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A Place In The Sun

George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy garnered six Academy Awards and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialit...

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Corporate Author: Paramount Pictures Corporation
Other Authors: Clift, Montgomery (Actor), Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011 (Actor), Winters, Shelley (Actor), Brasselle, Keefe (Actor), Stevens, George, 1904-1975 (Production personnel, Director), Wilson, Michael, 1914-1978 (Screenwriter), Brown, Harry, 1917-1986 (Screenwriter), Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
Format: Videos DVD
Language:English
Published: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Video, [2001]
Subjects:
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Drama.
New York (State) > Drama.
Trials (Murder) > Drama.
Young men > Drama.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Summary:George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy garnered six Academy Awards and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialite Elizabeth Taylor. Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Clift's professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear and desire, Clift is ultimately driven to a desperate act of passion that unravels his world forever.
Item Description:Based on the novel An American tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the Patrick Kearney play adapted from the novel.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD, Dolby surround.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Director of photography, William C. Mellor ; editor, William Hornbeck ; music, Franz Waxman.
ISBN:0792172841
Author Notes:Elizabeth Taylor was born in London on February 27, 1932. At age 3, she already had extensive ballet training and danced for British princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose at London's Hippodrome. Her family moved to the United States at the onset of World War II.

In 1942, she made her screen debut with a small part in the comedy There's One Born Every Minute. She starred in more than 50 movies during her lifetime including Lassie Come Home, National Velvet, Father of the Bride, A Place in the Sun, Giant, Raintree County, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cleopatra, and The Taming of the Shrew. She won two Academy Awards for Butterfield 8 in 1960 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966. She also received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her advocacy for AIDS research and for other causes in 1993.

She was married a total of eight times and her husbands included Michael Todd, Eddie Fisher, and Richard Burton. She wrote several books during her lifetime including Elizabeth Takes Off on Self-Esteem and Self-Image, Elizabeth Taylor: An Informal Memoir, and Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry. She died of congestive heart failure on March 23, 2011 at the age of 79.

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