Elizabeth Taylor, the Last Star by Kitty Kelley (1981)

Elizabeth Taylor, the Last Star
by Kitty Kelley
Publisher:  Simon and Schuster
Copyright:  1981
Book Club Edition

From her first starring role as the violet-eyed innocent in National Velvet to her sultry portrayal of Maggi the Cat and her Academy Award-winning performances in Butterfield 8 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Elizabeth Taylor's undeniable screen presence has been marveled over while her talent has been alternately disparaged and defended.  And from her first wedding, in and MGM dream gown, to her current real-life role as a Senate wife, her private affairs have been the subject of public scrutiny.

This breathlessly detailed biography by Kitty Kelley, author of the bestselling Jackie Oh!, is the most unabashed version of Elizabeth Taylor's life yet told.  It follows her incredible career and her tumultuous personal life through fifty-five films, seven marriages, innumerable love affairs and several near-fatal illnesses; through periods of mourning, times of depression, bursts of generosity.  Irresistibly it draws readers into the glamorous world that this beautiful star epitomizes.

It begins with Elizabeth's childhood when, as a pretty eight-year-old, she was edged into Hollywood's power circles by her star-struck mother.  At age twelve she was acknowledged as a young actress of some promise.  By the age of twenty-seven she was America's biggest box-office attraction and the highest-paid actress in the world.

Elizabeth's personal life became national news, filled as it was with the intrigue and high drama of her films.  Her trials and theatrics were well publicized:  her notoriety as a "home wrecker" in the Eddie Fisher-Debbie Reynolds divorce; her oaths of eternal devotion to each of her six husbands, the jealousy that ravaged her marriage to Richard Burton.  Her extravagances were world famous: chile dinners flown from Los Angeles to Paris; hundreds of diamonds sewn to dresses to avoid "cheap rhinestone shine" under klieg lights; and of course, the $305,000 33-carat Krupp diamond she received from Richard Burton.

For decades Elizabeth Taylor's triumphs and tragedies, ups and downs, failures and successes, marriages and divorces have been the stuff of headlines.  Again and again she has bounced back from illnesses and disasters that seemed impossible to surmount, packing into one lifetime more glamour, more controversy, more romance than any other woman in this century -- perhaps in any century -- to emerge as the ultimate star. 

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover is discolored and shows shelf wear, creasing and tears in the edges.  Pages are tanning from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper. Binding is in the beginning stages of splitting in places but pages are in tact.

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