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Model : Elizabeth Taylor in Pivotal Body.
Outfit : Original Starring Barbie® Doll in King Kong
Photo : Little Dolls Room
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"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
Number 19 for 115 Pictures in 2015 : Diamond.
When you get this close the 'diamonds are shown up for what they are!
From Fragrantica website
The success of Elizabeth Taylor's fragrance has motivated many other celebrities to launch their own perfumes. White Diamonds is a sheer floral fragrance, an example of top classics. The harmony of flowers and aldehydes in the top notes, together with the sharp base, give this fragrance an elegant vintage nuance. The top notes are aldehydes, bergamot, neroli, orange and lily. The heart unites the classical trio, violet, rose and jasmine, accompanied by ylang-ylang, Egyptian tuberose and narcissus. The base is composed of oak moss, patchouli, musk, sandalwood and amber. The perfume was created by Carlos Benaim in 1991,
I think it smells cheap!
I'm working my way through Elizabeth Taylor's films, but my favourite is still my first: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Maybe one day I will be taken enough with another film and I will change her outfit. I doubt it though. ;)
Belt is ripped. I'm gonna replace it one day but for now this will do.
I think everyone wanted to look like Liz back then.
This is my mom in 1953, Elizabeth Taylor hair and an 18 inch waist.
Our Daily Challenge - Vintage
When Liz Taylor's death was announced, we went through our stills collection in search of an image that captured both the actress's arresting presence and generous nature. This photo stood out.
Behind the scenes: this tiny kitten elected to ride around in Taylor's pocket on the set of MGM's drama The Girl Who Had Everything (1953).
Artist Noel Cruz brings Elizabeth Taylor back to life in this beautiful and stunning repainted and restyled Barbie as Cleopatra!
A custom 11 1/2 inch doll
custom one-of-a-kind repaint by Noel Cruz.
based on the film of Cleopatra starring Oscar Winner Elizabeth Taylor!
You can see here www.ebay.com/usr/ncruz_doll_art and see more of Noel's work at his web site www.ncruz.com.
this is the second of my ten things. i told you it was going to take me a while.
inspired by elizabeth taylor.
One of the good things about the new Green Lantern movie is the renewed interest in Gil Kane's work on the Emerald Warrior during The Silver Age.
I had heard David Niven was the visual inspiration for Sinestro (although "David Niven" and "Diabolical" in the same sentence seems like an oxymoron), but I was surprised to read Elizabeth Taylor was his reference for Carol Ferris (what a "Star Sapphire" she would have made, although her preference would probably be diamonds), and Paul Newman for Hal Jordan.
Well, I'm sure that there was no way on Oa Mr. Newman would don the green and black jammies (although I'm still scratching my head over his leather jacket/leisure suit combo from "Slap Shot"), so here he is, or would have been. No doubt the "hard light" ring projections would have to be provided by the folks at Disney, like in "Forbidden Planet", although the animation team at Warner Bros.'s "Termite Terrace" could have done a bang-up job on stuff like giant green boxing gloves.
FYI - Bill Finger created the original Alan Scott "Green Lantern", while Gardner Fox was one of the scribes during the Silver Age. Martin Ritt was Mr. Newman's director on "Hud", "Harper" and "Hombre", during Mr. Newman's period when his hit movies seemed to always start with "H". To keep the streak going, they may have had to call it "Hal Jordan - Green Lantern", or maybe just "HAL".
From the upcoming collection. The face mold was apparently approved by Liz Taylor herself and i must admit Mattel did a great job. She will be on a silkstone body - although I wish they'd stuck her on a Model Muse one so I can take off the head and place on a Nu Face body.
Elizabeth Taylor, Mattel Repaint
Noel Cruz is one of the most versatile and distinguished repaint artists in the doll community. He is most recognized for his character and celebrity based dolls due to their uncanny resemblance to the people they portray. His dolls are derived from several models like Gene, Tyler, Sydney, etc, by various doll-makers such as Robert Tonner and Franklin Mint. His repaints as well as his portraits are done with intricate detail to the point of being naturally lifelike in essence. Highly regarded among collectors and artists alike, Noel attempts to raise the bar and bring a fresh take to the common mass produced doll with every face he paints. Noel's specialty is with one of a kind repaints. The beauty of repaints is that almost no two are exactly alike just as no two artists are alike.
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Dutch postcard. Photo: MGM.
Today Liz Taylor died.
