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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: fine. First edition. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, Hardcover. 389 pp. with bibliography, index, Illustrated with photos. Violet-eyed Elizabeth taylor and classically handsome Montgomery Clift were the gorgeous screen couple of their time; over the two decades of their friendship, togehter they made some of the era's most defining films including Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, The Misfits, Suddenly Last Summer, and Cleopatra. At age seveteen, Elizabeth was first cast opposite Clift in "A Place In The Sun"; he was an established star but she was still being treated by directors like a glamorous prop. But Monty took her seriously, inspiring and encouraging her. They began a long, intimate friendship that, due to Monty's hidden homosexuality, never became a physical one. After his near fatal car crash (Elizabeth crawled into the wreck and saved him form choking to death on his own teeth) and facial disfigurement, he sank into alcoholism and addiction and Elizabteh used her influence to keep him working.…