Person:Elizabeth Taylor (257)

  1. Elizabeth Taylor1932 - 2011
m. 6 May 1950
m. 21 Feb 1952
  • HMike Todd1909 - 1958
  • WElizabeth Taylor1932 - 2011
m. 2 Feb 1957
m. 12 May 1959
m. 15 Mar 1964
m. 4 Dec 1976
m. 6 Oct 1991

Facts and Events

Name[5] Elizabeth Taylor
Gender Female
Birth[1][4] 27 Feb 1932 Hampstead, London, England
Marriage 6 May 1950 to Conrad Hilton
Divorce 29 Jan 1951 from Conrad Hilton
Marriage 21 Feb 1952 to Michael Wilding
Divorce 26 Jan 1957 from Michael Wilding
Marriage 2 Feb 1957 to Mike Todd
Marriage 12 May 1959 to Edwin John Fisher
Divorce 6 Mar 1964 from Edwin John Fisher
Marriage 15 Mar 1964 Montréal, Île-de-Montréal, Québec, Canadato Richard Burton
Divorce 26 Jun 1974 from Richard Burton
Other 10 Oct 1975 BotswanaRe-marriage
with Richard Burton
Divorce 29 Jul 1976 from Richard Burton
Marriage 4 Dec 1976 to John William Warner
Divorce 7 Nov 1982 from John William Warner
Marriage 6 Oct 1991 to Larry Fortensky
Divorce 31 Oct 1996 from Larry Fortensky
Death[2] 23 Mar 2011 Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
Burial[4] Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States
Reference Number? Q34851?

Biography

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world’s highest paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood cinema.

Born in London to socially prominent American parents, Taylor moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1939. She made her acting debut with a minor role in the Universal Pictures film There's One Born Every Minute (1942), but the studio ended her contract after a year. She was then signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and became a popular teen star after appearing in National Velvet (1944). She transitioned to mature roles in the 1950s, when she starred in the comedy Father of the Bride (1950) and received critical acclaim for her performance in the drama A Place in the Sun (1951). Despite being one of MGM's most bankable stars, Taylor wished to end her career in the early 1950s. She resented the studio's control and disliked many of the films to which she was assigned. She began receiving more enjoyable roles in the mid-1950s, beginning with the epic drama Giant (1956), and starred in several critically and commercially successful films in the following years. These included two film adaptations of plays by Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959); Taylor won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for the latter. Although she disliked her role as a call girl in BUtterfield 8 (1960), her last film for MGM, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.

During the production of the film Cleopatra in 1961, Taylor and co-star Richard Burton began an extramarital affair, which caused a scandal. Despite public disapproval, they continued their relationship and were married in 1964. Dubbed "Liz and Dick" by the media, they starred in 11 films together, including The V.I.P.s (1963), The Sandpiper (1965), The Taming of the Shrew (1967), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Taylor received the best reviews of her career for Woolf, winning her second Academy Award and several other awards for her performance. She and Burton divorced in 1974 but reconciled soon after, remarrying in 1975. The second marriage ended in divorce in 1976.

Taylor's acting career began to decline in the late 1960s, although she continued starring in films until the mid-1970s, after which she focused on supporting the career of her sixth husband, United States Senator John Warner (R-Virginia). In the 1980s, she acted in her first substantial stage roles and in several television films and series. She became the second celebrity to launch a perfume brand, after Sophia Loren. Taylor was one of the first celebrities to take part in HIV/AIDS activism. She co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985 and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991. From the early 1990s until her death, she dedicated her time to philanthropy, for which she received several accolades, including the Presidential Citizens Medal. Throughout her career, Taylor's personal life was the subject of constant media attention. She was married eight times to seven men, converted to Judaism, endured several serious illnesses, and led a jet set lifestyle, including assembling one of the most expensive private collections of jewelry in the world. After many years of ill health, Taylor died from congestive heart failure in 2011, at the age of 79.

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References
  1. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
  2. BBC News.
  3.   Elizabeth Taylor, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Elizabeth Taylor, in Find A Grave
    23 March 2011.

    Memorial page also includes a long biography.

    Elizabeth Taylor
  5. Vintage Inspiration: British-American Hollywood Actress Elizabeth Taylor, in Mrs. Button's Vintage Corner
    21 Aug 2014.

    Impressive photo chronology of Elizabeth Taylor, along with personal reflections by the blog author, Doris Button.