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Elizabeth Taylor photographed on the set of Giant | 1956

Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun. (1951)

“When Elizabeth walked on set of A Place In the Sun wearing the white strapless evening gown, Montgomery Clift whispered in her ear, ‘Your tits are fantastic, Bessie Mae, just fantastic.’ Then he teased her, saying if he weren’t such an old man he’d make her run away with him. It was obvious to everyone that Elizabeth was arousing the bisexual Clift in a way no other woman ever had. She flirted with him and teased him and spent as many hours with him as she could, but there was no sex between them during that time at all. Instead, they laid the foundation for a complicated, intensely close relationship that would develop through letters and telephone calls after the movie was completed and they went their separate ways. It was to last until the day Montgomery Clift died.”

Elizabeth Taylor photographed by Philippe Halsman, 1948.

A Place in the Sun, 1951.

“She was an extraordinary friend, and not just for the good times. Elizabeth showed up, she showed up in my life when my marriage broke up many years ago and she was there. She was there for her friends and for her family, her assistant Tim who’s been with her for twenty years. When his mother died this year, she insisted she come stay at her home and she made a hospice for Tim’s mom and she made a hospice for her long time publicist, Chen Sam, who died a number of years ago. And she died in Elizabeth’s home. She was there for Roddy McDowall, whom she loved dearly..and she held him in her arms. She knew how to show up. She showed up for Michael Jackson when he needed support, she flew across the world to be with him…I mean, she was an extraordinary, loving, generous friend.” -Carole Bayer Sager