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1. The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
directed by Franco Zeffirelli
featuring Alfred Lynch, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael York, Vernon Dobtcheff, Michael Hordern, Natasha Pyne, Victor Spinetti
Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a zesty version of the classic comedy, highlighted by performances ... More
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2. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
directed by Richard Brooks
featuring Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson, Madeleine Sherwood
This dynamic and commanding adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on a troubled Southern family and the discord over ... More
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3. Cleopatra (1963)
directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, Roddy McDowall, George Cole, Martin Landau
In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of ... More
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4. Giant (1956)
directed by George Stevens
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Mercedes McCambridge, Jane Withers
George Stevens' sprawling adaptation of Edna Ferber's best-selling novel successfully walks a fine line between potboiler and serious drama for its ... More
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5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
directed by Mike Nichols
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
"You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games." Thus read the ad copy for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which ... More
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6. A Place in the Sun (1951)
directed by George Stevens
featuring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Keefe Brasselle, Fred Clark
Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George ... More
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7. Ivanhoe (1952)
directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams
Produced by MGM's British facilities, the Technicolor Ivanhoe starred Robert Taylor in the title role. Returning to England from the Third Crusades, ... More
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8. Father of the Bride (1950)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Don Taylor, Billie Burke
Spencer Tracy received an Oscar nomination for his performance in this classic comedy. Stanley T. Banks (Tracy) is a securely middle-class lawyer ... More
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9. National Velvet (1944)
directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury
Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to Mickey Rooney in the ... More
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10. That's Entertainment! (1974)
directed by Jack Haley, Jr.
featuring Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Donald O'Connor, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli, James Stewart, Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, Peter Lawford
It's ironic that MGM, in such dire financial straits in 1974 that it was selling its fabled back lot and auctioning off artifacts from past movie ... More
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11. Little Women (1949)
directed by Mervyn LeRoy
featuring June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh
Of the many film versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this 1949 MGM adaptation is by far the prettiest. Set in New England during the Civil ... More
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12. These Old Broads (2001)
directed by Matthew Diamond
featuring Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Jonathan Silverman
Four of Tinseltown's greatest glamour queens came together for this tartly comic made-for-TV movie which pokes gentle (and not so gentle) fun at ... More
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13. Night Watch (1973)
directed by Brian G. Hutton
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw, Robert Lang, Tony Britton
Night Watch a suspenseful, under-rated thriller tells the story of a lonely, unhappily married woman who believes that she sees a murder committed in ... More
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14. A Little Night Music (1977)
directed by Harold Prince
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, Lesley-Anne Down
Beginning its several incarnations as an Ingmar Bergman film named Smiles of a Summer Night, the story was adapted by composer/lyricist Stephen ... More
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15. The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
directed by Guy Hamilton
featuring Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin
Angela Lansbury takes over the legacy of Margaret Rutherford as Agatha Christie's dogged sleuth Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd. The story takes ... More
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16. A Date with Judy (1948)
directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Leon Ames, Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Carmen Miranda, George Cleveland, Lloyd Corrigan, Robert Stack, Scotty Beckett
In this lightweight musical comedy, Judy Foster (Jane Powell) and Carol Pringle (Elizabeth Taylor) are teenagers and best friends who find their ... More
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17. Life With Father (1947)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring William Powell, Irene Dunne, Monte Blue, ZaSu Pitts, Clara Blandick, Johnny Calkins, Emma Dunn, Edmund Gwenn, Elizabeth Taylor
The longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history, Life With Father was faithfully filmed by Warner Bros. in 1947. William Powell is a tower ... More
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18. Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)
directed by Nicolas Roeg
featuring Cheryl Paris, Elizabeth Taylor, Mark Harmon
Previously filmed in 1962 with Geraldine Page and Paul Newman in the leads, Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth was restaged for television in ... More
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19. Julia Misbehaves (1948)
directed by Jack Conway
featuring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Cesar Romero
After suffering nobly in several heavyweight MGM dramas, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon begged the studio to cast them together in a comedy. Though ... More
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20. Under Milk Wood (1971)
directed by Andrew Sinclair
featuring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole, Glynis Johns, Vivien Merchant
This film is a faithful rendition of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' last major poem, Under Milk Wood. It affectionately examines the day-to-day life of the ... More
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21. The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
directed by Richard Brooks
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor
Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Paradise Revisited, MGM's The Last Time I Saw Paris is a star-studded soap opera, luxuriously lensed by ... More
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22. The Sandpiper (1965)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Bronson, Robert Webber
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton -- then Hollywood's most bankable couple -- appeared onscreen together for the third time in this romantic drama ... More
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23. Raintree County (1957)
directed by Edward Dmytryk
featuring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin
Conceived as a Gone With the Wind for the CinemaScope generation, Raintree County wasn't quite as successful as its role model, but it still proved a ... More
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24. Doctor Faustus (1968)
directed by Nevill Coghill, Richard Burton
featuring Hugh Williams, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Andreas Teuber, Ian Marter, Elizabeth O'Donovan
Richard Burton co-directed (along with Nevill Coghill) this labor of love that records a performance given by Burton at Oxford University in 1966 of ... More
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25. Rhapsody (1954)
directed by Charles Vidor
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Michael Chekhov
Rhapsody is high-gloss soap opera in the grand MGM manner. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Louise Durant, the beautiful but spoiled daughter of millionaire ... More
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