It is claimed Taylor met Ronald Reagan when she was trying to get a starring role which eventually went to Shirley Temple in a 1947 film called That Hagen Girl.
Taylor appeared in her first motion picture at the age of nine in There's One Born Every Minute, her first and only film for Universal Pictures.
And far from discouraging her young daughter from being treated as a sex object, her hugely ambitious mother, Sara, appeared to encourage it.