How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood

Elizabeth Taylor's worldwide fame owed much to her glamorous public image and scandalous private life, but as William Mann points out in this analysis of her stunningly successful Hollywood career, she understood that the headlines were never enough: 'for every cover of Photoplay, there was a Giant' and 'after all the hoopla over the affair with Richard Burton, she made sure there was a Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.'