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...
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.
She played the pretty, spoiled Amy who eventually learns the value of family in this classic, based on Louisa May Alcott's classic book.
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.
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.
Rock Hudson, James Dean and a story about a Texas cattle spread out in a movie that's truly epic in scope.
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.
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.
Taylor wins her first Oscar for playing model and sometime call girl Gloria Wandrous.
Hugely expensive, massively, Cleopatra was the perfect vehicle for Taylor, who began her affair with co-star Richard Burton on the set.
Glamorous Taylor plays the shrill, drunken Martha, who loves nothing more than emotionally attacking her husband, George (Burton).