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Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in Hampstead, England on 27 February 1932 to American parents. She began her acting career in the early 1940s after her family relocated to Los Angeles.
After becoming child star at age twelve following her lead role in National Velvet, Taylor starred in dozens of well-reviewed films from the 1940s through the 1960s. Her most famous films include Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Cleopatra, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Taylor was nominated for an Oscar five times, winning the award twice – once in 1961 for Butterfield 8 and again in 1967 for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In 1993, she was awarded the Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
The actress was equally known for her tumultuous private life. Married eight times to seven men – famously wedding Richard Burton twice – she divorced her final husband in 1996 and remained single until her death.
In her later years, Taylor suffered from multiple health problems, including congestive heart failure. She passed away in Los Angeles, CA on 23 March 2011 at the age of 79.
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Taylor's Cleopatra cape to be auctioned -
22 March 2012
-The elaborate gold cape Dame Elizabeth Taylor wore in Cleopatra is set to go under the hammer.-The intricate piece, which the superstar wore for two scenes in the 1963 epic, will go up for sale at an auction in Texas on 30 May (12).- The garment is designed to look like
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Fox shoots down Taylor role reports -
26 January 2012
-Actress Megan Fox has dismissed reports linking her to the starring role in an upcoming movie about Dame Elizabeth Taylor.-The Transformers star was named as a frontrunner to play the Cleopatra icon in Lifetime network's forthcoming TV biopic Liz & Dick, about Taylor's l
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Taylor's Cleopatra trailer to be auctioned -
17 November 2011
-The lavish trailer Elizabeth Taylor used as a home from home on the set of 1963 movie Cleopatra is to be auctioned off at a Hollywood memorabilia sale.-The heavily-customised Aljo dressing room/trailer cost moviemakers at Twentieth Century Fox a reported £47,000 so
Elizabeth Taylor - what members say
review by from Middlesex
Burton &Taylor make a great team 14 June 2004
review by A customer from PLYMOUTH DEVON
WHAT CAN I SAY!!!!! 25 September 2005
review by from Cornwall
Unique and Strange! 10 January 2005
Elizabeth Taylor - filmography
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Elizabeth Taylor - American Diamond
(2012)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor
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The life and career of Elizabeth Taylor is presented in this detailed docu-drama; covering her career in Hollywood, her friendships with ther stars, her many marriages, and her humanitarian work.
 
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Due for release on 4th June 2012
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The Flintstones
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Rick Moranis, Elizabeth Perkins, Rosie O'Donnell
Director: Brian Levant
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The good (if not fully evolved) citizens of Bedrock make their way to the big screen in this live-action adaptation of the popular animated series of the 1960s. Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) and his best friend Barney Rubble (Rick Moranis) work together at the Slate and Company Rock Quarry. When ..read more »
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Poker Alice
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Skerritt, George Hamilton
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
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Set in the Wild West of the last century, this action-packed comedy tells of a red-blooded lady with two passions.....men and gambling. Together with her very handsome companion she sets out to seek her fortune and ends up winning a whorehouse.....
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from 32 members
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Genocide
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles
Director: Arnold Schwartzman
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Winner of the 1981 Oscar for best documentary, GENOCIDE combines historical narrative with actual stories of ordinary people, in illustrating the Nazi's reign of terror and the millions who fell victim to Hitler's Final Solution.
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from 102 members
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The Mirror Crack'd
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis
Director: Guy Hamilton
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The scene is set in the Coronation year of 1953 and the archetypal English village of St. Mary Mead. All is as it should be until Hollywood arrives in the form of an internationally famous film cast, leading to much local excitement and an epidemic of sudden death...
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A Little Night Music
(1977)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou
Director: Harold Prince
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Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik goes to see an old flame, the famous actress Desiree Armfeldt. Desiree is getting tired of her life, and is ..read more »
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from 7 members
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The Blue Bird
(1976)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner
Director: George Cukor
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A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, Bread, and other entities
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from 4 members
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Zee And Co.
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York
Director: Brian G. Hutton
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More commonly known as ZEE AND CO., this cautionary tale of extramarital indiscretions finds a threatened and desperate wife lashing out in order to salvage a faltering marriage. An upper-crust couple living the high-life in post-'60s London, Zee (Elizabeth Taylor) and Robert (Michael Caine) ..read more »
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from 44 members
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Under Milk Wood
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole
Director: Andrew Sinclair
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Hollywood icons Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O'Toole star in the screen adaptation of Dylan Thomas's classic play. A celebration of life and death, the film follows the people and events in a small Welsh harbour village, from one spring to the next. Captain Cat, the blind sea captain, ..read more »
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from 621 members
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Boom!
