Class Move by TCM: Network to Air 24-Hour Elizabeth Taylor Marathon on April 10th
by Andy Neuenschwander
We lost a true Hollywood legend in Elizabeth Taylor today. She was the complete celebrity package: she was irresistible to the media and the public, and remained a talented and accomplished actress.
If you missed out on Taylor's long and successful career, Turner Classic Movies has you covered: TCM will be honoring Taylor by airing a 24-hour marathon of her movies on April 10th.
The marathon will include a variety of different types of performances from Taylor, including family films like "Lassie Come Home" and much more dramatic adult fare like "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." If you haven't seen that last one, you must tune in: you haven't seen a beautiful on-screen couple until you've seen Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in the same room.
The marathon will also include both of Taylor's Oscar-winning performances in "Butterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woof?" Sadly, though, "Cleopatra" won't be airing, and neither will Taylor's Shakespeare adaptation "Taming of the Shrew."
Here's the full schedule for the marathon, courtesy of Hollywood Reporter:
6 a.m. – Lassie Come Home (1943), with Roddy McDowall and Edmund Gwenn; directed by Fred M. Wilcox.
7:30 a.m. – National Velvet (1944), with Mickey Rooney, Anne Revere and Angela Lansbury; directed by Clarence Brown.
10 a.m. – Conspirator (1952), with Robert Taylor and Robert Flemyng; directed by Victor Saville.
11:30 a.m. – Father of the Bride (1950), with Spencer Tracy, Billie Burke, Joan Bennett and Don Taylor; directed by Vincente Minnelli.
1:15 p.m. – Father’s Little Dividend (1951), with Spencer Tracy, Billie Burke, Joan Bennett and Don Taylor; directed by Vincente Minnelli.
2:45 p.m. – Raintree County (1957), with Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor and Agnes Moorehead; directed by Edward Dmytryk.
6 p.m. – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), with Paul Newman and Burl Ives; directed by Richard Brooks.
8 p.m. – Butterfield 8 (1960), with Laurence Harvey and Eddie Fisher; directed by Daniel Mann.
10 p.m. – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), with Richard Burton, George Segal and Sandy Dennis; directed by Mike Nichols.
12:30 a.m. – Giant (1956), with James Dean and Rock Hudson; directed by George Stevens.
4 a.m. – Ivanhoe (1952), with Robert Taylor and Joan Fontaine; directed by Richard Thorpe.