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Contents 1 Fair use rationale for Image:Butterfield8 movieposter.jpg 2 Film 3 Elizabeth Taylor 4 Synopsis has been cleaned up

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Butterfield8 movieposter.jpg

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[edit] Film

Should the film really be the main page? John O'Hara was an author of some literary merit and renown.--Dan Moore 20:22, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Of course, someone should actually read the book before writing it up. Almost every discussion of the movie, including this one, claims that the character in the novel is a call girl. Maybe they get that from the telephone-exchange title. There's not a word of truth to it. The character in the novel is a party girl who goes from man to man, but shows no interest in making money from them; she's living comfortably at home with her mother and fairly well-to-do uncle. She was an art student and occasional artist's model before going into full-time drinking and screwing. But she's not a pro. (She is said to have been based on a real girl whose drowning death was a nine-day's-wonder in 1931. That person may have been a prostitute, and another source of the confusion here.) 66.241.74.66 09:48, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Elizabeth Taylor

The comment mentioning that Elizabeth Taylor "hated" this movie is a little misleading for two reasons: first, it comes from a citation by Eddie Fisher, who has less credibility when it comes to Liz Taylor than many others, particularly since writing a salacious, questioned and questionable "tell-all" about Taylor recently. Hearsay is hearsay.

Secondly, it is closer to true to say that she hated the circumstances surrounding the movie, since the studio forced her to do it as a way to capitalize on the public's perception that she broke up Fisher and Reynold's marriage, even casting the sub-par actor Fisher in that supporting role as her life-long "friend." Since Liz has gone on record saying she's never seen the movie, and she won the Oscar for it, I don't know if Liz free from the clutches of Fisher's questionable influence would say she "hated" the film exactly as Fisher claims.

Many people/critics felt Fisher was in way over his head performing with the otherwise stellar cast, and may have poisoned her mind against it, if not poisoned his pen to claim she "hated" it. At any rate, her performance is just too good to say she hated the film. She can hardly have been accused of phoning it in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cbaker3122 (talk • contribs) 11:29, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Synopsis has been cleaned up

Synopsis has been cleaned up to match the movie. Too many errors and things inconsistent with the movie were in it. Softlavender (talk) 08:51, 2 June 2008 (UTC)