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Elizabeth Taylor has starred in over 50 films such as "National Velvet", "Cleopatra", and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" She has ... appeared on Broadway, and in more than a dozen TV movies. She currently devotes her time to the fight against AIDS, and to her business, "The House of Taylor" which produces perfume, cosmetics, and jewelry.
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Elizabeth Taylor won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performances in BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966). She was nominated for Raintree County (1957), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959).
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With the arguable exception of Marilyn Monroe, no other star from Hollywood's Golden Age exerted a more enduring hold on the public's imagination than Elizabeth Taylor. For nearly 70 years, the press chronicled every element of Taylor's very public private life, which was fraught with more melodrama, romantic intrigue, and scandal than the collected works of Jacqueline Susann and Harold Robbins combined. The eight marriages (and counting), medical crises, and headline-grabbing meltdowns all but eclipsed the fact that Taylor twice won the Best Actress Academy Award, for "Butterfield 8" (1960) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), respectively. Or that the American Film Institute ranked the five-time Oscar nominee seventh on its list of the "25 greatest women screen legends" in 1999. And while Taylor's filmography was littered with critical and commercial flops - most infamously the epic box disaster "Cleopatra" (1963) - she ... gave indelible performances in such classics as "National Velvet" (1944), "A Place in the Sun" (1951), "Giant" (1956), and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958).
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Taylor won her second Academy Award for her performance as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). She ... gave strong performances in The Taming of the Shrew (1967), Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), and Secret Ceremony (1968). During the 1970s Taylor was plagued by problems with alcohol and marital complications, and her acting career suffered.
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Elizabeth Taylor a celebrated Hollywood actress won rave reviews from her viewers for her acting in several notable films. A two-time victor at the Oscars for her film Butterfield as the Best Actress in a Leading Role and for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? she is distinguished for her breath taking performance in the both the films. She shared the screen with Montgomery Clift in “Raintree Country” and Paul Newman in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and with Clift, Katherine Hepburn and Mercedes McCambridge three of which helped her to reach the nomination list at the Academy Awards. Elizabeth Taylor an eminent actress of the golden era of Hollywood made her most well known appearance for 20th Century fox in the famous role of Cleopatra, this further helped her turned her as the highest paid cinestar.
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Once again, George Stevens effectively came to Taylor’s professional rescue with another juicy role: the female lead in his sweeping, big-budget adaptation of Edna Ferber’s Texas family saga, “Giant†(1956), co-starring Rock Hudson and James Dean. To play Leslie Benedict, a headstrong yet compassionate Virginia belle married to wealthy Texas cattle rancher Jordan “Bick†Benedict (Hudson), Taylor had to age 30-odd years convincingly. That she was more believable as a radiant newlywed than a graying, dowdy grandmother did not diminish what was an excellent performance that held up beautifully. Yet while her male co-stars both received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor – Dean posthumously – Taylor’s finely modulated performance in “Giant†was overlooked by the Motion Picture Academy. Despite the snub for her work in “Giant,†Taylor received something more – a chance to form on location a lifelong close friendship with Hudson – one of several of her closest closeted gay best friends; the others being Monty Clift and fellow child star, Roddy McDowall.
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