She is known as the world's number one beauty, and she is a symbol of Hollywood's golden age. From a naturally beautiful child star to a gorgeous Cleopatra, her dream life is intertwined with the world of cinema. Many people just pay attention to the lace news of her 8 marriages with 7 men, but they don't know that her acting skills have won her the Oscar for best actress twice. Her abandonment of her angelic face to look ugly has inspired many of Hollywood's later stars, and she is the legendary Hollywood movie star Elizabeth Taylor.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="241" > born star</h1>
Elizabeth Taylor was born in London, England in 1932. Her father was a well-respected art dealer, her mother was a stage actress with a passion for acting, and at the age of three Elizabeth showed a keen interest and amazing talent for acting. She learned to dance since childhood and also performed ballet gracefully in front of the British royal family.
The outbreak of World War II forced the Taylor family to flee war-torn Britain and move to Los Angeles. Due to her parents' work reasons and personal hobbies, little Elizabeth always had the opportunity to meet directors, producers, and all kinds of artists. Soon, Little Elizabeth's British accent helped her win the opportunity to play the heroine Priscilla in the classic children's film Lacey the Greyhound.
Little Elizabeth on the screen shines brightly, and her hands and feet exude vitality and radiance. Her appearance, character and charm. All the spectators could not resist.
Taylor, who was only 11 years old
She had just turned 11 that year, with big violet blue eyes, thick black hair, cute freckles on her face, and pink cheeks, Elizabeth won the opportunity to play the heroine in the film "Jade Goddess Colt".
The film won rave reviews, even though she was a child. But everyone is predicting that this girl will eventually have a bright future, and she is destined to become a big star in Hollywood.
12-year-old Taylor
Several of Elizabeth's early works have a unique temperament and charm, and they are all related to animals, which makes the audience can't help but feel good. "The Jade Goddess Colt" is even more refreshing, showing the vibrant and sunny side of Elizabeth's personality.
People often talk about the pain of child stars growing up, but for Elizabeth Taylor, who is less and less serious, everything happens naturally, she copes well, and her charm grows day by day. She went from being a well-behaved and cute child star to a delicate mature woman.
She's smart, beautiful, intelligent and charismatic, and Hollywood's sweetheart girl will soon be 20 years old. For the rest of her life, she will face the pain and frustration of the adult world.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="230" > bumpy road</h1>
When Elizabeth Taylor was 18 years old, she ushered in her first marriage.
In the Catholic Church in Hollywood's Beverly Hills, British-born movie star Elizabeth Taylor and her Prince Charming, Nikki Hilton, host a grand and grand wedding.
Fairytale marriages are hot news in the media racing to chase coverage. The union of the bride and groom is the perfect mark of the romantic love between the prince and the princess, and the love fairy tale becomes a reality.
First marriage, 18 years old
Soon after the marriage, she personally told her mother that she would work with Nicky for the rest of her life until death. Ironically, the marriage lasted only eight months, and court divorce proceedings showed they were at loggerheads during their honeymoon in Europe. The well-mannered Nikki Hilton is an alcoholic and can't stop punching and kicking Elizabeth.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth's career is on track. In 1951, she starred in the blockbuster hit "Wolf Heart Like Iron" with montgomery cleft, a handsome young student.
In the film "Wolf's Heart Like Iron", she portrayed a pampered social star into three points. The audience strongly expects the pair of fairy girls on the screen to finally hold hands happily, and the fairy tale of the golden boy and jade girl in the film has ended tragically. In reality, Elizabeth and Montgomery did not spark love.
The 20-year-old Elizabeth is becoming more and more charming and sexy, and she is radiant in the movie, but she does not want to be a vase with no appearance, and she does not want to be a vassal of the handsome and handsome hero.
Lang's heart is like an iron still
I have to admit that Elizabeth has ambitions and dreams, and she is eager to conquer the audience through her acting skills. She became more and more mature, noble and elegant. Her beautiful eyes are full of hope and brilliance, and people can't help but be confused.
She is a dark-haired beauty, sexy and without losing her connotations. Elizabeth on the screen is very moving. Her eyes are unforgettable. The beauties of that era were all blond-haired. But Elizabeth is unique, with thick, jet-black hair giving her a unique charm and sensuality.
Thanks to the strong addition of Rock Hedson and James Dean, the film also made Elizabeth Taylor join the ranks of Hollywood's A-list superstars.
