 Despite the twin Broadway failures of the play "The Milk Train  Doesnt Stop Here Anymore," it was thought that Elizabeth Taylor and  Tennessee Williams were an irresistible combination, after the  sucess of _Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)_ (qv) and  _Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)_ (qv), both of which won Taylor Oscar  nominations as Best Actress. It was a fatal miscalculation on the  part of the producer.