Perhaps you should have been in Gone With the Wind in '39 when you were only seven. But, it was said you had a strange sort of beauty back then when I was born in '44....& when I was conceived in October '43 you were in that Lassie Come Home.1 Yes, 1944 was a big year for you and a big year for me------you with 20thCFox playing the character of Helen Burns in a film version of that Bronte novel Jane Eyre and with MGM in The White Cliffs of Dover. I was in my cradle on Hamilton Beach with Lillian and Frederick Price and Alfred Cornfield to help me get into that world just three days after the attempted assassination on Hitler in his Wolfe's Lair.2
National Velvet made you famous and I was only 4 months old. They say the film helped people believe anything was possible with a philosophy of life, in other words, a film which acquired the status of a generational classic . .3 I wish you well, Elizabeth, in your new starring role in the Land of Lights where the beauty of the soul, it is said, and the beauty of the body find some place that befits their immortality, perhaps?
1 This film, Taylor's first, was released on 7 October 1943 and I was conceived in the following week in Hamilton Ontario. In 1944 she signed a 7 year contract with MGM at $100/week. 2 The famous plot on 20 July 1944, an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. It occurred 66 hours(circa) before my birth on 23 July 1944. 3 Alexander Walker, Elizabeth: The Life of Elizabeth Taylor, Grove Press, 1997(1990), p. 14.
Ron Price 26 March 2011
Married for 44 years, a teacher for 35, a writer and editor for 12 and a Baha'i for 52(in 2011)
Führer(spelled wrong in the above and I am unable to correct the "ü") is a German title meaning leader or guide. It is now most associated with Adolf Hitler, who modelled it on Benito Mussolini's title il Duce as well as Georg von Schönerer, whose few followers also commonly referred to as "Führer", and used the "Sieg Heil"-phrase. The word Führer in the sense of guide remains common in German, but because of its strong association with Nazi Germany, it comes with some stigma and negative connotation when used as the meaning of leader.
Married for 44 years, a teacher for 35, a writer and editor for 12 and a Baha'i for 52(in 2011)
Hey Ron....we were talking about ET...this past week...no disrespect....but ...did not find her all that apealing...as well as maryln Monroe and Sophia Loraine...the biggest name we could think of ( and like) was racheal Welch..for some reason..I know ET was in a lot of good movies...."cat on a hot tin roof " as well as others..when she was younger was a great looking women...but her career was based on her younger years..as well as her other female roles..in later years..but our opinion is soely based apon her later appearance of being overwieght and multiple marraiges...to say the least....as well as her frienship with MJ ....not a good resume ...to say the least....just saying...her girlish profile...did not carry over in the later years INMHO..and did not carry over into the present ...on her reputation...
Indeed, R1phil, not many keep their girlish profile, as you say. Especially after the age of 60, 70 or 80. My manly profile, now as I head for 70, has long gone with 70 pounds put on since the age of 40. "Such is life," as the Australian outlaw, Ned Kelly, is reported to have said on his way to the gallows in 1880 in NSW Australia.-Ron
Married for 44 years, a teacher for 35, a writer and editor for 12 and a Baha'i for 52(in 2011)
Elizabeth Taylor(disambiguation). Page semi-protected Elizabeth Taylor
Studio publicity photo Born Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor February 27, 1932 Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, England Died March 23, 2011 (aged 79) Los Angeles, California, United States Cause of death Congestive heart failure Resting place Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California Nationality British-American Other names Liz Taylor Occupation Actress, social activist Years active 1942-2003 Religion
Christian Science (1932-59) Judaism (1959-2011)[1]
Spouse
Conrad Hilton, Jr. (1950-51; divorced) Michael Wilding (1952-57; divorced) Mike Todd (1957-58; widow) Eddie Fisher (1959-64; divorced) Richard Burton (1964-74, 1975-76; divorced twice) John Warner (1976-82; divorced) Larry Fortensky (1991-96; divorced)
Children
Michael Howard Wilding Christopher Edward Wilding Elizabeth Frances "Liza" Todd Burton Maria Burton
Parents
Francis Lenn Taylor (deceased) Sara Sothern (deceased)
Relatives Howard Taylor (older brother) Awards List
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 - March 23, 2011) was a British-American[2] actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. As one of the world's most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting ability and for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty and distinctive violet eyes.
National Velvet (1944) was Taylor's first success, and she starred in Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960), played the title role in Cleopatra (1963), and married her co-star Richard Burton. They appeared together in 11 films, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which Taylor won a second Academy Award. From the mid-1970s, she appeared less frequently in film, and made occasional appearances in television and theatre.
Gone With the Wind in '39 when
you were only seven. But, it was
said you had a strange sort of beauty
back then when I was born in '44....&
when I was conceived in October '43
you were in that Lassie Come Home.1
Yes, 1944 was a big year for you and a
big year for me------you with 20thCFox
playing the character of Helen Burns in
a film version of that Bronte novel Jane
Eyre and with MGM in The White Cliffs
of Dover. I was in my cradle on Hamilton
Beach with Lillian and Frederick Price and
Alfred Cornfield to help me get into that
world just three days after the attempted
assassination on Hitler in his Wolfe's Lair.2
National Velvet made you famous and I was
only 4 months old. They say the film helped
people believe anything was possible with a
philosophy of life, in other words, a film which
acquired the status of a generational classic . .3
I wish you well, Elizabeth, in your new starring
role in the Land of Lights where the beauty of
the soul, it is said, and the beauty of the body find
some place that befits their immortality, perhaps?
1 This film, Taylor's first, was released on 7 October 1943 and I was conceived in the following week in Hamilton Ontario. In 1944 she signed a 7 year contract with MGM at $100/week.
2 The famous plot on 20 July 1944, an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. It occurred 66 hours(circa) before my birth on 23 July 1944.
3 Alexander Walker, Elizabeth: The Life of Elizabeth Taylor, Grove Press, 1997(1990), p. 14.
Ron Price
26 March 2011
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Elizabeth Taylor
Studio publicity photo
Born Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
February 27, 1932
Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, England
Died March 23, 2011 (aged 79)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Cause of death Congestive heart failure
Resting place Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
Nationality British-American
Other names Liz Taylor
Occupation Actress, social activist
Years active 1942-2003
Religion
Christian Science (1932-59)
Judaism (1959-2011)[1]
Spouse
Conrad Hilton, Jr. (1950-51; divorced)
Michael Wilding (1952-57; divorced)
Mike Todd (1957-58; widow)
Eddie Fisher (1959-64; divorced)
Richard Burton (1964-74, 1975-76; divorced twice)
John Warner (1976-82; divorced)
Larry Fortensky (1991-96; divorced)
Children
Michael Howard Wilding
Christopher Edward Wilding
Elizabeth Frances "Liza" Todd Burton
Maria Burton
Parents
Francis Lenn Taylor (deceased)
Sara Sothern (deceased)
Relatives Howard Taylor (older brother)
Awards List
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 - March 23, 2011) was a British-American[2] actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. As one of the world's most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting ability and for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty and distinctive violet eyes.
National Velvet (1944) was Taylor's first success, and she starred in Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960), played the title role in Cleopatra (1963), and married her co-star Richard Burton. They appeared together in 11 films, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which Taylor won a second Academy Award. From the mid-1970s, she appeared less frequently in film, and made occasional appearances in television and theatre.
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