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* [[May-December Romance]]: She was 22 years younger than Michael Wilding, 25 years younger than Mike Todd, and 20 years older than Larry Fortensky.
* [[Mutant]]: Taylor had two rows of eyelashes on each eyelid. According to biographer J. Randy Tarborelli, her parents were actually told by a doctor shortly after her birth that their daughter possessed a mutation.
{{quote|"Well, that sounded just awful, a mutation. But, when he explained that her eyes had double rows of eyelashes, I thought, well, now, that doesn't sound so terrible at all."|Sara Sothern, Taylor's mother}}
* [[Name's the Same]]: Not to be confused with other these Elizabeth Taylors
** The British novelist, who was 20 years older and had the misfortune of publishing her first novel the year after the film ''[[National Velvet]]'' was released;
** The American painter and essayist who died a few weeks after this Elizabeth Taylor was born;
** The ''[[Holly Oaks]]'' character Liz Burton who married Richard Taylor. (You don't think they were going for a joke there, do you?)
* [[Playing Gertrude]]: In ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'', she played a character who's in her fifties at 34. Her casting [[
** [[Age Lift]]: Was about ten years older than the actual [[Cleopatra]] at the beginning of the movie (which encompasses 18 years).
* [[Purple Eyes]]: One of the most famous [[Real Life]] examples. She preferred to describe them as "[[Blue Eyes]] with some touches of gold" instead. Which is, more or less, what they really were -- they were a deep blue that appeared to be purple with the right lighting and makeup, a fact which Hollywood and Taylor herself both exploited.
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