What do you honestly think of Elizabeth Taylor's looks?

Miss Taylor is a spoiled, indulgent child, a blemish on public decency.

That's easy, "A Place in the Sun"

No

This is the 6,743rd version of this same thread.

Way too hairy, like Demi Moore hairy, but all over, not just the bush.

Big head, big forehead, no neck after 1962, short-waisted, the tits were ridiculous, her hips were blocky and her big ass was flat.

I honestly have never heard of anyone say she was ugly before. Not even one person...

LOVELIEST: Although Liz was a beautiful child & gorgeous young woman, IMO she was at her absolute loveliest during her time with Mike Todd (1956 - 1958). The fashions during those years agreed with her and the happiness of her personal life absolutely oozed out of her pores. And she remained lovely until 1963 or so.

AT HER WORST: The boozing, drugging, jet-setting, fighting & binging with Richard Burton wrecked absolute Hell on her looks. Throughout the 60s you still saw the occasional flashes of the world-renowned beauty she once was but year by year she looked frumpier, harder & more haggard. By the Early 70s she'd occasionally look hideous. But then again, most women of that period did in those horrible hippy fashions and Billie Jean King shag-mullets.

THE REBOUND: After her bout with morbid obesity in the Late 70s, Liz rebounded in the Looks Department in the 1980s. And by the Early 90s during her final marriage to that construction worker, she looked the best she had in years.

I never saw her as she was hyped up to be. I find Angelina Jolie infinitely more beautiful; however, Taylor was stunning in Cat on A Hot Tin Roof. She and Newman were, in my opinion, at the height of their beauty at that time.

R7, I've always wished she would have filmed a movie in early 1957. Looked amazing then. Anyone know why she didn't do a movie in 1957? What a waste. To me, she was at her absolute peak right around the time she turned 25. The only year in her prime she didn't film a movie. Very disappointing and strange...

Giant was her peak.

A gay man obsessed with a female starlet and probably jealous.

She had a gorgeous face. She was short, with a good sized bust and short legs. She started getting chunky in her thirties. She had unattractive hands; short fingers, pudgy, hands like a child. Her face was her fortune.

Didn’t Mickey Rooney claim he sodomized her?

She shouldn’t have tanned so much. It didn’t suit her at all.

[quote]I've always wished she would have filmed a movie in early 1957. Looked amazing then. Anyone know why she didn't do a movie in 1957? What a waste.

Divorced Michael Wilding in January 1957, married Mike Todd in February and gave birth to their daughter in August.

[quote] Didn’t Mickey Rooney claim he sodomized her?

Some book about the life of Mickey Rooney said that someone walked in and saw him getting a blowjob from Elizabeth Taylor. She would have been 14 at the time. Does anyone believe THAT?

This thread , we have a new one almost every week, don't we ?

She had the most beautiful face ever in her prime.

A good hearted lady

Elizabeth was at her peak during the early 1950s (A Place In The Sun, Ivanhoe).

Beautiful symmetrical face, but by no means perfect. Perfection doesn't exist. No one has everything. She had striking eyes, lush lashes, and a lovely nose. Her chin was rather weak for her face. Her teeth quickly deteriorated and ruined her smile. By the mid 1960s, tanning had damaged her complexion. Weight gain gave her a matronly aspect before she was 40.

She was really short and top heavy. When you don't have much vertical length, excess weight reinforces your stumpiness.

She was better when she didn't speak. Her voice didn't complement her appearance: it was shrill and grating. She sounded like a fishwife.

I think she often rested on her looks. There were actresses who didn't equal her facial loveliness, yet they had a warmer spark, a charisma that made them more approachable, more attractive (Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn). Catherine Deneuve and Grace Kelly had personas that seemed cold and remote—thus, also less attractive, at least to me. Of course, attractiveness and beauty are different things.

How many threads about this are you going to start?

You started this one about two days after the one in r23.

She drank her looks away.

