There will never be a more beautiful face than this!

...praying for Ivanhoe

No! The most beautiful face was the photoshopped dead face trump in his casket.

Trump reference and only the second post.

Didn't she play Laverne DeFazio on Happy Days?

Nor a more sleazy boozy spectacular middle aged bitch like Martha.

Agree, OP. She was the most beautiful woman ever in her youth.

Agree.

fat fat water rat

OMG. Oh, how sublime this scene is. Elizabeth signed for the role at 17.

And oh, how utterly stupid and worthless r8 is.

‘’What a dump’’ there I said it.

I prefer Audrey Hepburn.

Read in a Taylor-Burton dual bio recently that she refused to wear any article of clothing more than once.

R4, I don't know what you mean

I don't believe that, r12.

Liz's worst features were her stubby legs and upper teeth, which were flat and odd (you noticed them in profile).

R15, I don't know what you mean in regards to her teeth

Total natural beauty

R14 It was in this book. Employees often got her worn-once clothes. After I read the book (which wasn't judgmental) I never thought of Taylor as someone down-to-earth or like a regular person. They lived in the most lavish way imaginable at the time, very wasteful, overindulgent, profligate. Far removed from real world concerns. They made a lot of crap films to pay for it all.

They had a lot of money to spend after her Cleopatra paycheck:

"$1,000,000 in 1960 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $10,662,331.08 today"

Was the movie considered a flop?:

"The 1963 film Cleopatra had a budget of $44 million and grossed $57,777,778 in the US and Canada. Budget: The film's budget was $44 million, which is equivalent to over $426 million today. At the time, it was the most expensive film ever made"

[quote] They had a lot of money to spend after her Cleopatra paycheck:

And they spent it.

There already was.

Elizabeth herself thought Ava was the most beautiful.

I only knew her as the fat, boozy has-been she was later in life…so I don’t see it.

As the article states (quoting from the book) the rugs on their yacht would constantly be soiled by all of Elizabeth's un-housebroken pets. So they would just have the rugs replaced every month.

(Wall-to-wall carpeting.)

She was the most beautiful when she was very young. She did not age well at all.

I should have such "worst features," r15, and don't pretend you wouldn't give your eye teeth, either, male or female.

R26, Few of us do.

R23, Why, are you somehow blind when it involves photos from before you were born? Are you really that stupid?

R18, "If eyes were made for seeing,....."

Elizabeth said she thought Ava Gardner and Lena Horne were more beautiful than she was.

Backstage at Mame, with Angela Lansbury (who played her big sister in National Velvet) and Kate Burton, who went on to be a fine actress. Taylor was short (5' 2") and she really only looked great when she was fairly thin.

With Ann Miller and Arlene Dahl.

Ava had no talent at all until she started aging and gained some character. And experience..Liz and Lena were gifted from youth.

Even Liz would have been better as Mame if they needed a movie star and Cukor had directed it.

Interesting that Angela said those scenes where she and Liz are walking outdoors in NV were shot inside a soundstage. It looks like MGM had built an English village on an outdoor lot.

"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was on TCG recently.

The scene where Maggie lifts up her skirt to adjust her nylons gave even this old Gold Star queen a slight twinge of delight.

And she was absolutely beautiful in the white dress she wore to Big Daddy's party that evening.

When did her looks first start to go downhill?

Classic looks but Gene Tierney was more gorgeous.

Not as beautiful as...

She went on to be a big druggie and boozer. It affected her health. She was a slob later n life and trashed hotel rooms where she’d share cans of dog food with her chihuahuas

Sure, Jan

R34 Some of the scenes in the village are outdoors on the backlot, in the sunlight. The house itself and the yard were on a soundstage, with a painted backdrop.

R34 I thought she was talented in The Snows Of Kilimanjaro and Mogambo (her only Best Actress Oscar nomination). Both in the early '50s when she was gorgeous. She was a better actress than Lana Turner, for ex.

A slob

I never understood why when she was older she would get really tan. Didn't she realize that a big part of her beauty came from the contrast of her pale skin with her dark hair and blue (violent?) eyes?

