"Funeral services will be held this morning for Clare Cain, a retired Elizabeth Arden Inc. executive who developed Elizabeth Taylor's landmark White Diamonds fragrance. She died at home in East Hampton, N.Y., Saturday, the day after her 73rd birthday, according to her daughter, Clare Farella. She had suffered a long battle with breast cancer."
"Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in London on February 27, 1932, to American parents – an art dealer father and actress mum. In 1939, WWII drove the family back to the US where they settled in Los Angeles. Soon, encouraged by a family friend, Elizabeth took her first Hollywood screen test, and before long got her big break with a role in the 1942 short film, There's One Born Every Minute."
"On being told by many people that Elizabeth was an unusually beautiful child, Elizabeth's mother negotiated a contract for her daughter at Universal Studios. However, it was MGM who gave Elizabeth her big break. For the female lead in "Lassie Come Home" they needed a young girl who sounded English, was not particularly tall and could ride a horse. They needed the ten-year old Elizabeth Taylor."