Elizabeth Taylor
(1932-2011)
My favourite Elizabeth Taylor picture by Richard Avedon,
1964
"
Born in Hampstead, London in 1932, Dame Elizabeth
Taylor was a child starlet and one of the greatest Hollywood's beauties. In the
fifties she was voted The Most Beautiful Woman in the World.
" A magnet for
publicity throughout her life Elizabeth is legendary for her eight marriages to
seven husbands, most famously to actor Richard Burton, the love of her life who
she married twice.
In Suddenly Last Summer, 1959
Shot for the cover of her book - My Love Affair with
Jewellery
"Elizabeth Taylor's
Husbands
1) "Nicky" Conrad Hilton Jr,
Hotelier
(m. 6th May 1950 divorced 1st February
1951)
2) Michael Wilding, Actor
(m. 21st February 1952 divorced 30th January
1957)
3) Mike Todd, Producer
(m. 2nd February 1957 (died) 22nd March
1958)
4) Eddie Fisher, Singer
(m. 12th May 1959 divorced 6th March
1964)
5) Richard Burton, Actor
(m. 15th March 1964 divorced 26th June
1974)
6) Richard Burton, Actor
(m. 10th October 1975 divorced 1st August
1976)
7) John Warner, Senator
(m. 4th December 1976 divorced 7th November
1982)
8) Larry Fortensky, Construction
worker
(m. 6th October 1991 divorced 31st October
1996)
"
A Gallery of Elizabeth Taylor
pictures
Aged 6
MGM publicity still
As Velvet Brown in National Velvet,
1944
With the original Lassie
"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and
horses"
Elizabeth Taylor
With Peter Lawford
With Montgomery Clift
"More than anything else in the world I wanted a man
who could control me"
Elizabeth Taylor
On location filming Giant, Texas,
1955
With James Dean
Relaxing with James Dean during the filming of
Giant
With James Dean
With Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
1958
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958
With Mike Todd and Eddie Fisher 1958
With Mike Todd and children Christopher and Michael
Wilding Jr.
"I could drink anyone under the table and not get
drunk, my capacity was terrifying"
Elizabeth Taylor
Academy Awards 1960
With Eddie Fisher
With Robert Wagner and Eddie Fisher,
1961
"I really don't remember much about Cleopatra, there
were other things going on..."
Elizabeth Taylor
"If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million
dollars to make a movie, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it
down"
Elizabeth Taylor
Burton and Taylor after the filming of
Cleopatra
Taming of the Shrew, 1967
Fabulous! Dr Faustus, 1967
Filming Reflections of a Golden Eye with Marlon Brando,
1967
by Andy Warhol
"Big girls need big diamonds"
Elizabeth Taylor
"Elizabeth's breasts are apocalyptic,
they would topple empires before they
withered"
Richard Burton
(1925-1984)
At the Academy Awards with Burton and George Cukor,
1971
"I know I'm vulgar,
but would you have me any other
way?"
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth's diamond engagement ring
With Lucille Ball and Burton, 1971
With Gene Kelly at the premiere of That's
Entertainment, 1974
With Liza Minelli and Rock Hudson
Winning the Humanitarian Oscar 1997
Elizabeth gave Michael Jackson a present of a four ton
elephant, named Gypsy for his zoo at Neverland
"I'm a survivor.
I'm a living example of what people can go through
and survive"
Elizabeth Taylor
(1932-2011)
"She was unquestionably gorgeous.
I can think of no other word to describe a
combination of plentitude, frugality, abundance, tightness. She was
lavish.
She was a dark unyielding largesse.
She was, in short, too bloody much"
Richard Burton
(1925-1984)
We've lost one of the last true Hollywood stars
RIP, Elizabeth xxx