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Why Liz goes from man to man
Thirty years ago, Hollywood’s top-moneymaking star was the magnificent Swedish actress, Greta Garbo. Mysterious, aloof, her private life a closed book, she captivated millions of movie fans who speculated endlessly on what it was that made her tick as a woman.
In that same year — 1932 — in London, a little girl was born on February 7th and christened Elizabeth. Today Liz Taylor has surpassed the popularity of even the great Garbo and become Hollywood’s most shining star. Unlike Garbo, her life has been an open book.
But for all the miles of newsprint about her, Liz is still as much of an enigma as Garbo.
Miss Taylor, who has lived in the public gaze almost all of her life, is probably the only actress who still arouses the kind of eager curiosity that used to surround all Hollywood stars. For she has involved her fans emotionally.
Most of all they want to know what it is that
drives her out of one man’s arms and into the arms of another with such rapidity and regularity. Is she simply flirtatious? Does she have so much love to give that no one man can absorb it all? Or does she require more love than any one man can possibly give to her?
To get the answers to these and other questions, we’ll have to consider everything we know about her and speculate on these facts in terms of modern psychology. What we hope to come up with is what every man who gets involved with Liz should know for his own well-being.
Psychologically speaking, one learns how to love by being loved. Emotional growth stems from healthy relationships with one’s parents.
Growing pains: Liz wasn’t the first actress in her family; her mother was an actress before her. Her dad, an art dealer, was reported to be affectionate but aloof. Her mom was the more dominant of the two and endeavored to get both Liz and her older brother, Howard, interested in acting — but Howard would have none of it.
Not so Liz. She was given dancing lessons at the age of two, riding lessons at four, made her first movie at eight and signed a contract with M-G-M when she was all of nine years old.
She is said to have loved behaving as a tomboy. She decorated her bedroom with spurs, saddles and riding crops. When her mother redecorated the room in a more feminine fashion (during Liz’ early teens), the girl wasn’t very happy about the change-over.
As a little girl she received an allowance of twenty-five cents a week, which was upped to fifty-cents a week after starring in “National Velvet.” She was highly disciplined during her childhood and teen years.
She has admitted to having felt uneasy with other youngsters because they treated her as a movie star. Besides, the needs of her career forced her to spend most of her time in the company of grown-ups.
An interesting point is that as a child in Hollywood, she would take little things — ashtrays, bric-a-brac — when her mother wasn’t watching and sell them around the neighborhood like a door-to-door salesgirl.
Her favorite companions were dogs, kittens, chipmunks, horses. And to this day she’s passionately fond of her animal friends.
DIAGNOSIS: Liz’ (Continued on page 81)
by Arthur Henley with
Dr. Robert L.Wolk