Liz Taylor was a global icon of beauty in the 50 `and 60`.
An actress who made her sensuality and photogenic build-essential inputs for the by great directors - wonderful female characters, complicated characters and melodramas pervasive crisis in a time when Hollywood believed in the power of story, at the suggestion bounded by the modesty and the theater of life as an inexhaustible source of creativity.
actress Elizabeth Taylor was a bold, beautiful, ductile, a girl-woman who let out his bestial side, erotic, latent, neutralizing any possibility of stagnation and hypocrisy. To compensate for his lack of technical values \u200b\u200bpeaking Essence and learned at MGM.
child recall his brief appearance in the orsonwelliana Jane Eyre (Robert Stevenson, 1944) based on the novel by Emily Brontë, with Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles, in which he plays a beautiful girl who dies of pneumonia at an orphanage in Wales, and of course his great characterizations of youth who kill Ambitions (A Place In The Sun, George Stevens, 1951) with Montgomery Clift, probably his best film ; The Last Time I Saw Paris (Richard Brooks, 1954) with Van Johnson; Giant (1954) again the hand of George Stevens and next to Rock Hudson and James Dean; The tree of life (Edward Dymtrik, 1957) an epic of the Wild West with Monty Clift and Eva Marie Saint; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, 1958) from the Tennessee Williams drama, which tries to seduce the "poor" Paul Newman, and Suddenly summer ( Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959), another Tennessee Williams melodrama with the monstrous Katherine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift, once again.
And, of course, their performances in the 60 ` Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1965), with her then husband Richard Burton; golden reflections in your eyes (John Huston, 1967) that strange and disturbing film which stars alongside Marlon Brando, , in the role of a military crisis on his suppressed homosexuality, this compelling melodrama called conflict Souls (Vincente Minnelli, 1965) living in a forbidden romance with Burton again and Boom (Joseph Losey, 1968).
The Private Lives of Elizabeth Taylor was convener despite himself. The actress moved his romances, marriages, divorces and misfortunes to the sets of film and media during the last forty years. : His married life became a public matter of interest (not for us) and there was no clear dividing line that allowed enough to distinguish fiction from reality. The Taylor burned discretion stages of life; wanted to find love in many ways, and yesterday at 79, she left this world.
One of the most beautiful women in Hollywood who gave more than one hundred years.
The strange and beautiful woman has died and violet eyes should be recalled in all its glory.
transcribe the review by Mr Diego Lerer for Argentina's Clarin newspaper.
Oscar Contreras Morales .-
Despite having had a relatively short career, Elizabeth Taylor became one of the largest and most glamorous stars in Hollywood history with its captivating beauty, acting talent and also a personal life rather rough that was always in the foreground, beyond their work. "Liz," as almost everyone called him, died Wednesday in Los Angeles because of a heart attack. He was 79.
Taylor was a star since she was little and his face and dreamy violet eyes, marked the generations that followed from the innocence of Fire Youth (1945) to Cleopatra (1963), an enormous project that marked the extent to which the figure was iconic and convener at the time.
His career included 50 films (just to the standards of Hollywood stars) and allowed him to take two Oscar for best actress for her role as a prostitute in a Venus in mink and adaptation of Edward Albee piece , who is frightened about Virginia Woolf? , Directed by Mike Nichols.
While critics were not always unanimous in time to celebrate his talent as an actress, in certain roles Liz brings out their talents and proved that it was much more than a beautiful, glamorous star, the many characterized as "the representative about the phenomenon of Hollywood." Why? Because Taylor represented the film as art, as an industry and entertainment in and out of the screen.
Although hardly worked in recent decades, his fame never waned and even today (thanks to their charitable activities, his relationship with Michael Jackson, his struggle against AIDS) continued to be an icon.
Many directors who worked with her talked about the impression that they caused. According to Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who directed her in Suddenly, in the summer and Cleopatra, when he met his 18, Liz "was the vision of beauty and charm bigger than I've ever seen. It was pure innocence. "Liz shared her moment of glory with other Hollywood greats as Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn, and always considered it the most beautiful of them all. The director of another excellent title ambitions as it was killing, George Stevens, described as "beautiful woman with whom any man would dream of marrying."
no formal training as an actress, Taylor often took his personal life to their roles. And all he did was very public, it was impossible to separate their roles as what was known (or published) of its tumultuous and busy life. Taylor was the diva that everyone was talking and saying, their romances, affairs, multiple marriages (he was eight, so his name should have been, in the end, Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fortensky) fights, problems with weight and alcohol, were discussed by millions and millions of fans from the 50s onwards.
