Hers was the kind of beauty that leaves many other ‘beautiful’ starlets looking phony.
She was a pretty good actress—her Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was spectacular—but I think she knew her limitations. She didn’t try for roles beyond her ability. I’d say she was an average actress but an amazing star.
OK, we’ve had the ‘wood that doesn’t float’ joke twice on the thread. I have no prob with sick humor, but that joke was lame back then, and it’s really lame now.
“”her Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was spectacular””
That was Liz Taylor - both beautiful women!
Splendor in the Grass is one of her movies that always gets to me. She was beautiful and so vulnerable in that.
It was all over the Isthmus the next morning and still fits!
She always seemed troubled to me - even when she was a little girl.