Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE was an English-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. 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 was married eight times to seven men, converted to Judaism, endured several serious illnesses, and led a jet set lifestyle. Taylor died from congestive heart failure in 2011, at the age of 79.
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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE was an English-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. 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 continued her career successfully into the 1960s and remained 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 all time. She was married eight times to seven men, converted to Judaism, endured several serious illnesses, and led a jet set lifestyle. Taylor died from congestive heart failure in 2011, at the age of 79. She received dual British-American citizenship at birth, as her parents, art dealer Francis Lenn Taylor and retired stage actress Sara Sothern, were United States citizens, both originally from Arkansas City, Kansas. They moved to London in 1929 and opened an art gallery on Bond Street; their first child, a son named Howard, was born the same year. Their social circle included artists such as John Augustus Cazalet, and politicians such as Colonel Victor Czalet. Taylor was raised according to the teachings of her mother and Christian Science, the mother of her son Howard, and enrolled in Byron House Highgate, a Montessori school in Hampstead, London, when she was 11 years old. In the early 1930s, the Taylors decided to return to the United States due to the impending war.
She moved to Los Angeles in 1939. She made her acting debut in a minor role in the Universal Pictures film There’s One Born Every Minute 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. She transitioned to more mature roles in the 1940s and received critical acclaim for her performance in the drama A Place in the Sun. Despite being one of MGM’s most bankable stars, Taylor resented the studio’s control and disliked many of the films to which she was assigned. 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. In the 1980s, she acted in her first substantial stage roles and in several television films and series. She co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8, her last film for MGM, in which she played a call girl. Taylor received the best reviews of her career for Virginia Woolf, winning her second Academy Award and several other awards. She and co-star Richard Burton starred in 11 films together, including The V. I. P. s, The Sandpiper, The Taming of the Shrew, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia WoolF?.
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