She was a sensation in National Velvet at the age of 12, with her gorgeous violet eyes and porcelain skin. As she blossomed through her teens, Elizabeth Taylor transformed herself into the “Most Beautiful Woman in the World.” As the international icon once noted, “I can’t remember a day when I wasn’t famous.” How will we remember her? Certainly for her movies, where she lit up the screen in A Placein the Sun with Montgomery Clift or as Rock Hudson’s young wife in Giant or as
Maggie to Paul Newman’s Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Nominated five times forAcademy Awards as Best Actress, Taylor won twice, for Butterfield 8 and for her braying Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? Her love affairs captivated the world as much as her movies