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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
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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
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor
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Documentary that looks back at the life of the iconic American actress. Elizabeth Taylor, born in London in 1932, was a star for almost her whole life. Signed by MGM as a child, she enjoyed her first major success with 'National Velvet' (1945) - a springboard to a career that saw her become one of ..read more »
 
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The Flintstones
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Richard Moll, Elizabeth Taylor, Laraine Newman
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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Genocide
(1982)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles
Director: Arnold Schwartzman
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Elizabeth Taylor and Orson Welles narrate this heart-wrenching, yet often heroic story of the millions of men, women and children who fell victim to Hitler's Final Solution. Combining archival film footage and still photography to trace the evolution of the Holocaust in fascinating and horrifying ..read more »
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The Mirror Crack'd
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis
Director: Guy Hamilton
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Excitement runs high when the feuding film stars Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor) and Lola Brewster (Kim Novak) arrive in the sleepy English village of St Mary Mead, ready to begin work on a movie about Elizabeth I and Lady Jane Grey. But the experience quickly turns sour when an innocent bystander ..read more »
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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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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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Divorce His / Divorce Hers
(1973)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Director: Waris Hussein
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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star as a huband on the verge of a divorce after an 18 year marriage. Set in Rome, it explores the dissolution of the marriage from both his and her points of view. In the first of the two stories, husband, Martin has returned to Rome on business, representing an ..read more »
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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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British sex comedy penned by Edna O'Brien. Wealthy middle-aged architect Robert Blakeley (Michael Caine) and his wife Zee (Elizabeth Taylor) belong to the rich international set in late 1960s London. When Robert meets dreamy young fashion designer Stella (Susannah York), he falls head over hells in ..read more »
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Under Milk Wood
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton
Director: Andrew Sinclair
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This film is a faithful rendition of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' last major poem, Under Milk Wood. It affectionately examines the day-to-day life of the inhabitants of a small Welsh fishing village. The poem is narrated by Richard Burton, himself a Welshman and a great aficionado of Thomas' work. The ..read more »
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Boom!
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Director: Joseph Losey
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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star in this drama adapted for the screen by Tennessee Williams from his 1963 play 'The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore'. Sissy Goforth (Taylor) is a terminally ill, washed-up high society widow who has outlived no fewer than six husbands and is now in the ..read more »
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Secret Ceremony
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow
Director: Joseph Losey
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Secret Ceremony was based on a prize-winning short story by Argentine civil servant Marco Denevi. Elizabeth Taylor plays Leonora, an aging prostitute who becomes convinced that Cenci (Mia Farrow) is her daughter -- who supposedly died in infancy. Cenci knows that she is in fact Leonora's niece, but ..read more »
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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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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
Director: Mike Nichols
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Mike Nichols' directorial debut is an adaptation of Edward Albee's controversial stage play, starring husband-and-wife Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. George (Burton) is a foul-mouthed, drunken university professor married for two decades to the equally foul-mouthed, drunken Martha (Taylor), ..read more »
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Cleopatra - Blu-ray
(1963)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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After Julius Caesar's murder, Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) turns her affections to Mark Antony (Richard Burton). This epic re-telling of the life and loves of the Egyptian Queen, with Oscar winning spectacular sets and costumes, flopped badly on its original release. The film has gained more ..read more »
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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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In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and, ultimately, an epic flop that nearly dragged 20th Century Fox down the Nile along with Cleopatra's barge. Handsomely mounted by ..read more »
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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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Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Madeleine Sherwood, Paul Newman
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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Giant
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Carroll Baker
Director: George Stevens
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An epic saga begins when Texas cattle baron Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) takes a non-Texan wife, Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor). The story then traces two generations of his family, alongside the life of disreputable ranch-hand Jett Rink (James Dean), who strikes it rich on an oil well and falls in love ..read more »
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Gabor, Walter Pidgeon
Director: Richard Brooks
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Novelist Charles Wills (Van Johnson) travels to Paris to obtain custody of his young daughter. His story is then told in flashback, relating how he arrived in Paris after the Second World War and fell in love with the wealthy Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor). The two settled down together, but ..read more »
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Elephant Walk
(1954)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Abner Biberman
Director: William Dieterle
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Hollywood melodrama starring Elizabeth Taylor. Ruth (Taylor) is the beautiful new bride of dour tea plantation owner John Wiley (Peter Finch). Frustrated in the stultifying atmosphere of Ceylon, Ruth falls for handsome American overseer Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), but before the couple can run away ..read more »
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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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A Place In The Sun
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Raymond Burr
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: Elizabeth Taylor, Marietta Canty, Bill Burke
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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In this sequel to 1950's 'Father of the Bride', Stanley Banks (Spencer Tracy) has to cope with the prospect of becoming a grandfather. His fears that his peace and quiet will be shattered increase as the big day comes nearer. Elizabeth Taylor stars as the mother-to-be.
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Life with Father
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Jimmy Lydon, Edmund Gwenn
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Based on Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse's Broadway play, this 1947 comedy looks at family life in New York City during the 1880's. The story follows the life of Clarence Day (William Powell), his wife Vinnie (Irene Dunne) and their eldest son's (James Lydon) romance with Mary (Elizabeth Taylor).
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National Velvet
(1945)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, Reginald Owen
Director: Clarence Brown
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Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to Mickey Rooney in the showier role of Mike Taylor, a headstrong English ex-jockey. Soured on life by a serious accident, Mike plans to steal from the country family that has ..read more »
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Lassie Box Set
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall
Director: Fred M. Wilox
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Triple bill featuring the heroic collie dog. In 'Lassie Come Home' (1943), a collie dog, sold by her destitute family, escapes to begin the long journey back from Scotland to her home in Yorkshire. In 'Son of Lassie' (1945), Lassie's son 'Laddie' is separated from his master in German occupied ..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 ...
