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Emma Watson as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire || credits: Warner Bros Pictures

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Still, the glossy 1944 MGM version remains the best-known telling of the tale, with the title an apparent reference to the flickering Victorian lamps that are part of Gregory's (Charles Boyer) scheme to make wife Paula (Bergman) think she's seeing things that aren't there, thus deliberately undermining her sanity in order to have her institutionalized so that he'll be free to ransack the ancestral home to find the missing family jewels.

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24-Hour Tribute to Include Taylor.s Academy Award®-Winning Performances in Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who.s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966), Plus Memorable Roles in Nine Films

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will remember the life and career of two-time Academy Award®-winning actress and beloved humanitarian Elizabeth Taylor on Sunday, April 10. Ms. Taylor died at the age of 79 at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Hospital on March 23, 2011. The 24-hour memorial tribute, which is set to begin at 6 a.m. (Et/Pt), will include both of Taylor.s Oscar®-winning performances, with Butterfield 8 (1960) at 8 p.m. (Et) and Who.s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) at 10 p.m. (Et).

TCM.s tribute will also feature Taylor in such memorable films as the family classics Lassie Come Home (1943) and National Velvet (1944); the delightful comedies Father of the Bride (1950) and Father.s Little Dividend (1951); the historical epic Ivanhoe (1952); and the powerful dramas Giant (1956), Raintree County (1957) and...

Child actor who became a Hollywood film star known for her dazzling beauty and her eight marriages

The film star Elizabeth Taylor, who has died of heart failure aged 79, was in the public eye from the age of 11 and remained there even decades after her last hit movie. She managed to keep people fascinated, by her incandescent beauty, her courage, her open-natured character, her self-deprecating humour, her eight marriages (two of them to the actor Richard Burton), her many brushes with death, her seesawing weight, her diamonds and her humanitarian causes, all of which often obscured the reason why she was famous in the first place – she had a tantalising screen presence, in films including A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Butterfield 8 (1961), Cleopatra (1963) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).

Taylor was born in Hampstead, north London, of American parents. Her mother, Sara, was...

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has planned a special tribute for Elizabeth Taylor who just died on March 23. The network will air 24-hour movie memorial movie marathon which is set to begin on Sunday, April 10 at 6 A.M. with her 1943 movie "Lassie Come Home".

"Butterfield 8" (1960) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), which landed Oscar kudos for Taylor, will also be aired at 8 P.M. and 10 P.M. respectively. The special tribute will also feature the 79-year-old actress in spy drama "Conspirator" (1949) which marked her first adult role.

Other films included in the line-up are "Lassie Come Home" (1943), "National Velvet" (1944), "Father of the Bride" (1950), "Father's Little Dividend" (1951), historical epic "Ivanhoe" (1952), "Giant" (1956), "Raintree County" (1957), and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958).

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Elizabeth Taylor special, marathon set

TV will be filled with Elizabeth Taylor memories and tributes over the next few days.

The Biography Channel and TCM are the first to announce special programs.

Bio Remembers: Elizabeth Taylor is scheduled for Thursday from 8-10 p.m.

TCM will air a 24-hour Liz Taylor film marathon starting at 6 a.m. Sunday with Lassie Come Home.

National Velvet follows at 7:30 a.m.

Conspirator is next at 10 a.m.

Father of the Bride is set for 11:30 a.m.

Father’s Little Dividend rolls at 1:15 p.m.

Raintree County starts at 2:45 p.m.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof goes at 6 p.

Earlier today screen legend Elizabeth Taylor passed away due to congestive heart failure. She was 79. People deal with death in different ways. If you’re one of those people who needs to wallow in good memories afterward, or it you are just woefully undereducated when it comes to the career of the late actress, then TCM is putting on a marathon of Taylor movies that should be essential viewing. The marathon will begin April 10th, starting at 6 am Et, and it is set to run for a full 24 hours. Over the course of the marathon many of Taylor’s best remembered performances will be aired, including the two that won her Oscar statues, her sexy portrayal of femme fatale Gloria Wandrous in BUtterfield 8, and her tortured performance as Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The marathon in tribute of the great actress will run as follows: 6:00 a.m...

