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Elizabeth Taylor: Movies
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In the early 1980s Elizabeth Taylor moved to Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California, which is her current home. The fenced and gated property is on tour maps sold at street corners and is frequently passed by tour guides.
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Taylor returned to the Betty Ford Clinic in 1988, where she met a forty-year old construction worker named Larry Fortensky. Their friendship continued outside the clinic and they married in 1991. In 1993 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored Taylor with a special humanitarian (supporter of human welfare) award for her years with AmFAR. In 1994 Taylor returned to the movies after a fourteen-year absence for a small part in The Flintstones. She then announced her retirement from films. Her marriage to Fortensky ended in 1996.
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Although Elizabeth made fewer movies in the late 1950s, there was no reduction in her appearances in gossip columns. Mike Todd's extravagance in buying jewelry and clothes for his wife kept the columnists busy, and when he was killed in a plane accident, the press was full of commiseration for Elizabeth. The mood changed ... when Eddie Fisher left Debbie Reynolds for Elizabeth. Now columnists vilified Elizabeth, and were joined in this by some politicians and clergymen. Once again, their denunciations had no effect on Elizabeth's box office performance, and her films continued to make money.
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Taylor then moved to Broadway for the first time in a well-received staging of The Little Foxes. She and Richard Burton appeared together in a 1983 production of Private Lives, but critics felt that the dramatic spark between them was no longer there. In 1983 Taylor checked into the Betty Ford Clinic in California for treatment for her alcohol addiction. The death of Burton in August 1984... combined with back pain and general ill health, led to her return to drinking and drugs.
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Quite possibly Elizabeth did turn down movies. After 1954 she made only one film a year, and while her frequent illnesses may have reduced her output, she was not unwell continuously. For a major box office star, MGM would have had projects ready and waiting.
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