BUtterfield 8
- Elizabeth Taylor: Gloria Wandrous
- Laurence Harvey: Weston Liggett
- Eddie Fisher: Steve Carpenter
- Dina Merrill: Emily Liggett
- Mildred Dunnock: Gloria's mother
- Betty Field: Fanny Thurber
- Jeffrey Lynn: Bingham Smith
- Kay Medford: Happy
- Susan Oliver: Norma
- George Voskovec: Dr. Tredman
Butterfield 8 is an American film drama directed by Daniel Mann from 1960 and based on the novel Butterfield 8 by John O'Hara from the year 1935.
Action
The attractive Gloria has countless affairs with rich men. She was abused as a teenager and has no love. Only with their only friend Steve they can talk about their feelings and their past. But one day she meets Weston, the husband of a company heiress. Weston, an idle playboy, and Gloria begin an affair that evolves into a passionate love for each other. Through a misunderstanding believes Gloria, she had lost Weston. She tries to recover. But the attempt ends in disaster and Gloria comes in a traffic accident.
Title
The unconventional novel and film title refers to the part of a telephone number, designated by the competent central office. Until the 60s, the first two digits of a telephone number were officially replaced with a catchy name with two initials in the United States and Canada, which correspond to the numbers in letters choice. The third digit was placed behind the name. Butterfield 8, ie BU -8 stands for the digits 2-8-8 and corresponded to a telephone switching from Manhattan 's Upper East Side. In the film, Gloria mentioned several times the name of the agency that supports their way of life between foreign extramarital affairs and apartments so that, by transmitting messages and delivers calls. Their importance for Gloria becomes clear as they a lighter engraved with the characters "BU 8" gives Weston.
Background
Before Elizabeth Taylor was able to take the lucrative role in Cleopatra for a fee of one million dollars, they had to fulfill their contract with MGM, which earned her a mere $ 125,000. It was the last movie to which she was bound by her long-standing commitment at MGM. Taylor, who was married at the time of production with Fisher, had advocated that her husband was given the role of Steve Carpenter, though he had as an actor little experience. Fisher was involved in the shooting with only one week, received as Gage Taylor's pressure towards dollars but 100,000.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film valued 's film than a typical American cinema novel with ' psychoanalytic ' view of the problem and tragic claim, the debt with Destiny " is confusing. Butterfield 8 was " acting is below average, with dialogues of hair-raising banality ".