Little red non-Corvette

Butterfield 8

(1960)

I confess that I didn't watch this straight through, 'cause Matt Harvey was pitching for the Mets, but near as I can tell, Gloria (Elizabeth Taylor) is a magical mix of sexuality and toxicity, and Liggett (Laurence Harvey, no relation to Matt) is as bad an actor as the actor who plays him. And there are other characters in the cast, but they don't mean anything--oh, except for the little red Sunbeam Alpine convertible Gloria drives. I think the main thing we need to know about this film is what Robert Osborne told us at the start: that Taylor, though she won an Oscar for her performance, hated the film, in fact turned it down at first, until she realized that it would let her complete her MGM contract so she could take the $1 million gig from Fox to play some Egyptian tart.