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posted by wonder2wonderSTAFFMOD on February 27, 2019 at 5:59 PM
on her birthday, Elizabeth Taylor (Born: February 27, 1932; Died: March 23, 2011; at age 79).
Elizabeth Taylor is known for her roles as Susanna Drake in "Raintree County (1957)", as Maggie Pollitt in the movie "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)", as Catherine Holly in "Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)", as Gloria Wandrous in "BUtterfield 8 (1960)", as Cleopatra in "Cleopatra (1963)", as Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)" and as Katharina in "The Taming of the Shrew (1967)".
She played Velvet Brown in "National Velvet (1944)", Katherine Eleanor Merrick in "Courage of Lassie (1946)", Kay Banks in "Father of the Bride (1950)" and Kay Dunstan in "Father's Little Dividend (1951)", Rosie Probert in "Under Milk Wood (1972)", Marina Gregg-Rudd in "The Mirror Crack'd (1980)" and Pearl Slaghoople in "The Flintstones (1994)".
Other movies she appeared in are "There's One Born Every Minute (1942)", "Lassie Come Home (1943)", "Jane Eyre (1943)", "The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)", "Life with Father (1947)", "Cynthia (a.k.a. The Rich Full Life) (1947)", "A Date with Judy (1948)", "Julia Misbehaves (1948)", "Little Women (1949)", "Conspirator (1949)", "The Big Hangover (1950)", "A Place in the Sun (1951)", "Quo Vadis (1951)", "Callaway Went Thataway (1951)", "Love Is Better Than Ever (1952)", "Ivanhoe (1952)", "The Girl Who Had Everything (1953)", "Rhapsody (1954)", "Elephant Walk (1954)", "Beau Brummell (1954)", "The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)", "Giant (1956)", "Scent of Mystery (1960)", "The V.I.P.s (a.k.a. Hotel International) (1963)", "Becket (1964)", "The Sandpiper (1965)", "Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)", "Doctor Faustus (1967)", "The Comedians (1967)", "Boom! (1968)", "Secret Ceremony (1968)", "Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)", "The Only Game in Town (1970)", "Zee and Co. (a.k.a. X, Y and Zee) (1972)", "Hammersmith Is Out (1972)", "Divorce His - Divorce Hers (1973)", "Night Watch (1973)", "Ash Wednesday (1973)", "The Driver's Seat (1974)", "The Blue Bird (1976)", "Victory at Entebbe (1976)", "A Little Night Music (1977)", "Return Engagement (1978)", "Winter Kills (1979)", "Between Friends (1983)", "Malice in Wonderland (1985)", "There Must Be a Pony (1986)", "Poker Alice (1987)", "Young Toscanini (1988)", "Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)" and "These Old Broads (2001)".
She appeared on TV shows like "Here's Lucy", "General Hospital", "Hotel", "North and South", "The Nanny", "Murphy Brown", "High Society", "Can't Hurry Love" and "God, the Devil and Bob".
Elizabeth Taylor starred together with Richard Burton in: "Cleopatra (1963)", "The V.I.P.s (a.k.a. Hotel International) (1963)", "The Sandpiper (1965)", "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)", "The Taming of the Shrew (1967)", "Doctor Faustus (1967)", "The Comedians (1967)", "Boom! (1968)", "Under Milk Wood (1972)", "Hammersmith Is Out (1972)" and "Divorce His - Divorce Hers (1973)".
She was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won twice: in 1961 for her role as Gloria Wandrous in the movie "BUtterfield 8 (1960)" and in 1967 for her role as Martha in the movie "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)".
The American Film Institute (AFI) has ranked her as the seventh greatest female screen legend in American film history.
Reply by genplant29
on March 1, 2019 at 2:29 PM
Besides being a terrific actress from little kid onward, she definitely was one of the all-time great Hollywood beauties.
Reply by QuitePleasant
on March 12, 2019 at 11:19 PM
Yes, and quite the considerate humanitarian.
From a gifted child actress (and not annoying)
To lovely leading lady (very beautiful and also not annoying, as in Rebecca of Ivanho)
To romantic marriage-go-round celebrity (ahh, maybe a little annoying there),
But taken all in all, we remember her for her grace and charm and commendable charity work, even donating proceeds from her line of perfumes to good causes (anything but annoying).
Reply by Nexus71
on August 27, 2019 at 2:21 PM
And her relationship with Burton became the stuff of legends
Reply by genplant29
on August 27, 2019 at 3:19 PM
Their up and down - and all over the place - relationship is, indeed, legendary in Hollywood history.
Liz got some great jewelry to show for it!
Reply by Nexus71
on August 27, 2019 at 3:23 PM
I wonder who could drink the most (Taylor according to accounts) part of the reason why Virginia Wolf is so interesting to watch because you get the feeling that you are watching an actual brawl between Burton and Taylor
Reply by genplant29
on August 27, 2019 at 3:26 PM
I'd hate to be standing between the two of them when a fight would break out!
Btw, another thing Liz is known for is for seemingly, every other year, being about to die from something - then recovering just when you think she's soon to be a goner.
Reply by Nexus71
on August 27, 2019 at 3:37 PM
I'd hate to be standing between the two of them when a fight would break out!
Yeah she lasted remarkably long she outlived Burton for more than 20 years