British-American actress Elizabeth Taylor once shared how she avenged an insult directed at her mother by a prominent producer. Recently, her social media team posted a throwback video on Instagram, where Taylor recounted her experience with Louis B. Mayer, who was notoriously rude to her mother.
In the video, she stated, “If they want you bad enough, you can get your way. When I was 15, I left Louis B. Mayer’s office in tears. He was being very rude to my mother. He was swearing at her, and she had just gone in to ask a very simple, innocent question about some film that I was supposed to be doing and whether I should take dancing lessons or not. And he started swearing and foaming at the mouth. And I said, don’t you dare speak to my mother that way.”
She went on to describe the confrontation: “And he kept on, and he said, I got you and your daughter out of the gutter, which was hardly the case. And I said, ‘You and your studio can both go to hell’. And I never went back into that room. And it taught me a kind of cynical lesson at a very early age. If they want you bad enough, you can get your way.”
Elizabeth Taylor was one of classic Hollywood’s most iconic stars. She began her acting career as a child with the film ‘National Velvet’ and gained fame in the 1950s through acclaimed films like ‘A Place in the Sun’ and ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.’ Taylor won two Academy Awards for Best Actress and was known for her enduring box-office appeal and immense contractual power during the studio era.