A Passion for Life, Donald Spoto
A Passion for Life, Donald Spoto
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A Passion for Life
The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor

Author: Donald Spoto

Narrator: C.M. Hbert

Unabridged: 12 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/29/2011

Synopsis

Born in England to socially ambitious parents, Elizabeth Taylor was catapulted into child stardom and molded by MGM into the great violeteyed beauty of postwar America. Along the way, without training or counsel, she became an awardwinning actress, dazzling audiences everywhere with spectacular performances. Spoto explores the gripping story of her brutalizing sixmonth marriage to compulsive gambler and hotel heir Nicky Hilton, her romances with top Hollywood directors, and her marriage to the ailing Michael Wilding. Four years later, she would be swept off her feet by showman Mike Todd into an alternately violent and loving marriage that would end with Todds death in a plane crash, leaving Taylor a twicedivorced widow with three children at the age of twentysix. And here are Taylors years with Eddie Fisher, Republican Senator John Warner, and Richard Burton, with whom she would share a hedonistic, brash lifestyle that would virtually define the 1960s jet set.

About Donald Spoto

Donald Spoto is the author of more than twenty books, including bestselling biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Tennessee Williams, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, Ingrid Bergman, and Audrey Hepburn. He lives with his husband, Danish artist and school administrator Ole Flemming Larsen, near Copenhagen, Denmark.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shawn on September 12, 2017

There are better biographies of Elizabeth Taylor, that arch serial monogamist famed for being at one time the most beautiful in the world, and also the most scandalous woman in the world, and mostly at the same time. How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood comes to mind. If you want re......more

Goodreads review by Judith on August 05, 2017

The author attempts to psychoanalyze her too much. I don't care why the author thinks she did what she did. I want to know what she did and come to my own conclusions.......more

Goodreads review by Holly on March 12, 2022

I didn’t expect much of the writing, and I didn’t get much. It was fine. Nothing to complain about necessarily style-wise, but also nothing to praise. I don’t think I learned anything that I couldn’t have learned on Wikipedia. But it took up a lot more pages. Don’t know how/why her weight fluctuatio......more

Goodreads review by Amy on August 11, 2022

Love old Hollywood and her story is as unique as most.......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on February 14, 2018

This year I've read a lot biographies of old movie stars and one of my favorite was Marilyn Monroe: The Biography written by Donald Spoto. When I saw that the same author had published a biography of Elizabeth Taylor, I was overwhelmed and was eager to start reading. Unfortunately, however, the book......more

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