Because she felt the role was too close to home. Nobody was winning over that fantastic performance, and I love The Apartment. The opening 5 minutes of BUtterfield 8, where Elizabeth says 3 words, are fantastic
If I could be granted a wish to meet a handful of people in this life or the after-life, it would definitely be Shirley and Elizabeth. They gave the world a body of iconic work.
@@nope_no_nunya. Yeah, but it was a showpiece written by Carrie Fisher getting Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor screen time together. Clips of it are on You Tube or you can rent it on Walmart platform "Vudu."
I beg to differ on the movie "These Old Broads" also co-starring Debbie Reynolds. The TV movie was a MESS ! It was badly written by Carrie Fisher containing embarrassingly even worse dialogue ! Not even the combined talents of Liz, Debbie and Shirley could save it !
Debbie Reynolds aged amazingly well!!!! She was so spunky and cute! As wonderful as Elizabeth Taylor is I cannot understand how she could destroyed her best friend's marriage and stole her children's father away? How could she do that and have a conscience? That can't be justified by saying Elizabeth was grieving. That's pretty darn cruel in my book. And it goes against girl code!
Elizabeth Anderson-the circumstances with her death are absolutely nuts. she was cute. and she was a loving mother unlike so many of these vain, egocentric actresses.
She didn't steal him away. She was in the depths of grieving the love of her life, and he was there consoling her. I dont see how she was to blame, clearly he took advantage of her grief. Even Debbie forgave her and held no hard feelings. You should really let it go. It doesn't have anything to do with you.
There was a man I once knew who saw Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in a Toronto Hotel. He couldn't stop looking at her as her eyes were truly violet.......a beautiful woman!
Towards the end of the interview, she mentions how Elizabeth stated that she only ever wanted a simple life and to be a housewife. So did Coco Chanel - and probably countless others in the rich lime light. Shirley laughs it off (only try to read her face while the interviewer asks the question). I believe it's true. Everyone one wants a simple life in the end.
Coco Chanel wanted two things in her life, success and money. She was one of the most ruthless women in the business, who sat out the war with a Nazi officer in the luxury of the Ritz, while Paris, and her fellow Parisians, fell. She only escaped having her head shaven, and being paraded in the town square as a traitor, because of Winston Churchill. And that's the truth. He saved her from the most devastating public humiliation.
@@jochenstossberg5427 I don't know about that, but she did say that all she really wanted was to have a husband that loved her, which was something that evaded her all her life.
shirley is so well spoken and on point,,and i love both actresses and i have to mention ann bancroft bc she came to mind when trampy was said ,,,mrs robinson!!!
Well... one out of three ain't bad, I guess (talent, obviously). She's actually been a real witch throughout her life. But she is, no disputing, a gifted actress (I hate to admit).
I found that Shirley MacLaine's daughter Sachi Parker did write a Mommy Dearest type memoir. She was neglected by MacLaine who had no time for her. Shirley MacLaine Chose Career Over Me, Daughter Sachi Parker ... MacLaine's lookalike daughter, Sachi Parker, talks about her childhood in the book "Lucky Me: My Life With -- and Without -- My Mom, Shirley ...
My heart broke for MacClain's daughter! Careers are nice and wonderful but not when you sacrifice your small little children who are helpless in need A mother's Love and nurturing care!
Us women really must stick together and stick up for one another. The jealousy of all women toward all other women (even within immediate families - mother to daughter, sister to sister) has done nothing to help our cause toward what we all desired for humanity, if we'd just get out of our own way. I think we're finally making progress. 🙏 May God bless us all.
Incredible beauty of hollywood = Elizabeth Taylor. Vivien Leigh. They were hands down the most beautiful actresses. And Whitney Houstan. She was not only incredibly beautiful she could act and sing.
James Sandy She wasn't Liz or Vivien that was they're craft, that was they're realm. BUT she was classy, she had grace, she was elagent, and most of all Mr. Sandy that woman had a GOD given gifted voice and there is NOBODY that was as stunning and could sing as incredibly as Ms. Whitney Houston. So my comment was simply stating those three womem were the best of hollywood. They all were masters at what they did. Sooo yeah.
Don That's interesting. I live in Albuquerque and just watched a video of her interview w Oprah at her home in NM. IT would be interesting to meet her....
Fisher married up with Liz. No excuse for bad judgement. In her life she has given back so much more than people with good judgement. ... My ❤️ life has been so much more fun . Enjoying her beauty her style,her laugh,....... Miss her.......
I love how at the end Shirley referred to "Old Broads" as a piece of crap. I hate movies where older actresses are hired to play older, cartoon versions of their younger images, and usually bawdy broads as though the audience will be shocked by their bawdiness. It's always lame.
Old Hollywood was not as devised in those as it is becoming now, however, the best actors & actress we're the absolute best. The storylines of the scripts were much more interesting. I still enjoy those old movies those where great. Today movies If they can hold your attention they repeat movies because the talent isn't that good. I miss old Hollywood in many ways!!!
I don't know that I would tell such personal things of a friend but at least she didn't speak ill of Elizabeth. I respect that.P.S. I liked Butterfield 8 and Elizabeth did a very good job in it, period.
