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PERSONAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special thanks to Stephen Gregory, not only for so many years of friendship but also for his extraordinary contributions to this work. It’s truly difficult for me to even imagine what this book would be like if not for his input, which has been invaluable to all of my recent works. Without it, I am sure my research and writing would simply descend into chaos. I’m very grateful to him. He’s an incredibly special and talented person. Having him in my life matters . . . and on a daily basis. As I have often stated, without a loyal team of representatives, an author usually finds himself sitting at home writing 514
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books no one reads. Therefore, I thank all of those from “USATeam JRT” who somehow mastermind the chaos in my office: attorneys Joel Loquvam, James M. Leonard, and James Jimenez; CPA Michael Horowitz, of Horowitz, McMahon and Zarem in Southern California, Inc; Michele Muico, also of Horowitz et. al.; and advisers Mike Johnston of Capital Lending and Doris Duke of Common Cents, Inc. I also owe a debt of gratitude to Buddy Thomas at ICM.
My sincere thanks to Jonathan Hahn, fellow author, personal publicist, and also close friend. Everyone should have someone like Jonathan in his corner. He’s been so encouraging over the years and his support and abiding wisdom has meant everything to me. I would also like to acknowledge his lovely and immensely learned wife, Alysia Garrison, who has also been a loyal friend to me.
I thank, as always, Al Kramer, my trusted friend and writing colleague who has, for years, been there for me. Thanks, Al, for your continued friendship.
I want to thank Jeff Hare at Warner Bros. for being such a good and trusted friend and for always understanding and appreciating the work that I do.
Thanks also to Brian Evan Newman for his joyful outlook. It means the world to me to be blessed with so many good friends, some of whom I would like to acknowledge here, including: Richard Tyler Jordan, Steve Ivory, George Solomon, Iake and Alex Eisinmann, Hazel and Rob Kragulac, Frank Bruno, Jeff Cooke, Lisa Reiner, Steve Ridgeway, Andy Skurow, Billy Barnes, Scherrie Payne, Marvin Marshall, Freda Payne, Cindy Birdsong, Lynda Laurence, Rev. Marlene Morris, Kac Young, Jim Bzora, Dr. Jason Peters, Barbara Ormsby, Rick Starr, John Passantino, Linda DeStefano, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tumolo, Daniel Tumolo, Charles Casillo, John Carlino, Tony and Marilyn Caruselle, David Spiro, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Steinlen, David and Frances Snyder, Abby and Maddy Snyder, Maribeth and Don Rothell, Mary Alvarez, Sources and Other Notes
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Mark Bringelson, Hope Levy, Tom Lavagnino, John Townsend, Matthew Barasch, Anthony Shane, Bethany Marshall, Dylan, and, of course, Yvette Jarecki.
During the third of four quarters of production on Elizabeth—a period from January to June of 2005—I was reporting on the Michael Jackson molestation trial in Santa Maria, California, for CBS News and Court TV. I met so many amazing people during that time, media colleagues, many of whom I now count as good friends of mine and who were supportive as I also worked on this book during a difficult time for us all. I would like to acknowledge just a few of them here: my very good friends Bruce Rheins and Dawn Westlake, Manuel Gallegos, Vince Gonzalez, Jennifer Sieben, Soshea Lebowitz, Jennie Josephson, Sherri Sylvester, Anne Bremner, Jim Moret, Michelle Caruso, Leslie Miller, Miguel Marquez, Quintin Cushner, Diane Dimond, Pat Ketchum, Savannah Guthrie, Dawn Hobbs, Stacy Brown, Andrew Cohen, Trent Copeland, Hal Eisner, Aphrodite Jones, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Roger Friedman, Jim Thomas, Dan Whitcomb, Steve Corbett, Frank Swertlow, Linda Deutsch, Tim Molloy, and Mike Taibbi. I apologize to anyone whose name is not on this list. What a strange, unique time we had in Santa Maria, and all while I was working on this book! Thanks also to Michael Jackson’s team: Thomas Mesereau, Brian Oxmon, and Raymone K. Bain. Special thanks to Mike Lawler for his advice and support. My thanks to Andy Steinlen for being such a great influence on me, for teaching me so much about life, for being my “sounding board” . . . and my ever loyal, ever true friend. I have always been so blessed to have a family as supportive as mine. My thanks and love go out to: Roslyn and Bill Barnett and Jessica and Zachary, Rocco and Rosemaria Taraborrelli and Rocco and Vincent, and Arnold Taraborrelli. Special thanks to my father, Rocco, who has always been my inspiration. He has encouraged me in ways too numerous to mention. My mom, Rose Marie, would have loved this book; she was 516
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such a fan of Elizabeth Taylor’s. She was also my biggest fan, and I was hers.
