The Films of Elizabeth Taylor & IMDb data

Elizabeth Taylor has died today (March 23, 2011).

I thought this would be a good chance to create a snap shot of Taylor's most watched and highest rated films based off the internet movie database (imdb.com) as of today, the day of her death.

Today's a great day to blog about Taylor. Perhaps a memory or a favorite film.

Elizabeth's highest rated films according to imdb.com as of today, March 23, 2011:
(The first number indicates imdb.com user rating)

1. (8.20) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
2. (8.00) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
3. (7.79) A Place in the Sun (1951)
4. (7.70) Giant (1956)
5. (7.68) Jane Eyre (1943)

Elizabeth's most rated films based on votes as of today, March 23, 2011:
(obviously time and the current online systems date plays a role. The first number is parenthesis indicates the number of imdb.com who have voted providing the film it's rating)

1. (28,110) The Flintstones (1994)
2. (21,844) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
3. (15,301) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
4. (13,160) Giant (1956)
5. (8334) Cleopatra (1963)

November 22, 2010

• Anniversary of the founding of Denver, Colorado (1858)


• 66 years ago the Humane Society was founded (1954)


• 47 years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas (1963)


• 15 years ago Toy Story is released, and is the first feature length film using entirely computer generated imagery (1995)


• 5 years ago Angela Markel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany


• Shawn Fanning, Napster developer turns 30 (1980)
  
• 30 years since the death of silver screen actress Mae West (1980), she was 87 at the time of her death.
  

November 20, 2010

• 25 years ago Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released (1985)
• Vice President Joe Biden turns 68 (born 1942)
• Today, a very unique football game at Wrigley Field where Northwest and Illinois will be playing using only one end zone for offensive plays (here's the ESPN.com link for more info) expect this to be a famous game discussed today, in the future, and in trivial pursuit games for many years to come.

November 17, 2010

• 10 Year Anniversary of the release of the movie How The Grinch Stole Christmas, the top grossing film of 2010 (US Gross $260,044,825) (2000)
  
• 210 Years since the United States Congress held it first session in Washington DC (1800)
  
• 40 years since Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse (1970).
  
• 100 years since the first American airplane fatality. Pioneer pilot Ralph Johnstone dies in Denver, Colorado crash. (1910)