elizabeth taylor in The Driver’s Seat film

Elizabeth taylor was a close friend of Montgomery Clift until his death in 1966. They met for the first time when Paramount decided that she had to accompany him to the premiere of The Heiress because they were both to star in the upcoming A Place in the Sun. They liked each other right away. Clift used to call her Bessie Mae. When he had a car accident a few years later that disfigured him, he had just left a party at Liz’s house. It was she who found him first, got into the wreck and removed some teeth from his throat that threatened to choke him.

The Driver’s Seat / Identikit, Rizzoli Film/Avco Embassy; Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen, Guido Manari, Mona Washborne, Andy Warhol; Directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi; Released: May 1974.