Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Catherine Holly: Is that what love is? Using people? And maybe that's what hate is - not being able to use people.

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Mrs. Venable: Doctor, you must cut that lie out of her brain.
Catherine Holly: How MUCH are you willing to pay for that, Aunt Vi?

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Mrs. Venable: Strictly speaking, his life was his occupation. Yes, yes, Sebastian was a poet. That's what I meant when I said his life was his work because the work of a poet is th elife of a poet, and vice versa, the life of a poet is the work of a poet. I mean, you can't separate them. I mean, a poet's life is his work, and his work is his life in a special sense.

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The allusion to Herman Melville and the Galapagos islands refers to the "The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles", a series of "sketches," or short prose works, about the Galapagos Islands written primarily from Melville's own experience sailing around the islands.
The only film for which Elizabeth Taylor and 'Katharine Hepburn (I)' competed with a co-star for the same Best Actress Academy Award. However, the award went to Simone Signoret.
In the French post-synchronized version of the film, the actors are dubbed by: Claude Winter (Elizabeth Taylor), Claire Guibert (Katharine Hepburn), Bernard Noël (Montgomery Clift), Serge Nadaud (Albert Dekker), Claude Daltys (Mercedes McCambridge), Jean-Pierre Duclos (Gary Raymond), Lita Recio (Mavis Villiers), Hélène Tossy (Joan Young) and Michel Gudin (David Cameron).
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