National Velvet and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof established her as a star. She was something of a romantic as a young girl but then tragedy struck with the death of Michael Todd. She changed dramatically.
She married Eddie Fisher out of loneliness and a desire to be with Todd's best friend. They used each other to help keep the memory of him alive. Fisher passionately adored her and would never love again because of her, and this was even though she made a fool out of him.
Her acting in Tin Roof and Suddenly Last Summer was stunning but for neither of those two did she win an academy award. She won for Butterfield 8, a movie she hated and a movie for which some say she got the sympathy vote for the award because of a tracheotomy.
In spite of herself, she fell in love with Cleopatra co-star Richard Burton. Read more, click here.
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