Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were a perfect match for Shakespeare's feuding
Kate and Petruchio in Franco Zeffirelli's 1967 production of "The Taming of the Shrew."

In all Tayor and Burton appeared in 11 films together.

A poster for "Reflections in a Golden Eye" with Marlon BRando and Elizabeth Taylor.
The 1967 film, directed by John Huston and based on a Carson McCullers novel,
dealt with repressed homosexuality.

Taylor appeared as the alluring apparition who helps tempt Richard Burton
as "Doctor Faustus" (1967). Burton co-directed this adaptation of an Oxford
University production of the 16th century Christopher Marlowe classic.

Taylor received her fifth Academy Award nomination for Best Actress (and her second Oscar)
for her searing performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1966), based on Edward
Albee's play of a warring couple. It was director Mike Nichols' first feature film, which
broke Hollywood taboos on language and provided Taylor and Burton with their most
electrifying screen pairing.

Taylor appeared with Burton in "Boom" (1968), Tennessee Williams' own screen
adatation of his play, "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore." The allegory,
set on a secluded island, featured Burton as a figurative Angel of Death, and Noel
Coward as "the Witch of Capri." It was not received well by critics.

In "X, Y and Zee" (1971), Taylor tries to undo the romantic triangle created when
husband Michael Caine begins an affair with Susannah York.

Suspending disbelief when watching "Ash Wednesday" (1973) means accepting
41-year-old Taylor as a 55-year-old woman who undergoes full-body plastic surgery
in order to win over a philandering husband (played by Henry Fonda). What was
more believable was her affair with young playboy Hemut Berger.

The 1976 Russian-American co-production "The Blue Bird" - one of many filmings of the
Maurice Maeterlinck play - was directed by Hollywod veteran George Cukor, and starred
Taylor alongside a young Patsy Kensit and Todd Lookinland. Also in the cast: Ava
Gardner, Cicely Tyson, Robert Morley and Jane Fonda.

Taylor starred in Harold Prince's 1977 film adaptation of the wistful
Stephen Sondheim musical, "A Little Night Music."

Elizabeth Taylor and musician Elton John backstage at the Spectrum Theater
in Philadelphia, on July 7, 1976.

Elizabeth Taylor and Victor Luna at the Tavern on the Green
in Central Park, on May 8, 1983, in New York.

Elizabeth Taylor at the 40th Annual Cannes International Film Festival,
on May 13, 1987, in Cannes, France.

Elizabeth Taylor attends a gala benefiting AIDS research at the Paradis
Latin theater on Nov. 11, 1985, in Paris.

Elizabeth Taylor testifies before the Senate Appropriations Labor and Health
Subcommittee Senate committee, asking to appropriate funds for AIDS research,
May 8, 1986, on Capital Hill.

Elizabeth Taylor addresses the National Press Club in Washington, on June 3,
1987, as part of her activities to raise funds for AIDS research.

Elizabeth Taylor and her husband Larry Fortensky, arrive at the "Cirque du Soleil"
opening performance, Oct. 9, 1992, in Santa Monica, Calif.

Elizabeth Taylor holds up a diamond mask for photographers at a fine jewelry
auction, on April 13, 1992, to benefit the American Foundation for AIDS research.

Elizabeth Taylor speaks to the large crowd at Wembley Stadium,
April 20, 1992, in London, during a concert in memory of Queen
frontman Freddie Mercury, who died of AIDS in 1991.

Elizabeth Taylor attends amfAR's (American Foundation for Aids Research)
annual "Cinema Against AIDS" benefit during the Cannes International Film
Festival in Cannes, France, May 20, 1993.

Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson backstage at the American
Music Awards, on Jan. 25, 1993, in Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Taylor makes a speech at charity dinner for the American
Fundation for AIDS Research (amFAR) in Tokyo, on Sept. 27, 1994.

Passport Foundation Chair Elizabeth Taylor, event chair, Earvin "Magic" Johnson,
and co-chair Cindy Crawford during Macy's American Express Passport fashion show
in Santa Monica, Calif., Sept. 23, 2000, to raise funds for HIV/AIDS research and treatment.

Elizabeth Taylor, her granddaughter Naomi, and Dr. Mathilde Krim,
attend a benefit for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR),
June 21, 2000, on Ellis Island in New York.
Taylor was the co-founder of the foundation.

Magic Johnson, with Elizabeth Taylor, and Reba McEntire
on stage at Macy's Passport 2001, a fashion fundraiser for HIV/AIDS,
Sept. 22, 2001, in Santa Monica, Calif.