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Ancestors
edit- Will Johnson. "Elizabeth Taylor". countyhistorian.com.
- Will Johnson. "Ancestry of Elizabeth Taylor, actress". countyhistorian.com.
- Will Johnson. "Biography of Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011), actress". countyhistorian.com.
- Will Johnson. "Biography of Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011), actress (Page 2)". countyhistorian.com.
- Will Johnson. "Biography of Elizabeth Taylor, actress (Page 3)". countyhistorian.com.
- Will Johnson. "Biography of Elizabeth Taylor, actress (Page 4)". countyhistorian.com.
- Will Johnson. "Howard Young (1878-1972), a biography". countyhistorian.com.
- Will Johnson. "Early life of Sara Sothern, mother of Elizabeth Taylor". countyhistorian.com.
- Will Johnson. "Pages at Countyhistorian.com Sorted by Popularity". countyhistorian.com.
- Google Search:
- site:rosamondpress.com "Elizabeth Taylor"
Long lead
editThis lead for this article is really long, longer than those of most other film stars and should probably be reduced by between 5 and 10 lines. User:Informed analysis (talk | contribs) 18:02, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
Sterilized / Hysterectomy
editShould her entry mention that her husband, Mike Todd, had her sterilized?
The IMDb entry of her daughter, Liza Todd, mentions this:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123654/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
As does an Express UK article (spelled sterilised):
https://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/237051/How-Elizabeth-Taylor-lived-life-to-the-full
The above article also states that her sterilization led her to adopt her fourth child, Maria.
Neither article mentions if she was given any say in the matter, and husbands back then could unilaterally decide things like this, so she may have been unwillingly sterilized.
It may also be worth noting that hysterectomies have been linked to higher rates of heart disease, which was the cause of Liz Taylor's death, and also back pain (which afflicted Liz Taylor):
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/hysterectomy-linked-to-increase-in-heart-disease
https://www.hersfoundation.org/2011/03/elizabeth-taylor-was-also-one-in-three-women/ (note that this is a third source mentioning her sterilization)
This page states that her hysterectomy was a decade after Liza Todd's birth -- well after Mike Todd was dead, and also after the adoption of her fourth child, Maria -- but she may have been sterilized first by some method other than hysterectomy at the direction of Mike Todd, then received the hysterectomy a decade later:
https://www.khou.com/article/entertainment/elizabeth-taylor-spent-a-life-in-and-out-of-hospitals/285-320708562 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A601:ACA4:1100:D98F:94DB:6FFD:909 (talk) 05:50, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
- Point of order: The Express article does not say husband Mike Todd "had her sterilized". It says "Taylor had been sterilised by 1964 after Liza’s difficult birth..." your description strongly implies a lack of agency, and coersion.
- Your comment includes a lot of speculation. You wrote she may have been forced. Well, speculation, on the part of RS, can merit a place in articles. But would have to be properly attributed to the RS doing the speculation. Neither my speculation or your speculation belongs in article space.
- Coverage of this requires compliance with WP:UNDUE. If RS hardly touch it, it probably merits very little coverage. Geo Swan (talk) 20:39, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Casa Kimberly
editShould Casa Kimberly be linked or mentioned anywhere in the article? ---Another Believer (Talk) 17:27, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Hypertrichosis
editThis might have come up before, but is there a reason why Taylor's reported hypertrichosis hasn't been mentioned in the section about her early life? - Jack Sebastian (talk) 04:17, 11 May 2023 (UTC)