Two-time Academy Award winner Elizabeth Taylor passed away at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Hospital after a six-year struggle with congestive heart disease, her publicist reported March 23.
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (Elizabeth Taylor) galloped to stardom as a preteen, starring as Velvet Brown (opposite Donald Crisp, Angela Lansbury, Anne Revere and Mickey Rooney) in the 1944 classic horse film National Velvet. The film, released in cinemas just before Christmas 1944, was based on a 1935 novel (of the same name) by Enid Bagnold.
Falling off a horse during the filming of National Velvet, Liz Taylor suffered back problems for the rest of her life.
The British-American Hollywood legend won a pair of acting Oscars (for 1960’s Butterfield 8 and 1966’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). Additional films featuring Taylor included Life with Father, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Cleopatra.
In recent years, Liz Taylor focused her efforts on AIDS activism and marketing her White Diamonds cosmetics line.
Liz Taylor was married eight times. Her various husbands included:
- Conrad Hilton, Jr.
- Michael Wilding
- Mike Todd
- Eddie Fisher
- Richard Burton (twice)
- John Warner
- Larry Fortensky
The violet-eyed silver-screen icon was single when she died peacefully in the California hospital.
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