Pardon my lateness with today’s Friday Glam Spam, darlings — it’s the first one I’ve posted in quite a while, anyway — but I’ve been busy preparing a very special surprise for all of you. In honor of the incredible, the beautiful, the talented, the magnanimous, the all-around Glamorous-with-a-capital-G, Elizabeth Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011), I wanted to go the extra mile and share with you something truly unique and exceptional. Since I happen to collect movie magazines from the 1950s and ’60s, there is obviously a lot of material on Ms. Taylor in my assortment — not all of it flattering, but hey, that’s history — so I’ve scanned a few of the articles and photographs and posted them here for your perusal. I’ve tried my best to leave the text legible, but my scanner isn’t known for its quality, so apologies if things are a bit fuzzy around the edges. There’s a lot of material here, and a lot of work went into scanning and editing it, so please do enjoy.
(Clicking on each thumbnail will take you to the full-sized image on a gallery page, with links below to the last and next images in the sequence.)
First up is the glossy “souvenir book” for the 1963 epic masterpiece Cleopatra, in which Ms. Taylor plays the titular queen.
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