“Liz has always had a charming way of minimizing the public hurricanes that have raged around her. Perhaps this is because she is always operating from the comparative calm of the eye of the storm.”
Peter Harry Brown, The MGM Girls, Behind the Velvet Curtain
Another reason that might be is because, unlike many Hollywood icons, Elizabeth Taylor never took herself or her glamorous image too seriously. Her self-deprecating graffiti on this photo contact sheet is but one example of this lack of reverence.
Peter Harry Brown, The MGM Girls, Behind the Velvet Curtain
Another reason that might be is because, unlike many Hollywood icons, Elizabeth Taylor never took herself or her glamorous image too seriously. Her self-deprecating graffiti on this photo contact sheet is but one example of this lack of reverence.
 Elizabeth Taylor, 1964, by Roddy McDowall, with Doodles by Elizabeth Taylor |  The MGM Girls by Peter Harry Brown |
The MGM Girls, Behind the Velvet Curtain is available via the Nick Harvill Libraries kiosk at the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood.
Image Credit: Double Exposure, Take Four
Image Credit: Double Exposure, Take Four
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