old-age: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Gordon Bau had the task of transforming the thirty-two-year-old Elizabeth Taylor into the frumpy, foul-mouthed, middle-aged Martha for this 1966 production. Just pause and register that this movie was made only three years after Cleopatra, only a year after The Sandpiper, and a year before The Comedians: the ‘before’ images are taken from The Sandpiper and The Comedians.

Elizabeth Taylor deservedly won an Oscar for her performance. Gordon Bau was responsible for Elizabeth’s makeup.