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BUtterfield 8 is a american film of genre Drama directed by Daniel Mann released in USA on 4 november 1960 with Elizabeth Taylor
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
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Add to a movie listBUtterfield 8 is a 1960 Metrocolor drama film in CinemaScope directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey. Taylor, then 28 years old, won her first Academy Award for her performance in a leading role. The film was based on a 1934 novel written by John O'Hara in the wake of the success of his critically acclaimed Appointment in Samarra.
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Gloria Wandrous (Elizabeth Taylor) wakes up in the apartment of wealthy executive Weston Liggett (Laurence Harvey) and finds that he has left her $250. Insulted, Gloria, whose dress is torn, takes Liggett's wife Emily's (Dina Merrill) mink coat to cover herself and scrawls "No Sale" in lipstick on the mirror. But she orders her telephone answering service, BUtterfield 8, to put Liggett through if he should call.Actors
Elizabeth Taylor
(Gloria Wandrous)
Laurence Harvey
(Weston Liggett)
Eddie Fisher
(Steve Carpenter)
Dina Merrill
(Emily Liggett)
Mildred Dunnock
(Mrs. Wandrous)
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