Elizabeth Taylor Wig Recreation | Iconic Brunettes

Hi everyone, James Vance, we're bringing you yet another video. Oh my God, you guys it is a brand new day, a brand new year and a brand new series because we're doing something iconic, but it's not iconic blondes. It'S iconic brunette, we're working on it. We'Ll find a note, we will find the note now I have here our Mamie in color black. This is the Mammy black. Yes, she is gorgeous named after the legendary Mimi Van Doren. She is from James pencil Beauty. She is a very styleable, very affordable wig. For those of you that want dabble in hair styling, but don't want to like break the bank at it, she is a more budget-friendly option. Today, in iconic brunettes, I thought in the tradition of old Hollywood, we should bring out the most iconic brunette of old Hollywood. I start iconic blondes off with Marilyn Monroe, so we're going to start off iconic brunettes with Elizabeth Taylor. Now let's get started. Okay, you have to understand before Kim Kardashian, before Madonna, before a lot of these like Superstars, that just created a sensation of themselves. Elizabeth Taylor people were obsessed with if Marilyn Monroe was like that for blondes Elizabeth Taylor was the it girl brunette and she knew it and she owned it. She loved being a celebrity and was all about it, and her life was filled with drama drama drama drama. She could never stay out of the tabloids when she first gotten started. Elizabeth Taylor was actually a child star, believe it or not. Her first movie was Lassie, Lassie come home and she got the audition because she had recently startled the director, like he had never seen a little girl like this, like she was adorable and he made a comment to her mother like um. Could you please wipe off the mascara you put on that little girl and she just said the most delicate voice like it's not mascara. These are my eyelashes, no joke like she was born with, like double set eyelashes, so it looked like her eyes were just clumped like it looked like natural mascara and it caused this effect where it made her eyes, look Violet. So, for a long time, people thought she had purple eyes like mythology surrounding Elizabeth Taylor is so interesting. The way they documented Maryland. The way they document like Elizabeth are wildly different, whereas, like Eliza Taylor had a very dramatic and drama-filled life that was highly publicized and highly criticized, but when it came down to like raw talent and appreciation of it, I feel like Elizabeth Taylor, always got a better Rub that way, like Hollywood true, was a lot more respectful of her work, whereas Maryland was sort of like something people started to appreciate later on. Elizabeth was always considered like the top Echelon of like great actresses. That might also be the case because well, the public got to know her as a little girl and watched her grow up, because from last he come home. She did a bunch of movies and settled on one movie. That was like the one that kick-start her career in a whole new direction that grew Elizabeth Taylor up. It was National Velvet, the horse movie, she played a horse riding Champion velvet and it was a dangerous shoe like she fell off a horse and everything like she hurt herself, but she finished the shoot because it was so important to her that she'd do a more Mature role and to show that, like she's, not a little girl anymore, like she's growing up she's, been puberty like everything is changing. It worked like so many teen stars have followed suit in the same way when they have to grow their career. Up like this was a coming-of-age film for her and from there she went on to start doing even more daring roles in her 20s, like people were starting to see her as a woman, it wasn't until she did. The Life magazine shoot that famous one where she's like that, so beautiful, like the snacks just Swan, oh, and that, like tan gold, dress, beautiful, like it's always on the list of like the top most beautiful images ever taken and she's always been ranked in that because, Like she was a really beautiful woman, like people started to look at her in a different way when she entered her 20s. Her career definitely was taking a different kind of more scandalous Direction because she started doing Tennessee Williams like work. Tennessee Williams was like the hot playwright of that time. Like you think, like Quentin Tarantino was in the 90s, he sensationalized all the films, then Tennessee Williams did that but gayer and way more salaciously and with really really widdly written dialogue. Elizabeth Taylor was Taylor Made for Tennessee Williams. Her big breakout with him was Cat in a Hot Tin Roof where basically, they couldn't say it back then, but the subtext was, is that her husband was secretly gay and pining for a lover of his and she could not figure out why he won't go to Bed with her and like she's frustrated and just won't tell her, but that is the subtext, that's of the whole movie and a play as well the play it even more like you know out there and obvious, but in those days you can talk about that stuff. So it all had to be subtext, but never was she more beautiful, like especially in like all the artwork for her, where she's in, like the white like negligee and everything it's iconic and from there the rolls got a little more bizarre like she did another Tennessee Williams movie, which I highly recommend it's long. It is about 15 minutes too long, but it's