Elizabeth Taylor: 5 best biographies

3. How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood, by William J. Mann

Biographer and Hollywood historian William J. Mann credits Taylor with having invented today's celebrity culture. In this survey of her life he concentrates on how she "played the game" – the way she created her image and, according to Mann, used everything from her marriages to her illnesses to get what she wanted.

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