Her talent - like her love life - was an open book. With two Oscars and one honorary award
to her name this
violet-eyed damsel left behind a legend
that many will not
be able to surpass.
At first take it is the immense beauty
which strikes you
but look again.
What you see is talent
at its best when
the material was
her equal
Elizabeth Taylor took the world by storm 1944’s National Velvet. She was a mere 12 year old then, getting into the skin of a horse lover named Velvet Brown. However it was actually through 1956’s Giant that she carved a niche as an actress. As the bold, beautiful wife of a Texas ranch owner she set the pattern for her career. Performances in movies like Raintree County, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly, Last Summer earned her Academy Award nominations but it was not until she starred as a woman with a string of illicit affairs in Butterfield 8 that she was able to take the award home. In early 1960s she became the highest paid actress up to that time when she signed a million dollar contract to star in 20th Century Fox’s Cleopatra. But it is only towards the middle of her career that the starlet dished out her best performance as Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf?. The 1967 movie brought her yet another Oscar Best Actress award.
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