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Elizabeth Taylor: Universal Studios
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When Elizabeth Taylor asks for something, she gets it. At least that’s the way things went for the septuagenarian actress today, when she announced that T.V. and film writers striking in front of the Paramount lot in L.A. have agreed to honor her request and cease their protest for one day only. Not just any day of the week.... The brief ceasefire will commence on December 1st, World AIDS Day, when Ms. Taylor and James Earl Jones will perform A.R. Gurney’s play Love Letters at the studio.
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On being told by many people that Elizabeth was an unusually beautiful child, Elizabeth's mother negotiated a contract for her daughter at Universal Studios. However, it was MGM who gave Elizabeth her big break. For the female lead in "Lassie Come Home" they needed a young girl who sounded English, was not particularly tall and could ride a horse. They needed the ten-year old Elizabeth Taylor.
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A family friend noticed the beautiful little Elizabeth and suggested that she be taken for a screen test. She passed and was signed to a contract with Universal Studios. Her first foray onto the silver screen was in the film, called a short, THERE'S ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE released in 1942 when she was ten. Universal let the contract drop after the one film and Elizabeth was picked up by M-G-M. The first production she made with them was LASSIE COME HOME (1943). On the strength of that one film, M-G-M signed her to a full year. Her next two films were minuscule parts in 1944, THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER and JANE EYRE.
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