It's always hard to loose an icon, particularly a fashion icon.
Elizabeth Taylor brought so much to fashion....in A Place in The Sun, she wore a "daisy dress"....
Every gal in high school at the time wanted this dress...it was a rage. Granted the dress was beautiful, but it was Liz who made it an icon.
I was fortunate enough to have dinner in the private home that inspired Suddenly, Last Summer and it was really fun...it was the home Tennessee Williams stayed in while working at Tulane. It was sort of fun to sit in the garden room and think about Tennessee Williams's imagination going berserk or at least wandering!
And who could compare with Paul Newman's sexiness....
No one but Liz...and she made him look really good - course he made her look good too. This movie reeks of raw sex - maybe it was Tennessee Williams, but it was fantastic. One of my favs. Who wouldn't want a full slip after this movie! (Now you realize that slip was fitted to her - it wasn't lycra or knit or slinky, it was fitted to her!)
And there will never be another Cleopatra like Liz....
Her entrance into Rome in the movie was spell-binding.
Liz was a huge part of my growing up - on and off the screen. She and "Richard" were the epitome of the jet set, albeit something we all watched from afar and read about weekly in the rag magazines under the hair dryer at the local beauty shop.
She had an astounding beauty, and pretty much knew what to do with it.
She left a huge mark on society and fashion, which is saying a lot in the burgeoning world of media-awareness.
She will be missed.
A girlfriend and I went one Saturday eve. to see "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". Our mothers were unaware and I remember the slip. Always wanted one like it. This was ultimate glamour.
Posted by: Lydia Barnard | March 24, 2011 at 10:54 AM
I have been thinking a lot about her clothes as well. To me she is at her most exquisite in that slip in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. And Paul Newman is certainly at his peak too! DH thinks she was the most stunning in Cleopatra. She actually was beautiful her entire life. I loved her white hair in later years. I could be wrong, but she never had the look of plastic surgery to me. I think she was smart enough to know you don't mess with perfection. She seemed to age gracefully and beautifully. As she aged her innger beauty shone more and more. What a star!
Posted by: Bunny | March 24, 2011 at 03:38 PM
My favorite Liz moment is when she showed up on General Hospital at Luke and Laura's wedding...all I could think of was what a big star she was and that she loved General Hospital as much as I did...at the time! She was an amazing woman who lived a full life...she will be missed!
Posted by: Carolyn | March 24, 2011 at 04:54 PM
Wow, memories! I absolutely loved her in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"!
Posted by: Alethia | March 25, 2011 at 12:34 AM
The week before she died I'd penciled in Friday night in front of the TV watching the advertised, Taming of the Shrew. It started to howls of distress from the family however after about 15mins they all sat as mesmerised as I. She was soooo beautiful and such a fantastic actress that you could not take your eyes off her and of course knowing the history of her and Richard made the watching all the more entertaining.
Posted by: Jody Pearl | April 01, 2011 at 04:58 AM
@Jody Pearl - yeah, that was a fabulous movie and she was really great it in....it was one of the first times I really saw Shakespeare for the bawdy, raw and insightful writer he really was. In Lit 101 he was soooooo boring!!!! But Liz & Dick made him come alive!
Posted by: Claire Kennedy | April 06, 2011 at 07:28 AM