People Elizabeth Taylor 1932 2011

Now that was a star: Eight marriages. Three Oscars. Scandals, drama and diamonds galore, glittering from Hollywood to Rome, Acapulco and the French Riviera. Rich with photos and stories, PEOPLE's memorial book Elizabeth Taylor takes you inside a life like no other, from her first taste of stardom at 12 in National Velvet through her wild years with Richard Burton (a romance whose scandalous beginnings, during the making of Cleopatra, earned a rebuke from the Vatican) to her later years as a legend and (very wealthy) businesswoman. Find out what it felt like to live a life so unusual that, as Taylor herself once remarked, "I can't remember a day when I wasn't famous."

Acclaimed biographer David Bret has written the most revealing, incisive and definitive life story of Elizabeth Taylor in this sensational new biography. The book is set to strip away the glossy veneer to portray the star as she really was: sometimes arrogant, attention-seeking, avaricious, reckless, monstrous towards her peers, generous, even foolish at times but, above all, through the tumultuous relationships and the personal mayhem, a survivor.

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A photographic collection tracing Elizabeth's life in all its intensity, through movies, marriages, and charity work including never before seen personal photographsA movie star from the age of 12, Elizabeth Taylorwas known for her luminous beauty, radiant star quality, and undeniable acting prowess. This collection of photos pays tribute to the actress and celebrity, who was alsoknown for her love of large diamonds and full-on living, and for notching up seven husbands. In all respects, she exhibited a unique lust for life, and her greatest movie triumphs were those in which she has was able to give rein to her blend of kitten-like siren and wild force of nature including "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," the latter with her longest-lasting and arguably most compatible husband, Richard Burton. For all the artifice of her life, there was a natural quality to her and, perhaps more than any other actress, the magic of her star has never faded. This book features never before seen personal photographs, given by Liz to Michael Jackson, who subsequently left them in a taxi in Germany and told the driver to keep them, including brilliantly candid family snaps of Taylor, Burton, their children, and even Marlon Brando at play."

As a young man, photographer Zahedi became friends with Elizabeth Taylor, and the relationship changed his life. Now he shares his unforgettable photographs of Taylor, collected for the first time. Text explores her facets, and document her playful, carefree side away from movie sets and crowds.