Elizabeth Taylor

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From her first starring role as the violet-eyed innocent in National Velvet to her sultry portrayal of Maggie the Cat and her Academy Aw^ard-virinning performances in Butterfleld 8 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Elizabeth Taylor's undeniable screen presence has been marveled over v^^hile her talent has been alternately disparaged and defended. And from her first w^ed-ding, in an MGM dream gow^n, to her current real-life role as a Senate wife, her private affairs have been the subject of public scrutiny.
This breathlessly detailed biography by Kitty Kelley, author of the best-selling Jackie Oh!, is the most unabashed version of Elizabeth Taylor's life yet told. It follows her incredible career and her tumultuous personal life through fifly-five films, seven marriages, innumerable love affairs and several near-fatal illnesses; through periods of mourning, times of depression, bursts of generosity. Irresistibly it draws readers into the glamorous world that this beautiful... Tovább

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From her first starring role as the violet-eyed innocent in National Velvet to her sultry portrayal of Maggie the Cat and her Academy Aw^ard-virinning performances in Butterfleld 8 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Elizabeth Taylor's undeniable screen presence has been marveled over v^^hile her talent has been alternately disparaged and defended. And from her first w^ed-ding, in an MGM dream gow^n, to her current real-life role as a Senate wife, her private affairs have been the subject of public scrutiny.
This breathlessly detailed biography by Kitty Kelley, author of the best-selling Jackie Oh!, is the most unabashed version of Elizabeth Taylor's life yet told. It follows her incredible career and her tumultuous personal life through fifly-five films, seven marriages, innumerable love affairs and several near-fatal illnesses; through periods of mourning, times of depression, bursts of generosity. Irresistibly it draws readers into the glamorous world that this beautiful star epitomizes.
It begins with Elizabeth's childhood when, as a pretty eight-year-old, she was edged into Hollywood's power circles by her star-struck mother. At age twelve she was acknowledged as a young actress of some promise. By the age of twenty-seven she was America's biggest box-office attraction and the highest-paid actress in the world.
Elizabeth's personal life became national news, filled as it was with the intrigue and high drama of her films. Her trials and theatrics were well publicized: her notoriety as a "home wrecker" in the Eddie Fisher-Debbie Reynolds divorce; her oaths of eternal devotion to each of her six husbands; the jealousy that ravaged her marriage to Richard Burton. Her extravagances were world famous: chde dinners flown Vissza