I must also acknowledge those readers of mine who have followed my career over the years. As I have said in the past, the reason that I write about people such Elizabeth Taylor is to bring about an exchange of ideas concerning how others have lived in the hope that we may learn by their choices. Never did I dream that I would have a global audience for such communication. I am indebted to every reader who has stuck by me over the course of my career. I receive so many letters from people who have enjoyed my books—as well as from those who have taken issue with aspects of my work. Whatever the response, I am eternally grateful to anyone who takes the time to pick up one of my books and read it. Finally, I’d like to close this book with a comment from Roddy McDowall found in the previously mentioned program for the Life Achievement Award presented to Elizabeth in 1993 by the American Film Institute. I think it best sums up his good friend, the woman he always called “Bessie.” Of her, he wrote: “Vulnerable, responsible, dedicated, awash with self-humor, kind, full of decades of woe and rapture, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor emerges as a sort of elegant, rollicking Boadicea. A rainbow that arcs the travesties and triumphs of her time. She is an artist in both her craft . . . and her life.”
J. RANDY TARABORRELLI
Spring 2006
Elizabeth Taylor Filmography
There’s One Born Every Minute (1942) Hugh Herbert, Tom Brown, Peggy Moran, Guy Kibbee, Catherine Doucet, Edgar Kennedy, Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, Elizabeth Taylor (Gloria Twine)
Universal
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Ken Goldsmith
DIRECTOR: Harold Young
SCREENWRITERS: Robert B. Hunt, Brenda Weisberg
Lassie Come Home (1943)
Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Dame May Whitty, Nigel Bruce, Elsa Lanchester, Elizabeth Taylor (Priscilla) MGM
PRODUCER: Samuel Marx
DIRECTOR: Fred M. Wilcox
SCREENWRITER: Hugh Butler
Jane Eyre (1943)
Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Henry Danielle, Peggy Ann Garner, Margaret O’Brien, Agnes Moorehead, John Sutton, Sara Allgood, Ethel Griffies, Elizabeth Taylor (Helen) 20th Century-Fox
PRODUCER: William Goetz
DIRECTOR: Robert Stevenson
SCREENWRITERS: Aldous Huxley, Robert Stevenson, John Houseman
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The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Frank Morgan, Roddy McDowall, C. Aubrey Smith, Gladys Cooper, Dame May Whitty, Peter Lawford, Van Johnson, June Lockhart, Elizabeth Taylor (Betsy) MGM
PRODUCER: Sidney Franklin
DIRECTOR: Clarence Brown
SCREENWRITERS: Claudine West, Jan Lustig, George Froeschel National Velvet (1944)
Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor (Velvet Brown), Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury, Reginald Owens, Jackie “Butch”
Jenkins
MGM
PRODUCER: Pandro S. Berman
DIRECTOR: Clarence Brown
SCREENWRITERS: Theodore Reeves, Helen Deutsch
Courage of Lassie (1946)
Elizabeth Taylor (Kathie Merrick), Frank Morgan, Tom Drake, Selena Royle, George Cleveland, Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer MGM
PRODUCER: Robert Sisk
DIRECTOR: Fred M. Wilcox
SCREENWRITER: Lionel Hauser
Cynthia (1947)
Elizabeth Taylor (Cynthia Bishop), George Murphy, S.Z. “Cuddles” Sakall, Mary Astor, Gene Lockhart, James Lydon, Spring Byington
MGM
PRODUCER: Edwin H. Knopf
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DIRECTOR: Robert Z. Leonard
SCREENWRITERS: Harold Buchman, Charles Kaufman
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Life with Father (1947)
William Powell, Irene Dunne, Edmund Gwenn, Zasu Pitts, Elizabeth Taylor (Mary Skinner), Martin Milner, Emma Dunn, Moroni Olsen
Warner Bros.
