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"When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(1874 - 1965)
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| | The Most Beautiful Woman in the World:
The Obsessions, Passions, and Courage of Elizabeth Taylor
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ZIN Product Number: 10004258
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 006019376X
Release Date: Jan 11, 1988
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 3 reviews.)
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An American icon for more than half a century, Elizabeth Taylor continues to fascinate the American public. From the mainstream media to the tabloid press, no other celebrity has received such overwhelming scrutiny, stirred so much scandal, or alternately been the target of both worldwide worship and condemnation. And yet just when we thought we knew everything about this screen siren, Ellis Amburn blows the lid off of Hollywood's best-kept secrets-secrets that have allowed Hollywood's most beautiful woman to remain its most misunderstood celebrity.
In The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Ellis Amburn taps into previously unexplored primary sources to reveal the tragedies and triumphs of Elizabeth Taylor's exciting and tumultuous life. This wonderful new biography poignantly recounts the successful removal of a golf-ball size brain tumor; her courageous recovery after breaking her back twice within two years; the exciting launch of her fragrance line, which became an instant success; and her loving relationship with Rod Steiger, who nurtured her back to health after a nervous breakdown. Amburn also reveals Taylor's tragic and heartbreaking affection for Montgomery Clift and James Dean and explores Taylor's disastrous marriage to the abusive and philandering Nicky Hilton, who abandoned Liz on their honeymoon to be with another woman. And then there is the infamous and cunning Eddie Fisher, who forced Liz to appear at his Las Vegas shows in order to bring in capacity crowds, as well as accounts of Richard Burton's homosexual activities and his exploitation of Taylor.
With explosive new revelations about her love affairs and marriages, Ellis Amburn creates a portrait that will redefine everything we thought we knew about Elizabeth Taylor. The most significant and overlooked truth in Taylor's life that all of her major loving relationships have been with gay men, while all of her self-destructive love affairs have been with straight men-is an insight that is destined to deepen our love and understanding of the world's most beautiful woman.
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A juicy, vicious insight into a staggeringly beautiful and shallow woman 
-- A reviewer, May 22, 2000
Also Recommended: Jackie, Joan and Ethel
Behind the facade.
-- Anne, a bored homemaker., December 21, 2000
Insightful, a filmlover's dream book
-- norman bogner, May 1, 2000
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She has everything: magic, money, beauty, intelligence. Why can't she be happy? —Andy Warhol
The most self-contained, pulchritudinous, remote, removed, inaccessible woman I had ever seen.
— (Richard Burton, Husband numbers five and six) —Richard Burton
We've lived the same life: the great tragedy of childhood stars...My father took the money...Elizabeth is also like a mother and more than that. She's a friend. She's Mother Teresa, Princess Diana, the queen of England, and Wendy. —Michael Jackson
Unlike some Hollywood types I know, she insists on being herself. —Ronald Reagan
Howard Hughes opened a handkerchief and it was full of jewels. 'This is all yours,' he said, 'if you'll come with me.' She went in the house and called a taxi and had the taxi take her back to Hollywood.
— (Edward Dmytryk, director, Raintree Country) —Edward Dmytryk
Elizabeth was incapable of being alone. When Mike [Todd] was busy, I became her second choice...She was out of my league.
— (Eddie Fisher, husband number four) —Eddie Fisher
Elizabeth probably knew a lot more about how to live her life than people with less courage did, in which group I might include myself.
— (George Stevens, director, Giant) —George Stevens
You'd better know right away, Mike, that I have fallen madly in love with your wife.
— (James Dean, costar, Giant) —James Dean
Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet gives the best juvenile prformance in movie history. —Clark Gable
It's so large. How very vulgar...Would you mind if I tried it on?
— (HRH Princess Margaret, on first seeing Elizabeth's new diamond, the Krupp) —Princess Margaret
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