(ANSA) - NEW YORK, MARCH 23 - Ten years ago the great ladies of the cinema disappeared.
Elizabeth Taylor died on March 23, 2011, she was 79 and the death was caused by a cardiac arrest.
However, the actress had been suffering from heart for a long time.
Considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, Taylor has left a legacy in Hollywood that has few precedents.
Born on the outskirts of London to American parents, Liz made her film debut as a child with films such as Back Home, Lassie!
(1943) and Grand Prix (1944).
The pinnacle of success came between the fifties and sixties with, to name a few, The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof (1958), Suddenly Last Summer (1959), Cleopatra (1963), The Taming of the Shrew (1967).
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice in 1961 for Venus in Mink and in 1967 for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?.
The diva was one of the first top-level actresses to pose almost naked in Playboy and always among the first to appear without veils in a circuit film.
Elizabeth Taylor also had a tumultuous private life, married eight times and had seven husbands.
She was in fact married twice with Richard Burton.
And the actress was also very active on a humanitarian level, engaging in battles such as against AIDS.
In particular, after RockHudson's death in 1985 she was one of the founders of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR).
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