How She Broke the Rules

8:26 PM PDT 3/29/2011 by M.G. Lord

Powerful, sexual and quietly rebellious, Elizabeth Taylor in her roles helped tear down the Production Code — Hollywood standards that barred everything from ‘offensive’ language to interracial love.

On June 10, 1966, Life magazine did one of its many cover stories on Elizabeth Taylor. Far from her usual smoldering beauty, she looked puffy, haggard, decades older than her 34 years. “Liz in a Shocker,” the headline proclaimed. “Her movie shatters the rules of censorship.”