Scandalized the Vatican, escaped death, destroyed lives: Elizabeth Taylor in 12 (and more) truths

Elizabeth Taylor has been the most famous woman on earth for years. From ten years until her death in 2011, Elizabeth Taylor was Hollywood's archetypal diva living many lives.

The numbers prove it. Eight marriages, seven divorces, two Oscars, 21 medical surgery, two cancers (in the skin and brain), infinite jewelry, infinite lamentations, many victories, one for hundreds of if not thousands of covers, many abuses, one passionate and passionate. It wasn't.

Elizabeth Taylor, who was born in 1933 in London today, throughout her triumphant and tragic, unique in her kind of life, was a victim and a victim.

Game of studios and men who starred in her life, as well as a leader (she was the first actress in the history of cinema, whose fee reached $ 1,000,000 for her performance as Cleopatra in the 1963 film, in times when the 19,000 -year -old salary Her flames with the shine of carats, like the ones she always wanted to wear.

Addicted to substances (drugs, alcohol), love, jewelry and activism, Elizabeth Taylor has become a matter of many documentaries.

For her birthday, we quote 12 things we learned about Elizabeth behind Taylor as they were revealed in two recent productions for her myth.

Athlete, vulnerable and provocative, Elizabeth Taylor was a star of those who are no longer born today.

Protagonist

During a decisive life for the life of Warner Bros's studio when she was just 10 years old, Taylor showed that she wanted not only to be an actress, but a protagonist from her childhood.

Her mother, a former actress, was vertically opposed but little Liz canceled her. Her father, an alcoholic and violent who, as she said, hit her after her debut in the film Lassie Come Home, Taylor studied three hours a day at the MGM studio and then went to the plate for eight hours of acting.

When she was told that she was too young for the lead role in the National Velvet Horse Racing movie, « she was stretching every day until she grew up three inches. » Impressed by her insistence, the director gave her the role, the studio demanded changes in her denture, to dye her hair, to change the shape of her eyebrows, and to get the artistic name Virginia (everything was done, except for the last one).

Taylor, 12, was already the first name in the industry.

Blackmail

Attraction by actress Robert Taylor's wife in the film Conspirator at the age of 16, Elizabeth Taylor had to kiss her co -star (no relatives, she was a mere synonym) on the screen. It was just a week after her first kiss in real life.

« The kiss in the movie was better than my kiss in real life. They threw me into the adult world … but in my own world I was a terrified little girl, « he said.

MGM advertisers sent her to fake appointments to create scandals of what the guy loved to reproduce. At 18 she met and married the 23 -year -old heiress of the Hotel Conrad Hilton Jr.

« I wasn't prepared to get older. So I made horrible mistakes.  » Taylor was so scared to complete her first marriage that was locked in the bathroom on the night of her wedding. She was in love with her husband days later.

Eyes, not purple

Asked about the color of her world -renowned eye that the guy called the sapphire, Taylor made it clear: « My eyes are dark blue », adding that the legend for her purple eyes was « a romantic idea of ​​a journalist ».

Insecure to the bone

When Taylor took her first serious film role in George Stevens' a place in the sun, she was afraid to play next to Montgomery Cliff.

« I had only played with horses and dogs, » he says. « I liked the ability to play. I tightened my teeth, and ran to the arena. She seemed to catch the trick, ”she said, though she hated the roles that MGM gave her.

« They gave me so many shit that if you were in my place you would like to put a loop on my throat and commit suicide … I died inside me, for years cinema critics wrote that I was a 'empty, beautiful person'. »

Safe only with gay

All her friends were gay men. Everyone in the closet, all doomed to live their lives secretly. Montgomery Cliff, Rodi McDonchial, rock Hudson.

Taylor preferred them for friends because « she felt safe with them, because they were not going to claim her in love » she said.

Instinctive, simply

« I believe that any technique or talent I may have been due to instinct. But to know that I try very, too hard to make it effortlessly do what I do in front of the camera, ”he had clarified. Taylor had never studied at a school of acting.

James Dean, a mourning, a divorce

Taylor had a friendly, almost brotherly relationship with her 24 -year -old co -star in the giant James Dean.

