Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor Biography

Birth of Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor

Taylor appears in her first motion picture at the age of nine in Theres One Born Every Minute

MGM cast Taylor in Lassie Come Home

Appears in National Velvet, alongside fellow young actor Mickey Rooney and Angela Lansbury

National Velvet, which costarred fellow young actor Mickey Rooney and English newcomer Angela Lansbury, became a great success upon its release

Taylor is cast in another animal film, Courage of Lassie in which Bill the dog outsmarts the Nazis

Taylor begins filming George Stevens A Place In The Sun. Before Conspirators 1949 release, a Time cover article called her "a jewel of great price, a true star sapphire", and the leader among Hollywoods next generation of stars

Taylors first picture under her new salary of $2,000 per week was The Big Hangover. Her first box office success in an adult role came as Kay Banks in the romantic comedy Father of the Bride alongside Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett

A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American drama film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play, also titled An American Tragedy, which was adapted by Patrick Kearney from the novel. A Place in the Sun, directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Michael Wilson, and stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, and Raymond Burr

Appears opposite Rock Hudson and James Dean in George Stevens epic Giant

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Raintree County

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Suddenly, Last Summer

Wins an Academy Award for BUtterfield 8

Wins an Academy Award for BUtterfield 8. Taylor became the highest paid actress up to that time when she signed a one million dollar contract to play the title role in Twentieth Century Foxs lavish production of Cleopatra which is released in 1963

Second Academy Award, also for Best Actress in a Leading Role, was for her performance as Martha in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Second Academy Award, also for Best Actress in a Leading Role, was for her performance as Martha in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Liz Taylors 5th divorce (Richard Burton)

Death of Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor