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Born in London, film star Elizabeth Taylor was a child actor, notably in National Velvet (1944). Later films included Butterfield 8 (1960), which earned her an Oscar, and Cleopatra (1962), which led to her well-publicized marriage to Richard Burton. With Burton, Taylor made several more films, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). In 1985, she founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research. She has been married eight times, including to U.S. Senator John Warner (1976–82).
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Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles; July 3, 1912 – November 19, 1975) was a popular English novelist and short story writer. Elizabeth Coles was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1912. She was educated at The Abbey School, Reading, and worked as a governess, as a tutor and as a librarian.
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By the time she voluntarily retired from filmmaking after a character role as Pearl Slaghoople in The Flintstones(1994), her 51st and last film, Elizabeth Taylor had the longest postwar career of any actress in Hollywood. It was largely as undistinguished as it was lengthy, her abundance of talent and intelligence too often buried, as she herself observed with her customary candor, in a welter of mediocrity. Nevertheless, among her credits, the handful of good roles in worthwhile films rightfully earned her five Academy Award nominations and two Oscars, the French Legion d'Honneur, and the American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement award; while her eloquent campaigning for causes, notably in the field of AIDS research, brought her the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
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In 1963, Elizabeth Taylor became the highest paid movie star up until that time when she accepted $1,000,000 to play the title role in the lavish production of Cleopatra for 20th Century Fox. It was during the filming of that movie that she worked for the first time with future husband Richard Burton, who played Mark Antony. Movie magazines, the forerunners of today's tabloids, had a field day when Taylor and Burton began an affair during filming; both stars were married to other people at the time. In a romantic entanglement that had tongues wagging on every continent, Taylor would trade in husband Eddie Fisher for Burton not long after Fisher had unceremoniously ditched wife Debbie Reynolds for Taylor. Years later, Burton would slyly refer to the whole mess as "la scandale". The episode cemented Taylor's reputation as a dark, hypnotic femme fatale (who was condemned by the Vatican), boosted Reynolds' career as a blonde, all-American sweetheart, and elevated Burton to the front ranks of film stars.
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Born in London in 1932, Elizabeth Taylor began acting in the movies aged ten, after her American art-dealing parents moved back to the States at the onset of war. Signed to Universal Studios, Taylor achieved international stardom with the 1944 classic National Velvet as a keen teen equestrian. Highlights from her illustrious acting career (which garnered five Oscar nominations and two awards) include Ivanhoe, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Butterfield 8, Cleopatra - the most expensive picture ever to be made at that time - Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? and Agatha Christie's The Mirror Crack'd (1977). Married eight times, most famously twice to Richard Burton, she is most famous now for her tireless fund-raising and AIDS awareness campaigning.
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Elizabeth Taylor was born in London February 27, 1932, to American parents who fled the oncoming war in 1939 by returning to the United States. In 1942, the budding beauty caught the eye of talent scouts in Los Angeles and was cast in There's One Born Every Minute. The following year, she was signed to a long-term contract by MGM.
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