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Elizabeth Taylor: National Velvet
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The following year, Elizabeth Taylor signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and landed the part of an English heiress in the successful film Lassie Come Home. MGM was the biggest and best studio of the time and employed stars such as Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Katherine Hepburn, and Joan Crawford. In 1943 Taylor was cast opposite Mickey Rooney in National Velvet, the story of a young woman who wins a horse in the lottery and eventually rides it in England's Grand National Steeplechase. Taylor was so determined to play the role that she exercised and dieted for four months. During filming, she was thrown from a horse and suffered a broken back, but forced herself to finish the project. Her dedication was well rewarded and National Velvet became both a critical and commercial success.
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Elizabeth was born with U.S. nationality. Both of her American parents were originally from Arkansas City, Kansas. Elizabeth Taylor's father was an art dealer and her mother a former actress whose stage name was Sara Sothern. Sara retired from the stage when she and Francis Taylor married in 1926 in New York.
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Photographer Greg Mathieson alleges that AMI has numerous images of celebrities, including Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Bruce Willis, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Princess Diana and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. AMI publishes The National Enquirer, Star and Globe, among other magazines.
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A national institution and a living legend, Taylor became the paradigmatic exemplar of media-driven notions of celebrity, and an emblem of outrageous excess--conditions that defined her adult image. Her extraordinary, colorful and, indeed, remarkable life, made her an object of constant fascination to the public, among whom she variously evoked admiration, even worship, as well as periodically inviting derision or attracting moral outrage. However, the notoriety that has attached to her fabled marriages (seven husbands, eight weddings), her abundant wealth, her disappointments and tragedies, her many illnesses, weight problems, and battles with substance abuse, served seriously to overshadow her acting achievements to the detriment of her professional reputation.
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Interpol 4 Dec 2003 www.interpol.int LYON, France, 4 December 2003 - At the request of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (www.sc-sl.org), Interpol has issued a Red Notice for former Liberian President Charles Taylor. The notice was issued on 4 December 2003. This is in accordance with a cooperation agreement between Interpol and that court, finalized in November 2003: Wanted by Interpol TAYLOR, Charles Ghankay Legal Status Present family name: TAYLOR Forename: CHARLES GHANKAY Sex: MALE Date of birth: 28 January 1948 (55 years old) Place of birth: ARTHINGTON, Liberia Language spoken: English Nationality: Liberia Offences Person may be dangerous. Offences: CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY , GRAVE BREACHES OF THE 1949 GENEVA CONVENTIONS Arrest Warrant Issued by: / SCSL:SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION CONTACT YOUR NATIONAL OR LOCAL POLICE GENERAL SECRETARIAT OF INTERPOL fugitives@interpol.int
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