worth it. It is called Suddenly Last Summer where Elizabeth Taylor plays a girl who's put in a sanitarium by her cousin's mother. Her cousin mysteriously dies on a vacation with her and she is traumatized and put in a sanitarium and you later find out that, like she's being kept there for a reason and the reason will blow your mind like it's all subtext. But it's really easy to pick on exactly what the twist is in it like the shocking twist. Definitely watch it because Elizabeth Taylor is like on fire, and this is directly after she had a really big tragedy happen in her life. Her best friend was Montgomery Clift and he had gotten into a car crash not far from her house. She heard his car crash and she saved his life like she pulled me from the car and everything and it was really traumatic and he was very, very hurt and had to have reconstructive surgery like he never looked the same again. It was such a wreck. Elizabeth Taylor, being that kind of person like she out of her way to save her friend and made sure to pick a point to cast him in this role as her psychiatrist and while filming it, the director was so tyrannical to him and so nasty. So much to the point that Catherine Hepburn, who was also starring in the film asked when it was her final shot. If she was done, if she's wrapped director told yeah you're right, she cough one back and spat right in the director's face, because the way he treated Montgomery, Clift like it, was that bad all right, I'm going to roll the rest of this off camera right now. All right we are back, the hair is all curled. I took the rollers down now it is time to start brushing through it so that we can cut it and then tease it. Elizabeth Taylor was becoming rebellious now, bear in mind. She was a child star and, like her parents were like staying age parents, they made sure she obeyed and she showed up. They wanted a career for this girl, but as she was entering her teens, she was starting to get a little upset because she was so cloistered that she never got to like experience. Anything normal teenagers got to do like Proms, and things like that, like she wasn't allowed to go out. It all came to a head when she went to Louis B mayor's office with her mother and her mother demanded that they start giving her better roles to which Louis B Mayer cost her mother out and Liza Taylor stood up to him and said you either apologize To my mother or I'll walk out on this contract, I will never make another movie again. I don't care she's like I want a life. I want to go to prongs I want to have like. I would love to just have a normal life and she walked out of the office and was sad to learn the next day. She did not get fired, she got better roles, but she learned that she had value and the studio couldn't just get rid of her because she was making them so much money. So she knew she could exploit that to her own Advantage, though, and as she entered her teens in her 20s, she dead, like she started to become a scandalous figure, as she was doing, these amazing roles and things are really coming to a head. She began to settle down a little bit like she married Mike Todd who, for all records, show was a very happy marriage like she adored him, and it wasn't until tragedy struck her yet again, where Mike Todd sadly died in a plane crash and Alyssa Taylor was Devastated and she found comfort in her friends, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher couples were inseparable and they were the best of friends like Eliza Taylor. Even had Debbie Reynolds wash her hair on her wedding day like they were that tight, like they were best of friends. Well, after Mike Todd's, plane crash Eddie Fisher flew to Elizabeth Taylor's side and, as Carrie Fisher said wonderfully in her one woman's show Wishful drinking. He then worked his way to her front. Yes, he had an affair with Elizabeth Taylor, after her husband had died, and this completely rocked their worlds. From here on out, Elizabeth Taylor became Elizabeth Taylor, the the homewrecker, and this was going to be such a hard reputation for her to shake and it took years and mind you. Debbie Reynolds was like America's sweetheart, like it was a scandal that was everywhere and exploited to the nth degree, so much so that, like Elizabeth Taylor was sort of being punished with the film roles that she was getting after this, like one of the major roles that She had gotten, and after then, was completely overshadowed because of the Scandal and, like she lost out a lot of Oscar votes because of it. Those who don't know Oscar votes are very important. Your peers vote on this and she had betrayed Hollywood by doing this to Debbie Reynolds, so she was not going to win. She needed to basically do a Penance walk for them. It was very grubs, so the next movie she would make would be the one she would eventually win her first Oscar for Butterfield. Eight Butterfield 8 is not a good movie. It'S just not it's boring it's long. It'S preachy and it's kind of gross, and you know the backstory of it. Eliza Taylor plays a call girl. She makes a lot of bad decisions, gets treated, really horribly and then dies a horrible death. You cannot in movies back then make what they thought were bad choices and go on to live like you had to be punished for it, so she made this movie and it exploited her in this way of portraying her as, like. You know this big awful floozy. It'S like a really gross Penance, walk that they made her take and she