Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols in his directorial debut. Ernest Lehman's screenplay is based on Edward Albee's 1962 play of the same name. The film follows a bitter middle-aged couple, her dismissive of his inferior status at a New England college, invite a new colleague and his wife over for drinks, and use them to fuel anguish and emotional suffering against one other over the span of a turbulent night.

The film was nominated for 13 Academy Awards and won five, including acting awards for Taylor (lead) and Dennis (supporting) (supporting). It is one of just two films to be nominated for an Academy Award in every category (the other is Cimarron). The first time a film's complete credited cast was nominated, all four lead actors were nominated in their respective acting categories. The film won five Academy Awards, including a second Best Actress Oscar for Taylor and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Dennis

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Directed by: Mike Nichols

Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis

Release date: June 21, 1966
Running time: 132 minutes

Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film directed by George Stevens, based on a screenplay by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat adapted from Edna Ferber's novel of the same name. Giant was James Dean's final film as the main actor, and it earned him his second and final Academy Award nomination; he died in a car accident just before the film's release.

The film stars Rock Hudson as a Texas cattle rancher who travels to Maryland to buy a horse and returns with a wife (Taylor). Dean plays a ranch worker who falls in love with the employer's wife before striking oil, igniting a decades-long feud between him and his master. The film unveils America's discriminatory heritage in its portrayal of the Mexican immigrants who help the ranch thrive while living in filth, all seen through Taylor's eyes, while also portraying familial struggle across two generations. "Giant" was a huge smash, earning Stevens ten Oscar nominations and winning Best Director.

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Directed by: George Stevens
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker
Release dates: October 10, 1956 (New York City)/November 24, 1956 (United States)
Running time: 197 minutes

A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American drama film based on Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel An American Tragedy and the 1926 play of the same name. The film received critical and commercial success, winning six Academy Awards and the first-ever Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.

George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the nephew of a wealthy industrialist, is cast out of high society and given blue-collar employment in his uncle's factory in this famous adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy." George falls in love with coworker Alice Tripp as he climbs through the ranks of the company (Shelley Winters). When he meets socialite Angela Vickers (Elizabeth Taylor), he immediately falls in love with her, leading in a sad love triangle.

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Directed by: George Stevens

Starring: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters

Release dates: April 5, 1951 (Cannes Film Festival)/August 14, 1951 (Los Angeles)
Running time: 122 minutes

Richard Brooks directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a 1958 American drama film. It is based on Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of the same name, which was adapted by Richard Brooks and James Poe in 1955. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was MGM's most successful movie of 1958, and it became the year's third highest-grossing film.

"Big Daddy" Pollitt's (Burl Ives) family gathers at his and Big Momma's (Dame Judith Anderson's) home. Brick (Paul Newman), an alcoholic son and ex-football star are among the guests, spending his time drinking and avoiding the attention of his libidinous wife, Maggie (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) - "the cat." Because this gathering is more like a goodbye (Big Daddy is terminally sick), a lot of memories and truths that had been hidden come to the surface of both father and son surface.

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Directed by: Richard Brooks

Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Judith Anderson

Release date: August 27, 1958 (US)
Running time: 108 minutes

Father of the Bride is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli. It was adapted by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett from Edward Streeter's 1949 novel. Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Picture, and Best Writing, Screenplay were all nominated for Academy Awards for Father of the Bride.

When Kay Banks (Elizabeth Taylor) announces her engagement to Buckley Dunstan (Don Taylor), her adoring middle-class father, Stan (Spencer Tracy), is faced with many obstacles. The financial and personal concerns that might emerge from an imminent wedding, with one catastrophe after another making the occasion appear overwhelming. But there's also a lot of heart-warming, especially in Tracy and Taylor's fragile relationship, which is able to navigate the emotional minefields of this life-changing event with ease.

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Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Don Taylor
Release dates: May 18, 1950 (New York)/June 16, 1950 (USA)
Running time: 92 minutes

Clarence Brown directed National Velvet, a 1944 American Technicolor sports film based on Enid Bagnold's 1935 novel of the same name. The Library of Congress chose National Velvet for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 2003, noting it as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

Taylor's long career began when she was still a kid in the early 1940s, and her first leading part was with this sweet-natured family favorite when she was just 12-years-old. In the film "National Velvet," she plays a young English girl who teams up with an ex-jockey (Mickey Rooney) to train an "unbreakable" horse for the Grand National Sweepstakes. Even though it is aimed at children, the film has enough grit and drama to hold the attention of their parents as well.

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Directed by: Clarence Brown
Starring: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Revere
Release dates: December 14, 1944 (New York City)/January 26, 1945 (United States)
Running time: 123 minutes

Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with a screenplay by Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall, and Sidney Buchman. On June 12, 1963, Cleopatra debuted at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. It received generally positive reviews from critics and went on to become the highest-grossing film of 1963, grossing $57.7 million in the United States and Canada and ranking as one of the top-grossing films of the decade globally.

Cleopatra is a long, sprawling, beautiful love story about Cleopatra's ill-fated attempt to restore the Egyptian empire by manipulating Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. This three is a part of one of the most well-known and stunningly strong love triangles ever shot on film. By the time Cleopatra eventually hit movie screens, it had already made a name for itself: major budget overruns, director firings and rehirings, and a scandalous romance between Taylor and leading man Richard Burton had dominated the media before the film had ever been released.

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Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown
Release date: June 12, 1963
Running time: 251 minutes

That's Entertainment! is a 1974 American compilation film made to commemorate Metro-Goldwyn-50th Mayer's anniversary. The retrospective's popularity spawned a 1976 sequel, a 1985 film called That's Dancing!, and the third episode in 1994.

That's Entertainment! is the final major film to be made on MGM's world-famous Hollywood backlot, and it's a star-studded trip down memory lane. The film features newly recorded footage hosted by a variety of familiar faces, including MGM favorites Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Clark Gable, and Liza Minnelli, as well as more than 100 classic segments compiled from dozens of MGM's most popular song-and-dance numbers.

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Directed by: Jack Haley Jr.

Starring: Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly

Release date: May 17, 1974 (Los Angeles)
Running time: 134 minutes

Jane Eyre is a 1943 American film version of Charlotte Bront's 1847 novel of the same name, produced by 20th Century Fox and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Taylor plays Helen Burns in one of the first adaptations of Charlotte Bronte's iconic novel Jane Eyre, even though she was uncredited at the time of its release.

The story recounts the trials and tribulations of Jane Eyre, a young English lady (Joan Fontaine). Jane is orphaned and raised in an abusive environment before becoming a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with Edward Rochester, the estate's elder nobleman owner (Orson Welles). However, a series of dramatic and sad occurrences stand in the way of Jane and Edward's romance, and their love may not survive.

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Directed by: Robert Stevenson

Starring: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine

Release dates: December 24, 1943 (UK)/February 4, 1944 (US)
Running time: 97 minutes

Lassie Come Home is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor feature film starring Roddy McDowall and canine actor Pal in a story about Joe Carraclough, a Yorkshire youngster, and his rough collie, Lassie.

Due to financial constraints, the parents of little Joe Carraclough (Roddy McDowall) sell his beloved dog, Lassie, to the Duke of Rudling in a tiny Yorkshire village during the Great Depression (Nigel Bruce). After the duke brings the collie to his Scottish estate, his granddaughter (Elizabeth Taylor) notices that the dog is missing her previous owner and lets her go. The faithful dog starts off on her long trip to rejoin her loving family, facing great dangers and small kindnesses along the way.

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Directed by: Fred M. Wilcox
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn
Release date: October 7, 1943
Running time: 89minutes