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Elizabeth Taylor as wealthy, bitchy, and eccentric socialite Flora 'Sissy' Goforth in the Universal Pictures/Joseph Losey drama Boom!, 1968. The movie was adapted from the 1963 Tennessee Williams Broadway play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore which starred Tallulah Bankhead and Tab Hunter. Taylor's fifth husband, Welsh actor Richard Burton, assumed the much younger (and hotter) Tab's role in the movie; too old for the part, and Elizabeth too young for hers, both stars were hopelessly mis-cast in the film which was critically lambasted and bombed at the box office, but has since become either a bizarre curiosity piece or a beloved camp classic depending entirely on the viewer's sensibilities. Filmed on location in 1967 on Isola de Presa, a tiny Mediterranean island off the coast of Sardinia, with some interior scenes shot on sets constructed in Rome, the production cost the then astronomical sum of $4,592,762. Taylor's favorite jeweler Bulgari loaned $2,000,000 worth of gems for her to wear in the film, and her glamorous, over-the-top costumes were designed by Annalisa Nasalli-Rocca.

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