Posted on 02/26/2023 10:23:32 PM PST by Ozguy1945
Elizabeth Taylor was an intelligent and sizzling goddess of the silver screen in The Golden Age of Hollywood. (Please click the red link below the above title for word art and prose showing and examining how appealing she was.)
Marriage liberated her sexually.
She wasn't perfect.
She was human.
God Bless The Freedom Where We Can Start With Who We Are And Grow To Be Our Best
I’d rather God Bless the men and women who marry once and stick to it and hold their vows. Takes a lot of work to do that.
Per Liz, if everyone was ruled by their passions no one would ever have a lasting marriage. In fact the poor state of relationships, and the very foundation of the sexual revolution, is based on people being ruled by their passions, and “following their heart”.
“I’d rather God Bless the men and women who marry once and stick to it and hold their vows.”
I agree that family and monogamy are the core foundation of a healthy society and are what works best for most people.
But it cannot be forced it on everybody.
Freedom works.
Anyone else getting sick and tired of that line as an excuse to engage in willfully bad behavior ?
I think you are getting freedom and license confused, with all due respect.
This is satire, right?
She engaged in adulterous affairs during and in between her marriages. Thus, one could perhaps say that marriage didn't "crimp" her style, sexually.
She was a homewrecker.
So I don't how in any respect marriage could be seen as having been "liberating" for her.
It was more like an "after-thought" for her, I think.
Regards,
He found a lot of freedom.
The "freedom" she found in marriage was exceeded only by the "freedom" she found outside of marriage.
Regards,
I can see someone being married a couple of times or even a third if a spouse dies. However, if you’ve been married eight times it’s possible that YOU just might be the problem. It becomes a joke by then, obviously you don’t take it seriously. You’re just using it to try and bring some respectability to your promiscuity. Nowadays promiscuity has been normalized and even celebrated by mass culture so there’s really no reason to go through the farce of eight marriages.
I read a book about her, sorry forgot the title.
She had a beautiful house and lots of servants. An alcoholic, she went to the expensive Betty Ford Center to dry out. At “The Betty,” she met a lot of men, even married one of them. Larry Fortensky, a construction worker 30 years her junior. Of course, they were divorced a few years later.
In the end, her servants referred to her as “That old mattress”.
I could name twenty or thirty actresses of that time that I have appreciated and admired. Virginia Mayo was nine years older than my Mother, but in some parts that I go back to once or twice a year she is devastatingly beautiful and well worth watching.
Can you imagine how conflicted Larry Fortensky must have been on his wedding night ?
He knew what to do, but I’m guessing he wondered how to make interesting.
Actually it was pretty much the norm until the communists targeted the family unit for destruction.
One of my favorite roles for Liz was in the movie
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?”, with Richard Burton costarring. I saw it decades ago when we used to have ‘Late, Late Movie Shows on TV.
Have you ever met a couple who seemed to enjoy fighting each other? That was their story in the movie.
Take well articulated, though viciously biting sarcasm, add a few bottles of your best bourbon, and you have this couple.
This is how they behave while hosting a just-met, young married couple over for dinner.
It was hilarious, with a capital H.
And divorce. Seven. Twice to the same dood. I always use Liz's example for what NOT to do.
Oh, snap. There were EIGHT divorces. Ol’ Liz gets a bump on the crazy/hot matrix.
Marriage liberated her sexually.
Marriage-S...multi-plural.
Not to mention all the affairs in between.
She became her own Hollywood stereotype..
there are some fellow Freepers who refer to their “third ex wife” so clearly the find one and stick with it does not always work.
I only knew her as this kind of fat old celebrity chick people talked about. I think I was in my mid 20s before I saw those old films of her when she was young and was shocked to discover she had been really hot once upon a time.
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