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23 June 1965 (USA)
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She gave men a taste of life that made them hunger for more! more
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Free-spirited, young, unwed mother seduces a Episcopalian priest. Lots of pretty beach/ocean scenery. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Oscar.
Another 3 wins
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2 nominations
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Liz and Dick and Eva Marie
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Elizabeth Taylor | ... | Laura Reynolds |
 | Richard Burton | ... | Dr. Edward Hewitt |
 | Eva Marie Saint | ... | Claire Hewitt |
 | Charles Bronson | ... | Cos Erickson |
 | Robert Webber | ... | Ward Hendricks |
| James Edwards | ... | Larry Brant |
| Torin Thatcher | ... | Judge Thompson |
| Tom Drake | ... | Walter Robinson |
| Douglas Henderson | ... | Paul Sutcliff (as Doug Henderson) |
| Morgan Mason | ... | Danny Reynolds |
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117 min | Argentina:118 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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According to Sammy Davis Jr. in his film memoir "Hollywood In A Suitcase" he was originally offered the role of Cos Erickson and even signed the contract, but had to withdraw owing to an early opening for his "Golden Boy" stage show.
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Claire Hewitt, talking to her husband about Danny, says, "He was reciting the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Old English." The language Chaucer wrote in, and that the boy recites in, is Middle English, not Old English.
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Featured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies (2004) (TV)
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The Shadow of Your Smile
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Another story about middle-aged anxst. Only this time we have Richard Burton as an Episcopal minister leading a humdrum life as the head of a religious school. He's bored with his marriage too, to Eva Marie Saint.
Into his life comes single mom Elizabeth Taylor who is raising her son Morgan Mason out of wedlock and living in a hippie colony on the California coast. Art imitates life as Liz gets Dick's hormones into exponential overdrive.
A lot of younger members of IMDb could not possibly appreciate all the publicity surrounding Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor from the first reports of an affair on the set of Cleopatra. They were two of the best well known international celebrities anywhere. Of course producers rushed to find stories for them to do. They did a whole number of joint projects.
The Sandpiper was not one of the better ones. It did have an Oscar winning song The Shadow of Your Smile which both Tony Bennett and Johnny Mathis sold a lot of records of. Liz and Dick got a good supporting cast that included Charles Bronson, Robert Webber, Tom Drake and Torin Thatcher.
Thatcher plays a judge and he inadvertently gets the adultery ball rolling when he orders that Liz Taylor stop home schooling young Mason and he orders her to send him to the Episcopal school run by Burton.
We certainly have come full circle. Kids are homeschooled today for religious reasons and judges would get a lot of negative publicity if they ever ordered a kid into a religious school.
Charles Bronson is one of Taylor's artist friends and a militant nonbeliever. He gives atheists a bad name and is constantly giving Burton the needle. Clergy are all too human and the best of them acknowledge that.
Robert Webber in his career played a whole lot of smarmy types. He's on the board at Burton's school and has had his fling with Taylor as well. This is one of his best screen roles and typical for him.
Despite some good moments, The Sandpiper sinks into the level of soap opera. I would recommend seeing Cleopatra, The VIPs, or Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf if you want to see Liz and Dick at their best.