The right doctor at the right time!
First published: Saturday, October 22, 1999 - 04:05 pm
"AS I SAW 'EM"
by Gil Stratton
Judy Garland's doctor also had as a patient, Elizabeth Taylor's mother. The Doc raved so about Mrs. Taylor's beautiful daughter, that Judy invited them to visit our set at MGM while we were shooting "Girl Crazy". Elizabeth was about 10, and certainly about the most beautiful little girl most of us had ever seen.
About two weeks later I saw Elizabeth heading into the studio school house, she had been signed. "National Velvet", and you know the rest of the story.
One season of the Lux radio Theatre opened with a picture entitled, "Cynthia" starring Liz Taylor with George Murphy (later to be the US Senator) as her father, and Mary Astor as her mother. I played her boyfriend, and stood across the mike from this gorgeous 17 year old.
It was the end of summer and she had a great tan, bountifully displayed in an off the shoulder peasant blouse. Her flashing white teeth were topped only by her lavender colored eyes.....wow, she was a real movie star!