Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1963)

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When school chums, out of kindness, tried valiantly to include Elizabeth in their social life, young lads stared at M-G-M’s darling and uncomfortably turned away. Going to a party given for actor Roddy McDowall (he was to be with Liz later in “Cleopatra”), Liz was heartsick because nobody could dig up an escort for her. “I just stood around.” Liz once confessed, “with egg on my face.” “This was a deeply-felt, cruelly-hurtful experience that Elizabeth apparently never forgot — or forgave,” Dr. X explained. “When her older brother Howard had to beg his friends to date his sister, it came as an overwhelming blow to her selfesteem. Then, at last, when boys did begin hanging on the phone, Elizabeth flitted from romance to romance like a happy humming bird. Each new love was the “greatest” — except that it ended inevitably and quickly with the appearance on the scene of a fresher and more fascinating man. “This was Elizabeth’s way of taking revenge on a cruel and unfeeling world for all her once-dateless years.” Playing the hellion Long ago, when Elizabeth was still a teenager and used to talk about her future in the movies, her eyes would flash purple sparks. “What I’d really like to play,” she would gasp excitedly, “is a monster — a hellion.” Overhearing her one day, a powerful M-G-M executive told an associate, “This child has the temperament as well as the beauty to become a great star. And when she begins to show it, oh, brother /” Still another man who was then close to the Taylor family chuckled. “What the boys have done to Liz in not dating her is nothing compared to what she will do to the boys. At first it may be done unwittingly. But after it becomes easier, there seems little doubt that Elizabeth will take full advantage of her devastating charms to play ringmaster to a generation of willing and performing males.” Prophetic? “It seems so,” the psychiatrist smiled. “On the other hand. Miss Taylor did not, I think, calculatingly set out to make herself into an international femme fatale; she was conditioned to it, almost subconsciously, by the peculiar, hothouse climate in which she was reared. From the time she was small, everyone deferred to her: parents, friends, the moguls at her studio. When she became bored with a new toy or a new dress or a new present — and she bored very easily — she was given a dozen others. Significantly, she loved wearing her schoolchums’ clothes, while her own dresses hung new and unworn in her closets. Later, let’s say, she yearned to ‘wear’ other women’s lovers or husbands. “Children showered with gifts, you know, lose all sense of values; they assume that if a bike is damaged or a doll broken, new dolls and bikes will instantly and magically take their place. As adults, then, they simply cannot understand why, if one love shatters, they cannot grab two others. But one thing such bedeviled people never learn is that ‘those who would have more and more, in the end can never have enough.’ ” Certainly Elizabeth never seemed to learn. Not this bitter lesson, anyway. What she did discover was that once she really got going in the amorous sweepstakes, she could progress from chipmunks to men like a 1,200 mph jet storming the sound barrier. One day she was concerned only with her pet chipmunk, Nibbles, her dogs and cats and horses; the next, she suddenly was aflame with her real powers. She was young, but not youthful — tossed into the fight ring’s main event almost before she was really ready. “It was tough going for her,” said a classmate, “because she had a lot more ground to make up than most girls.” Yet not until after she married Mike Todd did Elizabeth seemingly fling all caution to the winds. Todd, of course, was the man “who belonged on a runaway horse; a fellow who would pass out salted peanuts at his own hanging if he owned the beer concession.” Some of Todd’s own imperial flamboyance must have rubbed off on Liz. “Miss Taylor. I gather, lias always acted with spectacular non-conformity,” Dr. X observed. “But beginning with Todd, she turned far more aggressive in her romances. Photographs of her around that time show that even her necklines, already revealing, became defiantly lower and lower.” Once, when she and Todd had one of their Homeric battles, Liz phoned their mutual good friend. Eddie Fisher, in the middle of the night, and tearfully wheedled him into dashing over to console her. After Todd’s death in that plane crash, it was Eddie who had to be at Elizabeth’s side during the Chicago funeral. And when she wanted Eddie to join her for that eyebrow-raising weekend at Grossinger’s — the one that led inevitably to his breakup with Debbie Reynolds — it was Elizabeth who seemingly couldn’t understand why “there was all that fuss.” “I liked Eddie then,” Liz reputedly said, “but I wasn’t really in love with him.” Love is last month's Cadillac Was it the latent male-devouring element in Miss Taylor that was then emerging with rampant ferocity? Dr. X did not think so. “I know that Miss Taylor was pictured as ‘a heartless woman, selfish and cruel to the point of depravity.’ She was called ‘ruthless in her disregard for the feelings of those who stood in her way, ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ INVEST IN U. S. SAVINGS BONDS NOW EVEN BETTER ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★•A 85