Elizabeth Taylor Wore Her Tiara A Lot in 1957

Elizabeth Taylor

The star dressed like Hollywood royalty at a Globes event, the Oscars and in Cannes

by Marion Fasel

Throughout the midst of the 2019 Golden Globes, jewelry designer Brent Neale tagged me in an Instagram Story of Elizabeth Taylor carrying her classic diamond tiara and requested if the star wore the jewel on the award current once more throughout the day. She didn’t placed on it to the ceremony nevertheless she did placed on it to a celebration on the Coconut Grove the day sooner than the February 28, 1957 event. She moreover wore the glamorous headgear on March 27, 1957 on the Oscars. Numerous months later, Taylor positioned on the tiara a third time on the Cannes Pageant.

Whereas some may bemoan that stars solely flip up in borrowed jewels as we converse, I ponder how the similar individuals would actually really feel if a star positioned on the similar jewel to nearly every fundamental purple carpet of 1 season. Clearly, Elizabeth Taylor did not care what most people thought. She beloved carrying her jewel. The extravagant piece was a gift from her third husband producer Mike Todd who was on the rounds of the awards reveals and Film Pageant for his epic movie, Throughout the World in 80 Days.

Elizabeth Taylor Wore Her Tiara A Lot in 1957

Mike Todd holding his Oscar whereas he walks with Elizabeth Taylor who’s carrying her classic tiara. Image Rex

In her information, My Love Affair With JewelryTaylor acknowledged “When Mike gave me this tiara, he acknowledged, ‘You’re my queen, and I consider it’s best to have a tiara.’” The tiara carrying of the Nineteen Fifties was impressed by the marriage of Queen Elizabeth II of England in 1947 and her subsequent coronation in 1953. After the huge royal events, the tiara remained a most well-liked mannequin for Individuals to placed on at galas. Silver show display star Gloria Swanson wore a tiara to the New York Knickerbocker Ball of 1950 and Paulette Goddard borrowed a tiara from Van Cleef & Arpels for the 1951 New York Art work Faculty college students League Diamond Jubilee.

Elizabeth Taylor's antique diamond tiara. Photo Christie's

Elizabeth Taylor’s classic diamond tiara. Image Christie’s

The entire tiara carrying of the interval by Individuals was type of parodied throughout the 1953 film Gents Want Blondes. Marilyn Monroe ponders a socialite’s tiara and wonders straightforward strategies to place the entire circlet around her neck. When she is corrected she gushes, “I merely love discovering new places to placed on diamonds.”

Mike Todd delivered a little bit little bit of his private signature wit and ironic humor when the infamous gossip columnist Hedda Hopper requested him in regards to the jewel throughout the press room after he acquired the Biggest Picture Oscar for his film Throughout the World in 80 Days. He regarded Hopper throughout the eye and acknowledged merely, “Doesn’t every woman have one?”

Mike Todd with Elizabeth Taylor wearing her tiara at a Golden Globe Awards ceremony at the Coconut Grove nightclub in Hollywood. The star also has on her chandelier earrings, heart shape diamond necklace and 29.5-carat engagement ring. Photo Getty

Mike Todd with Elizabeth Taylor carrying her tiara at a Golden Globes event on the Coconut Grove nightclub in Hollywood. The star moreover has on her chandelier earrings, heart-shape diamond necklace and 29.5-carat engagement ring. Image Getty

Taylor positioned on the tiara as soon as extra for a exhibiting of Throughout the World in 80 Days on the Cannes Film Pageant in May 1958. The jewel highlighted a golden season for her with Mike Todd who died in a crash of his private airplane—”The Lucky Liz”—on March 22, 1958 as he was flying to New York to easily settle for the Friar’s Membership award for showman of the yr. When Taylor obtained the knowledge, she was two weeks into the shoot of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Scorching Tin Roof. Although she was grief stricken, the star managed to indicate in an Academy Award-nominated effectivity.

Regardless that Taylor did not placed on the tiara as often as plenty of her totally different essential jewels, the piece nonetheless grew to turn out to be iconic. For one trigger, it’s a tiara and that is always consideration grabbing. The jewel’s fame could be linked to the reality that Taylor wore it on such high-profile occasions. When the piece appeared at Christie’s in 2011 with Taylor’s property the formal description acknowledged, “Designed as 9 outdated mine-cut diamond scrolls with greater outdated mine-cut diamond terminals, spaced by outdated mine-cut diamond latticework motifs, mounted in platinum and gold, circa 1880, 9 5/8 ins. circumference.” The jewel’s extreme estimate was $80,000. It supplied for $4,226,500. The shopper has chosen to remain private.