Elizabeth Taylor passed on today (24 March 2011) at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.
A consummate actress, Taylor acted in her first film at the age of 10, three years after her American parents had returned to the United States from London, where she was born in Hampstead in 1932.
After just one film, she was hired by MGM, and became a child star with National Velvet, starring opposite Mickey Rooney.
One of the longest-surviving stars of the old studio system, she was widely acclaimed for her roles Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Raintree Country and Cleopatra - as well as Butterfield 8, for which she won her first Oscar in 1960.
This blog says good-bye to another legend.
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