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will remember the life and career of two-time Academy Award-winning actress and beloved humanitarian Elizabeth Taylor on Sunday, April 10. The 24-hour memorial tribute, which is set to begin at 6 Am (Et/Pt), will include both of Taylor's Oscar-winning performances, with Butterfield 8 (1960) at 8 Pm (Et) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) at 10 Pm (Et).

TCM's tribute will also feature Taylor in such memorable films as the family classics Lassie Come Home (1943) and National Velvet (1944); the delightful comedies Father of the Bride (1950) and Father's Little Dividend (1951); the historical epic Ivanhoe (1952); and the powerful dramas Giant (1956), Raintree County (1957) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). Also included is the spy drama Conspirator (1949), with Taylor in her first adult role.

The following is a complete schedule of TCM's April 10 memorial tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (all times Eastern):

6 Am - Lassie Come Home (1943), with Roddy McDowall and Edmund Gwenn; directed by Fred M. Wilcox.

Late Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor's life will be celebrated as part of a 24-hour movie marathon on TV in America on 10 April.

Bosses at the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) network have scrapped all programming and will run back-to-back Taylor films instead - to honour the passing of the two-time Oscar winner.

The tribute will begin with a showing of Butterfield 8 at 6am (Et) and feature screenings of classics like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Giant, Lassie Come Home, National Velvet and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

The network will also air the 1949 spy drama Conspirator, which features Taylor in her first adult role.

In addition to TCM's on-air tribute to Taylor, the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood will feature a special 60th anniversary screening of her performance opposite Montgomery Clift in George Stevens' A Place in the Sun (1951). The TCM Classic Film Festival takes place from 28 April to 1 May.

Taylor died of congestive heart failure on Wednesday morning.

Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to Elizabeth Taylor with 24 hours of some of her best films on Sunday, April 10.

TCM will air 11 of Taylor's movies, including the two for which she won Oscars, "Butterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," along with some of her breakout early roles ("Lassie Come Home" and "National Velvet"), the classic "Giant" and her first adult role in the 1949 spy thriller "Conspirator."

Here's the full schedule (all times Eastern):

6 a.m. "Lassie Come Home" (1943)

7:30 a.m. "National Velvet" (1944)

10 a.m. "Conspirator" (1949)

11:30 a.m. "Father of the Bride" (1950)

1:15 p.m. "Father's Little Dividend" (1951)

2:45 p.m. "Raintree County" (1957)

6 p.m. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958)

8 p.m. "Butterfield 8" (1960)

10 p.m. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966)

12:30 a.m. "Giant" (1956)

4 a.m. "Ivanhoe" (1952)...

I’m sure we’ve all heard the sad news by now… I stumbled upon this 2007 Turner Classic Movies (TCM) video tribute to Elizabeth Taylor, narrated by none other than Paul Newman, who also passed away in recent years.

And by the way, TCM will remember the life and career of the two-time Academy Award-winning actress on Sunday, April 10, in a 24-hour retrospective tribute. The full press release announcing the tribute follows underneath.

TCM Remembers Two-Time Oscar®-Winning Actress and Beloved Humanitarian Elizabeth Taylor on Sunday, April 10

24-Hour Tribute to Include Taylor’s Academy Award®-Winning Performances

In Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966),

Plus Memorable Roles in Nine Films

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will remember the life and career of two-time Academy Award®-winning actress and beloved humanitarian Elizabeth Taylor on Sunday, April 10. The 24-hour memorial tribute, which is set to begin at 6 a.m. (Et...

Turner Classic Movies has announced that it will pay tribute to Elizabeth Taylor with a 24-hour movie marathon next month. The Academy Award-winning actress passed away following congestive heart failure earlier today at the age of 79. TCM has now revealed that it will air a full day of Taylor's movies on Sunday, April 10 starting with Lassie Come Home from 6am Et/Pt. Other films that will be screened across the 24-hour period include National Velvet, Father of the Bride, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Butterfield 8, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Ivanhoe. Viewers can also relive Taylor's performances in Conspirator, Father's Little Dividend, Raintree County (more)...

Turner Classic Movies announced a tribute to Elizabeth Taylor that will include 24 hours of movies from the late star’s career.

The tribute will begin Sunday, April 10 and will include Taylor’s Oscar-winning performances in Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), as well as screenings of Father of the Bride (1950), Father’s Little Dividend (1951), Ivanhoe (1952), Giant (1956), Raintree County (1957) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). Full schedule below:

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