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Elizabeth Taylor flirts for LIFE photographer Gjon Mili. Over her career Taylor starred in four movies based on Tennessee Williams’ plays. “She’s a very dear person,” Williams said of her during a 1981 interview. “She’s the opposite of her public image. She’s not a bitch, even though her life has been a very hell. Thirty-one operations, I believe. Pain and pain. She’s so delicate, fragile really.”