Elizabeth Taylor, not quite 17 and at the height of her beauty in 1949, before she had even received her first on-screen kiss with Robert Taylor in “The Conspirator”. “For God’s sake! she was stacked!” exclaimed the male Taylor. “I didn’t realize it until she appeared on the set in a negligee. She was just a child, but I couldn’t help myself. It wouldn’t have been so bad if they’d shot the scene sitting down, but I spent the entire day erect. Finally I spoke to the cameraman and he aimed the lens from my waist up”.
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Story told by agent Robert Lantz:
On the occasion of Elizabeth Taylor’s fiftieth birthday there was a tremendous party planned. (…) I told Bette that I would take her to the party. “I’ll come by and pick you up at nine o’clock.” She said, “The invitation is for eight o’clock. If I’m invited at eight, I’m coming at eight.” I said, “Bette, I know Elizabeth for a hundred years. I love her dearly, but eight o’clock for Elizabeth means ten. So let’s go at nine.” She said, “No. No, no, no!” So, that’all. I do what Bette wishes. I picked her up. We arrive at the house, and there’s no sign of Elizabeth. There aren’t many people there. Gradually, by nine-thirty, maybe a little later, the house had filled with everybody of any consequence in Hollywood; heads of studios, stars, directors, agents. The fiftieth birthday of Elizabeth Taylor! Bette sat in a big chair in the drawing room, and she didn’t look at all pleased. As time went on, she looked even less pleased. She said to me, “I am not enamored of big parties!” — read more
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Streaker at the Oscars
As David Niven was introducing Elizabeth Taylor to present the Oscar for Best Picture at the 46th Annual Academy Awards on April 2, 1974, naked Robert Opel came out from behind the stage and ran past David Niven.
Elizabeth started stuttering a bit as she started her presentation, and then said, “I’m nervous, that really upset me! I think I’m jealous.”
