Elizabeth Grant has stood at the helm of her beauty empire for more than sixty years, regaling admirers with personal stories, notably one event that nearly killed her. When a German rocket dropped soundlessly from the sky on a peaceful Sunday in wartime xml:namespace prefix st1 ns urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags />London, its impact and resultant bomb blast damage took her down, damaged her face and rendered her almost deaf in one ear. xml:namespace prefix o ns urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office />
A young makeup artist at Ellstree Studios, she thought herself so repulsively scarred, she could no longer face acting luminaries like Vivien Leigh, Margaret Leighton, and Robert Taylor with any degree of confidence.
I honestly thought my life was over, Elizabeth says.
But as readers will learn, she easily has more than nine lives. From that misfortune came salvation.
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