In June 1959, 25 year-old Elizabeth Taylor started work on "Suddenly Last Summer" with Katharine Hepburn & Montgomery Clift. Taylor became a star at 12 after "National Velvet" & boarded the Hollywood merry-go-round. By 1959, she was among Hollywood's most highly paid & most criticized actress: famous not only for her 20+ films & her beauty, but for her 4 marriages. Within months of 3rd husband Mike Todd's death in a 1958 plane crash, Taylor married Eddie Fisher and found her self the center of a scandal a place that would become familar, though never comfortable, in the next 30 years. In April 1990, Taylor was Hospitalized for pneumonia, providing fuel for a new round of rumor and scandal.
Film: Suddenly last Summer by Joseph MANKIEWICZ.1959. Starring: Elizabeth TAYLOR, Katharine HEPBURN, Montgomery CLIFT.