{"id":114158,"date":"2016-02-24T13:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T11:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/114158\/oscars-on-sunday-liz-taylors-bday-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2016-02-24T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T11:22:44","slug":"oscars-on-sunday-liz-taylors-bday-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/02\/24\/oscars-on-sunday-liz-taylors-bday-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars on Sunday, Liz Taylor&#8217;s Bday on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1961 Elizabeth Taylor wearing Christian Dior received her first Best Actress Oscar for <em>Butterfield 8<\/em>. It was her fourth consecutive best actress nomination.\u00a0She attended the Oscars with her fourth husband, Eddie Fisher. She fainted back stage during the ceremony that took place six weeks after an emergency tracheotomy while filming\u00a0<em>Cleopatra<\/em>. She left Fischer (previously married to Debbie Reynolds and father of Carrie Fischer who played Princes Leia in <em>Star Wars<\/em>) for her <em>Cleopatra<\/em>\u00a0co-star Richard Burton who she married twice.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elizabeth Taylor winning Best Actress for &quot;Butterfield 8&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nSaSkMp7-X8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>She had previously been nominated for\u00a0<i>Raintree County<\/i> (1957)\u00a0<em>Cat On A Hot Tin Roof<\/em>\u00a0(with the delicious Paul Newman) and for\u00a0<em>Suddenly Last Summer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/yZSEz455620' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>In 1967 she won an Academy Award for <em>Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf<\/em> with Richard Burton.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mTNKofYl44o' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"_Tgc\">A furious kind of love<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"_Tgc\">She married eight times<b>,\u00a0<\/b>but only her relationship with Richard Burton truly defined her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/3DdE5sQ4N9k' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='927f1c2f59b2d35867722d8488904f09'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of retro Oscar gossip about Dame Elizabeth Taylor&#8230; 4 consecutive best actress Oscar nominations, 2 acting Oscars, 8 marriages and 7 husbands&#8230;   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":114159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[9986,9987,9951,9988,9989,9990],"class_list":["post-114158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-butterfield-8","tag-elizabeth-taylor","tag-oscars","tag-richard-burton","tag-two-oscars","tag-whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["Butterfield 8","Elizabeth Taylor","Oscars","Richard Burton","two Oscars","Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}