She aged the best out of any other woman

I have several favorite Elizabeth eras. A place in the sun for fresh youthful beauty. The Mike Todd years for lush sexuality. And then the Richard Burton/Sandpiper years for sensual mature womanhood. After that - eh. I’m assuming food and alcohol did its worst, but it seems Elizabeth did have her fun.

Gay men think's she's the most beautiful....as a frau I find her beautiful and very sexy and sensual, and I just love Liz herself and her 8 marriages, but her beauty isn't as....refined enough I would say to declare her the most beautiful, at least what I find as beautiful. She has a bit of a potato face going on. Still beautiful, absolutely, but not perfect or refined.

Look at her on WML in 1954. She's mesmerizing with that beauty and charm.

She had lousy taste in men and clothes.

Gorgeous; even when she gained weight she was beautiful. Probably at her most beautiful as Maggie or Cleopatra. The sun damage and smoking did her no favors in the end though.

She was a great beauty as a child. Her looks peaked in her early twenties. She got matronly in her 30s. She really went overboard with the tanning. On her guest spot on "Here's Lucy" she was brown as a nut and it wasn't becoming.

No one quite like her.

Probably the most beautiful movie star face, ever. Not the best body but when she was younger and had that tiny waist and no jowls, she was perfect.

I think she looked great here especially considering she was over 50.

Age 21, but I agree that she was beautiful at any age.

^ Oops. See related pic. Relaxing on set of The Girl.....

Is anyone able to open R35's photo? When I click on it my Macbook Pro downloads an AVIF file but nothing will open it.

Bump

This is the photo at R35

Fat cherub face.

The most perfect nose ever.

I find her at her most beautiful in Cat on a Hot Teen Roof and Butterfield 8 era. The simplicity of her wardrobe in Cat helped, together with a great performance. As mentioned, she did not age well, but a contributing factor was her real awful taste in clothing. Having said this, she was larger than life, crazy and a good soul, what’s not to like.

^Tin

She is luminous in “Ivanhoe” (1952).

Everyone seeing that movie must think Robert Taylor is batshit crazy to prefer chubbette Joan Fontaine.

Loved her in Conspirator

Gorgeous

There’s used to be some crazed nut on IMDb who used to post these exact threads on Liz Taylor, Madonna (and some rando named Nick scotti - was he a porn star)?

And obsess about people’s noses too. This must be the same guy.

R48, what else did he post about?

R49 like “who has the most perfect nose,” a million threads about Elizabeth taylor and esp Madonna; shit like that.

Taylor looked gorgeous in her early 90s Oscar appearances.

1992

1993 Oscars. The daisy necklace was my favorite piece of jewelry in Elizabeth’s collection.

[quote] The daisy necklace was my favorite piece of jewelry in Elizabeth’s collection.

I thought it was hilarious that she was accepting a "humanitarian" award dripping in jewels and wearing a Valentino gown. I thought something more subdued would have been in order. She wanted jewels to go with the yellow gown so she borrowed the "Reine Marguerités"suite, which translated means Queen Daisies. She liked it so much she bought it. A very avaricious humanitarian.

She looked inviting in Cat, alluring in Cleo, and beguiling in Butterfield. The 70's were not good to her but she made a triumphant return to sexiness and glamour as Helena Cassidine on General Hospital in 81. One feature that never wavered throughout the decades were her beautiful violet eyes.

I had the opportunity to meet her in the VIP room before the 1996 AIDS Candlelight March in DC. Those eyes were stunning!

R54, what do you think of her looks in Suddenly Last Summer?

Also, was she nice when you met her?

[55] There was a receiving line. It was a handshake and "Hello, nice to meet you" kinda thing. To be honest, she seemed a little dazed but she was kind to each one of us. Those eyes! Following, we all walked from the Rayburn House Office Building to the Lincoln Memorial. Miss Taylor rode in a golf cart.

The second most beautiful woman ever.

The first being Madonna.

Perfect looks

I can't believe there's not more Elizabeth Taylor fans on here.

R45 Ah, another vote for the early 50's

R57 shit it really is that same person.

What other nutjob would say that.

R61, what was your username on IMDb?

Taylor for life

Looked best in 1927.

