US actress Elizabeth passes away

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Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor died at the age of 79-year on Wednesday.

23 March,2011 08:23 pm

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 fathers art gallery by the fiancee of the chairman of Universal Studios. She won two Academy Awards for best actress, including in the 1966 classic Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? one of many films she played opposite Richard Burton. She debuted in 1942 in Theres 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.