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Tribute To Elizabeth Taylor
The Diva, the greatest actor in the world, the woman with 7 husbands, the actress who won two Oscars, the perfect beauty, the most envied, gawked at woman in the world.
Liz Taylor (February 27, 1932 - March 23, 2011) is of the ages. We take a look at her 10 greatest films... -
National Velvet, 1944
As determined girl jockey Velvet Brown, Taylor portrayed an ideal mix of idealistic horse-crazy dreamer and hard-headed stubbornness and the role made 12-year-old Taylor a star.
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Little Women, 1949
She played the pretty, spoiled Amy who eventually learns the value of family in this classic, based on Louisa May Alcott's classic book.
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Father Of The Bride, 1950
Taylor leaves girlish roles behind to play bride-to-be Kay, with Spencer Tracy as the dad who's torn by having to give her away.
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A Place In The Sun, 1951
The first time (of three) that Taylor appeared onscreen with darkly handsome Montgomery Clift. Pure chemistry results with Taylor taking part in a love triangle loaded with melodrama.
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Giant, 1956
Rock Hudson, James Dean and a story about a Texas cattle spread out in a movie that's truly epic in scope.
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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, 1958
Maggie the Cat in her signature white chiffon dress making 'the nightly pleadings' and hearing 'the nightly refusals' from Paul Newman as her tormented husband Brick.
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Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959
Taylor is a doomed heroine with a dark secret and a scheming auntie (Katharine Hepburn) who thinks a lobotomy will cure her of her black moods. One of Taylor's best.
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Butterfield 8, 1960
Taylor wins her first Oscar for playing model and sometime call girl Gloria Wandrous.
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Cleopatra, 1963
Hugely expensive, massively, Cleopatra was the perfect vehicle for Taylor, who began her affair with co-star Richard Burton on the set.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?, 1966
Glamorous Taylor plays the shrill, drunken Martha, who loves nothing more than emotionally attacking her husband, George (Burton).
