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Plate Section
1. Taylor looks atypically androgynous in a wardrobe test for National Velvet.
2. A cameraman greets Taylor portraying Velvet Brown before the Grand National Steeplechase.
3. Giant was sold as a steamy love triangle; in fact, it was a clarion call for social justice.
4. Sleeping Giant: James Dean and Taylor relax between takes. Taylor is justifiably exhausted: Her character is the moral anchor of the movie. (Taylor and her new daughter, Liza Todd, are on Look’s cover.)
5. Rock Hudson’s character is flattened in Giant, after raising his fists in support of racial justice. Taylor’s character transformed him from a bigot to a humanitarian.
6. In Suddenly, Last Summer, Taylor’s character is trapped on a catwalk above the inmates in an insane asylum: a metaphor for celebrity?
7. While filming Suddenly, Last Summer, Taylor stands near a symbol of the institution that accused her of “erotic vagrancy.”
8. In BUtterfield 8, Taylor’s character refuses to be rented or owned. She scrawls “No Sale” on her married lover’s mirror.
9. In London, crowds struggle to glimpse Taylor after her tracheotomy and resurrection.
10. Sign painters in Times Square put finishing touches on a giant, wordless billboard for Cleopatra.
11. Liz Smith said Taylor often helped “a bird with a wing down”--like this feathered co-star from The Sandpiper.
12. No love was lost between Taylor and playwright Lillian Hellman in Austin Pendleton’s 1981 production of The Little Foxes. Also shown are Maureen Stapleton and Tom Aldredge.
13. In Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Taylor and Burton share a moment of Hollywood-style intimacy: surrounded by lights, cameras and recording equipment.
14. To the confusion of their guests—a new faculty member and his wife—George (Burton) aims a rifle at Martha (Taylor), who cackles diabolically when it fires. The trick gun contains an umbrella.
A Note on the Author
M. G. Lord is an acclaimed cultural critic and investigative journalist, and the author of the widely praised books Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll and Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science. Since 1995 she has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review and the Times’s Arts & Leisure section. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New Yorker, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Travel + Leisure, the Hollywood Reporter, and Artforum. Before becoming a freelance writer, Lord was a syndicated political cartoonist and a columnist for Newsday. She teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
The Beautiful Somnambulist
National Velvet , 1944
1945–1950
A Place in the Sun, 1951
1951–1955
Giant , 1956
1956–1959
Suddenly, Last Summer , 1959
BUtterfield 8 , 1960
1960–1962
Cleopatra , 1963
1963–1965
The Sandpiper , 1965
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966
1967–1973
Ash Wednesday , 1973
The Little Foxes , 1981
1982–1984
Her Greatest Conscious Gift, 1984–2011
Acknowledgments
Notes
Footnotes
Bibliography
Plate Section
A Note on the Author