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Butterfield 8 3/5 stars

Liz as "easy" dress model who was abused as a child "and loved it!" by her mother's boyfriend.  She seems to be truly in love with Laurence Harvey, but he can't quite break from his wife. Liz is sure he won't really forget her promiscuity. Eddie Fisher is Liz's childhood friend who somehow is able to resist her sexual advances even though he's single and alone all night in a room with her, and she's eager.  What a guy!  Ends tragically .  .   .  if you were engrossed. Liz races away from Harvey. He follows. Car crash. Dead Liz.

She apparently hated the movie but was forced to make it by the studio.  She'd just "stolen" Eddie Fisher from Debbie Reynolds, so the Fisher role in the movie is weird.

A soap opera, but Liz is by far the best thing in the movie.  She puts on a great performance.

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