was nominated for an Academy Award for a movie. She absolutely hated so much so that, like, as she said, famously in interviews, there's a famous scene in Butterfield 8, where she writes on the mirror, with lipstick, no sale. Well, she walked the mirror of the theater after watching it and took out her lipstick and wrote piece of she hated this movie and it was so scathing to her. But it was a move she had to make in order to advance her career in a way where people were gon na stop talking about this also, what also helped her was the fact that she had fallen ill very, very, very ill and had to have an Operation where she nearly died, so one Scandal was replaced with everyone being worried that the greatest star of their generation at that time might pass away. So forgiveness was given. People were willing to move on from this, and also she made this movie where she basically put herself out there in a way that was very, very humiliating and she was rewarded for it. With an Academy Award from here, Elizabeth Taylor would enter the 1960s. The 1960s for Elizabeth Taylor were a wild time. Her relationship with Eddie Fisher was starting to fizzle. They eventually married and one thing would lead to another Elizabeth Taylor - would meet Richard Burton at a party and fall madly in love with him, and this became an era of Elizabeth Taylor's life. That is now the thing of Legend like these. Well, this was beyond the word tumultuous. It was just Scandal. One way after the other like Richard Burton, was much much older than Elizabeth Taylor, but he was a respected actor, but he was also a known Playboy and partier and Elizabeth Taylor at that point. In her life was also a known player and partier. So it was just an explosion. They were everywhere on the tabloids. They were fighting. They were breaking up they're cussing, each other out in public they're, loving each other in public they're, trying to buy they're trying to spend their enormous fortunes on anything. They could just burning through their money and would all come to a head with the movie Cleopatra, which is the bomb to end all bombs. Cleopatra is horrible, miscast loaded over budgeted and just terrible when you think about it like it was originally just supposed to be. Like a throwaway vehicle for Joan Collins, who was also incredibly miscast as Cleopatra, I digress this movie, the second Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were attached to it. The budget went through the roof, it skyrocketed. She went on to do the Edward Albee play who's, Afraid of Virginia Woolf. They bought the rights to it and the cast of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in this role as the fighting couple, which was what they were known as publicly at that time. Miss Cass mind you, because Eliza Taylor's Martha Elizabeth Taylor was about 20 years too young, and Richard Burton was about 15 years too old to play George. This was a departure for Elizabeth Taylor because it was, unlike anything, she had ever really done like. It was shocking to hear her talk the way she was talking and saying the words she was saying at that time, with movies the censorship in Hollywood code were in place and that kept people in line and what they could do and what they could say, who's Afraid of Virginia woof pushed to the point where they had to create a holy rating systems for movies. It essentially ended the code, but created a rating system, so that movies could have more freedom, but also more restrictions, if that makes any sense like they just found. A way to keep the same old restrictions, but you know, find a fun little way to code them now and if you watch who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf today, you'd be shocked by how tame it is compared to other things that we have seen now. One thing would lead to another and Alyssa Taylor, and Richard Burton would eventually go their separate ways after marrying divorcing getting married again, they finally called it quits for the final time as they entered the 70s Elizabeth Taylor had had enough and moved on. She would then go on to kind of disappear from Hollywood for a while, she went on and married a senator. She gained a bit of weight, which became like the joke of the town. This great Hollywood Beauty was in the eyes of the public, no longer beautiful, because she had gained weight, which is ridiculous, but this is like the rhetoric. People were running with everybody had Elizabeth Taylor, material Saturday Night Live was doing all sorts of parodies about her, like she was the Hot Topic to just take punches at, but she had the best response to it. Like Jung, Rivers who was famous for taking pot shots at Elizabeth Taylor, was confronted her at a party to say hello to her because she was a great admirer, even though she said horrible jokes about her and Alyssa Taylor. Just calmly said: look, it doesn't touch me where I live, but she's like I make far too much money to worry about what you are saying. She'S, like don't worry, it won't come to me because I'm not checking for it now. The 1980s were an odd time for Elizabeth Taylor's career. As far as movies goes, she wasn't making a whole lot of them like she was honestly becoming an industrious woman. In herself she had launched White Diamonds, the perfume which was a huge hit. It was so big, everyone knows: White Diamonds, the famous black and white commercial. These have always brought me luck. Yes, this perfume was