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Elizabeth Taylor: Roles
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In "Raintree County" - a cross between "Gone With The Wind" and "Marnie" - Elizabeth played Susanna, who tricks John (Montgomery Clift) into marriage by claiming falsely to be pregnant, and later descends into insanity. As Maggie in "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof", she wailed long and loudly about her husband's strange indifference to her femininity and his future prospects. In "Suddenly Last Summer", Elizabeth played a young woman of enormous sexual attraction whose sanity is being questioned and jeopardised. She followed this with "Butterfield 8" where she played a good-time girl who had a powerful effect on men, and bewailed her situation. The similarity of these roles can not be purely coincidental. (Elizabeth let it be known that she had not wanted to make "Butterfield 8", but she did not use her box-office power to reject the movie and insist on something different.)
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Subsequently dismissed by Universal, Taylor soon rebounded with an MGM contract, thanks to her father's friendship with producer Samuel Marx. In the midst of shooting "Lassie Come Home" (1943), starring Roddy McDowall and Donald Crisp, Marx was desperately looking for a young girl to play the small but pivotal role of Priscilla, the granddaughter of a rich Yorkshire landowner. Despite her inexperience - she had no formal training, just her mother's incessant coaching - Taylor ... beat out four other actresses for the part. The resulting film did little to boost her profile on the MGM lot; in fact, the studio promptly loaned her out to 20th Century Fox for a brief role in "Jane Eyre" (1944).
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On September 13, Michael will host the first party he's thrown since ELIZABETH TAYLOR's 1991 wedding to LARRY FORTENSKY. Some are saying the star-studded, grand bash will outdo even the lavish Oscar® parties held in Hollywood each year, and Michael may even roll out a cake for himself, as he's celebrating his birthday August 29.
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