Thread: Rest in Peace Elizabeth Taylor

Today is a sad day for the cinema, Liz Taylor, nominated for five oscars and winner of two, passed away.

Elizabeth Taylor - IMDb

sad day indeed will always remember her as one of the most beautiful womens of the 20th century in my opinion was a total knockout in her heydays RIP Liz

I remembered her for her diamond commercials, Diamond are Forever. She probably made million for De Beers.

RIP Elizabeth Taylor, You will be missed by everyone! :(

Rest in Peace Elizabeth Taylor..
she was so beautiful, talented.

what a gorgeous woman she was RIP

Two-time Academy Award winner Elizabeth Taylor was as well known for her beauty and acting skills as she was for her remarkable personal life. Her many outstanding cinematic performances, including the role of Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, above, made her a certifiable American icon.

Family
Taylor's mother, an American actress living in London, retired from the stage when she married. Elizabeth was born in the British capital in 1932, three years after her brother Howard, standing with her in this family snapshot, above.

The Taylor family moved to Los Angeles shortly after the beginning of World War II, and Elizabeth's father opened an art gallery that attracted a large number of Hollywood clientele. It wasn't long before the young beauty was noticed and invited to take a screen test. By the age of 9, Taylor had landed a role in Universal's There's One Born Every Minute.


All-American
Despite her precocious start, Universal production chief Edward Muhl was unimpressed by the young Elizabeth, and her contract was canceled after just six months. The setback was only temporary, however. In 1942 MGM picked her up and cast her opposite Roddy McDowell in Lassie Come Home.


National Velvet
Taylor's strong performance in Lassie helped her land the first breakout role of her career, as Velvet Brown in the 1944 National Velvet. The role earned her the rapt attention of the media, including a visit from a LIFE photographer, above.



Sizzling
As the passionate Maggie in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Taylor surprised critics with her maturity and earned a second Oscar nomination.


Oscar Glory
On her fourth trip to the Academy Awards, in 1960, Taylor took home a statuette, having won for her performance as Gloria in Butterfield 8. Here, she is accompanied by her husband Eddie Fisher (to her left, partially obscured) as she answers questions from the press after winning the award.



Superstar
For her performance in the lavish 20th Century Fox production of Cleopatra, Taylor received $1 million, making her the highest-paid movie star in history at the time.


Richard Burton
On the set of Cleopatra, Taylor met and fell in love with the charismatic Welsh actor Richard Burton. They were each married to other people — Taylor to Fisher and Burton to Sybil Williams — but they were able to end their unions and promptly wed each other.



Fiery Romance
Taylor and Burton's stormy relationship attracted the fascination of gossip magazines and the moviegoing public. They brought their passionate love affair to the big screen nine times in nine years, starring opposite each other in films like The Taming of the Shrew and The Comedians, above.


Creative Risk
For their roles in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Burton and Taylor for the first time in their careers dared to appear as unglamorous, disheveled and overweight characters. The gambit paid off, and Taylor was awarded her second Oscar for her performance as Martha.



Activist
After the death of her close friend Rock Hudson, Taylor became deeply involved in the fight against AIDS. She helped form the American Foundation for AIDS Research and created her own organization, the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. In 1986 she testified before Congress, above, on the need to find a cure for the disease.


White Diamonds
In her final years, Taylor launched three perfumes and formed a jewelry company. The three scents associated with her, Passion, White Diamonds and Black Pearls, have collectively earned an estimated $200 million in sales.


Indelible Icon
Of the great actress, New York Times film critic Vincent Canby wrote, "More than anyone else I can think of, Elizabeth Taylor represents the complete movie phenomenon — what movies are as an art and an industry, and what they have meant to those of us who have grown up watching them in the dark."

RIP Elizabeth :(

Yes she was indeed a wonderfull women.Too bad she left us.RIP Elizabeth Taylor.