Elizabeth Taylor's Thirteen Most Featured Personal Affairs – The Author of Her Obituary Died before Her
Elizabeth Taylor's Thirteen Most Featured Personal Affairs The Author of Her Obituary Died before Her
1. She is the first actress ever to get paid a million-dollar salary in the film history.
2. Even in the classic black and white Jane Eyre used to appear the figure of Elizabeth Taylor, who played a playmate of Jane Eyre in orphanage that unfortunately died of lung disease in her teens.
3. She used to win the Oscar for Best Actress twice; However these two roles for her awards would highly contrast each other, as one is a prostitute in Butterfield 8 (1961) while another is an intellect in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966).
4. The cost on make-up and costumes of Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra reached up to a huge amount of US $190,000. Even one of the costumes was made of gold.
5. Due to the huge cost, Elizabeth's hell-bent behaviors as well as the mistakes caused by producer Walter Wanger, the box office of Cleopatra suffered a crushing defeat that lead to Walter's thorough quit from being a producer. Whereas from that time on, Elizabeth started to fall in love with Richard Burton who later became her fifth husband. Subsequently they got married twice but still split thoroughly after their second divorce.
6. What Taylor had been undergoing through her life contain not only complex feelings but also countless diseases. In 1961, she almost died of pneumonia while shooting Cleopatra. In 1990, the relapse of her pneumonia led her to stay in hospital up to 3 months. In 1995, she was hospitalized again due to hypertension and arrhythmia. In 1997 before her 65th birthday, she underwent an operation in order to remove a benign tumor from her brain. In addition she used to undergo hip surgery for three times, even her uterus was also removed. Meanwhile she still suffered serious alcoholism as well as drug dependence.
7. Elizabeth had a long lasting friendship with Montgomery Clift. However the unpopularity of coming out of the closet in those years made Montgomery who was fond of handsome boys feel quite annoying, but what was so strange was that he also refused the love made by James Dean to him. That means he had refused both the most beautiful man and woman in the world simultaneously. The death of Montgomery in 1966 made Taylor break down and she just ran into her hotel room then burst out crying. After crying she went out of the room and told Richard Burton who was her husband of the time, "My love is dead!"
8. In order to play Martha in Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf, Taylor never spared herself in increasing her body weight for 30 pounds. Actually this movie is the first movie to be given the MPAA tag "No one under 18 will be admitted unless accompanied by his parent", despite that the movie title "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" indeed looks so decent and literary.
9. Same as most women, Taylor has a passion for jewelries, for example Richard Burton, as her husband having the most emotional entanglement with her, used to send her a diamond named "Taylor Burton" that even weighed up to 69.42 carat!
10. Taylor's first husband is Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr., the heir of the Hilton family while she is his first wife. Several decades later, this Hilton just got a very famous grand-niece, yes, a girl who is particularly fond of wearing few clothes and getting drunk in public and her name is Paris Hilton.
11. As the eighth husband of Taylor, Larry Fortensky is a lorry driver and he is over ten years younger than Taylor. It is said that they met and fell in love with each other when both of them became addicted to painkillers used for their treatments at the same time in a hospital. Their wedding took place at the strongly fortified Neverland Valley Ranch that belonged to the King of Pop Michael Jackson. After the wedding, Fortensky still drove his van to work at construction site. They lived together for a total of five years.
12. In 2003 when US was attacking Iraq, Elizabeth Taylor was originally expected to be able to attend the Annual Ceremony of 75th Oscar Awards together with other 59 old stars who were all awarded the Oscars in the past. However before the ceremony she just made her antiwar statement as "Any war that makes people go to die is an extremely serious disrespect to the human beings". As a result, the official acknowledgement receipt from Oscar committee somehow arrived in her hand only a few days before the start of the ceremony, whereas normally it would need at least two months for anyone to prepare himself / herself for such a grand ceremony. Therefore Taylor had to stay at home and insist on watching the Oscar ceremony in full on live television.
13. So far Elizabeth Taylor has outlived not only five out of her seven husbands but also the writer of New York Times obituary for her, as New York Times had prepared this obit so early that its writer Mel Gussow had died in 2005. Later, of course, his colleagues had to update and revise what he had written down. Introducing Your Child to Virtual Pets Child Support help Discuss Money With Your Child Employee benefits can make childcare easier Weight Management Training for Kids in a Gym Franchise Educating with Toys The Right Age to Use Hoodia Weight Loss Pills - Can Overweight Kids Use Hoodia? Stuffed Animals – Every Child Deserves One Woodcraft Construction Kits Top Ten Best Toys You are not a child now Villa holidays are perfect with children How to childproof your condo or loft Discussing The Benefits Of Teen Abstinence