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I have an admiration for a woman who knows exactly what she wants and go after it relentlessly. The theme for this issue is the Art of Resilience. Elizabeth Taylor is our Cover Lady because she is the epitome of a Resilient Lady. As I was growing up, I watched and admired Elizabeth Taylor she was one of the most beautiful ladies that I have ever seen. Even today, in her golden years she is the most famous woman in the world and still as beautiful as ever. Liz's resilience has kept her in the game for a very long time; she is the symbol of fine taste, glamour, extravagance, and style. |
More than any other film star, she symbolizes the old-time Hollywood glamour and here we will highlight the dynamics of her long wonderful career. Elizabeth Taylor is a beautiful English-born American actress, who is known for her creative acting skills, high profile lifestyle, larger-than-life celebrity persona, and many marriages. Taylor was born in Hampstead, a wealthy district of north-west London, the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor (1897-1968) and Sara Viola Warmbrodt (1895-1994), who were Americans residing in England. From the time that Liz was a young girl, she was noted to have star like qualities. When producer David O. Selznick was casting the minor roles for the infamous Gone With The Wind, Liz was considered to play Bonnie Blue, the daughter of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler, but her dad Francis Taylor who had no interest in letting his seven-year-old daughter pursue an acting career. |
At the age of nine, Cheever Cowden chairman and major stockholder of Universal Pictures in Hollywood was taken away by Elizabeth's dark beauty. She appeared in her first motion picture in There's One Born Every Minute, her first and only film for Universal Pictures, since the studio's production chief, Mr. Muhl, was appalled that Elizabeth could not sign, dance, nor act. However, in September 1941, Universal Pictures signed Elizabeth to a six-month renewable contract at $100 a week, a contract that ended less than a year later. Then in October 1942 Metro Goldwyn Mayer signed Taylor to $100 a week for his role as Priscilla in Lassie Come Home, increasing at regularly until it reached a hefty $750 during her seven year contract. As they say the rest is history. Ms. Taylor went on to play Helen Burrows in Charlotte Bronte, she then returned to England to appear in The White Cliffs of Dover. |
Elizabeth's career was skyrocketed to stardom at the tender age of 12 for her role of Velvet Brown a young girl who trains her beloved horse to win the Grand National, MGM's National Velvet, which also costarred Mickey Rooney and Angela Lansbury. National Velvet grossed over $4 million at the box office and Taylor was signed to a new long-term contract that raised her salary to $30,000 per year. In 1963, Taylor became the highest paid movie star when she accepted US$1 million to play the title role in the lavish production of Cleopatra for 20th Century Fox. Liz is known internationally for her beauty, especially for those violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early on in her youth and has kept the world hooked on ever since. |
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