GREAT BRITAIN. London. June 1959. Twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth TAYLOR on the set of "Suddenly Last Summer", in which she co-stars with Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift. It is Taylor's first film after the death of her 3rd husband, Mike Todd, in a plane crash. Just months after Todd's death, Taylor married Eddie Fisher and found herself at the center of a scandal. It was a place that would become familar for her, though never comfortable, for the next 30 years.
GREAT BRITAIN. London. June 1959. Twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth TAYLOR checks her hairdo on the set of "Suddenly Last Summer", in which she co-stars with Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift. It is Taylor's first film after the death of her 3rd husband, Mike Todd, in a plane crash. Just months after Todd's death, Taylor married Eddie Fisher and found herself at the center of a scandal. It was a place that would become familar for her, though never comfortable, for the next 30 years.
SPAIN. Sagaro. 1959. Twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth TAYLOR on the set of "Suddenly Last Summer", in which she co-stars with Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift. It is Taylor's first film after the death of her 3rd husband, Mike Todd, in a plane crash. Just months after Todd's death, Taylor married Eddie Fisher and found herself at the center of a scandal. It was a place that would become familar for her, though never comfortable, for the next 30 years.
GREAT BRITAIN. London. June 1959. Twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth TAYLOR stretches in her dressing room after a rest on the set of "Suddenly Last Summer", in which she co-stars with Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift. It is Taylor's first film after the death of her 3rd husband, Mike Todd, in a plane crash. Just months after Todd's death, Taylor married Eddie Fisher and found herself at the center of a scandal. It was a place that would become familar for her, though never comfortable, for the next 30 years.
Raymond Depardon
Elisabeth TAYLOR, US actress, and Eddie FISHER. Soviet Union. Moscow. Red Square.
G.B. ENGLAND. Hever Castle. Elizabeth Taylor on the set of 'Anne of a Thousand Days'. 1969
Elliott Landy
Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton, opening night, ÔDr. FaustusÕ, NYC, 1968.
Burt Glinn
In June 1959, 25 year-old Elizabeth Taylor started work on "Suddenly Last Summer" with Katharine Hepburn & Montgomery Clift. Taylor became a star at 12 after "National Velvet" & boarded the Hollywood merry-go-round. By 1959, she was among Hollywood's most highly paid & most criticized actress: famous not only for her 20+ films & her beauty, but for her 4 marriages. Within months of 3rd husband Mike Todd's death in a 1958 plane crash, Taylor married Eddie Fisher and found her self the center of a scandal a place that would become familar, though never comfortable, in the next 30 years. In April 1990, Taylor was Hospitalized for pneumonia, providing fuel for a new round of rumor and scandal. Film: Suddenly last Summer by Joseph MANKIEWICZ.1959. Starring: Elizabeth TAYLOR, Katharine HEPBURN, Montgomery CLIFT.
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Eve Arnold
G.B. ENGLAND. Hever Castle. Elizabeth Taylor on the set of 'Anne of a Thousand Days'. 1969 |
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GB. ENGLAND. Elizabeth TAYLOR watches Richard BURTON performing a scene in 'Becket', Shepperton Studios. 1963. |
GB. ENGLAND. Elizabeth TAYLOR with her daughter on the set of the film BECKET, watching Richard BURTON playing a death scene. 1963.
Burt Glinn
1959 USA. Film: Set of Suddenly last Summer. SPAIN. Sagaro. 1959. Twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth TAYLOR ignores the begging of beach urchins in a scene from "Suddenly Last Summer", in which she co-stars with Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift. It is Taylor's first film after the death of her 3rd husband, Mike Todd, in a plane crash. Just months after Todd's death, Taylor married Eddie Fisher and found herself at the center of a scandal. It was a place that would become familar for her, though never comfortable, for the next 30 years. Image send to Conor Kilroe (Transaction : 631901740501093750) © Burt Glinn / Magnum Photos
GREAT BRITAIN. London. June 1959. Elizabeth TAYLOR and Montgomery CLIFT in their dressing rooms on the set of "Suddenly Last Summer", in which they co-star with Katharine Hepburn. It is Taylor's first film after the death of her 3rd husband, Mike Todd, in a plane crash. Just months after Todd's death, Taylor married Eddie Fisher and found herself at the center of a scandal. It was a place that would become familar for her, though never comfortable, for the next 30 years.
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Ferdinando Scianna
ITALY. Milan. Sosia of Elizabeth TAYLOR at Vuitton party for the opening of a big shop in via Montenapoleone. |
Harry Gruyaert
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4th arrondissement. Centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg). "Colored Liz" by Andy WARHOL. |
Eve Arnold
G.B. ENGLAND. Hever Castle. Elizabeth Taylor on the set of 'Anne of a Thousand Days'. 1969
GB. ENGLAND. Shepperton. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor at the local pub in Shepperton where he is starring in the role of Becket. Note Elizabeth's packet of sausages that will be cooked for her dinner by the chef in her four-star hotel. 1963.
Burt Glinn
SPAIN. Sagaro. 1959. Twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth TAYLOR on the set of "Suddenly Last Summer", in which she co-stars with Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift. It is Taylor's first film after the death of her 3rd husband, Mike Todd, in a plane crash. Just months after Todd's death, Taylor married Eddie Fisher and found herself at the center of a scandal. It was a place that would become familar for her, though never comfortable, for the next 30 years.
Philippe Halsman
1948. Elizabeth TAYLOR poses for the magazine "Life."
Elizabeth Taylor's 75th Birthday
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in London, England, on February 27, 1932. Although she was born an English subject, her parents were Americans, art dealers from St. Louis, Missouri (her father had gone to London to set up a gallery). Her mother had been an actress on the stage, but gave up that vocation when she married. Elizabeth lived in London until the age of seven, when the family left for the US when the clouds of war began brewing in Europe in 1939. They sailed without her father, who stayed behind to wrap up the loose ends of the art business. The family relocated to Los Angeles, where Mrs. Taylor's own family had moved. Mr. Taylor followed not long afterward. A family friend noticed the strikingly beautiful little Elizabeth and suggested that she be taken for a screen test. Her test impressed executives at Universal Pictures enough to sign her to a contract. Her first foray onto the screen was in There's One Born Every Minute (1942), released when she was ten. Universal dropped her contract after that one film, but Elizabeth was soon picked up by MGM. The first production she made with that studio was Lassie Come Home (1943), and on the strength of that one film, MGM signed her for a full year. She had minuscule parts in her next two films, The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) and Jane Eyre (1944) (the former made while she was on loan to 20th Century-Fox). Then came the picture that made Elizabeth a star: MGM's National Velvet (1944).
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