Yeah, but even Liz herself called the movie a piece of trash ! Everybody knows she won the Oscar for that movie bc she was on her deathbed during Oscar voting and the Academy felt sorry for Liz.
Hard to believe Shirley has a brother named Jack Nicholson. Yes, him. This was a time where actors all had class in and out of the lot. Elizabeth was a wonderful actor, lived a full life and her smile and eyes put you at ease very quickly. Shirley is also a great actor and mines flows from her. She allowed herself to grow and learn and take all of that with her.
Alicia Walker Elizabeth was dead then. Going to funerals or not is for the bereaved to decide, not you. If all the people who were such great friends that they showed up at funerals were as good a friend while people were alive, there would be less guilt and less showing up at funerals for show.
Actually, Sophia Loren was the first celebrity to come out with a perfume. And it was called "Passion". When Elizabeth Taylor came out with her perfume by the same name, they had to call it "Elizabeth Taylor's Passion".
At 10:35, anyone who's seen "Butterfield 8" knows what a trashy role that was for Liz in a trashy movie. Amazing Hollywood will give the Oscar to La Liz just bc she was near death during the voting process. Shirley really deserved it for "The Apartment" that year.
shihlin1 Shirley absoultely did NOT deserve the oscar over Elizabeth Taylor. Sure, the film was out there, but Elizabeth gave a fantastic performance in it. The first 5 minutes alone where she's wondering around the apartment are fantastic.
shihlin1 Shirley was great in the apartment, which was a classier movie all told. But B8 for all its schlockiness is an enjoyable movie and Elizabeth is great in it. In some ways it looks more truthful now with hindsight than it did at the time (compared it with the wonderful Breakfast at Tiffany’s, where the call girl is so sanitised as to be barely recognisable as such). Gloria resisting Laurence Harvey’s grip on her arm and grinding her heel into his toe gives some insight into the violent undercurrent if such girls lives, and the proce paid fir seemingly glamorous and carefree lives
Shirley mentioned in the clips that they met when she was 20-21 and Liz was 22-23, which would be about 1954-55. Shirley talks about introducing Liz to Mike Todd while making "Around the World in 80 Days", which came out in 1956. Both "The Apartment" and "Butterfield 8" came out in 1960.
So what? It doesn't mean anything, it's just worldly bullshit! Friends are more valuable. It's just someone's judgement anyway on who is the best. I don't think Marilyn won any Oscar's, but who cares. She was the best and funniest, warmest sweeest
I beg to differ on the movie "These Old Broads" also co-starring Debbie Reynolds. The TV movie was a MESS ! It was badly written by Carrie Fisher containing embarrassingly even worse dialogue ! Not even the combined talents of Liz, Debbie and Shirley could save it !
shihlin1 I do see your point, but this was meant to be campy, not serious. Like Shirley Said “She loves to make fun of herself” That’s it. That’s the way Carrie wrote it. Those old broads were camping it up. It’s not dramatic or a melodrama, it was a joke on Their lives.
Its a shame isn't it ? They all get a bit emotional when they realise the good times and the looks are finished. And they've been such bitches even their own immediate families hate them.
They all slept their way to the top,,, and good luck to them,,, doesn't make you happy though... But then again they may not have much choice if they wanted to be FAMOUS..
Shut up Karen. No use in barking up women much more beautiful and talented then you could ever dream to be. You'll be just as fat, ugly and mean at the end...
They were screen actresses. Playing a role and mimicking the words of the writers. In real life they were a mess. It's time to stop idolizing them as white goddesses.....
It's difficult to know who's being celebrated here - Shirley MacLaine celebrating herself - or Elizabeth Taylor. If you didn't know the context, you could be forgiven for thinking that you were watching a film with Ms MacLaine in it. Her performance here is exactly like any one of her performances in movies. Breathtakingly phony. This is embarrassing.
Shirley MacLaine, another narcissistic bad Hollywood mother. Her neglect of her daughter was disgusting. Although I will always look at distaste on Elizabeth for what she did to Debbie Reynolds, at the same time I feel she was more childish than narcissistic, and didn't know any better. I can't say the same for Shirley's conduct.
Messylin Lets not judge people whom we don't even know personally.. Why are you spewing venom against almost every Hollywood actress on a lot of videos?? Why so miserable??
Robert Lee, Countertenor I agree, except that we can't judge if they have been horrible or not in their personal life. Also, they are human and imperfect just like us. Most of us don't like anybody judging us, but are quick to judge others.
HOW the hell do you know her life?! ALL GOOD, WORKING parents make sacrafices for/ at the expense of their children! Hepburn said it best, "YOU CANNOT HAVE IT ALL!" MOTHERS and some dads make choices EVERY day regarding work and/or children,such as, "Do I go to work to be able to pay bills? OR, Do I stay home because my child has a stomach ache?" Maybe you have no kids.
Messylin So that makes her a bad mother?? This is how you judge motherhood?? Do you know them personally to know the real reason why she send her daughter to Japan or how do you know her daughter was "by herself" on that plane to Japan?? I am baffled by the way you judge other mothers.. Like the above commenter asked you, do you have kids of your own??