In Hollywood at that time, "The Legend of the Giants", based on classic literary masterpieces, was a veritable big-budget film, full of large sections of dramatic dialogue and difficult performances. The requirements for actors are very high, and in "The Legend of the Giants", Elizabeth got a breakthrough performance opportunity, and her opponent was the popular handsome young student James Dean.
The film "The Legend of the Giants" is about to be completed, and a tragedy that everyone did not expect has occurred. On September 30, 1955, James Dean was driving a car in an accident in the desert and died.
"The Legend of the Giants" is the masterpiece of legendary superstar James Dean, his death is lamentable, in the film he is radiant, but her style can not block the light of Elizabeth Taylor.
Since then, Oscar winner Michael Todd, the gold producer of "80 Days of Circumnavigation", has launched a passionate pursuit of Elizabeth. Michael is older than Elizabeth, 24 years old, but full of energy and enthusiasm, deeply attracted to Elizabeth, who has just divorced her husband Michael Wildin, who is lonely.
They love like glue, inseparable, Michael is funny, adventurous, cheerful and generous. Her love for Elizabeth was wholehearted and unreserved. In the same year, their daughter Lisa was born.
During childbirth, Elizabeth almost died in childbirth. Doctors warned her that she would never have children again, and Elizabeth had said that her union with Michael Todd was the happiest marriage of her life.
Basking in love, Elizabeth enjoys the sweetness of her new marriage, and the good news is that elizabeth won the coveted Oscar nomination for Best Actress for the first time due to her superb performance in the film "Battlefield Lady", but bad luck suddenly came. Just four days before the Oscars, Michael Todd was killed by an accidental plane crash on his way home on the Lucky Leeds private jet, named after his love nickname.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="228" > unintentional willow cutting</h1>
At the age of 12, he became famous in one fell swoop, entered the palace of marriage at the age of 18, and his husband was alone at the age of 26. Elizabeth Taylor experienced the highs and lows of her life, however, the heavy blow made Elizabeth Taylor stronger, and she resolutely returned to the film world.
This period was the golden period for Elizabeth Taylor's career development. Her independent and intelligent film selection was no longer at the mercy of others, and in the Hollywood film company at that time, the agent's shackles on actors were gradually decreasing. But the studio demanded that Elizabeth continue to perform the contract, and she was forced to shoot the movie "The Prostitute in the Green House".
Qinglou Yan prostitute stills
She hated the film, and she didn't like the director's approach. Unexpectedly, she won the Oscar for Best Actress for this film.
Elizabeth has repeatedly said that her worst performance won her an Academy Award. "Qinglou Yan Prostitute" is a popular farce. Many people say that the Oscar jury awarded The Best Actress award to Elizabeth out of pity and sympathy for her misfortune, but this is not the case at all. None of her contemporaries could perform the role, and her performance was exquisite and delicate, worthy of praise.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="239" > the most beautiful queen</h1>
After winning the Oscar, Elizabeth Taylor became the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. She signed to 20th Century Fox to make the epic film Cleopatra, which was unprecedented at the time for $1 million.
The process of taking over Cleopatra has not been smooth. Elizabeth said she didn't want to be fully engaged because she didn't like the development of the story and hated the script. She didn't want to take on Cleopatra, and she asked for $1 million to scare the studio away. Many actresses such as Monroe want to participate in "Cleopatra", but Elizabeth doesn't care.
The filming process of "Cleopatra" was full of twists and turns, and it did not take long to start the camera. Elizabeth fell ill and died, and the shooting was terminated. The film companies that invested in it suffered heavy losses. "Cleopatra" began filming at Pinewood Pictures in the United Kingdom, and because Elizabeth's condition deteriorated, she finally stopped breathing, and the filming work had to be delayed again and again. In the end, Elizabeth miraculously returned to the set with her tenacious will to survive.
There is no doubt that "Cleopatra" is the pinnacle of Elizabeth Taylor's golden age in career development, and she began to become a sexy goddess admired by the world. The film scene is magnificent, there is no use of any computer special effects at the time, it is completely the manpower, material and financial resources consumed by live-action shooting, "Cleopatra" makes Elizabeth Taylor far beyond the movie superstar, becoming an eternal legend in Hollywood.
But at the same time, Cleopatra was also a catastrophic failure. Director Joseph Mankiewicz has never made such a grand production. British theatre actors Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were not suitable for the roles in the play. The only success of the film is the love between the two of them.
