Boy, that was quick. I either didn't read or didn't pay attention to the date of the funeral. Another Hollywood Legend laid to rest.


TIS

I had heard on TV that funeral services would be private, and I'm sure her relatives didn't want this to turn into a media circus - and also, having a very fast funeral was a good way to thwart the idiots from the Westboro Church from making a disgraceful scene near the cemetary.

Signor V.

Well I learn something new everyday. She had her funeral the next day because she had converted to Judaism.

It's never too late.

Well, I learned something. I had no idea that was Jewish tradition/policy. Btw, did she turn Jewish when she married Eddie??????


TIS

one of the last from golden age of hollywood. i was really sad when i heard, but it was coming since her health has been terrible for years.

also too i bet zsa zsa is next to go now...i mean really she made her self go to the hospital this time around.

WOW!!! This was quick.

I'm not exactly certain when Elizabeth Taylor converted to Judaism. Both Mike Todd and Eddie Fisher were Jewish. I didn't know she still considered herself a Jew.

Signor V.

I read today that she converted to marry Fisher. I don't know if she was still a practicing Jew, though.

TIS, if you read Carrie Fisher's book "Wishful Drinking", you'll find someone who definitely did NOT love Liz!

For whatever reason, Carrie Fisher did once take part in a celebrity tribute/roast honoring Elizabeth Taylor, sometime during the 1980's or 90's. I remember seeing a brief clip in which Fisher uttered the hilarious line:

"The greatest contribution Elizabeth Taylor made to our family was to get Eddie Fisher out of the house."

Per this article Elizabeth did convert before her marraige to Eddie. And to show her sense of humor she was 15 minutes late to the funeral. So the next time you're funny late and someone says, "You'll be late for your own funeral", you'll be in good company.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/elizabeth_taylor_late_the_own_funeral_Rmx3hEENStVIeMLtbdxHzI

I LOVE the fact she insisted on being late to her own funeral. For many years I've toyed with having the same thing arranged for my funeral. Like Liz, I'm always late.

i would be 15 minutes earlier

Liz converted to Judaism in 1959. Her Jewish name was Elisheba Rachel.

As far as her affair with Eddie Fisher, she and Debbie Reynolds publicly buried the hatchet years ago and Deb had nothing but good things to say this week about her.

Even Carrie Fisher came out this week and said "If my father had to divorce my mother for anyone-I'm so grateful that it was Elizabeth."

Movie Icon..

RIP

Taylor's final Tweets were shout outs to Kim Kardashian.

While we're bringing up Taylor movies, how about REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE?

Yes, I just heard that amount today. As a matter of fact the report said possibly one billion??? She made much I guess off her perfume as well.
Btw, I know she has at least two kids but I don't think I've ever seen them.

TIS

According to an article I read, she had four children: two boys with Michael Wilding, a daughter with Michael Todd and one with Richard Burton.

I didn't know she had any children with Richard Burton. For some reason I didn't think they had any.



TIS

BTW, I heard this morning that Liz was the first actress to make one million dollars (as Cleopatra). I guess that would be chicken feed in today's market.



TIS

That's been well known for years. Elizabeth Taylor once told the story of how that came about.

Said she was soaking in the bathtub and husband Eddie Fisher answered the phone. He told her that the producers at 20th Century Fox were offering her the lead in 'Cleopatra'. Liz had no interrest & sarcastically said..."Tell them I'll do it for a million dollars." Assuming that would put an end to the offer right there.

A few minutes later Eddie came back and told her they said ok.

All there was left to do was sign the contract...and the rest as they say...is history.

Apple

Liz and Dick adopted their daughter Maria in 1964, so they actually did have a child together. She had two sons, Michael, Jr. and Christopher with Wilding, and Elizabeth, known as Liza, with Michael Todd.


This is Liz with two of her children - Michael Wilding, Jr. and Maria Burton at a party given for Maria back in 1981.

Thanks SB. Although it's hard to tell exactly by the picture you posted, but her son seems to have her eyes no? Considering her fame, her children seem to have managed to stay out of the spotlight, at least that I'm aware of.


TIS

HOLY COW...I had completely forgotten that they had adopted a child. My bad!!

This link has a photo gallery which includes a 2007 pic of Liz & all 4 of her children, at her 75th birthday party.

http://www.life.com/gallery/22489/elizabeth-taylor-as-a-mother#index/11

I think Chris Wilding looks the most like Elizabeth...while Liza Todd & Michael Wilding, Jr. more resemble their fathers.

With such management style by Fox, no wonder they almost went bankrupt over that movie.

Elizabeth Taylor's nude photo at 24 seen for first time
A goddess revealed: Intimate portrait of Liz Taylor at 24 seen for the first time
By Liz Thomas

Countless photographs have paid homage to Liz Taylor’s fabulous figure. But none has been so revealing as this.

A private collector has released the only known picture of the star – then aged 24 – posing nude. It is understood to be the first time the photo has been shown publicly.

It was an engagement gift from Miss Taylor to producer Michael Todd, who was her third husband.

The picture was taken by one of her closest friends, actor and photographer Roddy McDowall. He persuaded her to pose naked by promising her it would be done tastefully.

She then gave it to Todd as a present after he proposed in 1956 – the pair married a few months later but the relationship was tragically short-lived.

Todd was killed 13 months after their wedding day when his private plane crashed during a storm over New Mexico.

Full Article

Wow. She was just gorgeus.

Yes, she was. And all class.

It prompts me to ask: with so many puttane out there among the coterie of female so-called stars who spread their legs for the cameras at the drop of a hat, I wonder if stars such as Taylor would have been disposed to do so? What about Bacall, Lamour, Garbo, Leigh, Hayworth, Bergman, just to name a few?