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Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was a British-American actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Born in London, England to American parents from Arkansas City, Kansas, she grew up in Beverly Hills, California after her family left Europe on the eve of World War II in 1939. She became an MGM film star during the 1940s, and she achieved the pinnacle of her critical and commercial success during the 1950s. In 1964, she married her former co-star Richard Burton, and they starred in 11 films together before Burton's alcoholism led to their divorce in 1974, remarriage in 1975, and final divorce in 1976. By this point, her career had declined, and, in 1976, she remarried to US Senator John Warner and supported his political career, becoming a politically active Republican. During the 1980s, she became a stage actress and an HIV/AIDS activist, and she died in Los Angeles in 2011 at the age of 79.

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