Elizabeth Taylor

Three film stars together, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Faye Dunaway, 1979. (Photo by Terry O'Neill/Getty Images)

Terry O'Neill/Hulton Archive

Elizabeth Taylor was the ultimate movie star: violet-eyed, luminously beautiful, and bigger than life; although never the most gifted actress, she was the most magnetic, commanding the spotlight with unparalleled power. Few figures have been the recipient of such adoration, the target of such ridicule, or the subject of such gossip and innuendo, and where so many before and after her withered a... Read More