Elizabeth

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Few celebrities today have led lives as packed with incident, crisis, scandal and achievement as Elizabeth Taylor's. This is the first biography to do her full justice - as human being, social phenomenon and film star.
Alexander Walker, author of highly praised lives of Garbo and Vivien Leigh, re-evaluates Elizabeth Taylor - treats her with sjmipathy, candour, wit and seriousness - in order to explore what motivates an extraordinary life and personaUty. Her privileged childhood in prewar London; the enormous influence of her strong-willed mother; her swift rise to Hollywood stardom in films like National Velvet, A Place in the Sun and the catastrophe-fraught epic Cleopatra; her six husbands; her passion to love and her need to be loved in return; her obsession with jewellery; her opulent life-style; the amazing resilience that has helped her survive not only condemnation for 'the most public adultery in history' but also dramatic illnesses that have taken her to the point of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Few celebrities today have led lives as packed with incident, crisis, scandal and achievement as Elizabeth Taylor's. This is the first biography to do her full justice - as human being, social phenomenon and film star.
Alexander Walker, author of highly praised lives of Garbo and Vivien Leigh, re-evaluates Elizabeth Taylor - treats her with sjmipathy, candour, wit and seriousness - in order to explore what motivates an extraordinary life and personaUty. Her privileged childhood in prewar London; the enormous influence of her strong-willed mother; her swift rise to Hollywood stardom in films like National Velvet, A Place in the Sun and the catastrophe-fraught epic Cleopatra; her six husbands; her passion to love and her need to be loved in return; her obsession with jewellery; her opulent life-style; the amazing resilience that has helped her survive not only condemnation for 'the most public adultery in history' but also dramatic illnesses that have taken her to the point of death and, according to her, beyond.
'Stardom,' says the author, 'is a damaged state.' But the hurts - and the happiness, too - make a compelling story. What drives Elizabeth Taylor through life, ever the hungry explorer, never quite the victim, gives its own momentum to a narrative crammed with colourful incident but fashioned with critical and well-researched authority - interviews with those who know her best, information from hitherto private archives and, not least, the author's own meetings with this remarkable woman over the last thirty years. Elizabeth is a story of contradictions and extremes seldom matched in life or fiction.
32pp black and white illustrations Vissza