Elizabeth Taylor became known for many things: those violet-colored eyes, a successful transition from child star to movie icon, multiple Academy Awards, her devotion to AIDS-related causes. Perhaps most of all, though, people remember Taylor as a woman who walked down the aisle eight times. Over the course of her life, Taylor married seven men, tying the knot with one of them twice.
In “ Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes ,” now streaming on Max , the starlet again takes center stage, this time with the actress narrating her own story. But before you hit play on the compelling film, let’s revisit the golden girl’s multiple “I do’s.” Ahead, a list of Elizabeth Taylor ’s seven husbands.
Conrad Hilton Jr. (1950-51) According to a 1996 article in Entertainment Weekly , Elizabeth Taylor had already been engaged and un-engaged to two men (football player Glenn Davis and money man Bill Pawley) by the time she met Conrad Hilton Jr., the hotel chain heir and future great-uncle to Paris and Nicky Hilton, at a Los Angeles nightclub in 1949.
The two dated while Taylor finished high school. After graduation, she began filming the MGM production “Father of the Bride.” When Taylor and Hilton decided to marry, the studio used the event as a way to promote its movie, footing the wedding bill, including the $3,500 price tag on a satin dress created by Helen Rose , the designer behind the dress Grace Kelly wore when she tied the knot with Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
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