Career In Pictures: Elizabeth Taylor
Eight marriages, 50 movies, two Oscars, 100 operations, a fortune of £360m…
Elizabeth Taylor, aged 12, as Velvet Brown in National Velvet, 1944
Elizabeth Taylor on set during the filming of National Velvet
Elizabeth Taylor as Kathie Eleanor Merrick in 1946′s Courage of Lassie
Courage of Lassie, 1946
Courage of Lassie, 1946
From left to right, Margaret O’Brien, Janet Leigh, June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor in Little Woman in 1949
Elizabeth Taylor, left, as Leslie Benedict, alongside Rock Hudson and James Dean, right, in the 1956 film, Giant
Elizabeth Taylor as Susanna Drake in Raintree County. In 1957 Taylor was awarded a Golden Globe Special Award for consistent performance
In 1958 Elizabeth Taylor played Maggie Pollitt alongside Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Taylor was nominated for Best Actress in the Oscars and won a BAFTA Award as Best Foreign Actress for her role in the film
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958
Elizabeth Taylor as Catherine Holly in Suddenly, Last Summer in 1959
Taylor was once again nominated for Best Actress at the the Oscars for her role in the film
Elizabeth Taylor as Gloria Wandrous in the 1960′s film Butterfield 8
Taylor finally won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Butterfield 8
ELizabeth Taylor alongside Richard Burton in Cleopatra in 1963
Cleopatra, 1963
Cleopatra, 1963
Cleopatra, 1963
Elizabeth Taylor as Martha with Richard Burton in the 1966 film Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The film saw Elizabeth Taylor win her second Oscar for Best Actress
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966
Richard Burton kisses Elizabeth Taylor in the 1967 film Taming of the Shrew
Elizabeth Taylor as Rosie Probert with Peter O’Toole in Under Milk Wood in 1972
Elizabeth Taylor, left, as Marina Rudd, Rock Hudson and Kim Novak as they appear in The Mirror Crack’d in 1980
Elizabeth Taylor as Pearl Slaghoople in The Flintstones in 1994
Posted on March 24, 2011 | Filed Under Movies
Leave a Reply
