| Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932, London – 23 March, 2011, Los Angeles) was an Anglo-American actress. During her heyday, she was considered the “Queen of Hollywood” and Elizabeth Taylor won the Academy Award twice in the “Best Actress” category. She was the first actress with a remuneration of one million dollars. Elizabeth Taylor’s twists and turns in her personal life and her eight marriages attracted no less attention than her acting career.
Biography:
The parents of future star were Francis Lenn Taylor (December 28, 1897 - November 20, 1968) and actress Sarah Viola Warmbrodt (stage name “Sarah Sozern” August 21, 1895 - September 11, 1994). Elizabeth was born in London but with the beginning of World War II, the family relocated to the U.S.A. Elisabeth had an elder brother called Howard.
Elizabeth Taylor started her film career in 1942 and two years later, the audience remembers her as a young rider in the unfading family classic "National Velvet." In 1949, she played her first "adult" role in the film "Conspirator" with her friend Robert Taylor.
At first, critics were very skeptical about the acting talent of the young beauty, but Taylor’s acting prowess in the drama "A Place in the Sun" (1951) with Montgomery Clift forced them to change their opinion. In 1956, she co-starred with James Dean in the cult film "Giant". Roles in the film adaptations of plays by Tennessee Williams "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958) and "Suddenly, Last Summer"(1959) were the next step to glory. By this time, the tabloids relentlessly discussed the tragic death of her third husband and other details of her personal life.
In 1961, Taylor received a flattering offer to play the role of Cleopatra in the historical film of the same name for an unprecedented fee (during those days) of one million dollars. It was she, who introduced "Cleopatra's eyes" with strong black eyeliner into fashion. Although the film did not fare well at the box-office, the whirlwind romance of Taylor with Richard Burton, who played the character of Mark Antony, broke out on the sets of the film. In 1964, they were married, divorced ten years later, a year later, once again tied the knot and divorced a year later. During this period, they together appeared in eleven films. Once, Burton presented the most precious pearl in the world to her – L a Peregrina.
During her married life with Burton, Elizabeth Taylor started putting on weight. Her problems with drugs and alcohol were already known to the public. Movies with Taylor were not paying off and she was forced to turn to the theater at the age of 45 that literally brought down the curtains on her film career. In 1976, she starred in “The Blue Bird” - a Soviet-American musical film, with the same name as that of the play by Maurice Maeterlinck.
Health problems continued to haunt Taylor in subsequent years. In 1997, she was operated to remove a brain tumor. Prior to that, Taylor was admitted to hospital with the pulmonary disease, cardiac arrhythmia. She also underwent surgery for the implantation of artificial hip joints in both the legs. In 2002, she had received treatment for skin cancer. In the 1980s, she became friends with Michael Jackson and organized several charitable projects with him. After his death in June 2009, Taylor was hospitalized with severe stress. Also in 2009, the actress underwent heart surgery. The purpose of the surgery was to fix a heart valve by installing a special micro-device. On February 12, 2011, the actress was once again hospitalized with symptoms, similar to the clinical manifestations of heart failure.
Elizabeth Taylor was an American actress of English descent and one of the most brilliant stars of the 50's and 60's. She started her career with the roles of young girls and later began portraying serious dramatic roles. Elizabeth Taylor acted in films such as "Butterfield 8" (I960, Oscar), "Cleopatra" (1963), "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966, Oscar) and others. Taylor’s 8 husbands were - Nick Hilton, Michael Wilding, Michael Todd, Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton (6th and 7th husband), John Warner, and Larry Fortensky.
Michael Todd gifted her 30 carat, 1 ½ inch diameter diamond on her 24th birthday and in addition, a Rolls-Royce car and paintings by Degas. On her 31st birthday, Richard Burton gave her a 23.3 carat Krupp diamond and a "La Peregrina., gifted by Mary Tudor in 1554 and also a unique necklace, in which the diamond the “Taj Mahal” reigns.
Elizabeth Taylor had four children. Three of them are born to her and one was an adopted girl “Maria”, from Germany. She was born in a very poor family and survived after surgery through a miracle. Two sons were born from her second marriage - Michael Wilding and Michael Todd is the father of her daughter.
In 2011, a biopic was readied, in which Elizabeth Taylor’s role was to be essayed either by Angelina Jolie or by Catherine Zeta Jones. The film would be made on the book “Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century” by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger.
In February 2011, the actress was hospitalized due to heart problems. From February 13, she was under the constant supervision of doctors, but despite this, Elizabeth Taylor died of heart failure on March 23, 2011. Elizabeth Taylor was 79 years old. |
Elizabeth Taylor, the last of the great Hollywood studio stars and the first of the modern mega-celebrities, died of congestive heart failure Wednesday morning at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Although seemingly ageless, she was in fact 79. She was nominated for five Oscars and won twice, for "Butterfield 8" (1961) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1967). She married eight times, twice to Richard Burton. She stole husbands only to abandon them and became an ever larger object of fascination as a result. She was full of life till her last days. During a stay in hospital, she tweeted to Kathy Ireland: "Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?"
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