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.
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)
AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is the American Film Institute's list ranking the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history and is the second list of the AFI 100 Years... series.
Image: Humphrey Bogart 1940
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Image: Grant, Cary (Suspicion) 01 Crisco edit