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Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a European British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. As one of the world's most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting ability and for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty and distinctive violet eyes.
National Velvet (1944) was Taylor's first success, and she starred in Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960), played the title role in Cleopatra (1963), and married her co-star Richard Burton. They appeared together in 11 films, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which Taylor won a second Academy Award. From the mid-1970s, she appeared less frequently in film, and made occasional appearances in television and theatre.
Her much publicized personal life included eight marriages and several life-threatening illnesses. From the mid-1980s, Taylor championed HIV and AIDS programs; she co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1993. She received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Legion of Honour, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, who named her seventh on their list of the "Greatest American Screen Legends". Taylor died of congestive heart failure at the age of 79.
As actor
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Brasiliana: The Black Musical That Introduced Brazil to the World
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
Commitment to Life
Paul Newman: The Restless
Rat Pack
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Chavela
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
The End of a Beautiful Epoch
Children of 'Giant'
Destins secrets d’étoiles - Grace, Jackie, Liz, Marilyn…
The Battle of Amfar
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
Hollywood Invasion
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
Judy Garland: By Myself
A Letter to True
Michael Jackson's Private Home Movies
Searching for Debra Winger
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Heart of the Festival