The V.I.P.s (1963) (Movie)

format_quote Max Buda: (they are playing cards, watched by a reporter) Not that one. *That* one!
Gloria Gritti: How do you know what is in my hand?
Max Buda: Because I know what is in your head.
Gloria Gritti: So, I have nothing in my head.
Max Buda: (to the reporter) Don't quote that.

stars  Paul Andros: Pay no attention. Drunks cry very easily. It's only the whiskey.

stars  Frances Andros: I know it is foolishly sentimental to want to sit next to the man that you are eloping with.

stars  Frances Andros: For most of those thirteen years I've loved him. But I don't know him.

stars  Based on a true story, the movie was a thinly disguised account of screenwriter Terence Rattigan's life friend Vivien Leigh and her attempt to leave her husband Laurence Olivier for Australian actor Peter Finch . Leigh and Finch made it to the London airport, but their plane was delayed by incoming fog giving Olivier time to confront the two and bring Leigh home. Leigh abandoned the plan after hours of fog delay.

stars  When asked for her number in the movie, Elizabeth Taylor says, "It's Grosvenor 7060", which was MGM's office number in London at the time the film was made.