, partly…
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Mann then helmed Butterfield 8 (1960), which won Elizabeth Taylor her first Academy Award, for her portrayal of a New York call girl. Despite her performance, the melodrama, a bowdlerized version of the John O’Hara novel, was widely dismissed by critics. It was a box-office success, however, partly…
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Elizabeth Taylor
Oscars and films with Richard Burton
…New York call girl in Butterfield 8 (1960), though she publicly expressed her dislike of the film. She met and fell in love with the British actor Richard Burton while they were filming Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Cleopatra (1963). Both were still married at the time, and their affair became a…
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…New York call girl in Butterfield 8 (1960), though she publicly expressed her dislike of the film. She met and fell in love with the British actor Richard Burton while they were filming Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Cleopatra (1963). Both were still married at the time, and their affair became a…
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