everywhere. It was a monster hit. It was like one of the first times. Celebrities have really endorsed themselves in a way and like went into business for themselves to where she didn't really need to make movies anymore, like she was so wealthy. Now, Eliza Taylor was also a huge supporter of the gays during the 80s. She was one of the few honestly one of the only major celebrities in Hollywood that was speaking out HIV AIDS crisis and raising money and raising awareness when Ronald Reagan, the president, at that time, wasn't saying anything he acted like it didn't happen. He swept it under the rug. She was one of the few celebrities that used their platform to raise awareness, have benefits, donate to Charities, just spread the word the best you can, because all of her friends were gay. All of her staff was gay. Like John Waters has been to her house and said everyone that works there is gay. She surrounded herself with gay men, she loved them. They were like her children. So when something was happening that was taking away all of her friends, she knew she had to do something, especially when one of her best friends, Rock Hudson, had contracted it and suddenly died like she stopped at nothing. To raise awareness like I'm honestly, just touching like the tips of the iceberg of her career because honestly, like her career, is so far expanding and so bloated, like there's so much to talk about with her all right now, I'm gon na tease the rest of this I'Ll be right back and we will style and cut it all right. We are back and it's all teased up into a giant bird's nest. All I'm doing here is just brushing it and then finding the ends and trimming it and letting the hair do its own thing. Now, Alyssa Taylor started doing a lot of Television movies in the 1980s. Like again, she didn't need to do a lot of like films, because she had already made her money like she was independently wealthy from so many marriages. So many good business deals to the point where, like she was just kind of sitting, pretty and just being comfortable living her own life like she finally was just having her own thing. Scandals are kind of basically pastor at that point. She was just a celebrity, so she dedicated a lot of her time to charity work, especially in like a cassette with AIDS in the 90s. She really like parlayed her career into becoming this. You know basically torch Bearer for the AIDS crisis in the movement to make sure that, like people were aware, that's why I like girl, she's, like the patron saint for the gays like we love Elizabeth Taylor like she's, always up there. Now one of my favorite a little bit Taylor things I remember seeing her as a child because I didn't really know who she was. I didn't get really into her until I was much much older. I remember seeing her as a guest star on The Nanny, and that was like next level. My parents made a huge deal about it. They'Re like oh, my God. I can't believe they got Elizabeth Taylor to do this show and like she was taking pot shots at herself and, like was fully aware, like the joke of how long how many times she's been married, she's one of those actresses that is up there with like being Married the most times like when you see just so, I have an accurate assessment of how many times it's been hey, Siri. How many times has Elizabeth Taylor married here's an answer from vogue.com Elizabeth Taylor went a total of eight times twice to Richard Burton wow. That'S got to be some kind of record. You go girl all right, she's, gon na start needing some hairspray. It'S like this is the hairstyle I think of when I think of Elizabeth Taylor and again you can play around with the top of it. If you want to like give it a swirl or anything like that, like all the character depends on what genre you're trying to go for, if you want 80s, like, I said, just add a lot of hairspray and make it stringy we're nearing the end, I'm pretty Sure I can just style the rest of this off camera, because it's just a matter of smoothing, so we had the general shape of what we want. It'S just a matter of like crimping it and priming it and just trimming off Strays and just shaping it. The way we want, but we got like a little bang going in the front just the way we want it, and you still have enough hair showing to show off that great hairline, like it's great, such great, face framing hair. Now it's going to smooth it a little bit and I'll be right back with the final welcome back. This is the final result. Oh this style has always brought me back. Oh my gosh, I love Elizabeth Taylor. You understand, like I've, watched that little like made for TV movie on Elizabeth Taylor a thousand times. Okay, like I'm obsessed, I love her. I don't know what I I know. I do know what it is. It'S because she's such an icon that she cared so much about the gay community and she did so much for AIDS. Research like I adore her like she is a saint in the world of queerness. Okay, like Alyssa Taylor. Is that girl all right now, I'd like to take a moment of that moment where I think everyone who's tit me on venmo? I would like to thank Sergio and Patrick and Michelle. Thank you all so much for the tips on venmo. I really appreciate it. I hope you all enjoyed this iconic brunette. Yes, our very first episode. We have many many more coming and if there's an iconic brunette, you want to see, leave her name down below we'll also still be doing iconic blonde. 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