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In the Golden Age of Hollywood, there were far more female stars than male stars, and Elizabeth Taylor was one of the most representative. She debuted at the age of 9 and has been known as the most beautiful woman in the world for more than 60 years in her acting career, even if her contemporaries Hepburn, Monroe and the "Ice Queen" Grace Kelly are also popular, but Taylor's beauty has always been unshakable.
Elizabeth Taylor is loved for her complexity, she is sexy and energetic.
"But in her bones she is vulgar, just like her love for brilliant jewelry." I know I'm vulgar, she said, and then responded with typical bluntness to fans, and you say I have any other way? ”
Taylor combines beauty, superficiality, seriousness, debauchery, nobility and vulgarity. This is in stark contrast to Hepburn and Monroe. Hepburn was black and white and elegant; Monroe was pink and sexy.
Taylor was different from them. She is an idol that thousands of people are obsessed with, and she is a beautiful goddess that people cannot hope for.
<h1>01 Was born the Ugly Duckling, 9-year-old Mi received both MGM and Universal offers</h1>
Taylor wasn't very good-looking when he was just born, and he didn't expect that the older he got, the more beautiful he became. Her mother, Sarah, then used her brain to raise her to stardom. Because of the entire social environment in Europe and the United States in the mid-20th century, child stars were very popular.
(Taylor in childhood)
Sarah didn't have much money, and she couldn't even buy stockings, but she was willing to spend money to dress up Taylor. Sarah enrolled Taylor in a dance class, which won an audition at MGM Pictures through the relationship between Taylor's classmates and parents.
Sarah works in a gallery, and one of her buyers gave her daughter an audition. Sarah specially dressed her daughter with a beautiful skirt with frills and low-heeled patent leather cross-belt shoes. Elizabeth Jr. performed very well, and both MGM and Universal offered to hire her. Little Taylor wanted to choose to sign a contract with MGM, which was developing better at that time, but Sarah finally let her daughter sign a contract with Universal, but the cooperation lasted only 1 year, because Universal was not optimistic about Taylor, and terminated the contract.
In 1943, at the age of 11, Elizabeth Taylor filmed Velvet in her first film, The Jade Goddess Foal. She was too short at the time, and in order to get the role she had dreamed of, she used her willpower to force herself to grow taller in just three months.
Finally Elizabeth's height finally qualified, and "Jade Goddess Colt" began filming. The film was shot for seven months, and Elizabeth sighed: "I spent a lot of effort on this film. I've never made a film in my life that takes more effort than this one. ”
"The Jade Goddess Foal" received a very good response after its release, as if elizabeth had become a small star of great attention overnight. After that, Taylor had a smooth ride and shot a lot of commercials and movies. From 1957 to 1959, she was nominated for three Oscars for Sengoku, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Summer Horror. But the most noteworthy is Taylor's classic Cleopatra. Richard Burton, who was filmed in Rome in 1961 and played Mark Anthony, fell in love.
"Cleopatra" was a sensation, and this film made both the film itself and the love between Elizabeth and Burton. Although the marriage still could not get rid of the doom of rupture, the relationship with Burton was the best time of her life.
Although the marriage was unhappy, Elizabeth achieved brilliant success in her career. Her acting career lasted seventy years, leaving behind more than fifty films. She has won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, and her beauty and acting skills coexist.
She is the most popular box office queen, and as long as she is in the film, people will buy it.
In Elizabeth's later years, she went from being a prominent female star to a social activist, and she was the founder of the American AIDS Research Foundation and made important contributions.
There is no eternal life in the world, but there is an eternal soul, and Taylor's soul will always be remembered. She did whatever she wanted in her life, and as an actress, she was the "Cleopatra" in Hollywood; as a woman, she married 8 times and had a sadistic relationship with Burton for 12 years.
At the end of her eighth marriage, she vowed never to marry again: "I have loved 7 men in my life, I have been married 8 times, and God has given me beauty, fame, success, and wealth, so he has not given me happiness." 」 ”
In 1999, Taylor received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 52nd British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards.
In 2000, the Queen of the United Kingdom awarded her the Female Knighthood in recognition of her extraordinary contribution to film and philanthropy.
She was too self-absorbed in marriage, and Harper's Bazaar editor-in-chief Su Mang once said: "She is the woman that every woman dreams of becoming." ”
Her legendary life has been revered by countless people. But many people do not understand, why is it that the achievement is so great, the charm is so high, but it can not get a happy marriage?
<h1>Eight marriages, she slept only with her husband</h1>
In contrast, her emotional path is far more complicated than her career path.
From her first marriage at the age of 18 to her last marriage at the age of 59, she has been longing for love and looking forward to marriage all her life, but eight marriages have left her with a lot of pain.
Her first marriage was married to the son of a hotel magnate, the Hilton Hotel. She said: "I have money, reputation and status, and men just need to stand by my side." "But the handsome husband cheated on him in less than a year, and the two divorced.
Her second marriage: less than a year after the divorce, married to a British actor and conceived two children, and later because of her husband's mediocre acting skills and lack of interest in life, the marriage ended five years later under the fierce pursuit of producer Todd.
Third marriage: Taylor married Todd just a month after her divorce, which was also her only unmarried marriage, and more than a year after marriage, Todd died of a plane crash.
The fourth marriage has been criticized: after Todd's death, Taylor's girlfriend brought her husband Fisher to comfort her, who knows, Fisher fell in love with Taylor, and the two married.
