Elizabeth Taylor Death

Elizabeth Taylor Death, Dame Elizabeth Rosemond “Liz” Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age. As one of the world’s most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting ability and for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty and distinctive violet eyes.

National Velvet (1944) was Taylor’s first success, and she starred in Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960), played the title role in Cleopatra (1963), and married her co-star Richard Burton. They appeared together in 11 films, including Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which Taylor won a second Academy Award. From the mid-1970s, she appeared less frequently in film, and made occasional appearances in television and theatre.

Her much publicized personal life included eight marriages and several life-threatening illnesses. From the mid-1980s, Taylor championed HIV and AIDS programs; she co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1993. She received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Legion of Honour, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, who named her seventh on their list of the “Greatest American Screen Legends”. Taylor died of congestive heart failure in March 2011 at the age of 79, having suffered many years of ill health.

Liz Taylor

Liz Taylor, (AP) – Elizabeth Taylor was hospitalized for treatment of congestive heart failure. The Oscar winner was Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, spokeswoman Sally Morrison said. The 78-year Taylor first submission in November 2004 she was suffering from congestive heart failure. The condition was aggravated by other ailments, including spinal fractures and the effects of scoliosis. Morrison does not know how long Taylor is in hospital. Taylor had been scheduled to attend a benefit amfAR gala Wednesday night in New York, where she was to receive an award alongside President Bill Clinton and designer Diane von Furstenberg, to celebrate their dedication to research on AIDS.

Elton John has accepted the honor on her behalf.

The actress had been fighting near-fatal pneumonia in 1961 and 1990, and another respiratory infection forced her to cancel all engagements for several weeks in late 1992. Both hip joints were replaced in 1994 and 1995.

She also fought against ulcers, amoebic dysentery, bursitis, and had a benign brain tumor removed in 1997. In recent years she has had to use a wheelchair in public.

Taylor, who appeared in over 50 films, won Oscars for her roles in “Butterfield 8” (1960) and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966). But she was equally famous for her marriages – all eight of them, including two to Richard Burton – and battles throughout the substance abuse, weight and physical disorders, including many visits to hospital for more than 20 major operations and treatments of countless.

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