Elizabeth: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Elizabeth: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor
Authors and Contributors      By (author) J. Randy Taraborrelli
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:560
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 129
Category/GenreIndividual actors and performers
Films and cinema
Biographies: Arts and Entertainment
ISBN/Barcode 9780330433907
ClassificationsDewey:791.43028092
Audience
General
Edition Unabridged edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Pan Books
Publication Date 6 July 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Elizabeth Taylor is known internationally as one of the most beautiful and talented women ever to grace the silver screen. She has won two Academy Awards and starred in over sixty films. She is just as well known for her tempestuous personal life, marrying eight times and suffering through innumerable health problems. A cultural icon, she has been written about before... But never like this. This moving book traces for the first time Elizabeth's journey through the dark and often lonely world of a fame unparalleled in the 1960s and 1970s, a time during which alcohol and drugs played a major part in her life. It would be with her fifth (and sixth) husband Richard Burton (with whom she made 12 movies, including Cleopatra) that she would learn life lessons about love and loyalty that would inform the rest of her life and, finally, be the catalyst for her recovery from alcoholism in the 1980s. This book also details her philanthropic work as an AIDS activist in the 1990s as well as her stunning success as a business woman today (with a multi-million-dollar fragrance). Based on years of research, this is not just a star's biography... it's an unforgettable woman's story.

Author Biography

Taraborrelli is the noted biographer of Sunday Times bestsellers Madonna, Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness, and the forthcoming Diana Ross. Consistently sought as an authority on celebrity culture, he makes regular appearances on television.