Synopsis
Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into money.
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Cast
- Elizabeth TaylorGloria Wandrous
- Laurence HarveyWeston Liggett
- Eddie FisherSteve Carpenter
- Dina MerrillEmily Liggett
- Mildred DunnockMrs. Wandrous
- Betty FieldMrs. Fanny Thurber
- George VoskovecDr. Tredman
- Jeffrey LynnBingham Smith
- Susan OliverNorma
- Kay MedfordHappy
Recommendations
- 78
Austin Chronicle
When Liz is good, she's very, very good, but when she's bad, she gives it all she's got. Director Daniel Mann definitely had a way with leading ladies. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Glossy trash with the star at full throttle, it's the quintessential La Liz movie. - 60
The New York Times
The dialogue is rough. Let's say O'Harrowing. And the ending is absurd. But so is most of it for that matter. It's the living it up that gets you in this film. - 60
Film Threat
Like a TV sitcom where the locations of commercial breaks can be foreseen, after about twenty minutes of Butterfield 8, you can predict when a transition will conclude a scene. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Taylor’s work is several notches above the botched material, adapted from the John O’Hara novel. - 50
Variety
Alterations made on John O'Hara's 1935 novel by the scenarists (among other things, they have updated it from the Prohibition era, spectacularized the ending and refined some of the dialog) have given Butterfield 8 the form and pace it needs, but the story itself remains a weak one, the behavior and motivations of its characters no more tangible than in the original work. - 40
Chicago Reader
It's just about as awful as you'd expect, despite the presence of two first-class screenwriters. - 30
Time Out
Once thought of as racy and adventurous in its treatment of sex, this turgid nonsense about a high-class whore with love in her heart has dated atrociously. Taylor hams away and Harvey in his debonair mood is distinctly unappealing, while the overall effect is too excruciating even to be unintentionally funny.
