Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon
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Kate Andersen Brower. (2022). Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Kate Andersen Brower. 2022. Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon. HarperAudio.

Kate Andersen Brower, Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon. HarperAudio, 2022.

Kate Andersen Brower. Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2022.

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever authorized biography of the most famous movie star of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor.

No celebrity rivals Elizabeth Taylor's glamour and guts or her level of fame. She was the last major star to come out of the old Hollywood studio system and she is a legend known for her beauty and her magnetic screen presence in a career that spanned most of the twentieth century and nearly sixty films. But her private life was even more compelling than her Oscar-winning on-screen performances. During her seventy-nine years of rapid-fire love and loss she was married eight times to seven different men. Above all, she was a survivor—by the time she was twenty-six she was twice divorced and once widowed. Her life was a soap opera that ended in a deeply meaningful way when she became the first major celebrity activist to lead the fight against HIV/AIDS. A co-founder of amfAR, she raised more than $100 million for research and patient care. She was also a shrewd businesswoman who made a fortune as the first celebrity perfumer who always demanded to be paid what she was worth.

In the first ever authorized biography of the Hollywood icon, Kate Andersen Brower reveals the world through Elizabeth's eyes. Brower uses Elizabeth's unpublished letters, diary entries, and off-the-record interview transcripts as well as interviews with 250 of her closest friends and family to tell the full, unvarnished story of her remarkable career and her explosive private life that made headlines worldwide. Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile, and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive fame at age twelve in National Velvet to becoming the first to negotiate a million-dollar salary for a film, from her eight marriages and enduring love affair with Richard Burton to her lifelong battle with addiction and her courageous efforts as an AIDS activist.

Here is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legendary star and her legacy.

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     Journalist Brower (Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump) captures in this glowing portrait the larger-than-life story of British American actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011), who “defined twentieth-century Hollywood for a global audience.” Taylor shot to stardom at age 12 with her role as Velvet Brown in the 1944 film National Velvet, and she really came into her own with her portrayal of Angela Vickers in the 1951 melodrama A Place in the Sun. “I was bitten, and I loved the possibility of acting,” Taylor said in an unpublished interview at the time. Brower meticulously details Taylor’s stormy romantic relationships, from marrying hotel heir Nicky Hilton as a “means of escape”from her parents to her tumultuous two marriages to actor Richard Burton, who called their relationship “Le Scandale.” In her later years, Taylor became an AIDS activist and humanitarian. Brower convincingly depicts Taylor as a complex woman whose glamour, even today, is “intoxicating.” The result is a mesmerizing appreciation of a legendary star. Agent: Howard Yoon, Ross Yoon Agency.

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     Elizabeth Taylor may well be the last great star of the classic Hollywood era. In the days before social media and the internet, Taylor stopped the presses with her larger-than-life persona and extravagant lifestyle. In writing this biography, journalist Brower (Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump) was supported by Taylor's family, who granted interviews and provided access to Taylor's unpublished letters and diaries. The resulting work contains little detail about her films or professional accomplishments, but there is a plethora of juicy details about the events that kept her in the spotlight--her eight marriages, adulterous affairs, numerous illnesses, and near-death episodes, not to mention her vast jewelry collection, which warrants its own chapter. Much attention is given to her passionate and volatile relationship with Richard Burton, which began during the filming of Cleopatra and would continue through two marriages. Beneath her hard-edged exterior, Taylor treated people with respect and was passionate about rooting for the underdog and for those who were discriminated against, as evidenced by her stalwart activism around AIDS. VERDICT Eleanor Caudill's perspicuous narration will compel listeners forward and gives Taylor's frequent ballsy quotes appropriate rendering. An engrossing, gossipy listen.--Phillip Oliver

     Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever authorized biography of the most famous movie star of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor.

No celebrity rivals Elizabeth Taylor's glamour and guts or her level of fame. She was the last major star to come out of the old Hollywood studio system and she is a legend known for her beauty and her magnetic screen presence in a career that spanned most of the twentieth century and nearly sixty films. But her private life was even more compelling than her Oscar-winning on-screen performances. During her seventy-nine years of rapid-fire love and loss she was married eight times to seven different men. Above all, she was a survivor—by the time she was twenty-six she was twice divorced and once widowed. Her life was a soap opera that ended in a deeply meaningful way when she became the first major celebrity activist to lead the fight against HIV/AIDS. A...

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