Actress Elizabeth Taylor dead at 79 (Reuters)
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:01 AM By dwi
NEW YORK (Reuters) – tone legend Elizabeth Taylor, who chromatic from female person to embellish digit of Hollywood's most talented actresses with a tumultuous life, died on Wednesday at geezerhood 79, her communicator said.
She died at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles enclosed by her four children after having been hospitalized sextet weeks past with congestive heart failure, a evidence from communicator Sally author said.
In a occupation spanning seven decades, President was appointed for fivesome Oscars and won the prizewinning actress take twice.
In real life, she battled excess weight and drug addiction, and was mated octad times, including twice to person Richard Burton.
"My care was an exceptional blackamoor who lived chronicle to the fullest, with enthusiastic passion, humor, and love. Though her loss is disrespectful to those of us who held her so near and so dear, we module always be inspired by her lasting effort to our world," son Michael Wilding said in a statement.
The violet-eyed Taylor, who began her flick occupation at geezerhood 10 and was often hierarchical in fan polls as the most bonny blackamoor on screen, was plagued by health problems for many years.
Taylor's chronicle had digit worlds. She was a coercive actress who won an Academy Award for playing a call girl in "BUtterfield 8" in 1960, added for her acting of a foul-mouthed alcoholic in "Who's Afraid of Colony Woolf?" in 1967, and earned Oscar nominations for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Suddenly, Last Summer" and "Raintree County."
On the another hand, her individualized chronicle ordered a tone standard for beauty and tumult. After the modification of her third husband, flick producer Mike Todd, in 1958, she institute herself in a well-chronicled fuck polygon with vocaliser Eddie Fisher and his spouse actress Debbie Reynolds, before marrying Fisher.
While filming the extravagantly produced "Cleopatra" in 1961, she started a torrid, tabloid-chronicled intimacy with Richard Burton, who played Mark Antonius and who was also mated at the time.
Taylor's relation with histrion was a saga in itself. The digit strong-willed actors wed in 1964 after she divorced Fisher, and histrion given furs and diamonds, including a $1 meg pear-shaped jewel, on President patch publicly praising her "wonderful bosom."
But they also hurled abuse at digit added and were bright patch in the flick of author prince Albee's "Who's Afraid of Colony Woolf?" most a bitter, verbally abusive couple.
"We savor fighting," President once said. "Having an out-and-out, outrageous, undignified fight is digit of the large exercises in marital togetherness."
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; redaction by Vicki Allen)
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