Elizabeth Taylor: A Film Tribute to The Last Star

Elizabeth Taylor has left the stage…

We will never see her like again…

A great Actress and a great humanitarian who lived life to the fullest…

She was one of the greatest Stars ever to come out of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Her life both on and off the screen was the stuff of legend…

She spoke out for and fought for People With AIDS when everyone else was afraid of the social stigma.  Then she raised over $350 Million for AIDS Research.

She will never be forgotten.  They don’t make’em like her anymore…

She was one hell of a Dame….

“A Place in the Sun” proved she could be a serious actress.  And she appeared in it with her great friend Montgomery Clift, perhaps the only person as beautiful as she was:

She was my favorite Maggie in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”:

“Giant”, with her great friend Rock Hudson and James Dean was to become legendary:

With “Cleopatra”, she became the first actor or actress to be paid $1Million for a film.  She met Richard Burton on the set and fireworks erupted as the two married stars began an affair. It was the scandal of the 20th Century, well after the previous scandal when she stole Eddie Fisher from Debbie Reynolds.

But she became ill and almost died, so all was forgiven. She won her first Oscar for “Butterfield 8” after her recovery and while shooting Cleopatra.  The “Cleopatra” drama almost bankrupted 20th Century Fox.

With “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”, she and Burton gave incredible performances and she won her second Oscar.  Their offscreen dramas only added to the legend:

Perhaps her greatest role came later in her life.  AIDS activism.  She spoke out for people with AIDS when everyone else was afraid to do so.  She raised millions of dollars for AIDS research.

Here is a great interview from that era with Larry King: