![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One is fellow factory worker named Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters), and one is a wealthy socialite named Angela Vickers (Elizabeth Taylor). It’s the story of a working class man named George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) who finds himself entangled with two very different women. In 1951, Taylor starred in A Place in the Sun, based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedyby Theodore Dreiser. There were plenty of other book adaptations for Elizabeth Taylor in the 1940s: The White Cliffs of Dover, based on The White Cliffs, in 1944 Courage of Lassie in 1946 Cynthia, based on the play The Rich, Full Life, in 1947 Life with Father, also in 1947 and Little Women, in which Taylor played Amy March, in 1949.Īs Taylor moved into adult roles in the 1950s, the bookish films kept coming. Taylor recognized how significant the film was to her career, and later remarked, “Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.” In the film, Elizabeth Taylor played a 12-year-old girl named Velvet Brown who rides her horse “Pie” to victory. The movie, based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Enid Bagnold, starred Mickey Rooney, Angela Lansbury, and, of course, our girl Elizabeth. Taylor’s first breakthrough role was in the 1944 film National Velvet. ![]() Please watch this clip of Elizabeth Taylor in Jane Eyre and note how her face barely changed from childhood to adulthood. In 1943, Taylor played Priscilla in Lassie Come Home. Some of Elizabeth Taylor’s earliest childhood roles were in book-related films. ![]()
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