In June 1959, 25-year-old Elizabeth Taylor started work on ‘Suddenly Last Summer’ with Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift. Taylor became a star at just 12-years-old after appearing in ‘National Velvet’ and boarding the Hollywood merry-go-round. By 1959, she was among Hollywood’s most highly paid and most criticized actresses: famous not only for her more than 20 films and her beauty, but for her four marriages. Within months of third husband Mike Todd’s death in a 1958 plane crash, Taylor married Eddie Fisher and found herself the center of a scandal, a place that would become familiar, though never comfortable, for the next 30 years.
