J. Randy Taraborrelli

Elizabeth (eBook, ePUB)

The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth Taylor is known internationally as one of the most beautiful and talented women ever to grace the silver screen. She has won two Academy Awards and starred in over sixty films. She is just as well known for her tempestuous personal life, marrying eight times and suffering through innumerable health problems. A cultural icon, she has been written about before . . . but never like this.

This moving book traces for the first time Elizabeth's journey through the dark and often lonely world of a fame unparalleled in the 1960s and 1970s, a time during which alcohol and drugs played a major part in her life. It would be with her fifth (and sixth) husband Richard Burton (with whom she made twelve movies, including Cleopatra) that she would learn life lessons about love and loyalty that would inform the rest of her life and, finally, be the catalyst for her recovery from alcoholism in the 1980s. This book also details her philanthropic work as an AIDS activist in the 1990s as well as her stunning success as a business woman today (with a multi-million-dollar fragrance). Based on years of research, this is not just a star's biography . . . it's an unforgettable woman's story.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447202264
• Artikelnr.: 39924235

Autorenporträt

Taraborrelli is the noted biographer of Sunday Times bestseller Madonna, Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness, and the forthcoming Diana Ross. Consistently sought as an authority on celebrity culture, he makes regular appearances on television.

Inhaltsangabe

Section
i: Prologue Unit
i: Part One: CHILDHOOD Chapter
1: Sara and Francis Chapter
2: A Change in Sara Chapter
3: A Family Held Hostage? Chapter
4: "Bravo!" Chapter
5: "Missing a Father's Love" Chapter
6: "I Think I Might Want to Be an Actress" Chapter
7: A New Life in America Chapter
8: "But I Want to Be with MGM!" Chapter
9: National Velvet Chapter
10: Making a Star . . . a Star! Unit
ii: Part Two: FINDING HER WAY Chapter
11: Early Suitors . . . and Howard Hughes Chapter
12: Nicky Hilton Chapter
13: Elizabeth's Anger Chapter
14: Uncle Howard Gets Rid of Nicky Hilton Chapter
15: Michael Wilding Chapter
16: A Marriage Devoid of Passion Chapter
17: Movies Chapter
18: Mike Todd Chapter
19: Mike Todd's Sudden Death Chapter
20: Eddie Fisher Chapter
21: Elizabeth and Eddie Marry Chapter
22: Butterfield 8 Chapter
iii: Part Three: HER DESTINY Chapter
23: A False Start for Cleopatra Chapter
24: A Near
Death Experience and Then an Oscar Chapter
25: Cleopatra Begins Filming Chapter
26: Richard Burton Chapter
27: Elizabeth Adopts a Baby Chapter
28: "Love, in All of Its Mystery, Unfolds" Chapter
29: Elizabeth Confesses to Eddie about Richard Chapter
30: Unadulterated Drama Chapter
31: Elizabeth Attempts Suicide? Chapter
32: "Le Scandale" Chapter
33: The Taylor
Burton Sexual Revolution Chapter
34: Cleopatra Arrives Chapter
35: Elizabeth as a Mother Chapter
36: Nightmare in Porto Santo Stefano Chapter
37: Finishing Cleopatra Chapter
38: A Turning Point in Gstaad Chapter
39: Richard Chooses Chapter
40: True Love in Mexico Unit
iv: Part Four: "LIZ AND DICK" Chapter
41: Elizabeth and Richard: "We Will Have No More Marriages" Chapter
42: The Boston Brawl Chapter
43: Richard's Hemophilia Chapter
44: "Even Our Fights Are Fun" Chapter
45: Elizabeth Apologizes to Debbie Chapter
46: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Chapter
47: Bad Movies, Great Riches, and Another Oscar Chapter
48: "Francis L. Taylor
All Our Love
1897
1968" Chapter
49: "Learning from Each Other" Chapter
50: "I Sometimes Curse the Day . . ." Chapter
51: "Pray for Us" Chapter
52: And What of the Children? Unit
v: Part Five: CONFUSION REIGNS Chapter
53: "What Makes Us Women" Chapter
54: Henry Wynberg Chapter
55: Elizabeth Divorces Richard Chapter
56: Elizabeth Marries Richard . . . Again! Chapter
57: A Diversion before Divorce Chapter
58: Richard Asks for Another Divorce Unit
vi: Part Six: COMING TO TERMS Chapter
59: John Warner Chapter
60: Elizabeth Marries John Chapter
61: An Important Transition Chapter
62: The Little Foxes Chapter
63: Sifting Through the Wreckage Chapter
64: A Birthday Reunion with Richard Chapter
65: "God Has Kept an Eye on My Children" Chapter
66: Elizabeth Gets Her Way Chapter
67: Private Lives and Private Miseries Chapter
68: Richard Marries . . . Someone Else Chapter
69: Intervention Chapter
70: Betty Ford Center Chapter
71: Richard Burton Dies Chapter
72: Transition Unit
vii: Part Seven: THE GLORY YEARS Chapter
73: "I Will Not Be Ignored" Chapter
74: Elizabeth Taylor's Passion Chapter
75: Back at Betty Ford Chapter
76: Larry Fortensky Chapter
77: Michael Jackson Chapter
78: Elizabeth Marries Larry Chapter
79: Re
creating Her Mother's Marriage . . . but Not Quite Unit
viii: Part Eight: ALL WOMAN Chapter
80: "Sara S. Taylor
Loving Mother, Devoted Wife
1895
1994" Chapter
81: Elizabeth and Larry End Their Marriage Chapter
82: Facing Her Mortality . . . Again Chapter
83: Dame Elizabeth: Honor at Last Section
ii: Selected Cast of Characters Acknowledgements
iii: Acknowledgments Section
iv: Sources and Other Notes Section
v: Elizabeth Taylor Filmography Index
vi: Index