The Life & Loves of Elizabeth Taylor | “You and Your Studio Can Go to Hell!” | 70

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Once upon a time, there was a young woman with hair as black as ebony and eyes the color of violets. But her name wasn’t Snow White – it was Elizabeth Taylor. And instead of seven dwarfs toiling in a diamond mine, this fairy tale includes seven husbands who buy their diamonds straight from Cartier.

This is a 4-part series on Elizabeth Taylor, whose private life was even more dramatic than the movies she starred in.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can
0:01.7	convince the newest season of even the rich
0:03.3	before anyone else.
0:04.4	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or on Apple Podcasts.
0:08.0	A note to our listeners.
0:09.5	This episode contains descriptions of marital abuse that some might find distressing.
0:14.2	Please be advised. Also, we're going to swear a lot.
0:18.8	I mean, honestly, it's what Elizabeth would want.
0:21.3	For such an elegant lady,
0:23.2	she had the mouth of a sailor. Imagine the most spectacular, elaborate, expensive celebrity wedding in history.
0:39.6	Okay, Nick and Prianka.
0:42.0	Way bigger.
0:43.0	Kim Kardashian and Chris Humphreys?
0:45.0	Okay, let's back up a little bit.
0:47.0	First of all, it's 1950.
0:50.0	And that woman who's singing Ave Maria to a chapel full of celebrity guests, she works for
0:56.2	MGM, the film studio.
0:58.8	So do all the florists who are running around getting the orchids ready for their close-ups, and ditto for the photographers
1:05.8	who are stocking the aisles and snapping shots of the ridiculously photogenic guests.
1:11.0	I mean, the only person here who isn't on the studio payroll is the
1:15.1	Archbishop who's going to officiate. Everyone here is in the chapel because of
1:19.7	one guy, Louis B. Mayer, the head of the studio. And he's sitting up front, dabbing his eyes with a white silk handkerchief.
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