Butterfield 8

Ben Mankiewicz introduces BUtterfield 8, 1960.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces BUtterfield 8, 1960.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces BUtterfield 8, 1960.

In her mink swiped from the closet of the wife of a client who insulted her by leaving cash, call-girl-in-denial Gloria (Elizabeth Taylor) drops in on musician and childhood pal Steve (Taylor's then-husband Eddie Fisher), in BUtterfield 8, 1960, from the novel by John O'Hara.

We’ve just met womanizing Manhattan executive “Ligg” (Laurence Harvey), getting a talking-to from a business pal (Jeffrey Lynn), then at the shooting range in the tony suburbs with his slightly-estranged but loyal wife (Dina Merrill), early in Butterfield 8, 1960, starring Elizabeth Taylor.

Much of the acting done by composer Bronislau Kaper, party-girl Gloria (Elizabeth Taylor, in her Oscar-winning role) is enraged when she discovers her married one-night-stand left cash for her in his apartment, in a segment of the opening scene from Daniel Mann's BUtterfield 8, 1960.

Condescending playboy client Liggett (Laurence Harvey) meets angered undeclared call-girl Gloria (Elizabeth Taylor, in her Academy Award role) in a Manhattan bar, inflicting pain on each other in their first scene together, in director Daniel Mann's BUtterfield 8, 1960.

Elizabeth Taylor won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Butterfield 8 (1960).