Elizabeth Taylor starred in films.
A Place in the Sun (film) . A Place in the Sun was directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Michael Wilson , and stars Montgomery Clift , Elizabeth Taylor , and Shelley Winters ; its supporting actors included Anne Revere , and Raymond Burr . Elizabeth Taylor . She made the transition to adult roles in the early 1950s , when she starred in the comedy Father of the Bride ( 1950 ) and received critical acclaim for her performance in the tragic drama A Place in the Sun ( 1951 ) . She began receiving better roles in the mid-1950s , beginning with the epic drama Giant ( 1956 ) , and starred in several critically and commercially successful films in the following years .