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Elizabeth Taylor is considered one of the last, if not the last major star, to have come out of the old Hollywood studio system. And not just any studio, the top of the heap: MGM. Her early movies, as a child in the early 1940s, starred such Hollywood luminaries as Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy. She quickly grew up... and by 1950 was, if not starring in, assuming major responsibilities for the success of motion pictures she appeared in. Then with major roles onscreen, came worldwide attention off-screen, most notably due to a succession of famous and/or rich husbands and a series of health crises throughout her life. To put it simply, Elizabeth Taylor has lived a life far more exciting and dramatic than any movie she's ever appeared in and probably most any other movie you could name. She's known internationally for her beauty, especially for those violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early on in her youth and has kept the world hooked on ever since.
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Francis Taylor [Elizabeth's father] didn't approve of Elizabeth's proposed conversion to the Catholic faith. In April Elizabeth, too, had second thoughts, after learning that she'd have to sign an oath promising to bring her children up in the church. At Mtro, which was performing corporate sommersaults to support her wedding because of all the free publicity for Bride, Pandro Berman prediced a flare-up of what he called Elizabeth's "crazy defiance."
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Passion Perfume EDT SPR 2.3 oz TESTER for Women, Launched by the design house of Elizabeth Taylor in 1987, PASSION PERFUME is classified as a refined, oriental, woody fragrance. This feminine scent possesses a blend of intense florals including jasmine and vanilla. It is recommended for evening wear.
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Acclaimed Tennessee Williams drama features Elizabeth Taylor as a disturbed young woman who accompanied her homosexual cousin on trips to Europe. Katharine Hepburn is her eccentric aunt who knows the bizarre secrets of her past, Montgomery Clift a sympathetic doctor who decides to help Liz. Scripted by Gore Vidal; directed by Joseph Mankiewicz. 114 min.
MGM gave Elizabeth the part. They ... gave her a contract and a run of commercially successful films where her co-stars were animals and other children. (In one of the 'extras' on the DVD of "A Place In The Sun", Elizabeth says "my leading men before had been dogs and horses".) The critics were enthusiastic about her during this period, and all went well until Elizabeth reached her mid-teens.
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Clyde Edgerton's Walking Across Egypt is the heartwarming story of Mattie Rigsby whose unconventional path crosses that of Wesley Benfield, played by Jonathan Taylor Thomas, a 17 year old orphaned teenager who has been confined to a detention center. Mattie believes in helping the "lesser of these thy brethren." Their relationship soon begins to fulfill an overwhelming and profound need in both of them. On the opposite ends of the cultural and generational spectrum, they prove "needing to be needed" knows no age or cultural barriers.
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