From her fairytale childhood to her impressive array of movies and marriages, Elizabeth Taylor's life, both on and off the screen, has enchanted, saddened, appalled, and entertained us for the past seven decades.Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend -- the first new biography to be published following her death -- strips away the Hollywood veneer to reveal the woman as she really was. Through his incredible depth of knowledge, biographer David Bret sheds new light on the Elizabeth Taylor we thought we knew: her feud with Louis B. Mayer, her friendship with Montgomery Clift, the abu.

Description based upon print version of record.

Acknowledgements; Contents; IntroductIon; 1. Mother's Little Dividend; 2. Move Over, Shirley Temple; 3. WIth this Fist, I Thee Wed; 4. English Without Tears; 5. A Date with Jimmy and Rock; 6. Lizzie Schwartzkopf, My Jewish Broad!; 7. Pass the Parcel, Mike; 8. The Launch of the 40 Million Bomb; 9. That Intemperate Vamp; 10. The Big Hangover: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; 11. Duds and Diamonds; 12. From Playboy's Muse to Farmer's Wife; 13. In the Footsteps of Tallulah; 14. Goodbye Rock . . .Hello Larry; 15. Saint Elizabeth; Epilogue; Appendix; Bibliography & Sources; Index.