Details

Release year: 1960

Storyline

A beautiful New York model and socialite enjoys a very active night-life, but all things change when she falls for a married man and the consequences are tragic.

Top credits

Directors

Daniel Mann

Writers

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor — Gloria Wandrous
Laurence Harvey — Weston Amsbury Liggett
Eddie Fisher — Steve Carpenter
Dina Merrill — Emily Liggett

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Awards

1 win & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• Dame Elizabeth Taylor and her husband, Mike Todd, had planned for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) to be her final movie, as she intended to retire from the screen. Todd had made a verbal agreement about this with MGM, but after his death, MGM forced Taylor to make this movie in order to fulfill the terms of her studio contract. As a result, Taylor refused to speak to director Daniel Mann for the entire production and hated this movie.

• John O'Hara's 1935 novel is about the death of a call-girl and could not be filmed due to the Production Code. The novel was based on the death of Starr Faithfull, a 25-year-old woman whose body washed up onto the shore of Long Island in 1931 and became a sensation in the New York City press due to her checkered sexual history.

• Before Dame Elizabeth Taylor could start Cleopatra (1963) for a $1 million salary, she was legally bound to finish her MGM contract by doing this movie, which she hated, for her standard $125,000 salary.