Re: Elizabeth Taylor

13 years ago

If my memory is correct, her "debut" movie was "National Velvet"; she played a young girl who disguised herself as a boy, so she could race her horse--"Pie", I think-- in the "National Derby". Great movie, but it made me cry, too.

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pekemom
13 years ago
She was a great beauty, she had those violet eyes that were so rare, now I guess you could get contact lens in that color...she always seemed genuine in her movies.
colleenoz
13 years ago
She also had double eyelashes which are rare.
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I loved Elizabeth Taylor's childhood movies, Lassie Come Home and National Velvet. She was a great beauty even then. She has certainly given money and time to many causes throughout the years and should be appreciated for that aspect. However, although she shares great beauty and philanthropic work with actress Angelina Jolie, I cannot ignore that they both chose to have affairs with married men. Elizabeth did it twice, once with married Richard Burton and again with married Eddie Fisher, and Angelina of course with Brad Pitt. I understand it takes two to tango, but some women have a standard of not involving themselves with a married man, which obviously wasn't the case with Elizabeth or Angelina.
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alisande
13 years ago
And quintuplicate husbands, also rare.

Just kidding......I liked her, and I know she had more than five husbands, but "quintuplicate" is the highest I could go. :-)
amicus
13 years ago
I actually met Elizabeth Taylor and got to chat with her a few times. I worked for a theatre and she was performing in a play. She was one of the most beautiful women I'd ever met. I think her agents may have started the rumor that ther eyes were violet to make her seem unique, but her eyes were actually just a very striking dark blue. However I have seen certain pictures of her online and in magazines where they have clearly retouched the color to make them appear violet.
stacey_mb
13 years ago
Elizabeth Taylor had an elegant and natural form of beauty, and she looked so beautiful in any fashion she chose to wear. It was a mark of her professionalism as an actress IMO that she took on the role of Martha in the movie Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, a distinctly unglamorous part.

Has anybody here at KT ever seen her in person?
yayagal
13 years ago
I saw her in person coming out of the Ritz Hotel in Boston, I was going in and she was dressed in a white fur coat, black boots and she was GORGEOUS!!!! I'm five seven and I felt like a giant next to her. She was very petite. I was about 18 at the time and sooo impressed with her so I was her fan till the end.
wantoretire_did
13 years ago
I saw her and Richard Burton in a hotel bar in London in the early 60s - very low-key and unobtrusive. She was wearing a sheath dress with a Peter Pan collar, as I recall. Beautiful as ever.
Oakley
13 years ago
I think her debut movie was "Lassie Come Home". She did a few before National Velvet.

If you want a GREAT movie to watch with a young Elizabeth, watch "White Cliffs of Dover." She was about 10, and didn't receive any credit. The movie will make you laugh and cry.

What a great actress and a great person from what I've heard.
chisue
13 years ago
Hmm. I wonder if I still have that copy of "Nibbles and Me" by Elizabeth Taylor? (I think Nibbles was her pet hampster -- which may explain why *I* had one...briefly.)
sylviatexas1
13 years ago
"What a great actress and a great person from what I've heard."

She & Richard Burton went to Germany to adopt a child;
they were rich & famous, & they could have had their choice of any perfect child in the orphanage, & here's what happened:

Ã¢ÂÂThe German officials wanted me to have a Ã¢ÂÂperfect babyÃ¢ÂÂ.
To me she was perfect.
She was covered in abscesses, suffering from malnutrition and had a crippled hip, maybe for life"and I just loved her.
She did not cry, she did not laugh.
She watched everything.
I held her and I bathed her and I changed her for three days and finally she started giggling.
This funny little introverted person that was sort of half-asleep, responded so to love, the warmth, I think, of two arms.
Her first word was Mama.
I guess thatÃ¢ÂÂs universal, isnÃ¢ÂÂt it.
But when it happens, you just die.Ã¢ÂÂ

Elizabeth Taylor on first meeting Maria Burton

& in later years, she did a tremendous amount ofwork for AIDS awareness & raised lots of money for AIDS research.

She was beautiful, & she was talented, & she had a heart.
User
13 years ago
I loved her and miss her .
Amazing Aunt Audrey
13 years ago
Well she did 4 movies before National Velvet......
1942: There's One Born Every Minute
1943: Lassie Come Home
1943: Jane Eyre
1944: The White Cliffs of Dover

Can you tell I'm a fan? LOL
joyfulguy
13 years ago
She was a very able lady ... I didn't know that she was so petite.

Sextuplicate, anyone? That's a variant of "six" which French pronounce like "cease" - don't know for seven ... septuplicate, I think ("sept" being "seven", in French).

o j
arcy_gw
13 years ago
She was beautiful, talented and had a heart--so why all the broken marriages? The word tragedy comes to mind when I think of her life.
susanjf_gw
13 years ago
saw her once at the burbank airport..and i thought her eyes were as described...had on a lovely coat with a fur collar...it was way back in the days before she would have been swarmed with the press...
pattico_gw
13 years ago
here are those eyes....(oops it got a little big)

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