Dame Elizabeth Taylor's husband at time, Richard Burton, thought this movie was horrible and damaging to his wife's career, according to letters released for auction in 2004. "I sit here vulgarized by the idea that my wife is doing; violently against my 'taste'; a f - - - lousy nothing bloody film", he wrote in a 1973 letter to two employees. He continued "(Taylor's) singular acceptance of this film is because she wants to remain a famous film star. What the stupid (occasionally) maniac doesn't realize is that she is already immortalized (as a film person) forever."
Contains footage from actual facelift operations, which repulsed many viewers when it was originally released.
Dame Elizabeth Taylor was only about seven years older than Margaret Blye, who played her 30-year-old daughter (although Taylor was playing a character in her fifties who underwent plastic surgery to make her appear 40, so their real-life age difference was intentional and held no irony).
Elizabeth Taylor and Dino Mele (the young man who got in a car accident) appeared in The Driver's Seat (1974).
Elizabeth Taylor and Keith Baxter knew each other from the initial Pinewood Studios shoot of Cleopatra (1963) (though none of the footage from this was ultimately used).
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