The VIPs © PhotofestElizabeth Taylor sports some seriously dazzling bling in this handsomely produced romantic melodrama about a group of First Class passengers delayed in the VIP Lounge of a fog-bound Heathrow Airport awaiting the departure of a trans-Atlantic flight to New York.
A stellar international cast also features Richard Burton (fresh from the set of Cleopatra, who famously said of his wife-to-be "the only word Elizabeth knows in Italian is Bulgari"), Louis Jourdan, Maggie Smith, Rod Taylor, Orson Welles and Margaret Rutherford in her Oscar-winning Best Supporting Actress role as the dotty and marvellously ingenious Duchess of Brighton.
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Image: Taylor in a promotional still for The VIPs (1963). She wears her emerald and diamond en tremblant brooch as a hair ornament, with drop earrings.
"A lively, engrossing, romantic film. Suspenseful, amusing stuff" The New York Times
