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Her personal life attracted much attention. Apart from her marriages to Burton, she was married six other times: to hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton (1950-1951), actor Michael Wilding (1952-1957), producer Mike Todd (1957-1958)[[note]]who died in a plane crash, making him the only husband of hers whom she did not divorce[[/note]], singer Music/EddieFisher (1959-1964 - for added bonus, he left first wife Creator/DebbieReynolds for Taylor), U.S. Senator John Warner (1976-1982) and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers construction worker]] Larry Fortensky (1991-1996).

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Her personal life attracted much attention. Apart from her marriages to Burton, she was married six other times: to hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton (1950-1951), actor Michael Wilding (1952-1957), producer Mike Todd (1957-1958)[[note]]who died in a plane crash, making him the only husband of hers whom she did not divorce[[/note]], singer Music/EddieFisher (1959-1964 - for added bonus, he left first wife Creator/DebbieReynolds for Taylor), U.S. Senator John Warner (1976-1982) and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers construction worker]] worker Larry Fortensky (1991-1996).

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* CreatorBacklash: She never liked ''[=BUtterfield=] 8'', not even after winning her first Oscar for it. She didn't want to do it in the first place, but [[ContractualObligationProject she had a contractual obligation.]]

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* CreatorBacklash: She never liked ''[=BUtterfield=] ''[=Butterfield=] 8'', not even after winning her first Oscar for it. She didn't want to do it in the first place, but [[ContractualObligationProject she had a contractual obligation.]]


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* InstantDramaJustAddTracheotomy: After contracting pneumonia during early production of ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' she had to undergo an emergency tracheotomy. The procedure left her with a prominent scar on her throat.
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* ''Film/{{The Comedians|1967}}'' (1967)
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: She was portrayed in the 2022 film ''Film/{{Devotion|2022}}'' by Creator/SerindaSwan, encountering the film's leads Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner while they're on shore leave in Cannes, France.
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* SerialSpouse: She was famously married eight times (marrying Creator/RichardBurton twice), which drew a lot of media attention. One of her husbands died in a plane crash, while the rest of her marriages ended in divorce.

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* SerialSpouse: She was famously married eight times to seven husbands (marrying Creator/RichardBurton twice), which drew a lot of media attention. One of her husbands died in a plane crash, while the rest of her marriages ended in divorce. Single for the last 15 years of her life, she reportedly said that if she could do it all over again, she'd only have married Mike Todd (husband #3, the one who died in a plane crash) and Richard Burton (husband #4 and #5, with the first of their two marriages being her longest at ten years).
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Her personal life attracted much attention. Apart from her marriages to Burton, she was married six other times: to hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton (1950-1951), actor Michael Wilding (1952-1957), producer Mike Todd (1957-1958)[[note]]who died in a plane crash, making him the only husband of hers whom she did not divorce[[/note]], singer Eddie Fisher (1959-1964 - for added bonus, he left first wife Creator/DebbieReynolds for Taylor), U.S. Senator John Warner (1976-1982) and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers construction worker]] Larry Fortensky (1991-1996).

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Her personal life attracted much attention. Apart from her marriages to Burton, she was married six other times: to hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton (1950-1951), actor Michael Wilding (1952-1957), producer Mike Todd (1957-1958)[[note]]who died in a plane crash, making him the only husband of hers whom she did not divorce[[/note]], singer Eddie Fisher Music/EddieFisher (1959-1964 - for added bonus, he left first wife Creator/DebbieReynolds for Taylor), U.S. Senator John Warner (1976-1982) and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers construction worker]] Larry Fortensky (1991-1996).
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* PlayingGertrude: In ''Film/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'', she played a character in her fifties at 34. Her casting [[WTHCastingAgency surprised]] many people, but she proved to be very convincing, even winning her second Oscar for the role.
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* UnkemptBeauty: Not most of the time, but according to Hollywood legend, the event that convinced Richard Burton to propose was seeing her fresh out of bed, with pillow hair and no make-up, and dressed in decidedly unsexy flannel pyjamas.

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