Extra Credit Questions

[David Lockmiller]

I do not recall the story exactly as it was a few years and brews ago.

But, Professor Carwardine had a small part in some production of Taylor's. The crew had the day off, and the young actor felt honored to be invited to a party that Taylor and the other big-name actors were attending. The party was on a rooftop with a pool. They spent most of the day out there. The Professor received a terrible sunburn. What was cool and amazing was that Elizabeth Taylor took the time and called to check in on him the next day. The good professor never forgot her act of kindness and sympathy towards him.

I have long remembered the basics of the following story from many, many years ago and I was very impressed by what she had done:

On the evening of May 12, 1956, while filming Raintree County, [Montgomery] Clift was involved in a serious car crash after leaving a dinner party in Beverly Hills, California, hosted by Elizabeth Taylor and her husband, Michael Wilding.[49] Clift had veered off one of the twisting hairpin turns and smashed into a telephone pole and the surrounding cliffside. Alerted by friend Kevin McCarthy, who witnessed the collision, Taylor found Clift under the shattered dashboard, conscious but with his face bleeding and swelling rapidly.[50] She pulled out a hanging tooth that was cutting into his tongue before accompanying him into the ambulance. [51]

[51] Taylor, Elizabeth (1967). Elizabeth Taylor: An Informal Memoir. New York, N.Y.: Avon Books. p. 72.