It was sad for me to read about Liz Taylor dying. We all knew it would happen in time just as we know that anyone we know who is older will die. Liz gave us a lot of first class movies to watch. She was good at her craft. I have missed watching her but I knew her movie making days were over.
Liz in National Velvet
“National Velvet” was her first hit at the box office. It was a sweet story and I enjoyed watching it as many did. She was just a child but she already had talent.
One of my favorite films she made was “Giant” with Rock Hudson and James Dean which came out in 1956 but I didn’t see it until many years later. That story was interesting because they took that family from their young years on the ranch into their old age. Kind of amazing to see how Hollywood made them all look older in the fifties. I couldn’t imagine Elizabeth Taylor as ever being old.
Giant
Another movie that I adored watching and still do when I can was “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.” Partly because it took place in the south and I am a southern woman. Another reason was because of Paul Newman. I loved Paul Newman back in the day as almost every woman did. He was hot and sultry.
Tennessee Williams who wrote the story had a flare for describing the dynamics of family life in the South.
Liz and Paul...Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
At age 28 she won the Academy Award for Butterfield 8. A movie consider a melodrama. Her talent in this movie was outstanding. Not only that but she was just about at her peek in her beauty to me. I can’t remember but I think this is the only movie where she dies. I remember crying as I watched it.
Scene in Butterfield 8
Many people have had their say about her drug abuse. Not me. We all in life have our problems. Had she not gone into rehab for help, not many people would have known.
Plus, she was known for her many marriages. If I am correct, she married 8 times. My mother never forgave her for breaking up the marriage of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. Probably the one man most people remember the most was to Richard Burton. She and Burton had met before the making of Cleopatra. He flirted with her but she told him she would not be another notch on his belt. When the met on the set of Cleopatra, they started an affair that rocked the world. The Vatican even wrote about it. The front page headlines of a space mission here in the states had to take second billing to their affair.
In fact, she was married to Richard Burton for ten years only to get a divorce. About 16 months after their divorce, they remarried. It was published that they drank, had stormy fights and would make up as if nothing had happened. They both were married when they met on the set to do Cleopatra.
While watching” Who Is Afraid of Virginia Wolfe”, I always wondered if this was a bit like their life. Not that the movie was glamors but the man and wife drank too much, were both abusive and not any couple that anyone would want to socialize with in life. To watch a trailer of the movie, click on the link below.
| http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2027095065/ |
Richard Burton gave Liz the famous 33.19-carat Asscher-cut Krupp Diamond, in 1968. I was shocked and so was the world. This was probably the most money any man had ever spent on a piece of jewelry for a woman at the time and maybe since.
To read about his purchases of jewelry for Liz you can read this link.
http://famousdiamonds.tripod.com/taylor-burtondiamond.html
Elizabeth Taylor wasn’t boring. She lived a lavish life that was read about by many. For decades she was the talk of all the Tabloids. My thought is that Elizabeth Taylor was who she was in life. Now, my wish is for her to rest in peace. I loved you Elizabeth Taylor. You bought me a lot of joy though watching your movies.
Credits for some of my information.
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1892720128/tt0061184
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