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (1932-2011) was a British-American actress. She began as a child star, and as an adult she came to be known for her acting talent and beauty. She had a much publicised private life, including eight marriages and several near death experiences. Taylor was considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Source: Wikipedia.
non-quilty inspiration
1. Twilight Sky Silhouette, 2. Down the Tracks (Color Version), 3. Tree From The Air, 4. three left, 5. Sunday morning.. ♪♫♪, 6. Springi Van, 7. {thirty-five} Oh those grey London days, 8. 11062009 a random postbox, 9. living in India_1727-acw2, 10. Flower Box and Shutters, 11. farm, 12. walk, 13. hblad 49: Building in Red, 14. it was pouring, 15. Closing The Curtain, 16. toast:durham, 17. 07_11_02 Grus grus2-ces_, 18. 07_11_02 Grus grus2-ces_, 19. scenes from the train: 3, 20. film.320, 21. new orleans feb 09, 22. 4 Doors + 4 windows V2, 23. open, 24. film.265
again, it's interesting to see the favorites come together...the birds made it in there twice, but i'm not going through the effort to remake it. :)
1. Zen-like simplicity, 2. japanese beauty, 3. Bild 2376, 4. this is my new bike, 5. {March 23} All Star, 6. Cruisers outside the Vespa shop, 7. hello bike., 8. Stacked, 9. Mermaids in Seoul, 10. Summer Cycle Paths of Seoul 4, 11. Bike lane sign - Seoul, 12. the stylish children of Apgujeong, 13. coolest kids' bike ever?, 14. Café, 15. Han River Ride, 16. Brompton in the subway, Seoul, 17. Coffee-shop owner's Strida, 18. *, 19. Bridgestone Stila mamachari, Osaka, 20. classic
These bicycles are so cool. And I love the foldable ones to take with you by car or metro - perfect for exploring the city!
Created with fd's Flickr Toys
From the upcoming collection. The face mold was apparently approved by Liz Taylor herself and i must admit Mattel did a great job. She will be on a silkstone body - although I wish they'd stuck her on a Model Muse one so I can take off the head and place on a Nu Face body.
A youthful Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) on horseback is seen in this still from the 1944 motion picture 'National Velvet'. Pop artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) covered the canvas with silver paint to evoke the "silver screen" and then printed the images side by side. He combined variations of the screen-printing process with subtle manipulations so that each picture of Taylor would have it own unique character, producing a film-like sense of sequence and transformation. Fascinated by the dark side of fame, Warhol created this work as complications in Taylor's personal life were coming into public view, including an affair and a health crisis.
This Warhol screen print was seen and photographed on display at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in an exhibit entitled 'Andy Warhol -From A to B and Back Again'.
Elizabeth Taylor has this game she plays with her friends: Mad Glad. I play it too (inspired by ET), but have never had a pair of photos that I wanted to actually share with anyone else. :) This one is similar in that the "mad" version didn't really turn out. But I love the manic glad in this one. So great! :)
British postcard by Art, no. 247. Photo: Roddy McDowall, 1964.
British-American actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) began as a child star. As an adult, she became known for her acting talent and beauty. She had a much-publicised private life, including eight marriages and several near-death experiences. Taylor was considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in 1932 in Hampstead Garden, a northwestern suburb of London. She was the daughter of Francis Lenn Taylor and Sara Sothern, who were United States citizens residing in England. Her father was an art dealer, and her mother was a former stage actress. So Liz was a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States, born British through her birth on British soil and a US citizen through her parents. At the age of three, Taylor began taking ballet lessons. Shortly before the beginning of World War II, her parents decided to return to the United States. They settled in Los Angeles, California, where her father established a new art gallery, which included many paintings he shipped from England. The gallery soon attracted numerous Hollywood celebrities who appreciated its modern European paintings. Universal Pictures gave the little, but already breathtakingly beautiful Taylor a seven-year contract, and only nine, Elizabeth appeared in her first film, There's One Born Every Minute (Harold Young, 1942). After less than a year, however, the studio fired Taylor for unknown reasons. MGM was searching for an English actress for Lassie Come Home (Fred M. Wilcox, 1943) with child star Roddy McDowall. Taylor received the role and was offered a long-term contract. Her first assignment was a loan-out to 20th Century Fox for a film version of the Charlotte Brontë novel Jane Eyre (Robert Stevenson, 1943) with Orson Welles. Taylor returned to England to appear in The White Cliffs of Dover (Clarence Brown, 1944). Taylor's persistence in seeking the role of Velvet Brown in MGM's National Velvet (Clarence Brown, 1944) made her a star at the age of 12. Her character was a young girl, training her beloved horse to win the Grand National. The film costarred Mickey Rooney and English newcomer Angela Lansbury and became a great success. Next, she was cast in another animal film, Courage of Lassie (Fred M. Wilcox, 1946). The film's success led to another contract for Taylor paying her $750 per week. Her roles as the neurotic Mary Skinner in a loan-out to Warner Brothers' Life With Father (Michael Curtiz, 1947), Cynthia Bishop in Cynthia (Robert Z. Leonard, 1947), Carol Pringle in A Date with Judy (Richard Thorpe, 1948), and Susan Prackett in Julia Misbehaves (Jack Conway, 1948) were all successful. Taylor earned a reputation as a consistently successful adolescent actress, with a promising career. Her portrayal of Amy in the American classic Little Women (Mervyn LeRoy, 1949) was her last adolescent role.