PRODUCER: Robert Buckner
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
SCREENWRITER: Donald Ogden Stewart
A Date with Judy (1948)
Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor (Carol Pringle), Carmen Miranda, Robert Stack, Xavier Cugat, Selena Royle MGM
PRODUCER: Joe Pasternak
DIRECTOR: Richard Thorpe
SCREENWRITERS: Dorothy Cooper, Dorothy Kingsley Julia Misbehaves (1948)
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor (Susan Packett), Cesar Romero, Lucile Watson, Nigel Bruce MGM
PRODUCER: Everett Riskin
DIRECTOR: Jack Conway
SCREENWRITERS: William Ludwig, Harry Ruskin, Arthur Wimperis Little Women (1949)
June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O’Brien, Elizabeth Taylor (Amy March) Janet Leigh, Rosanno Brazzi, Mary Astor, Sir C. Aubrey Smith, Lucile Watson
MGM
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Mervyn LeRoy
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Conspirator (1950)
Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor (Melinda Greyton), Harold Warrender, Robert Flemyng
MGM
PRODUCER: Arthur Hornblow Jr.
DIRECTOR: Victor Saville
SCREENWRITER: Sally Benson
The Big Hangover (1950)
Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor (Mary Belney), Percy Waram, Fay Holden, Leon Ames, Edgar Buchanan, Selena Royle, Gene Lockhart
MGM
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Norman Krasna
Father of the Bride (1950)
Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor (Kay Banks), Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Moroni Olsen, Leo G. Carroll, Melville Cooper MGM
PRODUCER: Pandro S. Berman
DIRECTOR: Vincente Minnelli
SCREENWRITERS: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett Father’s Little Dividend (1951)
Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor (Kay Dunstan), Billie Burke, Moroni Olsen, Russ Tamblyn
MGM
PRODUCER: Pandro S. Berman
DIRECTOR: Vincente Minnelli
SCREENWRITERS: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett A Place in the Sun (1951)
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor (Angela Vickers), Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Raymond Burr, Keefe Brasselle, Fred Clark, Frieda Inescort, Shepperd Strudwick Filmography
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Paramount
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: George Stevens
SCREENWRITERS: Michael Wilson, Harry Brown
Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel, Jesse White, Natalie Schafer. Guest stars (unbilled): June Allyson, Clark Gable, Elizabeth Taylor, Esther Williams, Dick Powell MGM
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS/SCREENWRITERS: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Love Is Better Than Ever (1951)
Larry Parks, Elizabeth Taylor (Anastacia “Stacie” Macaboy), Josephine Hutchinson, Tom Tully, Ann Doran
MGM
PRODUCER: William H. Wright
DIRECTOR: Stanley Donen
SCREENWRITER: Ruth Brooks Flippen
Ivanhoe (1952)
Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor (Rebecca), Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer
MGM
PRODUCER: Pandro S. Berman
DIRECTOR: Richard Thorpe
SCREENWRITER: Noel Langley
The Girl Who Had Everything (1953) Elizabeth Taylor (Jean Latiner), Fernando Lamas, William Powell, Gig Young, James Whitmore
MGM
PRODUCER: Armand Deutsch
DIRECTOR: Richard Thorpe
SCREENWRITER: Art Cohn
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Rhapsody (1954)
Elizabeth Taylor (Louise Durant), Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Michael Chekhov, Barbara Bates MGM
PRODUCER: Lawrence Weingarten
DIRECTOR: Charles Vidor
SCREENWRITERS: Fay and Michael Kanin
Elephant Walk (1954)
Elizabeth Taylor (Ruth Wiley), Dana Andrews, Peter Finch, James Donald, Rosemary Harris, Abraham Sofaer
MGM
PRODUCER: Irving Asher
DIRECTOR: William Dieterle
SCREENWRITER: John Lee Mahin
Beau Brummell (1954)
Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Patricia), Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, James Donald, Rosemary Harris, Peter Bull MGM
PRODUCER: Sam Zimbalist
DIRECTOR: Curtis Bernhardt
SCREENWRITER: Karl Tunberg
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) Elizabeth Taylor (Helen Elswirth), Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor, Roger Moore MGM
PRODUCER: Jack Cummings
DIRECTOR: Richard Brooks
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Richard Brooks
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Giant (1956)
Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor (Leslie Lynnton Benedict), James Dean, Carroll Baker, Mercedes McCambridge, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor, Judith Evelyn, Earl Holliman
Warner Bros.
