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Elizabeth Taylor: Virginia Woolf
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Nominated for Academy Awards for several years in a row, Elizabeth finally won in 1960 for Butterfield 8, a role she detested. Stripped of the trappings of glamour, Elizabeth's greatest role was her dynamic performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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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....
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