Elizabeth Taylor

"On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey moves to the Claremont Hotel in South Kensington. "If it's not nice, I needn't stay," she promises herself, as she settles into this haven for the genteel and the decayed. "Three elderly widows and one old man who seemed to dislike female company and seldom got any other kind" serve for her fellow residents, and there is the staff, too, and they are one and all lonely. What...

Elizabeth Taylor is finally beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the best English writers of the postwar period, prized and praised by Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel, among others. Inheriting Ivy Compton-Burnett’s uncanny sensitivity to the terrifying undercurrents that swirl beneath the apparent calm of respectable family life while showing a deep sympathy of her own for human loneliness, Taylor depicted dislocation with the...

Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited", The Last Time I Saw Paris tells the story of American Charles Wills (Van Johnson) who returns to Paris and reminisces about his life there after its liberation following WWII. It was then he met Marion (Donna Reid) and also Helen (Elizabeth Taylor), whom he married. Following a tragedy, Charles left Paris but now back, does not know what the future may hold. Director Richard Brooks went on...

For more than 60 years, Elizabeth Taylor's dazzling beauty and scandalous life captured our fascination, provoked our envy, teased our curiosity and, at times aroused our pity. She was American royalty and the undisputed queen of the tabloids. See her life unfold from her first film through her last marriage and hear her thoughts on being a star, marriage and being what Hollywood tried to make her.

Angel Deverell fantasizes about living in the town mansion, Paradise House. After a London publisher turns her novel into a best seller, she is able to buy Paradise House and pursue the man of her dreams, a painter struggling for his own big break.

Mrs. Palfrey, an elegant, genteel widow, came from Scotland to London to take up residence at the Claremont Hotel. Though she had high hopes for the cosmopolitan pleasures of living in a big city, she is soon filled with a sense of uneasiness and gloom.

Describes the selection and training of astronauts.