The Biography
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in Hampstead, a wealthy neighborhood northeast of London, February 27, 1932, by an American family. Shortly before the war, his parents decided to return to the United States to avoid hostilities. His mother first part with the children, arriving in New York in April 1949, while his late father a few months. Settle in Los Angeles, California. There are introduced to Andrea Berens, girlfriend of the then chairman and major shareholder of Universal Pictures in Hollywood, Cheever Cowden ....
The Biography
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in Hampstead, a wealthy neighborhood northeast of London, February 27, 1932, by an American family. Shortly before the war, his parents decided to return to the United States to avoid hostilities. His mother first part with the children, arriving in New York in April 1949, while his late father a few months. Settle in Los Angeles, California. There are introduced Andrea BerensGirlfriend, former president and major shareholder of Universal Studios Hollywood Cheever Cowden. Berens insisted that Sarah, the mother, to bring Elizabeth Cowden, sure that her dark beauty and adamant he would hit:
it was born with two pairs of eyelashes, which increased the photogenic. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is interested in the young actress, who is unable to close a deal with them because he was not able to sing - according to producer John Considine. In any case, in September of '41 Elizabeth, just nine years, signing a six-month contract with Universal Pictures.
The first film in which he makes an appearance is There's One Born Every Minute, A comedy distributed in the United States, which remains his only work with the Universal. Before the expiry of the contract Edward Muhl, producer of the study, complained to Taylor's agent, Myron Selznick - brother David O. Selznick - Cheever Cowden and the fact that she does not know neither sing nor dance nor act. In addition, in this, his mother was unbearable. The Universal cancels his contract in February of '42. Despite this, shortly after the MGM has second thoughts and takes three months for the film Come home, Lassie! (1943) in which he plays Priscilla, the next young star Roddy McDowall, With whom will remain friends throughout their lives. After the success of the film, MGM signed a contract with Taylor to seven years. The first job he has 'borrowed' at 20th Century Fox for the character of Helen Burns in the film adaptation of the novel by Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre (1944). He also returned briefly to England for a film with McDowall. But it is the age of 12 years that a film produced by MGM, launches definitely among the stars: Grand Prix, '45, Directed by Clarence Brown and starring Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp and Angela Lansbury - newly arrived from England - he won two Oscars - Anne Revere for Best Supporting Actress and Robert J. Kern for Best Editing - and achieves a great success. Taylor signed a new long-term contract with a pay exorbitant. To take advantage of his fame soon reached, Taylor joined the cast of Courage of Lassie (1946), set in Nazi Germany. This is also a great success, so it's back to 'rent', this time at Warner Bros, for Life with father (1947) and other minor films, which proved his talent. In '49 recorded his best performance in the adolescent in a classic portrait of Amy Little Women, Mervyn LeRoy's drama winner of two Academy Awards. In this role he leaves the juvenile stage of his career, and begins to interpret the adult characters.
In Conspirator, Shot in England, plays, just 16 years, part of a twenty-one who marries without knowing it with a communist spy. His performance is rewarded by the critics, even if the public does not seem to appreciate it as well. It was not until '50 because his new sensuality is fully exploited, in the romantic comedy Father of the BrideDirected by Vincente Minnelli and starring Spencer Tracy. Success leads to shoot a sequel, not as good. In the meantime, take part in A Place in the SunBy George Stevens, who started in '49,
released two years later, becoming an instant success, so much to win six Academy Awards - Director, Editing, Screenplay, Photography, Music and Costumes - and immediately be considered a classic. Despite the film's success, Taylor is not satisfied with the roles that are offered by MGM, which forces her to star in film certainly negligible. Only to notice the last time I saw Paris, Richard Brooks, who received slightly better than the others.
In the '56 is assigned a more important role it The giant, George Stevens's epic drama with Rock Hudson and James Dean, who is followed by The Tree of Life (1957), Edward Dmytryck with Montgomery Clift; Cat on a Hot Tin RoofBy Richard Broooks with Paul Newman, and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) by Joseph Mankiewicz with Katherine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift again, all roles for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Thanks to these films in the '60s Taylor became the highest-paid actress in Hollywood when he signed a new contract to play the film for 20th Century Fox Cleopatra, Released in '63, directed by Mankiewickz with Richard Burton - with whom he married in '64, divorced (1974), be married
(1975) and ridivorzierà (1976) - in the role of Mark Antony, and Roddy McDowall as a friend Augustus. In the same year the first win at the Academy for his performance in Venus in vision (1960), in technicolor melodrama of Daniel Mann and ringing up a model that begins a dangerous relationship. The second and last won the Oscar instead with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), directed by newcomer Mike Nichols, winner of four Academy Awards.In '67, after several film credits to her husband's side, states with Marlon Brando - who replaces Montgomery Clift, who died just before - in the dramatic Reflections of an eye, Directed by John Huston film about homosexuality, and in '68 with Mia Farrow Secret Ceremony, English film by Joseph Losey. Slowly, at the end of the decade, his fame began to erode, as demonstrated by the failure of The only game in town, Recent work by George Stevens. During the '70s the Taylor continues to appear in many films, perhaps the most important The Blue Bird, the first joint production of the United States and Russia, the penultimate work of the now old George Cukor, with Jane Fonda and Ava Gardner - still a
failure. In the 80s starring Angela Lansbury and Kim Novak in thriller The Mirror Crack'd Guy Hamilton, another film by the lack of success, which is basically the end of his career. At that time also enters into treatment for his problem with alcohol. Reappears in '88 in the film by Franco Zeffirelli The Young ToscaniniEven for this limited success, and six years after it The Flintstones, A comedy inspired by the famous cartoon directed by Brian Levant and starring John Goodman and Rick Moranis. After this film he retired from the screen.
