Elizabeth Taylor is predominantly known for two things – expensive jewellery and her marriages.
But there’s so much more to her. She successfully made the leap from child star to movie icon. She was a double Oscar winner. And her tenacity meant that the public finally took notice of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
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Elizabeth: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor by J. Randy Taraborrelli
The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice by M.G.Lord
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton: The Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger
The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor - a quick video from Christie's, as they prepare for the auction of her jewellery collection following her death - on YouTube here
Elizabeth Taylor: Auction of a Lifetime - this is an amazing documentary that covers the auction as well as her life. It used to be available in YouTube but has since been taken down since I last watched it. Worth a look if you can find it.
Recommended Elizabeth films:-
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Cleopatra (1963)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
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