...Through the “Golden Age of Radio” years (click title to entry - thank you) Lux hopped around from NBC’s Blue Network to CBS and back to NBC from the 1930s through the 1950s. The 15 year old Taylor worked with George Murphy and Mary Astor in a Lux production of “Cynthia” in June of 1947. And she performed with Lon McAllison and Walter Brennan in the Screen Guild’s 1946 rendition of “Her First Beau.”
By then Taylor was already in the movies, appearing with her lifelong friend Roddy McDowall in Lassie Come Home (1943) and The White Cliffs of Dover (1944). But it wasn’t until her performance in National Velvet that her screen career really took off. Still, the young Elizabeth Taylor had time for great radio work....
All to often we have heard the failures of child stars. Elizabeth Taylor not only was successful, she was a woman of her own making and the first in many venues of life. She attracted incredible people around her while never wavering in her friendship and loyalty.She was one of a kind, but, her upbringing must have been interesting and her parents devoted to decency and clear thinking.
Elizabeth Taylor at the age of ten years old. The look of innocence never left her even in some of her most adult roles.
Bye, Liz.
