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Elizabeth Taylor by Karsch

"Elizabeth Taylor 1946

 

She was fourteen years old, a charming and unassuming child, who had captivated the world in National Velvet . She was totally engrossed with her pet chipmunk and cat, the newest additions to her extensive home menagerie. I named the cat Michael. The next day she called to me from an open car on the M.G.M. lot and held up her newest feline friend. 'Look who I have with me,' she cried triumphantly, 'Michael Karsh Taylor!' This photograph is a sultry harbinger of the great beauty she was to become, and still is."

 

Yousuf Karsh

Karsh: A Fifty-Year Retrospective (1983)

University of Toronto Press

p. 183

Copyright © 1983 Yousuf Karsh and Estrellita Karsh

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