Elizabeth Taylor
Sixteen year-old Elizabeth Taylor in 1948.
“We had an extraordinary friendship. We would sometimes sit up until three in the morning, and he would tell me about his past, his mother, minister, his loves, and the next day he would just look straight through me as if he’d given away or revealed too much of himself. It would take, after one of these sessions, maybe a couple of days before we’d be back on friendship terms. He was very afraid to give of himself.”
Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman behind the scenes of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
He was one of the most important people in my life; he was my closest friend until he died. We really loved each other in the purest, most complete sense of the word.
On November 1969, Elizabeth Taylor attended Grace Kelly’s 40th birthday party in Monaco. After the event, Grace wrote her friend Judy Balaban Quine that she found it hard to take her eyes off Elizabeth, whom she described as being “unbearably beautiful”.
Elizabeth Taylor photographed by Philippe Halsman, 1952.
James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Giant, 1955.
Elizabeth Taylor on the set of ‘Cleopatra’, 1963.
