Elizabeth Taylor: The Masterworks

"I'm loud, and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to. But I am not a monster! I'm not!"

Welcome to part two of this celebration of some of Elizabeth Taylor’s most notable film performances.

Studio publicity still of Elizabeth Taylor for the film The Girl Who Had Everything (1953) Dr. Macro, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

ACTING IS a notoriously precarious profession, in which luck plays a key part. Even actors who enjoy a modicum of success must take the roles they are offered, or fight for the ones they want. Relatively few become wealthy enough to choose their projects and accept only work that interests them. Elizabeth Taylor was one of those few, and it is noticeable that at the time of her marriage to Richard Burton, when she had reached the pinnacle of wealth and fame, she did some of her most interesting work.