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26 THINGS YOU MAY NOT'VE KNOWN ABOUT ELIZABETH TAYLOR
1. She was pronounced dead in 1960 while filming Butterfield 8 due to a rare strain of pneumonia. We're thankful she was revived.
2. She was the first actress to earn $1,000,000 for a movie role in Cleopatra (1963). At $194,800, the budget for Elizabeth Taylor's costumes in this film was the highest ever for a single screen actor. Her 65 costumes included a dress made from 24-carat gold cloth.
3. She has owned some of the world's most magnificent jewelry, including the the 33-carat “Krupp Diamond”, the Duchess of Windsor diamond brooch, the Grand Duchess of Russia emeralds, the “LaPeregina Pearl” (which was a Valentine present from her from Richard Burton), and the famous pear-shaped 69-carat “Burton-Cartier Diamond” Burton gave her in 1969 (subsequently renamed the “Burton-Taylor Diamond.”
4. She had broken her back 5 times. Many of her back problems have been traced to 1945 when she hurt her back falling off a horse during the filming of “National Velvet.”
5. The premiere of her film Father of the Bride (1950) took place two days after her real-life marriage to Conrad Hilton Jr.. The publicity surrounding the event is credited with helping to make the film so successful. The marriage lasted as long as the 3 month European honeymoon. Irreconcilable differences were cited in the divorce court.
6. She spoke Maggie Simpson's first word on The Simpsons — “Daddy!”
7. She was a frequent guest at the infamous Studio 54.
8. She did not attend The 75th Annual Academy Awards due to her opposition to the Iraq war.
9. In 1963, while the highest paid American business executive earned $650,000 and President John F. Kennedy's salary was $150,000, she received at least $2.4 million.
10. The 1963 Andy Warhol portrait of hers was sold for $ 23.7 million to an anonymous bidder at a Christie's auction in New York.
11. Elizabeth Taylor and Shirley Jones are the only actresses to win Oscars for playing prostitutes in the same year: Taylor for BUtterfield 8 (Best Actress) and Jones for Elmer Gantry (Best Supporting Actress).
12. Her first Oscar nomination for Raintree County (1957) marks her first of 4 consecutive nominations, a feat she shares with Jennifer Jones (1943-46), Thelma Ritter (1950-53), Marlon Brando (1951-54) and Al Pacino (1972-75).
13. She was a heavy smoker until being mistakenly diagnosed with lung cancer in October 1975.
14. On Monday evening, November 8, 2010, Andy Warhol's “Men in Her Life”, a 1962 painting based on an image of Elizabeth Taylor between husbands, was auctioned at Phillips de Pury & Company's new salesroom on Park Avenue in New York City. An unidentified bidder bought it for $63.3 million.
15. Her romantic life began at 17, when she became engaged to all-American football hero, Glenn Davis. Then came a second engagement, to William Pawley, son of a U.S. ambassador to Brazil.
16. She converted to Judaism in 1959.
17. Her Jewish name is Elisheba Rachel.
18. She loved “Law & Order” and had seen every episode.
19. She hated being called Liz because it can sound like a hiss.
20. Her biggest film paycheck was for $2.5 million for The Flinstones (1992). Her lowest was for $100 a week for Lassie Come Home (1943).
21. She was Godmother of two of Michael Jackson's children, Paris and Prince Michael.
22. She has appeared solo on the cover of PEOPLE magazine fourteen times, second only to Princess Diana.
23. Elizabeth had given Michael many gifts for his Neverland Ranch including this custom made wooden horse. She married one of her husbands there in 1992.
24. She joined Twitter in 2009 during a stay in a hospital.
25. She was born covered in hair. Elizabeth was born suffering from the condition hypertrichosis, a rare disease that leaves the victim with a thick, dark coat of hair. Luckily the hair fell off within a matter of days.
26. She used to shaved her face for completely bare skin and an added dose of exfoliation. Marilyn Monroe also did the same.
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