PRODUCERS: George Stevens, Henry Ginsberg
DIRECTOR: George Stevens
SCREENWRITERS: Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat
Raintree County (1957)
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor (Susanna Drake), Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin, Nigel Patrick, Rod Taylor, Agnes Moorehead, Walter Abel, Tom Drake, Gardner McKay MGM
PRODUCER: David Lewis
DIRECTOR: Edward Dmytryk
SCREENWRITER: Millard Kaufman
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Elizabeth Taylor (Maggie Pollitt), Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Judith Anderson, Jack Carson, Madeleine Sherwood, Larry Gates MGM
PRODUCER: Lawrence Weingarten
DIRECTOR: Richard Brooks
SCREENWRITERS: Richard Brooks, James Poe
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Elizabeth Taylor (Catherine Holly), Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker, Mercedes McCambridge, Gary Raymond
MGM
PRODUCER: Sam Spiegel
DIRECTOR: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
SCREENWRITERS: Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams
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Scent of Mystery (1960)
Denholm Elliott, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Elizabeth Taylor (The Real Sally Kennedy, unbilled)
A Cinerama/Michael Todd Jr. Release
PRODUCER: Michael Todd Jr.
DIRECTOR: Jack Cardiff
SCREENWRITER: William Roos
Butterfield 8 (1960)
Elizabeth Taylor (Gloria Wondrous), Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field, Jeffrey Lynn, Kay Medford
MGM
PRODUCER: Pandro S. Berman
DIRECTOR: Daniel Mann
SCREENWRITERS: Charles Schnee, John Michael Hayes Cleopatra (1963)
Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra), Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Hume Cronyn, Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau,
Pamela Brown, Cesare Danova
20th Century-Fox
PRODUCER: Walter Wanger
DIRECTOR: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
SCREENWRITERS: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall, Sidney Buchman
The V.I.P.s (1963)
Elizabeth Taylor (Frances Andros), Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli, Margaret Rutherford, Maggie Smith, Orson Welles
MGM
PRODUCER: Anatole deGrunwald
DIRECTOR: Anthony Asquith
SCREENWRITER: Terence
Rattigan
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The Sandpiper (1965)
Elizabeth Taylor (Laura Reynolds), Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Bronson, Robert Webber MGM
PRODUCER: Martin Ransohoff
DIRECTOR: Vincente Minnelli
SCREENWRITERS: Dalton Trumbo, Michael Wilson
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Elizabeth Taylor (Martha), Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Warner Bros.
PRODUCER/SCREENWRITER: Ernest Lehman
DIRECTOR: Mike Nichols
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Elizabeth Taylor (Katharina), Richard Burton, Michael York, Cyril Cusack
Columbia
PRODUCERS: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Franco Zeffirelli DIRECTOR: Franco Zeffirelli
SCREENWRITERS: Paul Dehn, Suso Cecchi D’Amico,
Franco Zeffirelli
Doctor Faustus (1967)
Richard Burton, Andreas Teuber, Elizabeth O’Donovan, Ian Marter, Elizabeth Taylor (Helen of Troy)
Columbia/Oxford University Screen Productions, et alia PRODUCERS: Richard Burton, Richard McWhorter
DIRECTORS: Richard Burton, Nevill Coghill
SCREENWRITER: Nevill Coghill
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) Elizabeth Taylor (Leonora Penderton), Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, Julie Harris, Robert Forster
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Warner Bros./Seven Arts
PRODUCER: Ray Stark
DIRECTOR: John Huston
SCREENWRITERS: Chapman Mortimer, Gladys Hill
The Comedians (1967)
Elizabeth Taylor (Martha Pineda), Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Lillian Gish, Paul Ford, Roscoe Lee Browne, James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson MGM/Maximillian/Trianon
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Peter Glenville
SCREENWRITER: Graham Greene
Boom! (1968)
Elizabeth Taylor (Flora “Sissy” Goforth), Richard Burton, Noël Coward, Michael Dunn, Joanna Shimkus
Universal
PRODUCERS: John Heyman, Norman Priggen
DIRECTOR: Joseph Losey
SCREENWRITER: Tennessee Williams
Secret Ceremony (1968)
Elizabeth Taylor (Leonora), Robert Mitchum, Mia Farrow, Pamela Brown, Peggy Ashcroft
Universal
PRODUCERS: John Heyman, Norman Priggen
DIRECTOR: Joseph Losey
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