v8vega wrote:Elizabeth Taylor in a day in the Sun or something like that looked about 18 and truly was pretty. Good classic movie too. After that she always looked about 40 and fat.
First time I ever saw her in a movie was "Elephant Walk," It was 1954, and I was a boy. My mother laughed for several days afterward due to my exclaiming often how beautiful Elizabeth Taylor was. I still think she was beautiful - not simply "pretty" - in that movie, with a fantastic waist and shapely overall figure, riveting face, especially the eyes, and without watermelon-sized breasts that seemed to dominate some actresses' images.
The only time I was disappointed in her appearance was her role in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf." I don't go for loud, screechy, shrill women, and they seemed to play-down her physical beauty in the story, but she sure could act well at being the very unattractive loud shrew.