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Elizabeth Taylor Was ‘Happiest’ During Marriage to Mike Todd: ‘That Was Her True Love’


Elizabeth Taylor was 'happiest' during her marriage to Mike Todd, director Nanette Burstein exclusively tells Closer of the late star’s life and career.

My self-esteem, my image, everything soared under his exuberant, loving care,” the Cleopatra actress wrote in her 1988 book, Elizabeth Takes Off. Hulton Archive/Getty Images Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes will premiere on HBO on August 3, and offers a closer look at the life of the film icon as told in her own words. “She wasn’t considered to be a good actress, that she was thought of just as a pretty face and a sex symbol, which had a lot to do with the sexism of the time,” Burstein continued.

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