Ate canned dog food with her chihuahuas while strung out on drugs in hotel rooms throughout the 70s and first half of the 80s. Was diagnosed with a disease that came from living in filthy conditions and sharing bowls with multiple dogs. It’s true and been widely reported and acknowledged as true

I’d rather look like Christy Turlington.

Here eyes *were* rather violent.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to eat people food and give the dogs that, rather than eat their food? Was she also barking on all fours, like Rachel Roberts?

Ask a drug user and boozer (Liz) that question in 1974

Just posted something but came back because this thread reminded me of something. A girl I walked to school with once gave me a piece of film. She knew I was interested in movies. It was six or seven frames of a close-up of (older, but still beautiful) Elizabeth Taylor, from a recent movie at the time. Her dad was in the business, I'm not sure if he was an editor but she said the piece of film came from the cutting room. I had it hanging around for a long time until it got scratched up, and I eventually threw it out. But it felt like a cool connection to her and the movies, at the time.

She’d let her dogs eat half eaten food right out of her mouth

[quote]I’d rather look like Christy Turlington.

Linda for me.

It’s so beautiful to be like Liz in 1980. Fat, old sitting in your own pile of shit while drunk and loaded with pills.

Ava Gardner was not more beautiful imo. I didn’t find her beautiful at all, actually.

living in filthy conditions and sharing bowls with multiple dogs.

I don't expect a balanced appraisal from dual bio entitled "Erotic Vagrancy."

As for her later in life looks, here she is with Johnny Carson still looking splendid.

R56 here. I am not denying her Hollywood Babylon period when she was a ghastly parody of what she had been. But she did get clean and sober later on and she did a tremendous job helping AIDS causes.

R37, who was more beautiful than Gene Tierney to you?

So pretty indeed. Did she get work done?

[quote]I don't expect a balanced appraisal from dual bio entitled "Erotic Vagrancy."

Wasn't that a quote from the Vatican? Anyway, the book is terribly biased against Liz. I bought but did not finish it.

I wish that she would have filmed a movie in 1957. I think that she looked her best then and it's the only year in her prime that she didn't film a movie.

Does anyone know why she didn't?

What a shame.

R58 No one came close but Liz aged better.

Given it up, r45. Your dementia isn't clever.

Ava was VERY talented in the bedroom.

When did Elizabeth look her best?

In the morning. Around 10:30.

R59, nope

She definitely had a face lift

Yes, R68. She also had an early career rhinoplasty.

She looked like she had a late career rhinoplasty as well. Her nose became a dot in the middle of her face.

Jean Simmons

Already mentioned Elizabeth Taylor-Place in the Sun.

Ava Gardner

False, r70.

Elizabeth never had any work done and she never wore makeup.

What am I, chopped liver?

R74, yuck

What face shape did Elizabeth have?

Oh, c'mon, R72, those photos prove it.

Noses appear smaller when you gain weight—and Liz gained a lot of weight in her lifetime

Why was she in a wheelchair the last years of her life? (Died at 79.)

Hi!

I'm the Idiot Assertion Troll!

Liz was perfection

r44 she looked gorgeous with a tan, see here here during an award show in 1970, tan as a baked chip. But many people look fine while tan, when young.

R23 to see Elizabeth Taylor at her most beautiful watch Father of the Bride with Spencer Tracy and Don Taylor.

She was 19 years old during filming, right before her first marriage to Nicky Hilton.

Luminous best describes her during this time.

There was one Oscars I watched... ^ That one above might have been it. The dress looks familiar.

At the end, she and Gene Kelly assembled all the winners and presenters and if I recall correctly,the whole group sang God Bless America. I think it was because the ceremonies ran too short.

R63 chooses blind ignorance

Love her looks in Cat

[quote] she looked gorgeous with a tan

Didn't we all.

She never had a nose job

I love the way Liz delivers the line. 'Egyptian generosity. He can have two heads for the price of one.'

