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With her performance as Maggie the Cat, Taylor finally morphed into the Liz of legend (and picked up another Oscar nomination in the bargain). It's a static movie — and director Richard Brooks neutered the gayness right out of Tennessee Williams' play — but Taylor startlingly fuses tenderness and trampiness as the spurned wife of Brick Pollitt (an insanely sexy Paul Newman). The film came out just as Taylor was breaking up Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds' marriage, losing the sympathy she received after the death of her third husband, Mike Todd, in a plane crash. If the public was unequivocally on her side, it wouldn't be for long.

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