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love in hollywood
a psychologist loolcs at liz taylor
A distinguished Hollywood psychologist, anonymous because of ethical reasons, probes the background of Hollywood's most discussed divorce.
■ This year will mark my twentieth anniversar\' as a practicing psychologist in Hollywood.
In the course of that period I've treated motion picture personalities ranging from the very famous to the unknown. Dozens of stars have come to me with their neuroses and fears, their troubles and complexes, and I've helped them as best I could.
These 20 years of practice have taught me a fair amount about the problems likely to arise in the careers and lives of movie stars. I can anticipate their behavior, and can often predict the outcome.
Last May 6th when lovely Elizabeth Taylor was married to young Nicky Hilton in one of those dreamy, publicized weddings that make world-wide headlines, I happened to say to one of my nurses, "I'll be surprised if that marriage lasts two years.'"
Now my nurse, who is a young and pretty little thing with lots of Stardust in her eyes, happens to be a rabid Liz Taylor fan. My casual remark irritated her. "Why do you say that, doctor?" she asked. "Don't you believe in young love?"
"Sure, I believe in young love," I answered. "Only I don't think these two kids have a chance in a milhon of making a go of their marriage."
That statement was tinder which set my nurse to flame. Her eyes sparked fire. "I know you've analyzed a lot of movie people," she snapped, "but in this case I think you're dead wrong. What makes you so sure?" {Continued on page 103)
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At sweet 16
there was Peter Lawf ord, her first love . . .
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They met two years ago.
■ If, on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Elizabeth Taylor could have announced to her dinner guests that she was engaged to Peter Lawford, she would have been the happiest girl in the world — and might still have been.
But at 16, even a mature 16, crushes are never taken very seriously.
"Liz is the most wonderful girl I know,'' Peter told a friend. "But she's too young. I'm 25. She's 16. But in a couple of years if she still feels the same way anything can happen."
In a couple of years she met Nicky Hilton, and her crush was overshadowed b} courtship and marriage. Now, for Elizabeth, Peter Lawford exists in a world that "might have been," and probably never will be, although stranger things have happened.
Certainly, if Liz had married Peter, their union would have been one of the most popular ever celebrated in HoDywood. They had, and have, almost ever)^thing in common. Both were born in England. Both have a wholesome attitude toward life. A Hollywood social butterfly once said of Peter, "He's such a nice guy he's almost nauseating. I tried going with him for a while and I never saw the inside of a nightclub. We played tennis, shot skeet, went surfboard riding, horseback riding, bowling, and then sat up until four a.m. every morning listening to music in his den. He kissed me exactly three times. The athletic program was so exhausting, I had to go to Giro's ever>' night for a week to rest up with a local hot dog." {Continued on page 82)
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