Nothing beautiful about what she looked like when she was raging drunk throwing glassware at Richard Burton then passing out on the floor lying in her own vomit. Her manager and housekeeper had to literally beg her to get up and go to the set of whatever movie she might have been contracted to star in. The hair and makeup departments had their work cut out for them everyday on the set.

R90, lies

R91 come on now. You’re ignorant as to Liz’s checkered past. You need to educate yourself because you’re stupid as hell.

Elizabeth and Lena Horne, 1981, when they were both on Broadway.

Why do some people say Elizabeth was short? She was of average height.

She was stunning without question

Isn't 5' 2" on the short side?

My mom was 5' 4" and she never seemed very tall to me.

My mother was 5’5” pretending she was 5’7”, therefore, she always seemed tall to me.

[quote] I don't expect a balanced appraisal from dual bio entitled "Erotic Vagrancy."

R56 It's actually a very exhaustive, detailed, and, I think, balanced look at the two of them. The Times called it a masterpiece.

Wrong…….was always too short and dumpy during most of her life. Pretty eyes but much more beautiful women in the public eye!

R100, millions would disagree.

She was considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world in her prime.

With Monty Clift

R101, what does that matter? It doesn’t have anything to do with R100’s opinion, which seems to disturb you greatly.

R103, jealous

I seem to remember Lenny Bruce saying she looked too Jewish. He knew she really wasn't but he could still see the mustache.

She was beautiful and talented, what more do you want?

R105, Lenny was blind

She was, by all accounts, very hairy.

R107, it's just a rumor

Lenny was ugly. Cliff Gorman was much better looking. I miss him. A wonderful actor. Saw him twice on stage.

Dog food connoisseur

Saw them both: Liz in Hellman’s The Little Foxes and Lena in her one woman show on Broadway in 1981.

And Ann Miller in Sugar Babies that summer, too.

Those were the days.

This thread is tired and pointless

Try something else

R107, is correct! Larry Fortensky claimed that her downtown Suzie looked like a drain after the Commodores had all just taken a shower!

Someone said Liz'a arms were so hairy she looked like a gorilla.

(Liz's)

R111 I was there too! Who would have thought that was a golden era?

Somehow I missed all three of those plays/shows but I did see Colleen Dewhurst in some forgettable comedy.

R111 How was Elizabeth in The Little Foxes?

Rare pic

What disease did she get from living in unsanitary conditions?

R118, I saw Liz in The Little Foxes, she was fine especially since she was high as a kite. The worst part was that I sat in the second row and was worried that her enormous boobs would pop out of the dress and knock me out.

R118 Surprisingly good. As was Maureen Stapleton.

But two years later when she and Burton toured in Coward’s “Private Lives” the weight was creeping back.

Here she is with Burton outside of Nick’s, a Theatre District mainstay around the corner from the Schubert Theatre on Tremont Street in Boston.

The acting wasn’t great but they got a standing ovation every night. And according to my friend Chris, then married to the daughter of the family who owned Boston’s 57 Hotel, SHE got a whole chocolate pecan pie delivered to her suite from Rebecca’s Bakery on Charles Street daily.

I sometimes wonder if she would have been considered as beautiful with brown eyes. Can someone do an AI and turn her eyes brown? I am unskilled at that sort of thing…

A disease gotten from sharing plates and bowls with chihuahuas

She got Malta Fever from her dogs

She was placed on an iron lung in London to treat the disease

Everywhere she stayed she left a horrible mess for housekeeping. She didn’t do anything to pick up after herself instead she was drunk and medicated to the gills . She basically wiped her ass on every hotel room she stayed in. Literally. We’re talking places like The Plaza in NYC, Four Seasons etc. Dog shit everywhere including drapes. How dog shit got all over drapes is baffling.

I also saw Elizabeth with Burton in Private Lives on Broadway in 1983, R123. She was thinner than Foxes. The thing was when Liz turned her back and spoke a line, no one could hear her.

She stayed in friend Rock Hudson’s New York apt during the run of “Foxes.” He was livid after seeing how she and her dogs trashed it. This made the newspapers in 1981.

