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Elizabeth Taylor
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Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, often referred to
as Liz Taylor, was an English-born American actress. Beginning as a child
star then throughout her adulthood, she was known for her acting talent,
glamour, beauty, and striking violet eyes. Her much publicized private life
included eight marriages, several life-threatening illnesses, and decades
spent as a social activist, championing the cause of AIDS awareness,
research and cure. Taylor, a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best
Actress, is considered one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's
Golden Age
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in London,
England, on February 27, 1932. Although she was born an English subject, her
parents were Americans. Her mother had been an actress on the stage, but gave up
that vocation when she married. Elizabeth lived in London until the age of
seven, when the family left for the US when the clouds of war began brewing in
Europe in 1939. They sailed without her father, who stayed behind to wrap up the
loose ends of the art business.
The family relocated to Los Angeles, where Mrs. Taylor's own family had moved. A
family friend noticed the strikingly beautiful little Elizabeth and suggested
that she be taken for a screen test. Her test impressed executives at Universal
Pictures enough to sign her to a contract. Her first foray onto the screen was
in There's One Born Every Minute (1942), released when she was ten. Universal
dropped her contract after that one film, but Elizabeth was soon picked up by
MGM.
The first production she made with that studio was Lassie Come Home (1943), and
on the strength of that one film, MGM signed her for a full year. She had
minuscule parts in her next two films, The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) and Jane
Eyre (1943) (the former made while she was on loan to 20th Century-Fox). Then
came the picture that made Elizabeth a star: MGM's National Velvet (1944). She
played Velvet Brown opposite Mickey Rooney. The film was a smash hit, grossing
over $4 million. Elizabeth now had a long-term contract with MGM and was its top
child star. She made no films in 1945, but returned in 1946 in Courage of Lassie
(1946). In 1947, when she was 15, she starred in Life with Father (1947) with
such heavyweights as William Powell, Irene Dunne and Zasu Pitts.
Throughout the rest of the 1940s and into the early 1950s Elizabeth appeared in
film after film with mostly good results. Her busiest year was 1954, with roles
in Rhapsody (1954), Beau Brummell (1954), The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) and
Elephant Walk (1954). She was 22 now, and even at that young age was considered
one of the world's great beauties. In 1955 she appeared in the hit Giant (1956)
with James Dean.
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