In October 1948, Elizabeth Taylor sailed to England to film Conspirator (1949). Taylor made an easy transition to adult roles. Conspirator failed at the box office, but 16-year-old Taylor's portrayal of a 21-year-old debutante who unknowingly marries a communist spy was praised by critics for her first adult lead in a film. Her first box office success in an adult role came as Kay Banks in the comedy Father of the Bride (Vincente Minnelli, 1950), alongside Spencer Tracy. The film spawned a sequel, Father's Little Dividend (Vincente Minnelli, 1951), which also did well at the box office, but it would be Taylor's next picture that would set the course for her career as a dramatic actress. For her performance in A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, 1951), Taylor was hailed. She played Angela Vickers, a spoiled socialite who comes between George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) and his poor, pregnant factory-working girlfriend Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters). The film was based on Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy. Critic A.H. Weiler wrote in The New York Times: "Elizabeth's delineation of the rich and beauteous Angela is the top effort of her career". After some disappointingly run-of-the-mill films, a more substantial role followed opposite Rock Hudson and James Dean in the epic Giant (George Stevens, 1956). Taylor was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress four years in a row for Raintree County (Edward Dmytryk, 1957) opposite Montgomery Clift; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, 1958) opposite Paul Newman; Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959) with Montgomery Clift and Katharine Hepburn; and finally winning for BUtterfield 8 (Daniel Mann, 1960). The film co-starred Laurence Harvey and her then-husband Eddie Fisher. Suddenly, Last Summer's success placed Taylor among the box-office top ten, and she remained there almost every year for the next decade.
In 1960, Elizabeth Taylor became the highest-paid actor in Hollywood when she signed a 1 million dollar contract to play the title role in 20th Century Fox's lavish production of Cleopatra (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963). During the filming, she began a romance with her future husband Richard Burton, who played Mark Antony in the film. The romance received much attention from the tabloid press, as both were married at the time. Taylor ultimately received $7 million for her role. Her second Academy Award, also for Best Actress in a Leading Role, was for her performance as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966), playing opposite then-husband Richard Burton. Taylor saw the film as her chance to act because her character was to be twenty years older. She added grey hairs and transformed herself both physically and vocally: she intentionally gained weight, minimized makeup, and added excessive mascara to her eyes along with smudgy bags beneath them. Taylor and Burton appeared together in six other films during the decade, among them The V.I.P.s (Anthony Asquith, 1963), The Sandpiper (Vincente Minnelli, 1965), and The Taming of the Shrew (Franco Zeffirelli, 1967). By 1967 their films had earned $200 million at the box office. Their next films were Doctor Faustus (Richard Burton, Nevill Coghill, 1967), The Comedians (Peter Glenville, 1967), and Boom! (Joseph Losey, 1968), however, all failed at the box office. Taylor appeared in John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) opposite Marlon Brando and Secret Ceremony (Joseph Losey, 1968) opposite Mia Farrow. By the end of the decade, her box-office drawing power had considerably diminished, as evidenced by the failure of The Only Game in Town (George Stevens, 1970), with Warren Beatty. Throughout the 1970s, Taylor continued to star in numerous theatrical films, such as Zee and Co. (Brian G. Hutton, 1972) with Michael Caine, Ash Wednesday (Larry Peerce, 1973), The Blue Bird (George Cukor, 1976) with Jane Fonda and Ava Gardner, and A Little Night Music (Harold Prince, 1977). With Richard Burton, she co-starred in Under Milk Wood (Andrew Sinclair, 1972) and Hammersmith Is Out (Peter Ustinov, 1972). In 1980, Elizabeth Taylor starred in the mystery film The Mirror Crack'd (Guy Hamilton, 1980), based on an Agatha Christie novel. In 1985, she played movie gossip columnist Louella Parsons in the TV film Malice in Wonderland (Gus Trikonis, 1985) opposite Jane Alexander, who played Hedda Hopper. Taylor appeared in the miniseries North and South (Richard T. Heffron, 1985) and her last theatrical film was The Flintstones (Brian Levant, 1994). Taylor also acted on the stage, making her Broadway and West End debuts in 1982 with a revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes. She was then in a production of Noël Coward's Private Lives (1983), in which she starred with her former husband, Richard Burton. The student-run Burton Taylor Studio in Oxford was named for the famous couple after Burton appeared as Doctor Faustus in the Oxford University Dramatic Society production of the Marlowe play. Taylor played the ghostly, wordless Helen of Troy, who is entreated by Faustus to make him immortal with a kiss. In 2007, Taylor acted on stage again, appearing opposite James Earl Jones in a benefit performance of the A. R. Gurney play Love Letters. The event's goal was to raise $1 million for Taylor's AIDS Foundation. Tickets for the show were priced at $2,500, and more than 500 people attended. The event happened to coincide with the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike and, rather than cross the picket line, Taylor requested a "one-night dispensation". The Writers Guild agreed not to picket the Paramount Pictures lot that night to allow for the performance. In the early 1980s, Elizabeth Taylor moved to Bel Air, California, which was her residence until her death. Taylor was married eight times to seven husbands, including actor Michael Wilding, producer Michael Todd, singer-actor Eddie Fisher, and Richard Burton, whom she married twice. In 2011, she died at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, surrounded by her four children.
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Italian postcard by Rotalfoto, Milano, no. 14. Sent by mail in the Netherlands in 1962. Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.
British-American actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) began as a child star. As an adult she came to be known for her acting talent and beauty. She had a much publicised private life, including eight marriages and several near death experiences. Taylor was considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age.
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