Here's a tribute I wrote about Elizabeth Taylor's life and career...

R123, didn't you use to post on IMDB?

R123, yes I USED to... They have more rules than Reddit!

R133, did you post on the Elizabeth Taylor and classic film boards?

I didn’t realize that she could be so trifling.

This is right up there with finding out that English Rose Joan Fontaine had body odors from going days, sometimes weeks without bathing.

The studio paid Eddie Fischer 150K to keep Liz lubed and lucid during the filming of Cleopatra. They were scared she would stay in bed all day long with booze and pills.

Reply 134, yes, when they still had boards! ET looked just as good in B/W...

ET phone home

Michelle Pfeiffer remains the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. No one comes close, not even Miss Taylor.

R139 is known for outlandish claims

Brown eyes.

Liz destroyed her back as a little girl in National Velvet. She probably lived long stretches of her life in enormous pain. That will fuck you up not only physically but emotionally as well. At the end of her life she seemed constantly doped up and in a wheel chair. No wonder she was at times a big mess. All those pain killers and booze probably kept her going.

R139 is Michelle's mother.

R141 she looks much duller with brown eyes.

R141, she looks fantastic with brown eyes.

don't forget about Vicki Lawrence.

R137, you seem to know a lot about Elizabeth.

Do you know why she didn't film a movie in 1957? It's the only year in her prime that she didn't.

I wish that she would have because I've always thought that she looked her best then.

Raintree County came out in '57.

R147, it was filmed in 1956 though...

Whenever Raintree wrapped, a prolonged shoot due to Monty, ET was marrying Mike Todd and helping him promote "Around the World." After she had Liza Todd, ET started "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

She filmed Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in 1957.

Oops, 1958

I feel she was at her loveliest in Cat & Suddenly, Last Summer.

The movie is a sappy, sentimental, guilty pleasure for me but she looked her best in The Last Time I Saw Paris. The cute, sophisticated haircut. An she didn't have one little extra ounce of fat on her.

Elizabeth's ups and downs with her looks usually coincided how her life was going, I thought. I truly thought her looks were gone for good after marrying the Republican senator. But after Betty Ford, she had some great years. Here's a shot Roddy McDowall took for "The Sandpiper." Her coloring, heart-shaped face, and perfect profile, superb...

“And for God’s sake, scrape that makeup off of that little girl!” “I’m not wearing any makeup.”, little Liz replied to her exasperated director.

R153, what do you think of her hair in the first half of the movie?

She looked great trough the whole movie. Can't stress enough though how good she looked being super thin here. I hate saying that but she didn't carry extra weight well. Before the haircut it was a beautiful style but nothing we hadn't seen before. Then when she came out with that short hair and red dress she was magnificent. She may have worn short hair before but this is the only time I recall her having it that short. It was really short.

My goodness what a beauty in R154

Paris is not a good movie but I do like the brief location shots of Johnson in the city in the mid 50s and yes Taylor is at her most beautiful in it.

Gene Tierney was more beautiful

R160, who do you think was/is the most beautiful woman ever?

Reply 156, I always liked Elizabeth's shoulder length hair, as in "Paris" and "The Sandpiper." She cut her hair off in the middle of "Paris" because she was pissed at MGM over something! "The Last Time I Saw Paris " is a soap but watchable, with a great cast, and a real character for ET to play. A step up from Rhapsody and The Girl Who Had Everything. Next up would be Giant.

I thought she was splendid looking in ELEPHANT WALK as well.

What does everyone think of her looks in Raintree County?

Taylor did Elephant Walk after having her first son. And then her second son between Last Time I Saw Paris and Giant. In fact, she started Giant 6 weeks after having son Christopher.

Elizabeth at 10 in her first MGM film, "Lassie Come Home." A friend of mine once commented that she had an adult head attached to a child!

It’s what I like about her. She can look rough as fuck, pull herself together and look heart stopping beautiful. An older Liz in Ash Wednesday just stunning. Have to say I’m an Ava Gardner fan. Another one who for a short while was astonishingly beautiful. Look at Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.

