“So much to do, so little done, such things to be.” –Elizabeth Taylor, February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011
Elizabeth Taylor, the movie star, beauty icon, and serial wife, died today of congestive heart failure at 79 in Los Angeles. She is best known for movies like National Velvet and Cleopatra and has acted in almost 50 films throughout her career. Liz was an accomplished woman who balanced her beauty and talent with grace and humor. Barbara Walters remarked today on The View that Taylor was “the last great movie star.”
Taylor maintained a great sense of humor throughout the public’s obsession with private life, once remarking about her many husbands, “I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too – for being married so many times.” Her strength in the face of scandal is a quality modern collegiettes™ can admire.
Taylor was also an important activist—she founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research and donated much of her time and money to the cause. Though she is known for her expensive jewelry, Taylor never hesitated to give back.
Charitable, talented, and gorgeous: Elizabeth Taylor will be missed. What will you remember about this “last great movie star”?
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/movies/elizabeth-taylor-obituary.html?…