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4 November 1960 (USA) moreTagline:
...the best-seller that tells Gloria's story...from first man to last! morePlot:
The romantic life of a fashionable Manhattan beauty who's part model, part call-girl--and all man-trap. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
Won Oscar. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Hitchcock Screenwriter John Michael Hayes Dead At Age 89 (From CinemaRetro. 26 November 2008, 2:23 PM, PST)
Hitchcock Screenwriter Hayes Dies
(From WENN. 25 November 2008, 8:12 AM, PST)
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Pseudo-shocking doings in the bedroom moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Elizabeth Taylor | ... | Gloria Wandrous | |
| Laurence Harvey | ... | Weston Liggett | |
| Eddie Fisher | ... | Steve Carpenter | |
| Dina Merrill | ... | Emily Liggett | |
| Mildred Dunnock | ... | Mrs. Wandrous | |
| Betty Field | ... | Mrs. Fanny Thurber | |
| Jeffrey Lynn | ... | Bingham Smith | |
| Kay Medford | ... | Happy | |
| Susan Oliver | ... | Norma | |
| George Voskovec | ... | Dr. Tredman |
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109 minCountry:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)Certification:
Australia:PG | UK:15 (1994) | UK:X (1960) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:16 (w) | Canada:PG (Ontario)Fun Stuff
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Gloria's car was a Sunbeam Alpine moreGoofs:
Continuity: In the scene where Legget is Trap Shooting with his wife Emily, it is evident that she is unfamiliar with loading a shotgun. Emily can be seen loading another shotgun shell into the chamber of a Remmington shot gun with the brass forward, opposite the way a shotgun shell is loaded. In simple terms, backwards. moreQuotes:
Gloria Wandrous: I spent the night with Steve's girlfriend, Norma.Mrs. Wandrous: Ah, isn't that nice! She knows a boy whose girlfriend is that unselfish!
Mrs. Fanny Thurber: That's a girl who won't have a girlfriend long.
Gloria Wandrous: A compliment from you, Mrs. Thurber?
Mrs. Fanny Thurber: I must have said it wrong!
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Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Buck Henry/The Grateful Dead (#4.5)" (1978) moreFAQ
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Call girl Elizabeth Taylor (playing Gloria Wandrous-!!) pines for love in this glossy, empty claptrap from John O'Hara's flimsy novel. Lots of bitchy banter, a neon-lit love clinch, but no real characters and not much interest beyond the rather tacky glamor. The movie does begin well, with an elongated opening set-up featuring Liz leaving a married man's apartment, taking a mink and scrawling a missive on the mirror. But the film is so poky and lethargic, and Taylor looks so sleepy, that one waits in vain for the director to shake off the cobwebs. Even sleepier is Eddie Fisher, in a confusingly written role as Liz's...what? guy-pal? For those who stick with it, the ending has to be seen to be believed. Taylor surely didn't buy it, not even when she won the Best Actress Oscar (everyone knew it was because she had been so sick). *1/2 from ****