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1940s: Elizabeth Taylor
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights
PEOPLE
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Elizabeth Taylor
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<p>(August 22, 1949)
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<p> At 17, 5 ft. 4 1/2 in., 112 lbs., Elizabeth Taylor is a great
beauty. She is a perfect type of the Black Irish. She has heavy
black hair and brows that are also black and thick, but not a
whit too thick to frame her large, luxuriantly lashed blue eyes,
which darken into violet in the least shadow. Her complexion has
been described by an ecstatic publicity man as "a bowl of cream
with a rose floating in it." Cameramen have paid her Hollywood's
ultimate compliment to beauty: "She doesn't have a bad angle."
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<p> Elizabeth's womanly beauty usually makes strangers forget that
she is, after all, only a youngster, but her behavior quickly
reminds them of it. Beneath her breath-taking facade there is
scarcely a symptom of sophistication. But Elizabeth, for all her
youngish ways, is a purposeful girl in a way that Hollywood
admires: she is feverishly ambitious to make a success in
pictures.
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<p> When Elizabeth talks about her future in that movies, her
eyes flash sapphire sparks. "What I'd really like to play," she
gasps excitedly, "is a monster-hellion." M-G-M's Billy Grady
thinks she has the temperament as well as the beauty to become
a great star--"And when she begins to show it--Oh, Brother!"
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