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- <title>
- (1940s) Elizabeth Taylor
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights
- PEOPLE
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- Elizabeth Taylor
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- <body>
- <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."
- </p>
- <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.
- </p>
- <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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- </article>
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