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Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) was an actress, one of most beautiful women in the world according to many, and a living legend, one of the last remaining stars of the so-called [[Golden Age of Hollywood]].

She started as a child actress in the 1940s, and become famous with movies like ''[[Lassie Come Home]]'', ''[[National Velvet]]'' and ''[[Little Women]]''. She made a successful transition to adult roles in ''[[Father of the Bride]]'' and ''[[A Place In The Sun]]''. After a series of somewhat forgettable films, she appeared in ''[[Giant]]'' along with [[James Dean]], then was nominated for an [[Academy Award]] for Best Actress four consecutive times for ''[[Raintree County]]'', ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'', ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer]]'' and ''[[BUtterfield 8]]''. She won for the last one, which was widely seen as a [[Consolation Award]].

 

 

Taylor and Burton got married in 1964, and made several movies together. The most famous is ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'', for which Taylor won her second Oscar. Her performance in the film is widely regarded as the best of her career. In 1967, she and Burton starred in a film adaptation of ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]''. This was her last really memorable role. She and Burton divorced in 1974, remarried in 1975, and divorced again in 1976.

* [[May-December Romance]]: She was 22 years younger than Michael Wilding, 25 years younger than Mike Todd, and 20 years older than Larry Fortensky.

* [[Mutant]]: Taylor had two rows of eyelashes on each eyelid. According to biographer J. Randy Tarborelli, her parents were actually told by a doctor shortly after her birth that their daughter possessed a mutation.

* [[Name's the Same]]: Not to be confused with other these Elizabeth Taylors

** The British novelist, who was 20 years older and had the misfortune of publishing her first novel the year after the film ''[[National Velvet]]'' was released;

** The American painter and essayist who died a few weeks after this Elizabeth Taylor was born;

* [[Playing Gertrude]]: In ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'', she played a character who's in her fifties at 34. Her casting [[What the Hell, Casting Agency?|surprised]] many people, but she proved to be very convincing.

** [[Age Lift]]: Was about ten years older than the actual [[Cleopatra]] at the beginning of the movie (which encompasses 18 years).

* [[Romance on the Set]]: With Richard Burton.

* [[Serial Spouse]]

* [[Stage Mom]]: Her mother was like this.

* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: One of her trademarks were her [[Purple Eyes|violet]] eyes. Which had [[Mutant|two rows of eyelashes each]].

* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Her then-husband Mike Todd died in an accident. Todd's best friend was Edwin "Eddie" Fisher, who was married to fellow star Debbie Reynolds. Guess what happened.

 

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