Image Credit: Fox; Jim Smeal/WireImage.com While Elizabeth Taylor made her greatest impact on the big screen, she entertained on the small screen as well. In a 1992 episode of 
“There was nobody more famous or glamorous. Usually for the records, the room was almost empty — we’d have the cast and then a couple writers. That day, the recording stage was completely filled. She came in, she had a little dog, and she wore her ring, which was huge. It cost more than my house. We had her do the one line where she said ‘Daddy’ as Maggie. I’m looking at the ‘Most Beautiful Woman in the World,’ trying to think, ‘What does that sound like coming out of a cute little baby?’ I asked her for a lot of takes because it’s very hard to know what you want on one word, but she was really funny about it. After I said, ‘Okay, we got it!’ she said ‘F— you!’ in the Maggie voice. She was kidding. Everybody laughed. She lived up to everything you would expect Elizabeth Taylor to be. She was very smart and funny. We figured if we were getting her to come in to do just one word, we really should get her to do something else playing herself, which we used in [1993’s] “Krusty Gets Kancelled” episode…. What I remember vividly was as she was leaving, she walked up to David Silverman, our animation director, and said, ‘Where have these beautiful eyes been hiding all day?’ He was very thrilled. It was just one of those magical moments. I never thought I’d be working with Elizabeth Taylor in my life. It was really, really cool.”
For more on Liz Taylor, pick up the issue of Entertainment Weekly on stands April 1.
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Elizabeth Taylor: What’s your favorite role?
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Elizabeth Taylor: The unpublished photos from Life.com
Cover Story: 60 Years of Liz (1992)
Book Review: Donald Spoto’s A Passion for Life: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor (1995)
Book Review: C. David Heymann’s Liz (1995)
Encore: When Elizabeth Taylor met Richard Burton on the Cleopatra set
Encore: Cleopatra becomesHollywood’s costliest flop
Photo Gallery: Rare, behind-the-scenes photos from Elizabeth Taylor’s 1956 classic Giant
Encore: Remembering Elizabeth Taylor’s First Divorce, from Nicky Hilton
I remember all the hype about this episode when it aired. It still holds up as one of my favorites! (Do it for her – sniffle!)
The “do it for her” scene is from a different episode, “And Maggie Makes Three,” in season six. Elizabeth Taylor’s cameo came at the end of “Lisa’s First Word,” in season four. Both are great episodes.
It was her finest roll.
Wonder how much they pd her? Being 1 word..what was the point?
I know you mean ‘role’.
The point was….it was Elizabeth Taylor,
Who cares? It’s Elizabeth Taylor! The South Park writers cast George Clooney as a dog that didn’t even talk!
And Jay Leno as Cartman’s cat!
One of my favourite episodes!
Ahh. nice story!! Lucky guy to get told by the most gorgeous eye person ever that he had nice eyes, what a compliment!!
Did she also voice Maggie’s one word at the very end of ‘The Simpsons Movie?’
(“Sequel?”)
No, that line was voiced by Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart. She usually does Maggie’s giggles and other baby noises in recent episodes.
If Elizabeth Taylor doesn’t get the full cover of the next issue of EW, I will not be renewing my subscription, and I have subscribed since the magazine’s inception.
Well, you’re a little full of yourself, huh?
It’s too late for this week, but I expect it will be the cover the following week. I’m pretty sure they did it for Paul Newman.
hey EW – by her own account, she did not like being called “Liz”
How sad as there is no one to say in this day and time that they are a movie star, Mrs Taylor was the last of BEAUTY!!!!!!!!!!!
She was the last true legendary actress, they don’t make them like her anymore.
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