Elizabeth Taylor [antikvár]

1Sara Taylor was frantic. She did not want Elizabeth to waste any film in this movie because her role was simply too small to justify such an extravagance. So, as the lights dimmed on the Jane Eyre sound stage, she hid behind the director and started signalling to her daughter. Crossing her pudgy arms on her breast, Sara fluttered her eyes and lifted her head to heaven. The little girl in front of the camera strained to see her mother, who quickly put a finger to her neck; this meant, 'You're overdoing it.'Earlier, Elizabeth saw her mother touch her stomach; that meant her voice was too shrill. A finger to the cheek was a secret signal to smile more. Now, seeing Sara plop her hands on her heart, Elizabeth knew she needed to put more emotion into her performance.The scene called for the little girl to die of pneumonia, and the stage mother was determined that it would be a perfect death and in one take. Still, Sara Taylor might have risked a few extra takes if she thought her precious little angel was being upstaged by Margaret O'Brien and Peggy Ann Garner, the leading child stars in 1944.Elizabeth Taylor then was merely a featured player under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stúdiós and on loan to 20th Century-Fox. She had yet to reach star status. The difference between 'featured player' and a 'star' was the difference between obscurity and celebrity - between $150 a week and $5,000 a week.MGM beauticians styled hair for featured players. The stars were coiffed by Sidney Guilaroff, studio hairdresser extraordinaire. Wardrobe girls fitted featured players. The11