Need more responses

Gla-dia-tah!

Looked best from the time she turned 15 until the time she turned 30.

She should have slapped Joan Rivers with a bone-in ham.

Elizabeth Taylor was always thin.

Gorgeous in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof!

Beautiful woman

Looked like Vivien Leigh.

I thought Vivien Leigh was more beautiful.

One fine dame.

When do you think she looked her best and worst? Alive. Dead. Her best and worst features? Before massive gobs of makeup. Her skeletal makeup today.

Pretty lady

Does anyone think she was ugly? Just wondering if anyone does because I have never heard anyone say that before. Not even one person...

Pretty

By Butterfield-8 she looked fat and basically never stopped looking chubby.

R79, why fat in Butterfield 8?

Watch for yourself.

R81, looks beautiful to me

Any time her weight was under control- it fluctuated in the 60s, she was cubby and fat much of the the 70s, and thin again in her 50s after cleaning up the substances- I thought she was as stunning then as in the 50s. She actually also was pretty smashing up to her early 60s when health problems more or less made her frail. Best thing about her was that her beauty was not her focus in life- life was- and boy did she live- and give.

Thanks for the Oscar clips from the early 99s- they prove my point. And she was quite classy.

My favorite Elizabeth quip: while showing off one of her huge gems, an interviewer remarks, “it’s so vulgar” and she comes right back, “would you have me any other way?”

Early 90s

R5 = Richard Burton, nonetheless adoring his "Ocean."

R84 charlie, I suspect you are thinking of this incident, when Princess Margaret suggested Elizabeth's ring was vulgar, at which insult E asked PM if she would like to try it on. PM did so, and E said, "Not so vulgar now, is it?"

Liz had the best smile ever

Loved her look in Suddenly Last Summer

Gorgeous until she turned 30.

She was stunning basically from A Place in the Sun (1951) to BUtterfield 8 (1960).

When my mother was expecting my older sister in 1959, around the time of the Taylor/Fisher/Reynolds scandal, she wanted to name her Elizabeth; my dad refused to allow it, saying "No daughter of mine is going to share her name with that slut!"

r91 And you heard that from where, dear ?

My mom, r92.

What name did your older sister get instead, R91?

She was striking

Margaret, r94.

Anyone know why she didn't film a movie in 1957? I wish she would have...

I can't tell if R97 is joking. She was pregnant, R97.

[quote]Divorced Michael Wilding in January 1957, married Mike Todd in February and gave birth to their daughter in August.

She looked great in "A Place in the Sun" and "Giant."

I was not aware of her until Cleopatra so I can't speak to her early days. Too much makeup. Too much hairspray. Too many diamonds. Bad taste in clothing unless she was at the Oscars. Too much drama in her personal life. Voice of a fishwife and not a subtle actress. She kept those old movie magazines in business for years.

Incredibly beautiful eyes even as she aged.

I am appreciative of her work for AIDs but I would ignore her otherwise. She made herself into an icon of gluttony.

R98, she was pregnant when she filmed The Girl Who Had Everything.

Pregnancy is not the only reason I cited, R100. We can agree to disagree about why an actor would opt not to work during a year with three major life events: a long awaited divorce, getting married and having a baby all within 8 months time; most people would prefer to take the time to enjoy those moments.

R101, I just think it's a waste because she looked her best then (well in early 1957 before she started to show). She looked incredible in the Person To Person interview. It's on YouTube if you haven't seen it...

Beautiful

R99, "Too many diamonds"?! TOO MANY DIAMONDS?!

I'm in Bizarro World!

Gorgeous in Ivanhoe

A Place in the sun

Just my opinion:

At her best, no other woman could hold a candle to her.

At her worst, she was blowsy and frowsy.

She had a disproportionate body that must have been difficult to dress tastefully, and her taste in clothing more often than not left much to be desired.

But those eyes were unlike any others,

To me, she was at her most beautiful around the time of Butterfield 8.

R107, well put.

Hard to top the (all too brief) Mike Todd era.

Gorgeous

Pretty