Elizabeth Taylor was born in London Feb. 27, 1932, to American parents who fled the oncoming war in 1939 by returning to the United States. In 1942, the budding beauty caught the eye of talent scouts in Los Angeles and was cast in There's One Born Every Minute. The following year, she was signed to a long-term contract by MGM.Taylor's popularity skyrocketed in Lassie Come Home, Jane Eyre, National Velvet and Life with Father. By the early '50s, she had jumped into grown-up romantic roles in Father of the Bride, A Place in the Sun, Ivanhoe and Elephant Walk. She won the Best Actress Oscar for Butterfield 8 (1960) and again for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (with her Cleopatra co-star and two-time husband, Richard Burton).
Health issues restricted Taylor's appearances in later years to occasional feature and TV films, such as 1994's The Flintstones and 2001's These Old Broads.
AddGiantIn Oscar-winning director George Stevens's sprawling epic, Texas cattleman Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) journeys to Virginia in the early 1920s, falls in love with aristocratic, independent-minded Leslie Lynnton (Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her back to his ranch -- setting the stage for an... Read More
AddWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?On a serene New England campus, an emasculated professor (Richard Burton) and his rancorous wife (Elizabeth Taylor, who racked up a Best Actress Oscar) turn an evening of cocktails into an unrelenting onslaught of wrenching disclosures and bellowed epithets. Soon the couple's guests -- a junior... Read More
AddCleopatraThis epic saga of love, greed and betrayal -- which won four Oscars -- stars Elizabeth Taylor as the passionate and ambitious Egyptian queen. Determined to hold on to the throne, she seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison). When Caesar is murdered, however, she redirects her... Read More
AddThe Taming of the ShrewElizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton seem to be channeling the legendary dramas of their marriage in this boisterous and bawdy adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic comedy, directed by Franco Zeffirelli. A younger sister cannot wed until her older, shrewish sister Katharina (Taylor) marries... Read More
AddButterfield 8Elizabeth Taylor won a Best Actress Oscar as Gloria Wandrous, a stylish call girl who yearns to go straight, especially after she thinks she's found Mr. Right. But self-loathing socialite Weston Liggett (Laurence Harvey) proves he's not up to the task. This adaptation of John O'Hara's best-seller... Read More
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