The Earth Mother! Elizabeth Taylor in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, 1966 Elizabeth was a committed actress, even though people too often doubted her. September 15, 1965, was a cold, moonlit night near the campus of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where Elizabeth and Richard were on location shooting Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the film Elizabeth plays Martha, a bitter and domineering middle-aged college professor’s wife. In one key scene in a parking lot outside a bar sh