In 2004, the actress said to be suffering from congestive heart failure, which gradually makes his heart too weak to pump blood to the extremities of the body. During his lifetime he has had numerous health problems, which forced it to the wheelchair.The diva has been extinguished in 2011, a Los Angeles hospital where she was hospitalized for several weeks due to serious heart problems.
it was born with two pairs of eyelashes, which increased the photogenic. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is interested in the young actress, who is unable to close a deal with them because he was not able to sing - according to producer John Considine. In any case, in September of '41 Elizabeth, just nine years, signing a six-month contract with Universal Pictures.
The first film in which he makes an appearance is There's One Born Every Minute, A comedy distributed in the United States, which remains his only work with the Universal. Before the expiry of the contract Edward Muhl, producer of the study, complained to Taylor's agent, Myron Selznick - brother David O. Selznick - Cheever Cowden and the fact that she does not know neither sing nor dance nor act. In addition, in this, his mother was unbearable. The Universal cancels his contract in February of '42. Despite this, shortly after the MGM has second thoughts and takes three months for the film Come home, Lassie! (1943) in which he plays Priscilla, the next young star Roddy McDowall, With whom will remain friends throughout their lives. After the success of the film, MGM signed a contract with Taylor to seven years. The first job he has 'borrowed' at 20th Century Fox for the character of Helen Burns in the film adaptation of the novel by Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre (1944). He also returned briefly to England for a film with McDowall. But it is the age of 12 years that a film produced by MGM, launches definitely among the stars: Grand Prix, '45, Directed by Clarence Brown and starring Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp and Angela Lansbury - newly arrived from England - he won two Oscars - Anne Revere for Best Supporting Actress and Robert J. Kern for Best Editing - and achieves a great success. Taylor signed a new long-term contract with a pay exorbitant. To take advantage of his fame soon reached, Taylor joined the cast of Courage of Lassie (1946), set in Nazi Germany. This is also a great success, so it's back to 'rent', this time at Warner Bros, for Life with father (1947) and other minor films, which proved his talent. In '49 recorded his best performance in the adolescent in a classic portrait of Amy Little Women, Mervyn LeRoy's drama winner of two Academy Awards. In this role he leaves the juvenile stage of his career, and begins to interpret the adult characters.
In Conspirator, Shot in England, plays, just 16 years, part of a twenty-one who marries without knowing it with a communist spy. His performance is rewarded by the critics, even if the public does not seem to appreciate it as well. It was not until '50 because his new sensuality is fully exploited, in the romantic comedy Father of the BrideDirected by Vincente Minnelli and starring Spencer Tracy. Success leads to shoot a sequel, not as good. In the meantime, take part in A Place in the SunBy George Stevens, who started in '49,
released two years later, becoming an instant success, so much to win six Academy Awards - Director, Editing, Screenplay, Photography, Music and Costumes - and immediately be considered a classic. Despite the film's success, Taylor is not satisfied with the roles that are offered by MGM, which forces her to star in film certainly negligible. Only to notice the last time I saw Paris, Richard Brooks, who received slightly better than the others.
In the '56 is assigned a more important role it The giant, George Stevens's epic drama with Rock Hudson and James Dean, who is followed by The Tree of Life (1957), Edward Dmytryck with Montgomery Clift; Cat on a Hot Tin RoofBy Richard Broooks with Paul Newman, and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) by Joseph Mankiewicz with Katherine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift again, all roles for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Thanks to these films in the '60s Taylor became the highest-paid actress in Hollywood when he signed a new contract to play the film for 20th Century Fox Cleopatra, Released in '63, directed by Mankiewickz with Richard Burton - with whom he married in '64, divorced (1974), be married
(1975) and ridivorzierà (1976) - in the role of Mark Antony, and Roddy McDowall as a friend Augustus. In the same year the first win at the Academy for his performance in Venus in vision (1960), in technicolor melodrama of Daniel Mann and ringing up a model that begins a dangerous relationship. The second and last won the Oscar instead with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), directed by newcomer Mike Nichols, winner of four Academy Awards.In '67, after several film credits to her husband's side, states with Marlon Brando - who replaces Montgomery Clift, who died just before - in the dramatic Reflections of an eye, Directed by John Huston film about homosexuality, and in '68 with Mia Farrow Secret Ceremony, English film by Joseph Losey. Slowly, at the end of the decade, his fame began to erode, as demonstrated by the failure of The only game in town, Recent work by George Stevens. During the '70s the Taylor continues to appear in many films, perhaps the most important The Blue Bird, the first joint production of the United States and Russia, the penultimate work of the now old George Cukor, with Jane Fonda and Ava Gardner - still a
failure. In the 80s starring Angela Lansbury and Kim Novak in thriller The Mirror Crack'd Guy Hamilton, another film by the lack of success, which is basically the end of his career. At that time also enters into treatment for his problem with alcohol. Reappears in '88 in the film by Franco Zeffirelli The Young ToscaniniEven for this limited success, and six years after it The Flintstones, A comedy inspired by the famous cartoon directed by Brian Levant and starring John Goodman and Rick Moranis. After this film he retired from the screen.
In 2004, the actress said to be suffering from congestive heart failure, which gradually makes his heart too weak to pump blood to the extremities of the body. During his lifetime he has had numerous health problems, which forced it to the wheelchair.The diva has been extinguished in 2011, a Los Angeles hospital where she was hospitalized for several weeks due to serious heart problems.
updated 23.03.2011
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