Elizabeth Taylor has been in a film.
A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American drama film based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the 1926 play , also titled An American Tragedy . Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film chronicling the struggles of Cleopatra VII , the young Queen of Egypt , to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome . 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 ) . Father of the Bride is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli , about a man trying to cope with preparations for his daughter 's upcoming wedding .