TAYLOR MADE
There are few female movie legends who sum up the golden and glamorous early days of Hollywood more than British-born actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Her career spanned six decades but her fame was constant from her debut during the 1940s, during which she was initially a child star, and then went on to top billing in films such as National Velvet, Cleopatra and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Famed for her tempestuous two marriages to Richard Burton, she also continued to fill column inches in later life both as a close friend of Michael Jackson and as an AIDS/HIV activist.
But it was during the early 1950s that she was at the height of her fame while working at MGM and enjoying her second marriage – one of eight – to fellow actor Michael Wilding.
In 1954 the newlyweds bought a home in Beverley Hills in Los Angeles that she described in a later memoir as “the most beautiful house I’ve ever seen”.
The pair lived at the property for three years until divorcing in 1957, the year she starred in Giant with Rock Hudson and James Dean.
Their home, which was bought by the current owner in 1997, has since then been extended and upgraded.
It’s a 7,781 sq ft house with six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, four fireplaces, an art studio, sauna and library. All rooms are large with glass walls to view the surrounding garden, patios, pool and city views.
It is for sale at $15.9 million. More information from TopTenRealEstateDeals.com