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Director: Joseph Losey
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Based on Tennessee Williams' play, 'The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More', BOOM! stars real-life husband and wife Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in this story of an incredibly wealthy woman who retires to a her isolated island estate, with the intent of producing an autobiography. ..read more »
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from 134 members
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The Comedians
(1967)
Starring: James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Richard Burton
Director: Peter Glenville
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Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a ..read more »
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The Taming Of The Shrew
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Michael York, Natasha Pyne
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
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Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a zesty version of the classic comedy, highlighted by performances by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and Nino Rota's score. Instead of simply filming a play, Zeffirelli turned Shakespeare's text into a lively, ..read more »
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from 829 members
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
Director: Mike Nichols
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You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games. Thus read the ad copy for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which in 1966 went farther than any previous big-studio film in its use of profanity and sexual implication. George (Richard Burton) is an alcoholic college ..read more »
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from 1,766 member
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Cleopatra
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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This epic, spectacular love story of Egyptian queen Cleopatra and the Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Marc Antony has dazzled audiences with its elaborate sets, daring costumes, and thrilling sea battle since its release, but these can't compare with Elizabeth Taylor as the mesmerizing Cleopatra, ..read more »
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from 1,107 member
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Cleopatra - Blu-ray
(1963)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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This epic, spectacular love story of Egyptian queen Cleopatra and the Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Marc Antony has dazzled audiences with its elaborate sets, daring costumes, and thrilling sea battle since its release, but these can't compare with Elizabeth Taylor as the mesmerizing Cleopatra, ..read more »
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from 12 members
Not available for rental
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Butterfield 8
(1960)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor
Director: Daniel Mann
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Gloria Wandrous is a call girl with a disturbing past. Weston Liggett is a philandering lawyer unhappily married into a wealthy family
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from 27 members
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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
Director: Richard Brooks
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This dynamic and commanding adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on a troubled Southern family and the discord over their dying father's millions. Wealthy plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives), celebrating his 65th birthday, is visited by his sons, Brick (..read more »
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from 3,459 members
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Giant
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson
Director: George Stevens
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Edna Ferber's best-selling family saga was the source of Stevens' sprawling epic, which stars Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean, in his last film appearance. When Texas cattleman Bick Benedict (Hudson) goes to Virginia in the early 1920s to buy a prize stallion, he falls in love with ..read more »
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from 2,545 members
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon
Director: Richard Brooks
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Based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald story "Babylon Revisited," this epic romance is a captivating blend of Parisian expatriate high society and the struggles in post-WWII Europe. When war writer and veteran Charles Wills (Van Johnson) meets the lovely and restless Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor) in ..read more »
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from 175 members
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Elephant Walk
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch
Director: William Dieterle
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When Ruth agrees to marry plantation owner John, she is filled with excitement. The excitement is short lived, however, as she soon begins to feel trapped within her banal life. When Dick Carver visits the plantation, she immediately falls in love, but it's not long before tragedy strikes...
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from 138 members
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Ivanhoe
(1952)
Starring: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine
Director: Richard Thorpe
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In the centre of this Walter Scott classic fiction inspired film the chivalrousness and the daring stand. Ivanhoe, the disowned knight join to the bravehearted and high-minded Robin Hood, the valiant of Forest Sherwood. They want King Richard to rule the kingdom instead of evil Prince John.
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from 38 members
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A Place In The Sun
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters
Director: George Stevens
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A Place in the Sun. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a ..read more »
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Father's Little Dividend
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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This sequel to the hugely popular FATHER OF THE BRIDE reunited the entire cast for another charming turn. Although Tracy's hoping for some peace and quiet now that Taylor's been married off, he soon learns he's in for more chaos as an expectant grandfather. Also in a computer colorized version.
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Life with Father
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: William Powell, Edmund Gwenn, Irene Dunne
Director: Michael Curtiz
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From the director of CASABLANCA, Michael Curtiz' LIFE WITH FATHER is one of the best family films ever made. This delightful comedy based on Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse's Broadway play provides a look at family life in New York City during the 1880's. William Powell stars as Clarence Day, the ..read more »
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from 194 members
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National Velvet
(1945)
Starring: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Revere
Director: Clarence Brown
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NATIONAL VELVET is the poignant family story that made a young Elizabeth Taylor a star. Taylor excels as Velvet Brown, a 1920s working-class girl whose dreams of owning her own horse become a reality when she wins Pie, a wild and unruly horse, in a raffle. With the help of Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney),..read more »
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Lassie Box Set
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp
Director: Fred M. Wilox
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Lassie, the ever-dependable rescue dog, comes to the aid of some more hapless humans as they get into various scrapes. Family adventure with a cosy moral subtext. Includes the following:
Lassie Come Home (Dir. Fred McLeod Wilcox) (1943): Lassie - a faithful collie dog, is sold by her poor family - ..read more »
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Elizabeth Taylor facts
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...Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are more famous for their antics off screen than on.
Here however they both make good - playing Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. In a ...
