00:00Elizabeth Taylor is remembered as one of Hollywood's greatest stars, but her ancestry often surprises people.
00:06She was born in London in 1932, not America, to two American parents living abroad.
00:12Her father, Frances Len Taylor, was an art dealer from Arkansas, and her mother, Sarah Southern, was a stage actress
00:19from Missouri.
00:20Both came from families rooted in the United States for generations, with English and European ancestry common among early American
00:27settlers.
00:28When World War II began, the Taylors returned to the United States, where Elizabeth's extraordinary violet eyes and striking presence
00:35soon caught Hollywood's attention.
00:37While she later converted to Judaism as an adult, her family background itself was not Jewish.
00:43The story of her ancestry reveals something unexpected.
00:46One of Hollywood's most iconic American actresses actually began life as a British-born child of American expatriates.
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