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Dame Elizabeth Taylor, one of the most famous movie legends who ever lived, passed away from heart failure today, it has been announced. British born, she appeared in film ever since she was a child in such perennial favourites as Lassie Come Home, Jane Eyre and National Velvet before growing into one of the screen's most celebrated beauties with films like Father of the Bride (as the bride), A Place in the Sun (with close friend Montgomery Clift, whose life she saved once), Ivanhoe, Giant (with James Dean), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer, Butterfield 8 (for which she won her first Oscar) and infamous flop Cleopatra (in the title role).
Thereafter her choices grew more eccentric as she was a regular in the gossip pages thanks to her many marriages and relationship with troubled Richard Burton, with whom she made a number of films. Later movies included The V.I.P.s, The Sandpiper, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (again with Burton, and again securing an Oscar), Reflections in a Golden Eye, Boom, Secret Ceremony, Under Milk Wood, Night Watch, Ash Wednesday, The Blue Bird remake, Winter Kills, The Mirror Crack'd and her final big screen role in The Flintstones. Many of these latter works afforded her a camp reputation, but her tireless charity work left few in any doubt of her essential good nature. |
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