Marilyn Monroe, Carroll “Baby Doll” Baker, Carolyn “Morticia” Jones, Norma Shearer, May Britt, Eleanor Parker, Polly Bergen and, of course, Elizabeth Taylor. Just when one thought that Taylor and Richard Burton couldn’t be be any more gorgeous a couple, Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger’s Furious Love, which chronicles their stormy union, carried a description of a quarrel they had over who was “more Jewish”.
But she was a devoted friend of Israel her whole life, raising money for the Jewish National Fund and even offering herself as a replacement hostage during the 1976 Entebbe skyjacking.
