Elizabeth Taylor's affair with this co-star "ruined her career"

This triangle in love with list A is one of the most infamous Hollywood stories of all time.


Going on the best man from your friends's wedding to marry the bride yourself is a way of riding a few feathers, especially if all the people involved are super famous. This is exactly what happened in the late 1950s whenElizabeth Taylor I went with SingerEddie Fisher. Taylor had recently lost his third husband, producerMike ToddAnd Fisher was married to the actorDebbie Reynolds.

The couples were close socially; The friendship of Taylor and Reynolds even goes back to their return from adolescents. But after Todd's death, their relations changed. And while the careers of Reynolds and Taylor have continued well, the same cannot be said for Fisher. Read the rest to find out how the case led to important benefits.

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Taylor, Todd, Reynolds and Fisher were all friends.

Elizabeth Taylor and Mike Todd's wedding in 1957
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The friendship of Reynolds and Taylor started when they were both young actors working for MGM. "My mother was the best friend with Elizabeth Taylor,"Son of Reynolds,Todd Fisher, said to Yahoo! in 2018. "Some people do not know it. They went to school together on MGM backlot withRody McDowall andMargaret O'Brien And they were all the best friends. ""

Reynolds and Fisher were married in 1955 and welcomed two children together, Todd andCarrie Fisher. Their son bears the name of their common friend, Mike Todd.

In 1957, Taylor and Mike Todd married. Fisher was the best woman in marriage, and Reynolds was the matron of honor. The couple had a daughter together,Liza Todd.

After Todd's death, Fisher approached Taylor.

Mike Todd, Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher, and Debbie Reynolds at the Derby at Epsom in 1957
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Todd died in a plane crash in 1958. Fisher tried to comfort Taylor after the loss of her husband, who turned into a case.

"Mike Todd, unfortunately, had a terrible plane crash", "Reynolds said NPR in 2013. "And then when Mike died, she left with Eddie. So my husband consoled her - very well, I'm sure."AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Todd Fisher wrote on this subject in his book,My daughters: a life with Carrie and Debbie. "The world was amazed," he wrote (via theMirror). "Eddie and Elizabeth have been vilified. Eddie was declared loser of Philander and opportunist, and Elizabeth was qualified as bad girl, editorial staff [Expaletive]. Debbie, the good girl, the innocent victim and without distrust MOM, MOME, MOME , was embraced on a global scale, was embraced on a global scale, was embraced on a global scale. With love and sympathy. "

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The case had a negative impact on Fisher's career.

Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher, and Debbie Reynolds in Las Vegas circa 1958
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Todd Fisher said to Yahoo! that the case had a major effect on his father's professional life.

"There was indignation. My father had contracts as contracts for moral clauses," he said. "It has literally ruined his career. I mean, it just wiped it. Liz is somehow a kind of better, in a way unscathed."

Fisher was both a singer and an actor who, at some point, has his television program. He appeared in his latest film,Butterfield 8, alongside Taylor in 1960. He continued to be opened onhis difficulties with drug addiction, who also touched his career.

"It was not my intention that my romantic life eclipses other aspects," Fisher told the Associated Press in 1991. "I know this is the case."

The romance of Fisher and Taylor did not last long.

Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor circa 1959
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Taylor and Fisher were married for five years, but their relationship began to collapse two years. In 1961, Taylor began to filmCleopatra withRichard Burton, and they started a very publicized affair which turned into a long relationship. After Fisher and Taylor finally divorced in 1964, Taylor married Burton.

Reynolds later revealed that she had never thought that Fisher and Taylor would be forever.

"It's just that he is not a strong enough personality for Elizabeth, who preferred his men to be - well, Richard Burton. He was quite magnificent," Reynolds told NPR. "I warned Eddie that she would jump it in a year and a half. And that's exactly what happened, which gave me at least a little comfort."

Reynolds and Taylor have reconciled and remained friends.

Elizabeth Taylor, Mike Todd, and Debbie Reynolds at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Awards Dinner in 1957
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Taylor and Reynolds - who remarried more than once - have been able to put the past behind them.

"We decided that, being brilliant girls, we survived the problems that existed," said Reynolds in the NPR interview. "And we sent ourselves a saying note, let's move on to our lives, and let's go on the happy side. And then at the end of his life [Taylor died in 2011], we were together. I mean, together is not average everyday lunch. You know, I'm not a lunch girl, and Nor is Elizabeth. But as far as friends are concerned, we were. "

Reynolds, who died in 2016, also said People (via the Mirror ), "I have never felt bitter about Elizabeth. A man does not leave a woman for another woman unless he wants to go. You know, when Mike Todd is dead, I sent Eddie to help Elizabeth. I don't think she really really loved Eddie. He was an interim interest during her mourning period. "


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