The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: The Obsessions, Passions, and Courage of Elizabeth Taylor

By Ellis Amburn

Book Overview

Ellis Amburn's magnificent biography of the Academy Award(R)-winning actress and legendary beauty captures the unparalleled Elizabeth in all her tragedy and splendor--her tumultuous loves, her doomed affections, her shocking excesses, her courage, and her inimitable style. Filled with stunning revelations about the men in her life--Burton, Clift, Hilton, Dean, Fisher--it is a glorious celebration of the turbulent life of a brilliant star that none in Hollywood or heaven could ever outshine.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061014087
• ISBN13: 9780061014086
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

How is really the World's most Beautiful Woman?

I found the book very enchanting and interesting. I was unable to put it down. I have always been a huge fan of Elizabeth Taylor, she was mesmerizingly beautiful in her prime of life. I would not quote that she is the World's most beautiful woman because that title also belongs to: 1. Model Beau-Latasha (being the most beautiful of all time) 2. Model Cindy Crawford 3. Actress Raquel Welch 4. Actress Aishwarya Rai 5. Actress Sophia Loren 6. Sportcaster Jayne Kennedy 7. Singer Lena Horne 8. Singer Vanity 9. Model Gia Carangi 10. Actress Angelina Jolie

What a Life . . .I Suppose

It's not the author's fault, but unfortunately the subject of this book is extremely boring. Two words describe Elizabeth Taylor's life, at least prior to her involvement with AIDS funding and research: WRETCHED EXCESS. This is not a fun read, not because the author didn't try, but because he wrote about a person that just wasn't very interesting.

elizabeth transcends even biographies

I was mesmerised by this book -- of course with all biographies, one takes it with a grain of salt, but I was most impressed with was how Taylor handled her career like a man -- how she was able to go on despite the pressures of her situation. the love story between burton and taylor shines through, and I think I understand a little more about love, even though theirs was a tumultuous one. she is a role model for people in the performing arts who turn their attention toward great and needdy causes, and I respect her immensely. long may she rule as the last star of hollyowood.

Maggie the Cat

For any fan of Taylors, her role in Tennessee Williams "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is a stand-out in a career of should have beens. The author, though perhaps not intending to--make Maggie and Elizabeth almost interchangable. As a woman starved for love,she mistakes lust,pity,histrionic behavior,and melodramatic outcomes for the real..hum-drum..thing and in doing so sacrifices a great talent In a dizzying round of affairs, marriages, drugs, drink, food,and mores the pity-bad movies, the glamour that was Elizabeth Taylor quickly turns to squalor. The biggest surprise for me then, was that I finished this book actually liking this woman..alot. The author gets a bit too hung up on the gender preferences of Taylor's many men but on the whole, its a rounded, solid and human portrayal of a World Class Beauty.