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Sat 11 Nov 2009Taylor-made for screen fame
BIOGRAPHY:How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in HollywoodBy William J Mann Faber and Faber, 406pp. £20
SHE ONCE remarked to the late Dominick Dunne “without an iota of braggadocio” that she couldn’t remember a time she wasn’t famous. Frankly, my dear, neither can we. Ever since critics greeted her performance in National Velvet(1944) with delight – “Her face is alive with youthful spirit, her voice has the softness of sweet song” – Elizabeth Hilton-Wilding-Todd-Fisher-Burton-Warner-For- tensky, née Taylor, has been the litmus test for uberstardom in all its most glamorous and grotesque manifestations.
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