(Fisher had been a best man at Taylor and Todd’s wedding.) But soon Taylor and Fisher started an affair and Fisher left Reynolds. READ MORE: Inside the Plane Crash That Changed Kirk Douglas and Elizabeth Taylor's Lives Eddie Fisher (Married May 1959 to March 1964)ĭevastated by the tragedy of Todd’s death, Taylor turned one of their closest couple friends, Debbie Reynolds and her husband Eddie Fisher, one of the 1950s most popular singers. “I was the happiest with Mike Todd,” Taylor said during her later years. Tragically Todd was killed in a plane crash in 1958 - Taylor was supposed to travel with him, but had opted out since she had a cold. Todd was known to shower the young star with gifts, like the time he set up an entire display of Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry in their yard or the time he had a meal flown in from Paris. Mike Todd (Married February 1957 to March 1958)īy the time Taylor married entertainment producer Mike Todd - who won an Oscar for Around the World in 80 Days - a month after her divorce from Wilding, she was pregnant with their child, Liza. Eventually, as Taylor’s career skyrocketed, the couple’s relationship soured. Christopher told Hollywood Reporter that growing up, he and his brother could play with Taylor’s Golden Globes, but not her Oscars. During their five years together, Taylor gave birth to two sons, Michael Jr. Michael Wilding (Married February 1952 to January 1957)īarely a year after her divorce from Hilton, Taylor wed British actor Michael Wilding who was 20 years her senior and also on marriage number two. She had been previously engaged to football player Glenn Davis and billionaire Bill Pawley. Even though Taylor was only 18 at the time of her first marriage, it wasn’t her first engagement. She wore a $3,500 gown at the ceremony, which MGM paid for since her film Father of the Bride was coming out. Taylor met Conrad “Nicky” Hilton, the son of hotelier Conrad Hilton (and future great-uncle of Paris Hilton), in October 1949 at Mocambo nightclub in Los Angeles - and they were wed on May 6, 1950, at Beverly Hills’ Church of the Good Shepherd with 600 guests in attendance and an additional 3,000 fans outside. Here’s a complete list of Taylor’s husbands: Conrad 'Nicky' Hilton (Married May 1950 to January 1951)Įlizabeth Taylor and first husband Nicky Hilton, 1950 Photo: Apic/Getty Images Throughout her life, Taylor wed seven men in eight marriages (she married Richard Burton twice), but by the time she died on March 23, 2011, she hadn’t been married since 1996, almost 15 years. “My troubles all started because I have a woman's body and a child's emotions,” she also said, according to ABC News. At the time I just knew I ached to become a real woman, a wife.” “I am sorry I did not fully understand the reasons driving me into early matrimony. “I was then and am now an incurable romantic,” Taylor wrote in 1988. “I soon realized the only way I could escape was through marriage.”Īnd that yearning kicked off a string of matrimonies, the first when she was just 18 years old. “As I learned how to perfect my screen image, I determined to find an area where I could comfortably move into independent adulthood,” she wrote. That accelerated path into on-screen romance soon influenced her real love life as well. “Some afternoons my teacher would walk out on the set, grab me out of Robert Taylor’s arms, and say, ‘Sorry, Elizabeth hasn’t finished her schoolwork.’ Talk about humiliating.” “In between playing passionate love scenes with a man old enough to be my father, I had to fit in three hours of lessons before three in the afternoon, otherwise production would be closed down for the day. I was cast in Conspirator opposite one of MGM’s biggest stars, Robert Taylor, who was 38, more than twice my age,” she wrote in a 1988 People story called “Restricted: The Passionate Years.” “At barely 17, I grew up for all America to see. And that included starring in romantic films with actors far older than she was. Finding fame at such a young age, Elizabeth Taylor was thrust into the spotlight and forced to become wise beyond her years.
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