Elizabeth

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For more than six decades she has been part of our lives. A legendary screen icon, the epitome of beauty, Elizabeth Taylor has been surrounded by the aura of fame and notoriety since childhood. Now, acclaimed biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli looks past the tabloid version of Elizabeths life to the person she really is. In this unauthorized, but certainly not uninformed, biography we see how she evolved from a dazzling but manipulated child star to a woman in her
own right.
At the heart of this impeccably researched work is the first fully realized portrait of Elizabeth Taylor's family: her canny, controlling mother, who, from the moment she laid eyes on her beautiful baby, began plotting her future success; her father, often portrayed as distant and uninvolved, but whose relationship with his daughter was far more complex than people knew. As Taraborrelli brings to life the people around her and her stunning rise in 1940s Hollywood, he reveals the personal qualities that made... Tovább

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For more than six decades she has been part of our lives. A legendary screen icon, the epitome of beauty, Elizabeth Taylor has been surrounded by the aura of fame and notoriety since childhood. Now, acclaimed biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli looks past the tabloid version of Elizabeths life to the person she really is. In this unauthorized, but certainly not uninformed, biography we see how she evolved from a dazzling but manipulated child star to a woman in her
own right.
At the heart of this impeccably researched work is the first fully realized portrait of Elizabeth Taylor's family: her canny, controlling mother, who, from the moment she laid eyes on her beautiful baby, began plotting her future success; her father, often portrayed as distant and uninvolved, but whose relationship with his daughter was far more complex than people knew. As Taraborrelli brings to life the people around her and her stunning rise in 1940s Hollywood, he reveals the personal qualities that made her a star, the associations that put her at the right place at the right time, and the many ways in which she was singularly unprepared for life out on her own.
While Elizabeth's eight marriages to seven men have been widely publicized,
this author examines the psychological and emotional roots of each relationship, including her abusive marriage to Nicky Hilton, her attraction to swashbuckling Mike Todd, and the complex, incendiary Taylor-Burton love affair that continued for decades and never truly died.
Finally, Taraborrelli chronicles what may be Elizabeth Taylor's most bravura performance of all. Despite the highly public batdes with alcohol and chronic illness, Elizabeth achieved what few celebrities ever do, she found new success and sustenance in family, friendships and philanthropy.
A monumental, incisive work that includes never-before publislied family photos as well as photographs by Tiylor historian Tom Gates, Elizabeth is the brilliantly rendered, touching and bracingly honest story of a woman you thought you knew - and can now finally begin to understand. Vissza