Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in London on February 27, 1932 and was considered one of the last, great actress which came out of the old Hollywood studio system.
Her first experience on the screen was in There's One Born Every Minute (1942), released when she was ten. The first production she made was Lassie Come Home (1943) and she returned in 1946 in Courage of Lassie (1946). She was 22 now, and even at that young age was considered one of the world's great beauties.
In 1960 she brought home the Oscar for her performance in Butterfield 8 (1960) as Gloria Wandrous. In 1963 she starred in Cleopatra (1963), which was one of the most expensive productions up to that time, likewise was her salary: $1,000,000.
This was the film where she met her future and fifth husband, Richard Burton (the previous four were Conrad Hilton, Michael Wilding, Michael Todd). She divorced Burton in 1974, only to remarry him in 1975 and divorce him, permanently, in 1976. She has had two husbands since, Senator John Warner and Larry Fortensky.
Elizabeth returned to the fine form with the role of Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Her performance as the loudmouthed, unkempt Martha was easily her finest to date. For this she won her second Oscar and one that was more than well-deserved. Her films afterward didn't approach the intensity of that one anymore.
Elizabeth Taylor has lived a life far more exciting and dramatic than any movie she's ever appeared in. She is known internationally for her beauty, for those violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early on in her youth. She's won the Oscar twice and she's earned her place in and out of the sun.
Taylor struggled with health problems much of her life. In November 2004, she announced a diagnosis of congestive heart failure. At the age 79, on on March 23, 2011, she died in Los Angeles surrounded by her four children, ten grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
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