Elizabeth Taylor
Editor's note: Hollywood superstar Elizabeth Taylor once sighed and said, "God gave me beauty, wealth, and fame, so he didn't give me happiness." If God arranges for Elizabeth Taylor to choose again, what should you choose for her? Perhaps for this girl, embarking on the road of acting, all the way in pursuit of wealth and fame, was predestined from the time she had Sarah, the mother, that is, from birth, such an educational and family environment shaped her life. In order to help Elizabeth Taylor to ascend to the throne, mother Sarah poured out means and energy, during the performance now seems even jaw-dropping, today Xiaobian will give you dear readers a detailed introduction, to see behind the superstar fame, from childhood to face what!
For a mother like Sarah Taylor, who has dedicated herself to the stage, the MGM Publicity Office is understandably a very suitable tool. Now, she has a group of salaried people to help her make her daughter a star. She knew that the company's propagandists regarded Elizabeth Taylor as her own, no different from her, that they were as enterprising as she was, and that they could negotiate business on her behalf. Despite this, Sarah was reluctant to risk entrusting her daughter with all her business.
She took the initiative to cultivate friendships with Hollywood's most powerful newspaper columnists. Sarah visits Roela Paisons with Elizabeth Taylor and expresses overzealous enthusiasm for her beloved Spanish long-haired eared dog, Jimmy. Sarah then called Heyda Hope and said that Elizabeth Taylor begged to meet "Hulfi" (Miss Hope's dog) and ask if she could take her. Miss Hope was, of course, a little flattered.
Sarah also often invited the Englishman Sheila Graham to tea. In order to meet Elizabeth Taylor and Adela Rogers St. John, the company organized a luncheon reception. Sarah bought a rose tree for her daughter to bring to Adella, knowing that the Columnist of the Hearst newspaper loved her rose garden.
In order to gain her mother's love and praise, Elizabeth Taylor cooperated very well with MGM propagandists, and she liked to pose for people to take pictures, and she could also sit for hours to make people curl their hair. But even more compatible is Sarah Taylor, who can make up many stories about Elizabeth Taylor's upbringing in Britain.
To satisfy MGM's pro-British sentiment, Sarah repeatedly boasted that her family belonged to the British upper class, had elaborate homes in the British countryside, and hired many nannies and car drivers. She even mentioned the garden party at Buckingham Palace, as if Elizabeth Taylor had also attended a royal dance class and danced with Princess Margaret Rose. MGM's publicity department dutifully and painstakingly concocted the story of the new signed actor to match the nonsense.
"The years we spent in London were wonderful, full of ceremonies and ceremonies, magnificent and grand," Sarah climbed up the pole, "the Duke of Kent's wedding ceremony and the beautiful Princess Marina..." Her depiction of The Silver Wedding of King George V was breathless and breathless, making it sound as if she had actually shared pastries with The Queen Mary in the royal box, rather than just watching from the side of the road, as everyone else had done. Still, Lorra and Haida loved to listen, as did Sheila and Adella.
Soon after, their little messages about "beautiful and petite Elizabeth Taylor born in England" began to appear in their newspaper columns. Sarah cleverly took advantage of Elizabeth Taylor's dual British and American citizenship to ensure that any future film requiring an English girl would be deservedly taken into account.