amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, known until 2005 as the American Foundation for AIDS Research, is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and the advocacy of AIDS-related public policy.
Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Taylor Testifying Before the House Budget Committee on HIV-AIDS Funding (5978837887) (cropped)
Mathilde Krim in 1962, the year she departed Cornell Medical College
Liza Minnelli with Kenneth Cole at annual amfAR Gala in 2006
Image: TREAT Asia amf AR
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her seventh on its greatest female screen legends list.
Publicity photo, late 1950s
Two-year old Taylor, mother Sara Sothern, and brother Howard, in 1934
Mickey Rooney and Taylor in National Velvet (1944), her first major film role
Taylor and Jane Powell in A Date with Judy (1948)
