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Elizabeth Taylor: Academy Award
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Elizabeth Taylor, (born on February 27, 1932) is an iconic two-time Academy Award-winning actress. Elizabeth Taylor was long considered one of the most beautiful women in the world and, arguably, the most beautiful actress of all time. Her trademark is her dazzling violet-blue eyes.
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Elizabeth Taylor (born February 27, 1932) is an English born Academy Award winning actress. She was born Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor in Hampstead, London, England, the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor (December 28, 1897-November 20, 1968) and Sara Viola Warmbrodt (August 21, 1896-September 11, 1994). Her older brother is Howard Taylor (born 1929).
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In 1956 Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding separated, and on February 2, 1957, she married producer Mike Todd. James Dean's death the year before, shortly after the two had finished filming Giant, devastated her. She had ... endured the horror of her close friend Monty Clift's nearly fatal automobile accident, for which she felt responsible. Clift had left Taylor's home after a party and had driven into a utility pole. On March 24, 1958, her husband Mike Todd lost his life when his private plane crashed in New Mexico as he was en route to an awards banquet. Taylor's grief seemed bottomless over each tragedy, and for a time she sought relief in pills, hysterics, and alcohol.
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Between 1952 and 1956 Elizabeth Taylor played in many romantic films that did not demand great acting talent. In 1956 she played opposite James Dean (1931–1955) in Giant, followed by the powerful Raintree County (1957), for which she was nominated (put forward for consideration) for an Academy Award for the first time. In Suddenly Last Summer (1959) she received five hundred thousand dollars (the most ever earned by an actress for eight weeks of work) and another Academy Award nomination.
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Elizabeth Taylor garnered her first Academy Award for her portrayal of a model/call girl who wants to escape her sordid life in this lush melodrama. Laurence Harvey ... stars as the married socialite who falls for her; with Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock, Eddie Fisher. 109 min. Standard and Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French; theatrical trailer
As a child performer Taylor made a number of successful pictures, among them Lassie, Come Home (1943), Jane Eyre (1944), National Velvet (1944), Life with Father (1947), A Date with Judy (1948), and Little Women (1949). As Taylor began to mature, she made Father of the Bride (1950) and Father's Little Dividend (1957), both for director Vincente Minnelli. She then achieved stardom with her performance in A Place in the Sun (1951). Her other films of the 1950s, by which time she had gained an international reputation, include Ivanhoe (1952), The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954), Giant (1956), Raintree County (1957), and her two roles in film adaptations of plays by American playwright Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), which rank among Taylor's best performances. For her role in Butterfield 8 (1960) she won her first Academy Award for best actress.
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