Two-time Oscar winning actress Elizabeth Taylor has died of congestive heart failure at the age of 79. The violet-eyed star, who had been hospitalized at Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai Hospital, passed away on March 23 surrounded by her children.
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in London, England, on February 27, 1932 to American parents. When war began brewing in Europe, the family relocated to Los Angeles where the beautiful young Elizabeth began acting in films at the age of ten. Her breakout role came in 1944’s National Velvet. In her 70-year career, Taylor starred in more than 50 films, including hits like Giant, opposite James Dean and Cleopatra, as well as the defining film versions of Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. She won Oscars for her roles in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Butterfield 8.
Perhaps paving her way to Broadway, Taylor starred as Desiree Armfeldt in the 1977 film version of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, directed by legendary stage director Harold Prince. She went on to make her Broadway debut as Regina Giddens in a 1981 revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, for which she ...
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