Elizabeth Taylor: The Screen Greats By Tom Hutchinson
Elizabeth Taylor: The Screen Greats
A Vivid, Illustrated Retrospective Mapping Four Decades of Cinematic Royalty and Glamour
A Vivid, Illustrated Retrospective Mapping Four Decades of Cinematic Royalty and Glamour
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Elizabeth Taylor: The Screen Greats
- Author: Tom Hutchinson
- Publisher: Optimum Books, London
- Publication Date: 1982
- ISBN-10: 0600377857
- ISBN-13: 9780600377856
- Edition Details: First Edition, Standard Hardcover Release.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium illustrated laminated boards with sharp title formatting running down the spine.
- Physical Format: Large Format Quarto (4to). Lavishly printed on high-grade heavyweight gloss paper tailored for premium photography. Featuring dozens of rare full-colour studio portraits, behind-the-scenes movie stills, and a detailed chronological filmography.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: The original publisher's illustrated glossy boards are in excellent condition. The panels remain flat, true, and vibrant, displaying only very slight, microscopic signs of storage shelf friction along the extremities. The spine is completely straight, perfect, and unbroken.
- Interior: The internal text block is beautifully secure, tight, and robustly bound. Pages are clean, crisp, flat, and fully intact. The extensive colour and monochrome photographic prints remain remarkably bright and vivid. The interior is completely free of text highlighting, previous owner signatures, institutional stamps, or dealer pencil margins.
- Preservation: This volume has been exceptionally well maintained and looked after thus far, fully protected within an archival-grade, clear, removable Cellophane cover to shield the gloss panels from surface scratching.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued for this pictorial hardcover release)
Synopsis & Historical Value
Elizabeth Taylor: The Screen Greats is a beautifully produced visual archive and critical retrospective celebrating the extraordinary career of Hollywood’s ultimate screen goddess. Published in 1982, this work marks the milestone of Taylor remaining at the absolute pinnacle of global celebrity and cinematic royalty for close on forty years.
Acclaimed film critic Tom Hutchinson guides the reader through Taylor's peerless trajectory. He tracks her beginnings as a captivating child actress—jerking tears as the tragic, dying schoolfriend of Jane Eyre in 1944 and captivating the world in National Velvet—through to her transition into an adult icon of unmatched dramatic power in classics such as A Place in the Sun, Cleopatra, and her Academy Award-winning performances. Hutchinson provides sharp, professional insight into her magnetic screen presence and the technical mastery of her craft that allows her to continue moving cinema and theatre audiences in the 1980s. Packed with visually striking imagery, this first edition is an essential addition for serious collectors of Golden Age Hollywood memorabilia and vintage film histories.
Author Profile: Tom Hutchinson
Tom Hutchinson was a highly respected British film critic, author, and entertainment journalist whose sophisticated analyses defined the arts pages of several national publications for decades. Renowned for his deep, encyclopedic knowledge of cinema history and his engaging, accessible writing style, Hutchinson authored numerous definitive books on the performing arts, genre films, and legendary Hollywood actors. His ability to blend rigorous critical evaluation with an empathetic appreciation for the human element behind the studio system made his monographs a staple within collectors' film libraries worldwide.
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