Starring Elizabeth Taylor-Laurence Harvey-Eddie Fisher. It won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Elizabeth Taylor) and was nominated for Best Cinematography-Color for 1960. It was also nominated for the Best Actress - Drama Golden Globe Award for the same years releases. The romantic life of a fashionable Manhattan beauty who is part model- part call-girl--and all man-trap. The unconventional title of the novel and film (capitalized "B" and "U") derives from the pattern of old telephone exchange names in the United States and Canada. Until the mid-1960s - telephone exchanges were commonly referred to by name instead of by number. BUtterfield 8 was an exchange that provided service to ritzy precincts of Manhattans Upper East Side. Dialing the letters "BU" equates to 28 on the lettered telephone dial- so "BUtterfield 8" would equate to 288 as the first three digits of a seven-digit phone number.   ... >>