"I was lucky all my life," he said in an interview in 1992, at age 60 -. All came served on a plate, I never had to fight for anything: fame, money, honor, beauty, love. But I paid for it by disasters. Anyway, I survived. I'm not like anyone else. I am. "
Half angel, half-seductive, at times provocative and innocent in many others, was always sensual, exhibitionist, on the verge of the vulgar. And the public loved him for all that was, rather than what he did. Although many of his films failed, it was still considered the number one Hollywood star.
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born on February 27, 1932 in London, daughter of Francis Lenn Taylor (an English art dealer) and Sara Viola Warmbrodt, who had a brief career as an actress by the name of Sara Sothern. Elizabeth spent her early years in Britain with his family and his older brother Howard, learning to ride a horse, a talent that helped him get his first big role in National Velvet, when I lived in the United States, where they were at the beginning of World War II. This role
made her a star, scored over his career and led to his lifelong friendship with Mickey Rooney, the vast another child star at that time. "It's my favorite movie of my career," he once said.
conflicted roles as a teenager in a version of Little Women who led Mervyn LeRoy in 1949 gave rise to another great success: The Father of the Bride (1950), Vincente Minnelli, with Spencer Tracy as his father. But his best film until then come a little later: Ambitions killing of George Stevens, which starred one of his best friends at that time, Montgomery Clift. The film won six awards on nine Oscar nominations, but she was not a candidate.
Roles in Ivanhoe, Beau Brummell and other minor films gave way to a pair of classics made between 1956 and 1957: Giant (with Rock Hudson and James Dean, two of his friends tragic lives) and the tree life, Edward Dmytryk, who met with Clift. On the role of Susanna Drake in this film got his first Oscar nomination. In these films was followed by the adaptation of Cat on roof Hot Tin with Paul Newman (1958).
At the time, began experiencing personal problems when her then husband, Mike Todd, died in a plane crash. What happened next (Liz ended up married to Eddie Fisher, the best friend Todd, who left for her his wife Debbie Reynolds) is part of Hollywood legend.
The Oscar finally arrived for a Venus in mink (1960), after having lost three consecutive years, the former no less than its role in Suddenly, in the summer, Mankiewicz, with Katharine Hepburn and other Once, his friend Clift. For many, the award was a "slap on the shoulder" industry after having emergency surgery months ago because of strong pneumonia. Cleopatra
marked a before and after in his career and was also the latest salvo of old Hollywood. With a record budget of $ 40 million (and with a salary of one million to Taylor, unprecedented till then) was a grandiose and excessive project failed and almost ruins the Fox studio for many, like the film in the Liz met the love of his life, Richard Burton. As is now called "Brangelina" for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, they patented that sort of nickname. Were "Dickenliz" and became one of the pairs most famous in film history. Their tumultuous relationship was an echo on the screen with intense version of Virginia Woolf they did in 1966. The mature and weight entry into Taylor gave one of his strongest performances and took his second Oscar.
The pair worked on other films, but the successes began to wane. Elizabeth did The Taming of the Shrew by Franco Zeffirelli; Reflections in a Golden Eye, with Marlon Brando; voltage at dawn and Ash Wednesday, among other films of the '70s, in which Hollywood had changed radically and the stars of yesteryear and not as bright.
Their separation and remarriage with Burton his problems with alcohol and drugs, loneliness, marriage and other complications were weight issues surrounding the actress since then. He later became involved in social issues, to raise money to fight AIDS and to cultivate a friendship with Michael Jackson, another tragic character that was related. Film, very little since. Just his role in The Flintstones (1994) had some impact. His fame was running on the other side.
His health problems, his constant hospitalizations, their marriages and social struggles defined their decades of life. But they did not forget his fame, glamor, her figure, her violet eyes, his face perfect and great performances that, when he wanted, he knew and could, handed over his career.
After his death, is survived by four children (Michael Wilding Jr., Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd Tivey and Maria Burton Carson) and nine grandchildren. He never wrote his memoirs. "I'd rather live it," he once said. And it is true that he lived every day of their complicated, strange and fascinating life, under the flashes of fame.
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