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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 402380" data-attributes="member: 7">I&#039;d agree that Elizabeth Taylor wasn&#039;t to blame -- at least not initially. It was not her fault there were script issues, location changes, directorial changes, or cast changes. All of that was clearly out of her control. It wasn&#039;t even her fault that she had some serious health scares that halted production. That was also beyond her control.But I&#039;d say she did cause issues later on into filming. Technically, albeit involuntarily, she was at least partially the reason the production moved from England to Rome. Once she and Richard Burton (the press nicknamed them &quot;Liz &amp; Dick&quot;) became an item, they began showing up late, sometimes drunk, and unfamiliar with the script. Their relationship generated a lot of buzz for the film, but they also caused a lot of delays once their fling consumed them.Marilyn wasn&#039;t in a good mental or emotional state when Fox assigned her to SOMETHING&#039;S GOT TO GIVE in early 1962. She didn&#039;t really want to do the movie, but as producer David Brown said, she was under a &quot;slave contract&quot; with Fox at the time and the studio was insistent she fulfill her commitments.Like CLEOPATRA, the production of SOMETHING&#039;S GOT TO GIVE was plagued with script rewrites (there were three different writers who tackled the screenplay) and various other issues. Director George Cukor was not keen on working with Marilyn again, having experienced difficulty doing so on LET&#039;S MAKE LOVE (1960), arguably her worst film.I don&#039;t know if anyone on the set of SOMETHING&#039;S GOT TO GIVE personally disliked Marilyn, but I have heard several mention in different documentaries about their irritation with her tardiness and chronic absences. Co-star Cyd Charisse, writer Walter Bernstein, and associate producer Gene Allen, didn&#039;t seem to personally have &quot;beef&quot; with Marilyn, but they each spoke of either her unprofessionalism, reliance on her drama coach, or her persistent illnesses that they apparently saw no evidence of.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 402380, member: 7"] I'd agree that Elizabeth Taylor wasn't to blame -- at least not initially. It was not her fault there were script issues, location changes, directorial changes, or cast changes. All of that was clearly out of her control. It wasn't even her fault that she had some serious health scares that halted production. That was also beyond her control. But I'd say she did cause issues later on into filming. Technically, albeit involuntarily, she was at least partially the reason the production moved from England to Rome. Once she and Richard Burton (the press nicknamed them "Liz & Dick") became an item, they began showing up late, sometimes drunk, and unfamiliar with the script. Their relationship generated a lot of buzz for the film, but they also caused a lot of delays once their fling consumed them. Marilyn wasn't in a good mental or emotional state when Fox assigned her to SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE in early 1962. She didn't really want to do the movie, but as producer David Brown said, she was under a "slave contract" with Fox at the time and the studio was insistent she fulfill her commitments. Like CLEOPATRA, the production of SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE was plagued with script rewrites (there were three different writers who tackled the screenplay) and various other issues. Director George Cukor was not keen on working with Marilyn again, having experienced difficulty doing so on LET'S MAKE LOVE (1960), arguably her worst film. I don't know if anyone on the set of SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE personally disliked Marilyn, but I have heard several mention in different documentaries about their irritation with her tardiness and chronic absences. Co-star Cyd Charisse, writer Walter Bernstein, and associate producer Gene Allen, didn't seem to personally have "beef" with Marilyn, but they each spoke of either her unprofessionalism, reliance on her drama coach, or her persistent illnesses that they apparently saw no evidence of. [/QUOTE]

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