Elizabeth Taylor's death means the disappearance of one of the last great myth of the golden age of Hollywood.
Its classic and timeless beauty, legendary acting in films but also his busy private life marked by his collection of eight couples-make the actress in one of the great icons of the twentieth century, those whose legend will always be timeless.
Actress violet eyes, 79 years old, died on Wednesday at the Medical Center Cedars-Sinai and heart failure after a long illness.
She won two Oscars as best actress award he was nominated or 
after three occasions.
Taylor was part of the Olympian gods, or goddesses, with names like Katherine Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Lauren Bacall and eternally glamorous image and its undeniable beauty comes immediately to our memory to think of film history capitalized.
She was also was one of the first celebrities of our era best known in the latter part of his career for the busy swinging his private life. Taylor was married eight times, two of them with the love of his life Richard Burton, whom he met on the set of Cleopatra when they were both were married to others. His life full of scandals and revolutionary roles and character and charismatic rebel marked his career. Career
Born in London on a February 27, 1932 in his debut film occurred at an early age, as a child prodigy from 9 years to realize the promise with his first films of adolescence and was able to bring out the transition to maturity of a veteran Hollywood.
ITS SEVEN EIGHT HUSBANDS AND MARRIAGES
- Conrad Hilton (May 6, 1950 - January 29, 1951 divorce)
- Michael Wilding (February 21, 1952 - January 26, 1957 divorce)
- Michael Todd (February 2 widow 1957-March 22, 1958) Eddie
- Fisher (May 12, 1959 - June marzo1964 divorce)
- Richard Burton (March 15, 1964 - June 1974 divorce)
- Richard Burton (October 10, 1975 - July 29, 1976 divorce)
- John Warner (December 4, 1976 - Divorce November 7, 1982 ) (Separated)
- Larry Fortensky (October 6, 1991 - October 31, 1996 divorce)
"National Velvet," directed in 1944 by Clarence Bown and he shared the deal with Mickey Rooney, was the film that launched her into stardom. The shooting, in which she played a young rider, became a blockbuster at the time.
From then would begin a long career of over 50 film roles characterized by particularly revolutionary and scandalous for its time.
His second breakthrough would be "a place beside the sun", in which she plays a high society girl whose love for George Eastman, Kodak magnate and performed by Montgomery Clift, will have tragic consequences.
Although she said this was the first paper "in which he was asked act "and served to consecrate its beauty as the standard for a decade.
In" Giant "(1956), another of the great films of his career, he shared role with the legendary James Dean and Rock Hudson, you join a deep friendship that lasted until the death of the actor.
He went on to become the wife sexually repressed and outrageously sensual reply gave a great Paul Newman in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" One of the myths of his career.
Tennessee William's film catapulted no only one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood had happened, but also as one of the most talented, despite not getting the Oscar for which it was nominated.
not got the coveted statuette, which was snatched by Katherine Hepburn, his co-star, for "Suddenly Summer" (1959).
lavish Cleopatra
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Barton staged a love story movie.
But he did, however, in 1960 for the film "Butterfield 8" ("A Marked Woman") of 1960, three years before playing another of their historical roles. Taylor gave birth to what is considered one of the most beautiful and powerful women in history, "Cleopatra" in 1963, with Richard Burton.
The film was famous at that time to be the most lavish and most expensive in history at that time ($ 19 million) more than for its artistic quality.
also by scandals off the shoot: When Burton and Taylor began their love story, extended until his death in 1984, both were married to other people.
Alongside Burton, Elizabeth Taylor also would roll "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" the last great film of his career for which he won a second Academy Award in 1966 given to her portrayal of Martha fat and extremely unpleasant.
His private life was almost as shocking as many of the roles he played. His first marriage occurred at age 18 when she married Conrad Hilton, a scion of a luxury hotel chain.
Four years later he would Michael Wilding, which had two sons, Chris and Michael.
however not take much to change a husband.
Just three years later, Taylor contracted marriage to film producer Mike Todd, who had a daughter, Liza.
is said that Todd's death in a plane crash shortly after left her devastated.
singer Eddie Fisher became his shoulder to cry on and apparently the strategy worked. With him star in another of the scandals of those times as many claim that Taylor "stole" the husband of actress Debbie Reynolds, her best friend before.
Taylor was one of the most beautiful actresses that went through Hollywood.
Fisher-Taylor marriage in 1959 lasted five years. Fisher was the man with whom Taylor was married when he met Richard Burton.
With Burton, Taylor married twice: in 1964 in a first instance that lasted 10 years to get a divorce in 1974 and remarried a year later in a second attempt that lasted just five months.
The relationship between the two great film stars of Olympus kept busy with the gossip columnists in newspapers with its continual fluctuations and disputes.
Still, many say was the love of his life.
The same year he divorced for the second time Burton (1976) Taylor decided to try a former member of the naval forces, John Warner, who later became a Republican senator. Their marriage lasted until 1982.
From then began a theatrical tour with Burton in the play "Private Lives", which received poor reviews.
It then began to make inroads into drug rehab and alcohol, a process that was aggravated when there is Burton's death the following year in 1984.
was in one of these clinics where he met the builder Larry Fortensky, 20 years younger than her and became her late husband, in 1991, at a wedding which caused great excitement and was held at the California ranch of one of the closest friends of the actress, Michael Jackson.
Fortensky was jailed several times for driving under the influence of alcohol and drug-related crimes. He starred alongside another of the scandals of the time: his divorce cost the actress five years later the not inconsiderable sum of $ 1.6 million.
The actress was best known for its beneficial activity in the latter part of his career.
In the last stage of his life beginning in the 90 Taylor made some minor films and began to be better known for his humanitarian work. He became an ambassador for the fight against AIDS, as a result of the loss of his friend Rock Hudson, one of the first large icons to die of this disease.
was also known for its unconditional support for Michael Jackson, against whom he always remained publicly even in the worst moments of sexual scandal of child abuse experienced by the famous singer.
officially retired in 2003. A year later, his health worsened and began to develop the disease and complications of the heart that left him an invalid, unable to walk and prostrate in a wheelchair.
always knew, however, in terms of fame and wealth, probably without a rival in his time and his story.
Despite disease and its collection of marriages and scandals Taylor was known inside.
"I've lived long enough to fill four lives." And surely attest obituaries of many pages on his artistic life, its inexhaustible beauty and fascinating private life.
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