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| Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor died at the age of 79-year on Wednesday |
Elizabeth was famed for her striking blue eyes and eight marriages and a glittering film career. She was born in London February 27, 1932, she was evacuated to California with her American parents in 1939, where she was soon discovered at her father s art gallery by the fiancee of the chairman of Universal Studios. She won two Academy Awards for best actress, including in the 1966 classic "Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" one of many films she played opposite Richard Burton. She debuted in 1942 in "There s One Born Every Minute," and by 1944 had become a child star with "National Velvet," the story of a girl who rides her horse to victory at the Grand National disguised as a boy.
She married for the first time in 1950, aged 18, to playboy hotel chain heir Nicky Hilton. The marriage lasted 203 days, collapsing amid verbal and physical abuse after a lavish Hollywood wedding and a three-month European honeymoon.