His death, after the tragic accident, darkened her and then threw her in a period of deep introspection. Taylor understood after the loss of Dean that she had to be separated from her 20 -year -old British actress Michael Wilding, her second husband.

Taylor confessed that the marriage did not work because of it. « I made his life unhappy. I set up quarrels, I was imposed on him. I thought it could be imposed on me but it didn't. And I need someone to put me in my place, « he said.

At that time he had escaped death once. Taylor was in the Porsche Porsche Passeur position on the same day that she was deadly -without the same inside.

Born Survivor

Its many interventions, the game of death continuous. Taylor deeply loved the charismatic Michael Todd, the producer of an Oscar -winning film, the round of the world in 80 days. « He could get the best out of you, seduce you, » he said.

Twenty years older, Todd gave Taylor a diamond engagement ring of many carats – she called her stone, her « iceberg ».

Taylor had planned to fly with Todd in New York in 1958, but was cold and stayed at home.

Taylor says she knew something bad would happen, because the marriage was « too good to be true ». Tond's private plane crashed near New Mexico, killing the producer and three other occupants.

It was never the third person

Taylor's relationship with Debbie Reynolds singer and husband, Eddie Fisher, caused a scandal.

« Then all the shit hit a ceiling, » he said. Taylor confessed that she never really loved Fisher and says that Reynold's sadness was for the sake.

« I can't say anything against Debby, but she played so much theater with her braids and pins and all this, » Taylor remembered.

The marriage to Fisher did not last, and years later, he admitted: « It was a great, terrible mistake and I knew it before we got married and I didn't know how to get out of it. »

The wrong and the right Oscar

When Taylor was nominated for an Oscar for a female role for the film suddenly last summer she desperately wanted to win – it would make people finally see her as an actress and not just as a beautiful starlet.

« I think if I were a good girl, I would probably have won it, » he said. Taylor finally won the role of a bad girl in the 1960 sin (Butterfield 8), a movie she hated.

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« I did it with the pistol on the timer, » he said. « It was a huge shit, he made me furious. » Taylor thought she won only because she had just left the hospital. He had saved (third time) death after heavy pneumonia.

“I won the award for my tracheotomy. It must have been some kind of sympathy, because the film was really shameful. It's just horrible, ”he said.

Deceitful adultery

When she and also married Burton fell in love with Cleopatra's shooting, the paparazzi were hiding with telephuses behind bushes to capture them to kiss. People were hungry for the new Hollywood scandal between two married stars.

The Sudden, illegal love, even worked on the Vatican, who issued an open letter, accusing the actors of « carnal truth » and brought reactions from a US Giorgia politician who demanded « the deportation of the blasphemous stars ».

But nothing could keep Elizabeth Taylor away from the fragile and alcohol -handed to alcohol Richard Burton who could not even hold a cup of coffee with his drunken hands.

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« I had never seen a man so drunk in my life, » he said. Taylor wanted to save Burton from his addiction, which he had once said that the secret of her irresistible and intangible charm was that « Elizabeth is blue -eyed, she looks like a queen. It is Elizabeth's inaccessible that makes her so exciting. « 

At the end of the shooting, both actors divorced from their wives to marry Canada in 1964, just nine days after Taylor's divorce with Fisher.

'I wasn't beautiful'

Taylor said in an interview that she always felt like a fraudster when people were discussing her beauty. « I'm not so beautiful. I mean internally … « .

Taylor, who had a unstable, full of personal life scandals -was measuring eight marriages with seven men since she married her eternal love twice, Richard Burton -believed she was fascinated because she was signing something « illegal and unethical ».

In the same interview, material that gave many truths as recorded in the HBO documentary, Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes, she did not feel unethical and paid « and above » her mistakes.

Joan Collins' girlfriend and opponent, in an interview with Elizabeth Taylor's documentary in Kim Kardashian, Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar, confirmed her.

« It wasn't exactly what we call lady, » he said. Collins remembers a dinner with Fisher who was « outdated, hit … Elizabeth had no issue to hurt the people around her. »

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