The fifth and sixth marriages are the same person:
Taylor married actor Burton, then divorced and remarried, and divorced again a year later.
Taylor and Burton had an affair in "Cleopatra", when both were married, and their extramarital affairs were boiling over.
The love and hatred between them have been entangled for ten years, and finally Lao Yan has diverged.
Seventh marriage: Shortly after burton divorced again, Taylor married Senator John and retired from Hollywood, and later her husband overeated to more than 160 pounds and could no longer tolerate such a life and divorced.
Eighth marriage: She married a truck driver 20 years younger than her, and five years later, because of the huge social status gap between the two, Taylor divorced again.
Taylor's love life has been criticized by the public, but in her heart, she considers herself loyal to feelings: "I only sleep with men who marry me. ”
<h1>He and Burton were sadistic for 12 years, the two were truly in love, and after divorce, they wrote letters for 10 years until their deaths</h1>
Of these 8 marriages, the most noteworthy is the 5th marriage, and Burton's 12-year sadomasochistic relationship.
Taylor and Burton met in 1961, and "Cleopatra" that year became their love affair. The film was a huge cost, and after its release, it sold well at the box office and won 4 Oscar awards, if it were not for the success, the then Twentieth Century Fox company would have gone bankrupt.
The news that the two lead actors rubbed sparks during filming did not go away, and the sensation caused by this scandal around the world far exceeded the impact of this big-budget film.
In 1962, Taylor's marriage to her fourth husband, American singer Eddie Fisher, was just in its second year. At that time, Burton also had two lovely daughters with his wife, but all this began to change after the two met.
In 1951, Burton played Hamlet
Taylor entered the show business at the age of 9 and read countless people, how did she fall in love with Richard Burton?
Born into a poor miner's family, Burton found his love of literature in middle school and joined the troupe as an actor, and the young Burton carried an English dictionary and a complete collection of Shakespeare everywhere he went, not only could shakespeare be turned upside down, such a literary and martial all-rounder can be said to satisfy every woman's fantasy, including Taylor.
Taylor was born in 1932 and had just turned thirty when he fell in love with Burton
For Burton, Elizabeth Taylor was beautiful, and that rare pair of violet eyes alone was enough to be distracting. Elizabeth's personality is bright, warm and overwhelming.
Taylor and Burton, who met in "Cleopatra", are constantly attracted to each other like Cleopetara and Anthony in the film, and the countless hot lines in the play are even more revealing the true feelings of the two people, and it is rumored that when the kiss scene was filmed, the two were still inseparable after the director shouted to stop.
But both men own their own homes, and there are countless oppositions from the public. Burton once said, "Without Taylor, life wouldn't be so important." Two years after falling in love, the two went through their respective divorce procedures and married in March 1964.
At their wedding, Taylor wore a yellow daffodil chiffon dress, bell orchids and hyacinths, and on his chest the emerald diamond brooch that Burton had purchased at Bulgari, and the emerald in the center weighed 18.61 carats.
After marriage, Burton loved Taylor even more. In 1969, Burton bought one of the world's largest diamonds from Cartier for $1.06 million, weighing 244 carats before being processed and 69 carats after polishing, and it is also known as the "Burton Taylor Diamond".
The "Taj Mahal Diamond" inlaid on the necklace taylor worn by Taylor was a gift from the Mughal monarch Jahangi to Empress Noor 300 years ago, and was given to Taylor by Burton in 1972 as a 40th birthday gift.
But in front of Taylor's love with Burton, there are not only these gold and silver jewels, but also sincere feelings. Burton used all the good words of the world to describe Taylor, and in the public diary after his death, Burton's pampering and admiration for his lover was even more straightforward.
"Elizabeth went to work to try on her new costume, and I hope she'll be back before I go out." Although we have been together for seven or eight years, I still miss her every time she goes to the bathroom. ”
"If she (Taylor) still needs me, I'll drop this rag right away and jump on a plane and follow her all the way." But it is still the old saying: to be with her is to survive, and to leave her is to die. But I've loved her all my life. ”
"I've been incredibly lucky all my life, and the biggest of those lucks is Elizabeth. She can be both arrogant and willful, but also full of tenderness and love at all times, she is like a sweet queen, she can tolerate my inadequacies and alcoholism, and most importantly, she loves me! ”
However, even such deep love eventually led to separation. Burton is a straight-forward person, Taylor's sensitivity and uneasiness sometimes make Burton feel powerless, and Burton's alcoholism becomes an obstacle in the relationship.
After many quarrels, the couple divorced in Switzerland in June 1974.
Less than 16 months after their divorce, the lovers, who were destined to haunt them for the rest of their lives, had their wedding again. Unfortunately, they divorced again a year later and never got back together.
In that era of underdeveloped communication, Burton expressed his heart to Taylor in the most classical and romantic letters, a habit that persisted until 1984, when he died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 59.
Just days before his death, he sent Taylor a letter that he didn't receive until Taylor had finished attending her funeral.
"Richard was a careful, loving man," Taylor said, "from the moment we met in Rome, we loved each other furiously, and we had a lot of time to love each other, but it wasn't enough." ”
Even if they don't end well, if they were given a chance to start over, they might still fall in love.
As Taylor said after Burton's death, "If he had lived to this day, we would still be together."
Taylor left us in 2011, so let's hope they've got their wish now.
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