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Article: Elizabeth Taylor as a living legend At 64, she looks back on a film career that began 55 years ago; Some memorable Taylor films 1943 "Lassie Come Home" Elizabeth Taylor thinks of this 1943 film as her first, even though she actually appeared first in "There's One Born Every Minute" when she was 9. She just doesn't remember anything about the earlier film. 1944 "National Velvet" This film, made in 1944 and also starring Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere and Angela Lansbury, is Elizabeth Taylor's favorite. Taylor played a girl who enters her horse in the Grand National Steeplechase. 1966 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis won Oscars for their performances in this 1966 film, but Taylor still feels bad because she believes Richard Burton deserved one as well. Burton, who was nominated eight times, never won an Oscar.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- April 16, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The problem with being a living legend is that the legend can get
in the way of the living. Elizabeth Taylor would be on anybody's
short list of the most famous women on Earth. The trials and
triumphs of her life and career, illuminated variously by klieg
lights and flashbulbs, are as familiar in Karachi as in Kankakee.
Only recently, as herself, she bobbed in and out of four
successive sitcoms one Monday night on CBS, pursuing a supremely
thin and silly subplot about a lost string of black pearls.
There were ritualistic oohs and ahs from each cast at her
presence, and it is probably true that few celebrities would have
merited such a necklace of cameos, although invention seemed to ...