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| Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011
Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79
(February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011)


Elizabeth Taylor pictured in her twenties

A legend in Hollywood's Golden Age

by Joyce Barslow
LOS ANGELES, March 23, 2011 - Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, also known as Liz Taylor, was an English-American actress (born in Hampstead, London, England). Beginning as a child star, and as an adult she came to be known for her acting talent and beauty, and had a much publicized private life, including eight marriages and several near death experiences. Taylor was considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. The American Film Institute named Taylor seventh on its Female Legends list.

Taylor won two Academy Awards for Best Actress (for her performance in Butterfield 8 in 1960, and for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 1966). Additionally, she was awarded the Jean Herscholt Humanitarian Academy Award in 1992 for her work fighting AIDS. In 1999, Taylor was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

On Wednesday, March 23, actor Michael Wilding, the first of two sons that Taylor had with her second husband, the late British actor Michael Wilding, released a statement saying that she was also a mother (two sons, two daughters) and in the wake of her death, he could not be more proud of what she achieved in life. "My mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love," Wilding, 58, "Though her loss is devastating to those of us who held her so close and so dear, we will always be inspired by her enduring contribution to our world." Her epic screen work was only part of the story, Wilding said.

"Her remarkable body of work in film, her ongoing success as a businesswoman, and her brave and relentless advocacy in the fight against HIV/AIDS, all make us incredibly proud of what she accomplished. We know, quite simply, that the world is a better place for Mom having lived in it. Her legacy will never fade, her spirit will always be with us, and her love will live forever in our hearts."

Father of the Bride (1950)
Elizabeth Taylor's first box office success in an adult role came as Kay Banks in the romantic comedy Father of the Bride, alongside Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett. The American film tells the story of a man trying to cope with all of the disasters that happen along the way from the time that his daughter announces that she's engaged until the wedding actually occurs. The movie stars Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor (as her fiancé), Billie Burke, and Leo G. Carroll, The screenplay was adapted by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett from the novel by Edward Streeter, and directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Weddings & Honeymoons cover
Weddings & Honeymoons Holiday 2002 / Winter 2003 issue, pictured, featured Taylor on its cover. She graced more than 25 covers of People, and seven of Life's 14 covers of that ran during the 1960s, when she was divorcing Eddie Fisher, marrying Richard Burton (twice) and making the world go wild over Cleopatra (1963).

Hollywood Gets Married
by Sandy Schreier
Cover photo: Elizabeth Taylor from Father of the Bride
The movie wedding, Father of the Bride, is often matched up in the book with the star’s real-life weddings and includes trivia about the wedding or the wedding guests.

Schreier gives pages to the book’s cover girl Elizabeth Taylor who has been married in the movies a few times, however eight times off-screen (seven husbands, she married Richard Burton twice). It’s interesting to watch the different styles of dress she chose for her weddings from the first at 18-years-old to Nicky Hilton to the last to Larry Fortensky.

The marriage to Hilton in 1950 coincided with the release of Father of the Bride. Designer Helen Rose created her gown for both the movie and her wedding, which was her wedding gift from MGM. Her real wedding gown was a creation of white satin embroidered with bead and seed pearls and took two months to complete. She wore a tiara and ten yards of veiling.

Liz Taylor married husband No. 2, British actor Michael Wilding in 1952 wearing a gray wool suite with a rolled collar and cuffs of white organdy by Helen Rose.  

For her third wedding in 1957, Liz married Mike Todd in Acapulco at the villa of former Mexican president Miguel Alemán, in a deep blue cocktail dress designer by Helen Rose.  

For her fourth wedding in 1959 to singer Eddie Fisher in Las Vegas’s Temple Beth Shalom she wore a Jean Louis green chiffon dress with a softly draped hood.

At her fifth wedding in 1964 to Richard Burton in a suite at the Ritz Carlton in Montreal, she wore an Irene Sharaff design of a replica of the yellow gown she wore in the first scene of Cleopatra, where she and Burton met. She wore white hyacinths in her hair. For her sixth wedding to Burton, October 1975 in Botswana, on the edge of a riverbank, she wore a long green robe embroidered with exotic birds. Burton was in white slacks and a red turtleneck.

In 1976, she married US Senator John Warner on top of Engagement Hill at the senator’s farm. She wore a dress of lavender gray, with gray suede boots and a coat of silver fox. She had on a matching turban and carried a bouquet of heather.

Her eighth and last wedding, was in 1990 when she married Larry Fortensky at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch.  She wore a $25,000 lemon yellow wedding gown, a gift from designer Valentino. Jackson paid for the $1.5 million wedding.

Gowns, gowns, gowns and more gowns!
If you’re looking for a gown, dress or suit to get married in or planning a theme wedding, take a look at the range of styles famous costumer designers such as Helen Rose, Edith Head, and Irene Sharaff created over the years for stars to wear in all films and for their real-life weddings, in the book Hollywood Gets Married.  

The headpieces with the outfits will give you a range of ideas from flowers, fabric, hair-dos, to all types of tiaras. The creations date back to before talking pictures and include the real royal wedding of actress Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier of Monaco, whose gown was designed by Helen Rose, to Rita Hayworth’s cocktail dress by Jacques Fath when she married Aly Khan in 1949, to outrageous showgirl bridal G-string worn by Sarah Jessica Parker by designer Julie Weiss, in the movie Honeymoon in Las Vegas, not to mention Nicholas Cage in his Elvis jumpsuit.

Author Sandy Schreier is a fashion historian and the owner of the largest private collection of twentieth-century couture. She has curated exhibitions of costume history at museums worldwide. Hollywood Gets Married by Sandy Schreier (Clarkson Potter/Publishers, Random worldwide).

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