Elizabeth Taylor Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Dress Size, Contact Details, Spouse(Husband), Children, Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Saturday
BIRTHPLACE
Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, England, United Kingdom
DIED AT AGE
79 Years 0 Months 25 Days
DEATHDATE
March 23, 2011
DEATHPLACE
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
CAUSE OF DEATH
Congestive heart failure
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
PISCES
Physical Stats
WAIST
N/A
Hip
N/A
DRESS SIZE
N/A
HEIGHT
5'2''(feet & inches)
1.5748 meters
157.48 cm
WEIGHT
N/A
Elizabeth Taylor Family Members
Parents
FATHER
Francis Lenn Taylor
BROTHER(S) NAME
Howard Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor Marriage, Affairs and Children
SPOUSE
Conrad Hilton Jr. (1950-1951)
SPOUSE
Michael Wilding (1952-1957)
Child(ren) of Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding
Christopher (27 February, 1955) (Son) (Actor)
Michael (6 January, 1953) (Son) (Actor)
SPOUSE
Mike Todd (1957-1958)
Child(ren) of Elizabeth Taylor and Mike Todd
Liza (6 August, 1957) (Daughter)
SPOUSE
John Warner (1976-1982)
SPOUSE
Larry Fortensky (1991-1996)
Fame & Address
DEBUT
There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
FAMOUS FROM/AS
Education, Net Worth & More
ELIZABETH TAYLOR PICTURE
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Career of Elizabeth Taylor
She signed a contract with MGM and appeared in small roles. She was just twelve when she played a starring role in "National Velvet". She appeared in the films like Cynthia, Life with Father. There was a series of her successful films in the 60s. She also tried on television, she appeared in a lead role in Giant which was an epic drama about a ranching dynasty. She appeared in BUtterfield 8 in 1959 as a high-class prostitute and also won an Oscar for this role.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Elizabeth Taylor
- Did Elizabeth Taylor takes alcohol? Yes.
- Was Elizabeth Taylor in the habit of Smoking? Yes.
- She was the first actress in the American film history to receive $1,000,000 for a movie role. She received the amount for portraying Cleopatra in the movie "Cleopatra" released in 1963.
- In the year 1963, she had earned $2.4 million for different roles, while President John F. Kennedy's salary was only $150,000 and the more surprising fact is even the highest paid American business executive earned only $650,000 that year.
- She is the only actor who appeared 14 times on the cover of Life magazine starting from the age of 15. She had graced over 1000 magazine covers around the world.
- A street is named after her in Iowa City, Iowa.
- She is one of the only two actresses to receive an Oscar for playing prostitutes in the movie "BUtterfield 8".
- She is the second person after Princess Diana to appear solo 14 times on the cover of People Magazine.
- Her portrait The 1963 Andy Warhol was sold for $ 23.7 million in the year 2007 at a Christie's auction in New York. Also, A 1962 Andy Warhol's "Men in Her Life" painting in which she was portrayed between husbands was auctioned at Phillips de Pury
- She was just nine when she auditioned for Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and was selected by both the studios.
- In 1942, she signed a seven-year contract with Universal Pictures and also appear for a small role in a movie "There's One Born Every Minute" but the contract was canceled in the same year.
It was told that casting director disliked her and said that she doesn't have the face of a child.
After that, she signed a contract with MGM and also appeared in uncredited minor roles in two movies.
- She had to do many changes in her physical appearance for her role as Velvet Brown in the movie "National Velvet". She had to wear braces, she was too short for the role that's why filming was delayed to give her time to grow. She grew three inches in three months and also began to gain the natural curves of a woman. They also said to dye her hair and shape her eyebrows but her parents refused.
- She fell from the horse and broke her back during filming a racing scene and with this injury, she suffered a lot later in life.
- She had done much hard work in her teenage. Her daily routine was after school she goes for filming during the day, and also goes for dancing and singing during the evenings.
- She was proposed by Film tycoon Howard Hughes and was ready to pay her parents a six-figure sum of money if she marries him but she declined the offer.
- Her marriage with Conrad "Nicky" Hilton, Jr. was organized by MGM. Also, she received a wedding gift of a one-off wedding dress which was designed by Edith Head which was also sponsored by MGM.
- She does not like working in historical films as she has to wake up earlier for the elaborate costumes and make-up.
- She was very ill while filming the movie "Cleopatra" and even report of her death as she was suffering from fatal pneumonia. The studio also considered of her replacement with Audrey Hepburn in the case she does not recover from her illness.
- Her husband Richard Burton gifted her one of the world's largest and most beautiful diamonds the 69-carat, pear-shaped stone from the jeweler Cartier for $1,069,000. It was called "Burton-Cartier Diamond."
- She was the first celebrities to devote her time to HIV/AIDS activism and fundraising.
- She had a big collection of perfumes and also wanted to start her own line of fragrances.
- He faced many health problems in her life. She was born with scoliosis. She suffered from pneumonia in 1990 and 2000. She underwent hip replacement surgery, brain tumor and was even treated for skin cancer in 2002.
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