Elizabeth Taylor
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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)
Giant (1956 film)
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Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film directed by George Stevens, from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber's 1952 novel.
Cast members and crew at work on the Reata mansion set. The Second-empire Victorian mansion facade designed by Boris Leven became an iconic image for the film.
George Stevens with the Academy Award he received for directing Giant