Elizabeth Taylor - Michael Wilding - by Richard Bassett

[lilplinky]

yes he does

[caldinay]

Anybody also feels that Micheal looks like Alan Cumming('Eli Gold' in 'The Good Wife') a lot except Alan's thin?

[lissalives]

So sweet! What a gorgeous woman.

[msesisters3]

Yes, he looks much more like a father than a husband match for Liz. Really what was she thinking.???? I would asume she was a bit naive. but none the less gorgoues. totally beautiful in her twentys and then again on in her thirties with Richard....happy and beauty. thanks Richard

[DominoPetachi83]

@msesisters3 I know! He was 20 years older than her and MORE THAN TWICE HER AGE when they married! She was only 19, he was 39, and he had just divorced his wife of fifteen years to marry her. This marriage was Elizabeth's biggest mistake. Totally different levels of maturity.

[gladys8it]

Bravo, another wonderful tribute to Elizabeth.

[love70000]

I like this very much.

[astaire10]

They were a radiant couple. Im sorry It didnt work..

[Zva26]

This is only my opinion, but I think that Elizabeth Taylor was absolutely at the peak of her beauty during her marriage to Michael Wilding. The flamboyance, blinding glamour, outrageously "femme fatale" dresses, etc, were nowhere in evidence at this time. She was merely a blindingly gorgeous girl in her early and middle 20's. This is the Liz I loved the most. I still love her, but the Liz in the Wilding days was truly like a gorgeous cameo. How gorgeous she was then!

[SuperOldiesguy]

@Zva26 You are not the only one. I totally agree with you, yes, she was absolutely gorgeous in that period. Of course she had always been gorgeous her whole life but during that "Wilding Period" she peaked. I also came across a website who opined that Elizabeth looked matronly too soon, she was ravishing in her early 20s (it doesn't mention the Wilding Period but early 20s also means the same). Look at her in late 50s and early 60s, still beautiful yet....

[Zva26]

@SuperOldiesguy - Elizabeth Taylor was positively drop-dead gorgeous during the Wilding days. But by the time she married Mike Todd, something changed. She became bolder, wore much more flamboyant. She began to wear tremendously low-cut gowns, fabulous jewelry, and there were times when she was definitely "over the top". She remained gorgeous, but in a flamboyant and not always classy way. Then she regained her beauty for a brief time in the 1980's and 1990's when she lost all the weight.

[Zva26]

@SuperOldiesguy - Look at Liz in The Last Time I saw Paris" and "Giant", and compare her to "Butterfield 8" just four and five years earlier. The change is marked. She had an angelic quality and a fragility that she completely lost ---- and this was long before "Virginia Woolf". She got a trace of it back in the 1980's and early 1990', when she slimmed, streaked her hair, and became super-gorgeous once again. By 1995, this was also gone. Her weight returned, her illnesses increased, etc.

[SugarKatie]

@SuperOldiesguy michael wilding was surely one lucky guy! I think Liz looked the best in her early 20s too. I didn't find her matronly looks attractive until recently.

[journeyquest1]

What an unlikely couple. Looked more like father and daughter.

[love70000]

this husband I did not know much about. I think he was a actor, I became interested in her when she was married to mike todd and richard Burtom. They were fantastic relationshios. always wanted one like that. smile. I think she is a fantastic lady. I think Eddie Fisher was a desert. or something. I remember he was also married to Debbie Reynolds. He was like a kid.

[fradbg]

could you tell me the what is the violin concert that we heard?

[richardbassett1956]

Not sure...I will try to investigate it for you

[fradbg]

Thank you Richard, however I managed to find it.

It is the Tchaikovsky - violin concerto - Canzonetta, I love it

[john16ist]

@fradbg to jest "Legenda" Henryka Wieniawskiego.

[nickiwilding]

thanks you for the video , i am in tears as i have only ever seen him in pictures my grandma had of when they were together , but i see so much of my father in this video it isn't funny

[nickiwilding]

micheal wilding is my grandfather , elizabeth taylor never new about my dad as it was before her and he wanted nothing to do with my dad when he was born , he was quoted as saying one day he passed my dad in a radio station and he was taken aback as it was the first time he ever saw him and my dad was 29 and micheal said he just looked in the mirror 20 yrs ago when he saw my dad , yet he never said hello .

[richardbassett1956]

What an amazing fact to discover about yourself. Christopher and Michael must be your fathers half brother. How interesting, so sorry for the estrangement. Please keep in touch as I will post more Michael Wilding photos if I come across them.

Sincerely,

Richard Bassett

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@nickiwilding

yeah, just a great man.

[perlesgirl]

My aunt just died aged 100. She lived in Brighton and bought the green table that belonged to Michael Wilding when he was married to Susan Nell, after his divorce from Elizabeth Taylor. It is circular, beautiful and we are selling it, probably on ebay. Anyone interested? it was definitely the Wilding's table and there is a coffee table too that belonged to them.

[Angela8395]

Great Video

[digidestined1993]

micheal and christopher are my cousins micheal seniour is the brother of my great granddad

[richardbassett1956]

I bet that you would love a family reunion!

[digidestined1993]

i would except uncle micheal is dead

[richardbassett1956]

The boys are alive, of course. They are in their 50's. Michael Wilding Sr. died in July 1979.

[digidestined1993]

your not going to believe this but michael wilding is my great great uncle.

[richardbassett1956]

I totally believe that. I have heard from other relatives of Elizabeth Taylor's husbands. You must be related to her sons, Michael and Christopher! Keep watching!! Keep in touch!