Elizabeth Taylor: Difference between revisions

update link
No edit summary
(update link)
Line 6:
She started as a child actress in the 1940s, and become famous with movies like ''[[Lassie Come Home]]'', ''[[National Velvet]]'' and ''[[Little Women]]''. She made a successful transition to adult roles in ''[[Father of the Bride]]'' and ''[[A Place In The Sun]]''. After a series of somewhat forgettable films, she appeared in ''[[Giant]]'' along with [[James Dean]], then was nominated for an [[Academy Award]] for Best Actress four consecutive times for ''[[Raintree County]]'', ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'', ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer]]'' and ''[[BUtterfield 8]]''. She won for the last one, which was widely seen as a [[Consolation Award]].
 
In 1963, she appeared in the big-budget historical epic ''[[Cleopatra]]'', for which she recieved a record-breaking $1 million. During production, she started a relationship with her co-star [[Richard Burton (actor)|Richard Burton]], which caused a huge scandal, since they were both married at the time. ''Cleopatra'' went way over budget, and became the most expensive film ever; despite being the highest-grossing movie in 1963, it still was considered a failure.
 
Taylor and Burton got married in 1964, and made several movies together. The most famous is ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'', for which Taylor won her second Oscar. Her performance in the film is widely regarded as the best of her career. In 1967, she and Burton starred in a film adaptation of ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]''. This was her last really memorable role. She and Burton divorced in 1974, remarried in 1975, and divorced again in 1976.
Line 27:
* [[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}}
|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;
Line 40 ⟶ 41:
* [[Romance on the Set]]: With Richard Burton.
* [[Serial Spouse]]
* [[Special Guest]]: In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode, "Lisa's First Word", where she had just one line, but an important one; Maggie's first (and for a long time, only) word. {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|"Daddy..."]].}}
* [[Stage Mom]]: Her mother was like this.
* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: One of her trademarks were her [[Purple Eyes|violet]] eyes. Which had [[Mutant|two rows of eyelashes each]].