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HindustanTimes Sun,19 May 2013

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Elizabeth Taylor: Beauty in pics
23-Mar

Over a five-decade career she won two Academy Awards for best actress, including in the 1966 classic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? one of many films where she played opposite her two-times husband Richard Burton. (AP Photo/File)
Over a five-decade career she won two Academy Awards for best actress, including in the 1966 classic Who
       
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A child prodigy, an Academy award winner and a style diva, Elizabeth Taylor passed away on Wednesday at 79. Here
Elizabeth Taylor was married eight times to seven husbands. (Getty Images) Elizabeth Taylor: Beauty in pics
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in Hampstead and was the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor and Sara Viola Warmbrodt, who were Americans residing in England. In the pic she stands with her brother, Howard. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Elizabeth Taylor: Beauty in pics
Elizabeth Taylor died peacefully on Wednesday in Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Elizabeth Taylor: Beauty in pics
In her later years as her health failed she retired from the public gaze, although she notably attended the 2009 funeral of her long-time friend Michael Jackson, while she remained active in raising funds to battle AIDS/HIV. Elizabeth Taylor: Beauty in pics
Elizabeth Taylor debuted in 1942 in There
Her second Academy Award, also for Best Actress in a Leading Role, was for her performance as Martha in Who
Over a five-decade career she won two Academy Awards for best actress, including in the 1966 classic Who
She married for the first time in 1950, aged 18, to playboy hotel chain heir Nicky Hilton. The marriage lasted 203 days. (Getty images) Elizabeth Taylor: Beauty in pics
By 1952 she had tied the knot with British matinee idol Michael Wilding, 19 years her senior. They had two children, Michael Jr. and Christopher. REUTERS/HO/The Kennedy Center Elizabeth Taylor: Beauty in pics
In 1962 came Cleopatra surely the most bizarre piece of entertainment ever perpetrated," Taylor said of the production, at the time the most expensive in Hollywood history. Taylor was paid a record million dollars. Elizabeth Taylor: Beauty in pics
Taylor won her first Academy Award, for Best Actress in a Leading Role, for her performance as Gloria Wandrous in BUtterfield 8 (1960), which co-starred then husband Eddie Fisher. Elizabeth Taylor: Beauty in pics
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