Tag: behind the scenes with Elizabeth Taylor on Cleopatra

July 28, 2016 / Vickie Lester

“I really don’t remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.” Elizabeth Taylor

Dear Nat, …The weather here seems to be brightening and at long last we may get Taylor up on that Sphinx, if we can ever get her out of Burton’s arms. During one of the love scenes the other day, Mankiewicz said, “Cut, then louder, “Cut.” Then he said to…

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September 27, 2015 / Vickie Lester

“Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra is a woman of force and dignity, fired by a fierce ambition to conquer and rule the world.” New York Times (1963)

“The chili is so good. All gone now. Please send me ten quarts of your wonderful chili in dry ice to 448 Via Appia Pignatelli. – Love and kisses, Elizabeth Taylor.” That note was written to the owner of Chasen’s, a restaurant much beloved and long gone in Beverly Hills.…

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March 28, 2015 / Vickie Lester

She was in the eye of the biggest scandal to rock Hollywood in forty years, and…she was completely covered in gold… | SCENTS MEMORY

She hardly noticed the fingers flitting from her collar to her cleavage as Irene’s hands plucked and pulled at her golden Isis winged cape adjusting it so it hung just so. At the foot of the black fiberglass beast a line of men with highly oiled skin shuffled past in…

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