I Saw: 5 Best Elizabeth Taylor Films

Because She, as Richard Burton would put it, is also short of leg, hippy, and large-bosomed like the late and great Dame Elizabeth.

1. Giant (1956)

An sprawling epic as big as the state it’s set in, Giant features not only James Dean’s last film performance (a great one) but Elizabeth Taylor giving her rancher’s wife the balls to stand up to any man she comes across.

2. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

The most terrifying marriage to ever be put on screen. Paired with two-time real life husband Richard Burton, Taylor seethes as one half of functioning dysfunction in this Oscar-winning role. 3. Father of the Bride (1950)

I love Steve Martin and Martin Short (Franck!) as much as the next person but for the perfect, charming, eyelash-batting daughter, you have to go to the original and Taylor’s chemistry with the curmudgeonly Spencer Tracy. 4. Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Her other Tennesse Williams-penned (well, based), Oscar-nominated role. Her character goes through a hellish series of things that can only be equated to a real life house of mirrors and Taylor holds her against the queen of all things acting, Katharine Hepburn. 5. A Place in the Sun (1951)

Her first real adult role and she shines in this tragedy opposite Montgomery Clift, in the truest sense of the word.

Bonus! Cleopatra (1963)

For the many styles sported and not sported in this film.