Are You Related or Connected to Dame Elizabeth: Taylor-21016? [closed]

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Hello WikiTreers!

Ambassadors project - Social Media will be showcasing different profiles from the different Hall of Fame categories for Musicians and Actors/Actresses, every Friday.

This week, from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Oscar Winner, and Humanitarian Dame Elizabeth Taylor.  She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s, and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s.

Tell us how you connect and what was your favorite movie of hers.

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Answer 1

This is a fun one!  I am 14°. 

I connect through her husband Eddie Fisher.... But through his wife, Debbie Reynolds. 

My favorite movie of hers is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Answer 2

19 degrees through her husband John Warner (and very distant cousins).

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Finally, a different connection through a different husband!! 

I was thinking that Warner would have been a more popular connection.

Answer 3

I am 20th cousins five times removed from her

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Aaron, if I am reading that correctly, you are one of the few that connect without going through a husband.

Answer 4

Liz and I are 14th cousins. I’m 9th cousins with Hubby #1, Nicky Hilton and 12C 3R with Hubby #7 (since Richard was #5 & 6), Sen. John Warner.

Favorite movie would probably be A Date With Judy because I am a big Jane Powell fan. Elizabeth was innocently seductive in it and absolutely beautiful.

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I have not seen that movie. I'm going to have to look it up.

Answer 5

The only one of her husbands I'm related to is Nicky Hilton: 14th cousins, 1x removed.

I think the only movie of hers I ever saw was probably not representative of her best work: "Taming of the Shrew."

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It's been a bit since I've seen that movie.  I am going to have to go watch it again.  Thanks for mentioning it!

Answer 6

Elizabeth Taylor and I are 12C1R.  Nicky Hilton and I are 8C1R.

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I am seeing a trend through the Hiltons with my fellow Appalachians.  Interesting.

Answer 7

After double checking to make sure we weren't married at one pointe, turns out 6c5

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Ooh, you might be the closest. Most of us are connected through a husband or three.  

Answer 8

We are 11th Cousins, once removed. I named my dog after her. Liz (the bulldog) was born a month after Elizabeth Taylor died. Liz (the bulldog) had the most beautiful eyes and since Elizabeth Taylor was known for hers, we chose to name our dog, Princess Elizabeth Rosemond (Taylor's middle name).

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I love that story!

Answer 9

Elizabeth Taylor and I are 13C1R through Alice (Kingsmill) Bullock. Her husband Nicky Hilton and I are 15C through Alice’s mother, Jane (Gifford) Kingsmill. Her husband John Warner and I are 17C. My favorite movie? Probably National Velvet.

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Great choice of movie... especially since this is a Horse type of weekend with the Kentucky Derby!

Answer 10

21 degrees apart which includes 4 marriages

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Four Marriages??   Now, you have me curious.  Which one do you closest connect?

Answer 11

i am 20 degrees from her through her husband Nicky hilton

Answer 12

26 degrees through her mother.

Answer 13

Elizabeth Taylor is my 17th cousin!

My wife, Cindy, is also my 17th, cousin!

I glad I picked my wife, as it will be our 50th wedding anniversary March 2, 2024.  

Elizabeth had 8 husbands!   Just saying!

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But what is your favorite movie of Liz's???? 

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My wife checked and she is an 8th cousin to Liz!

Answer 14

Ninth cousin 2R. So close to fame and fortune!

Answer 15

She is my 11th cousin five times removed (maternal side), with 18 degrees of connection.

Answer 16

We are 12th cousins through Henry Baldwin of Buckinghamshire!

I have admired her AIDS work immensely and it is still being carried on by her grandson. 

It's very difficult for me to pick just ONE film of hers. If I had to select, it would be A Place in the Sun, or Butterfield 8 or Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (wowza what a performance). Most will remember her for National Velvet.

I wish my mum was still alive. She would be so excited to know that Elizabeth Taylor is related through the Baldwins. Taylor was a favorite, but Tyrone Power was mum's all time favorite!

And as a side note:

Hilton is a 17th cousin 2xr and

Warner is a 20th cousin 1xr

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That is pretty cool!

A Place in the Sun is a great one too.  I keep forgetting about her uncredited appearance in Wuthering Heights.

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Hi Sandy, 

Thank you for reminding me of the uncredited Wuthering Heights. There are a lot of terrific movies, though, that she is credited for. She was a beautiful and caring woman, which showed in her support of Montgomery Clift and Rock Hudson in their personal lives. She never turned her back on them as others would have (and did). I think that spurred her to her AIDS work.