Ava Gardner in Pandora etc.

I had a friend who lived in Hartford, CT who was obsessed with everything Liz Taylor. He had all her movies on VHS, either regular or taped from the TV sometimes as far back as the 70s. (This was 1998). He was super into “Cleopatra” and we watched the entire thing one night. I thought it was ok, a couple fantastic set pieces but rather dry overall. But he loved it.

MGM had some of the great beauties: Hedy, Ava, and Elizabeth...

"Ash Wednesday" and "The Blue Bird" were the best that Elizabeth looked on film in the '70s. "Ash Wednesday" showed that ET could have aged superbly if she didn't have health and addiction issues.

[quote]MGM had some of the great beauties: Hedy, Ava, and Elizabeth

I know (pant, pant)

R146 her daughter by Mike Todd was born in August of 57 which means she got pregnant in late 56.

That’s probably why no films until 58.

She looked absolutely ravishing in Ivanhoe even though she was barely of age.

She loved being in the hospital

Having doctors and nurses fussing over her

Stern knew how to photograph her. Liz and Richard in publicity shot for Cleopatra

R175, that reminds me of an article I read in the NYT years ago about a filthy rich woman in NYC who literally LIVED in hospital rooms around the city. It happened in the 1920s or sometime.

She had a number of children and not one of them wrote a mommie dearest. She must have left them very well off. She knew how to make money.

I had a good experience with her. Where I work, a museum, was exhibiting some old and historically important jewels. She gave us one on loan to exhibit. Because of its worth we couldn't find anyone to insure it as our normal insure passed on it. I couriered it back. It was loaded with jewels and had a religious significance. She gave it right back and said "show the damn thing anyway." Her exact words. Not much of an interaction I admit, but nonetheless....

Hi Blanche r179

Some charity group in Harlem in the seventies had asked Diana Ross to be the mistress of ceremonies. Diana never did respond to any of their requests. You know who did? Liz Taylor! I had mad respect for her after that. Diana couldn’t even be bothered to do something for her own people but Liz Taylor did.

Speaking of faces, here's a scene in Raintree County, Elizabeth with Monty Clift, before his car accident.

Here's the Monty pic...

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what was that all about? LOL I just posted a pic and wrote Liz and Dina.

What does everyone think of Elizabeth Taylor's eyebrows in Raintree County?

And that how we play Get the Guests.

I hope that we get to see the full Cleopatra one of these days.

Released in 2 parts like it was originally intended.

We won't. The removed footage was destroyed.

I always t(ink it’s Lily Munster as I scroll by

R190, what do you think are the similarities?

Two hours were cut from Cleo and tossed. You'd think Fox spent so much money on the thing they would hold on to it anyway. It's like Jack Warner cutting Star Is Born and 1776. He wanted the cut scenes thrown out. Which they did with Star but the editor of 1776 said 'Sure boss!' and then kept it.

Well, Fox finally found Marilyn Monroe's "Something's Got to Give," so anything's possible...

She was very beautiful when she was younger. In OP's pic she is stunning.

R178, I read a news item a few years before she died that her children were often with her and they “adored” her.

Elizabeth was just 17 when she filmed "A Place in the Sun" in 1949 with Monty Clift and Shelley Winters. Her first adult performance and I thought she did a fine job. My look at this classic.

R196, great article. Why wasn't there a sequel?

Elizabeth Taylor and Brooke Shields were the two most beautiful teens I have ever seen

R198, when do you think both of their primes ended?

Her older brother, Howard, apparently acted a little bit, but decided on a different life at some point. They stayed close all of their lives. Looks like he left 5 kids at his death. 1929-2020.

Liz was a very good mother. Brought her kids along with he entourage with her everywhere she went to make movies. Richard was a good father too.

horseshit r201

R201 The kids were all in boarding schools. They joined the pair once in a while. Burton enjoyed it when they left.

The only perfect face that there ever was...