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she said she would do it for a million dollars. she was the first million dollar actress, and this was i think 1962, so she did it and i didn t get the part but about a year later i m lying in bed, my agent jay kantor called me and said stand by to get on the next plain to london. i said, why what s happened. he said elizabeth is very, very sick, they think she s going to die. she s in the hospital in london and they want you to take over as cleopatra. i said, i i can t do that. she s a friend of mine. i would feel absolutely dreadful to do that if she s going to die that i m going to go over and take her role as cleopatra. he said, listen, this is showbiz, kid, wait by the phone, do not move. of course, there s no cell phones, i sat by the phone all day biting my nails and hoping that she would get better and, of course, she did get better as we all know and i didn t get cleopatra. but she got richard burton whic
to tease, they didn t bring out the big guns for my tests, and anyway, it got to the point where they were building the sets and it became very, very expensive and they decided that they didn t want little old me because i wasn t a big enough star so they would go for, you know, the top female of the time, female actress of the time and that was elizabeth and they went to her and they offered a million dollars no, they didn t offer her a million dollars. she said she would do it for a million dollars. she was the first million dollar actress, and this was i think 1962, so she did it and i didn t get the part but about a year later i m lying in bed, my agent jay kantor called me and said stand by to get on the next plain to london. i said, why what s happened. he said elizabeth is very, very sick, they think she s going to die. she s in the hospital in london and they want you to take over as cleopatra. i said, i i can t do that. she s a friend of mine.
i ve been very lucky in my life. elizabeth taylor s celebrity friends remember the queen of hollywood and i ll talk to some of the people who really did know her best. my life has been like a yo-yo. i ve been up and down so many times. her 60-year career two oscars first for her role as a party girl in butterfield eight. this is one call i want to take personally and immediately. and her extraordinary life offscreen, who else could make worldwide headlines with an affair on the set of the movie cleopatra. remembering elizabeth taylor, this is a special edition of piers morgan tonight. good evening. tonight hollywood and the world are remembering a woman who defined screen glamour for several generations dame elizabeth taylor. for the next hour i ll talk to her friends and family, the people who knew the private elizabeth, the woman behind the legend. we begin with carole bayer sager, the oscar winning songwriter of classics like that s what friends are for a
offscreen, who else could make worldwide headlines with an affair on the set of the movie cleopatra. remembering elizabeth taylor, this is a special edition of piers morgan tonight. good evening. tonight hollywood and the world are remembering a woman who defined screen glamour for several generations dame elizabeth taylor. for the next hour i ll talk to her friends and family, the people who knew the private elizabeth, the woman behind the legend. we begin with carole bayer sager, the oscar winning songwriter of classics like that s what friends are for a close friend of elizabeth s for many years and was at her bedside when she passed away today. carole, what were your feelings when dame elizabeth finally died. been ill for a long time. i guess it was a bittersweet moment, relief that she was no longer in pain. yes, i went there last night to say good-bye and i knew she was going and i hated that she d been in hospital for seven weeks, but she wasn t in pain last ni