To a large extent, Cleopatra has been instrumental in creating a true entertainment superstar in the modern sense.
After the epic film "Cleopatra", Elizabeth Taylor accompanied Richard Burton to Canada to shoot the movie Hamlet. It makes people feel strongly that they have found true love for each other.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="232" > win oscars again</h1>
In 1964, they were secretly married in Montreal, Canada. They are inseparable, very loving, sweet love lasted only more than a year, Richard often drank heavily, Elizabeth had a hot temper, on the one hand, they could not love themselves, the world fell apart, at the same time they were equally stubborn, love and hate. Their relationship is confusing, and this state of affairs has continued from life to work.
They made three more films together, but word-of-mouth and box office were not ideal. Elizabeth, who has experienced the storms of the entertainment industry, does not care about negative criticism. After entering middle age, she continued to shoot works according to her own wishes and entered the golden period of her career. The new work is based on Edward Alby's satirical novel Who Is Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? 》
Although she has always been portrayed as beautiful and sexy, Elizabeth does not care about playing this role. A foul-mouthed, fat, and rude drunkard who speaks ill of her husband in the film, will be played by the savage Martha. He presented the audience with the most exquisite and delicate performance of his acting career, and the set was filled with an atmosphere of tension, hatred and anger.
With this film, Elizabeth Taylor indisputably took the Academy Award for Best Actress into her arms again, which can be described as the expectation of the public. She gave up grace and beauty, dressed herself very sloppily, dyed her hair gray, and presented herself to moviegoers with a bloated, rude image.
This was something that the film actresses of the time had never dared to try. She felt that creating a film character should be self-sacrificing. The heroine of the film is drunk. Elizabeth in life is also obsessed with alcohol, and Richard himself loves alcohol, and they have reached the realm of no distinction between human beings. Inside and outside the play, there is a loud and noisy scene, fierce mutual insults and attacks.
Elizabeth's performance is of modern avant-garde significance. Many actresses in today's American film industry use her as a reference, sacrificing beauty for the role, such as Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Charlize Theron, Jessica Langer and so on. They washed away their lead like Elizabeth and were willing to self-destruct their image. In order to cover up her starlight for the character itself, a great actress was born in this film.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="237" > the favorite</h1>
The career is smooth, but life is full of chicken feathers.
Elizabeth and Richard's respective extreme personalities ruined their marriage. Their love once alarmed the Pope of Rome, loved deeply, and often went to extremes. Their temperaments are moody, arrogant, and unwilling to tolerate each other.
They drank heavily and quarreled fiercely to make up for the rifts with apologies and gifts. After experiencing pain, sweetness, madness, and hurting each other, it finally reached the point of irreparability. They went through the divorce process.
The following year, Elizabeth was diagnosed with cancer, and Richard returned to her side, determined to fight her illness. When told that the tumor was benign, Richard couldn't help but be overjoyed, she proposed to Elizabeth, and the two were reunited.
But soon the conflict between the two sides intensified, and they divorced again and remained friends for life.
In 1984, Richard Burton died of an emergency, and Elizabeth traveled to Wales for her funeral. Although she ended her marriage with Richard, Elizabeth was very much looking forward to going to Wales. When she arrived in Wales she was greeted with a warm and friendly welcome.
Shortly after Richard's death, Elizabeth, unable to bear the devastation, was sent to a rehabilitation center. There, she met a young construction worker, Larry Forten, but soon Fortensky could not stand Taylor's extravagant life, and five years later the two divorced. It was the last marriage of her life.
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On March 23, 2011, Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor died in Los Angeles at the age of 79. Her children were by her side.
Michael Wildin said affectionately and movingly when announcing to the media the news of her mother's death, "My mother is a great and extraordinary woman." Her life is full and rich, and her heart is full of passion, humor and love. Although her death is an irreparable loss to all of her loved ones, her immortal contribution to the world will forever inspire us. Her light will never fade, her spirit will be with us, and her love will always be in our hearts.
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As an absolute superstar of Hollywood's classical era, Elizabeth Taylor's life is legendary. She has experienced things that many people have never experienced in their lifetime, experienced the pain and sweetness brought to her by marriage, and has been trying to move forward on the road of finding true love.
Don't be afraid of love, and don't be afraid of losing. Perhaps this is the inspiration of Elizabeth Taylor's bravery to our lives.