Shining Through Scandal: The Incredible Life Of Elizabeth Taylor

A New Generation In Hollywood Sparked A Decline In Taylor’s Career

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? may have been the climax of Elizabeth Taylor’s career, since her subsequent projects didn’t fare as well as she might have hoped. Additionally, the late ’60s introduced a new generation of movie stars, causing an aging and weight-gaining Taylor’s career to enter decline. Many of her projects from that point on were either flops or she was cast in minor roles but given top billing so that studios could use Taylor’s fame as a way to boost their films. Many of the films also still played off her personal life, but by then the public had grown tired of the phenomena known as “Liz and Dick.”