The Life and Loves of Elizabeth Taylor | Elizabeth Taylor’s Accidental Feminism | 5

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Taylor is remembered for her beauty, her diamonds and her many, many husbands. But her most enduring legacy may be her decidedly feminist films. This week we talk to professor and author M.G. Lord about her book, “The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice,” how the Liz Taylor broke the censorship of the production code, and how she build a feminist legacy from her character, Leslie Benedict.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to even the rich,
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0:05.9	From Wundery, I'm Brooke Sifrin, and I'm Aresha Skidmore Williams.
0:17.6	And this is Even the Rich.
0:20.4	Over the last four episodes, we followed Elizabeth Taylor
0:23.4	through triumph, tragedy, and all eight of her marriages.
0:27.4	She found love, won an Oscar, fell in love again,
0:30.7	had some kids, got divorced, had an affair, fell in love again,
0:34.7	and did it all while draped in diamonds.
0:37.2	And in between at all, Elizabeth still
0:39.1	found time to become one of the most prolific screen
0:41.9	stars in the generation.
0:43.7	They just don't make stars like her anymore.
0:46.1	There's not a single actress alive who can do what she did.
0:49.6	That's the champagne.
0:52.6	While we did cover Elizabeth's career in this series,
0:54.8	we didn't really get to talk much about the actual movies she started.
0:58.4	Right. From national velvet to giant to who's afraid of Virginia wolf,
1:02.6	Liz Taylor took on many roles that reflected her strength, skill,
1:06.7	and believe it or not, feminist values.
1:09.0	Yeah. So it turns out that lots of old Hollywood movies were actually pretty progressive.
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