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Hospital | Spain
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Best Actress Drama | 1960 | Elizabeth
1960 | Elizabeth
Top Ten Films | 1959
Top Female Dramatic Performance | 1960 | Elizabeth
Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1960 | Katharine
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration BlackandWhite | 1960
Best Actress Drama | 1960 | Katharine
Best Actress International | 1960 | Elizabeth
Best Film | 1959 | Joseph L.
Best Actress | 1959 | Elizabeth
Budget 3,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 9,000,000 USD
Because of years of alcoholism and prescription drug abuse, Montgomery Clift was considered uninsurable due to chronic ill health. Ordinarily, that would have meant he would have been fired and replaced, but his good friend Dame Elizabeth Taylor saved his job by insisting she would not do this movie without him.
Dame Elizabeth Taylor chose this as her first movie after her contract with MGM ended. She used her power as a top box-office draw to insist that Montgomery Clift also be cast.
According to author Garson Kanin in his memoir "Tracy and Hepburn", Katharine Hepburn was reportedly so furious at the way Montgomery Clift was treated by producer Sam Spiegel and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz during filming that, after making sure that she would not be needed for retakes, she told both men off and actually spat at them (although it remains unclear just which one of the two she spat at, or if she spat at both.)
In Catherine Holly's climactic monologue, Dame Elizabeth Taylor (who had recently been widowed) used the emotions of her husband's death in order to create the acclaimed performance. However, she was only able to do one take as she could not stop crying after completing the first.
According to Mercedes McCambridge, she rode to the London set of this movie in the same car as Montgomery Clift. Clift always insisted that the driver stop by Wormwood Scrubs prison, so that Clift could scream out the car window at the convicts behind bars.
"Catherine Holly: Is that what love is? Using people? And maybe that's what hate is - not being able to use people."
"Mrs. Venable: My son, Sebastian and I constructed our days. Each day we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture, leaving behind us a trail of days like a gallery of sculpture until suddenly, last summer."
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