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Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born on the 27th of February 1932 in London to American parents Francis and Sara Taylor. She possessed dual citizenship from birth and her family moved to Los Angeles in 1939 to escape the looming war in Europe.
Elizabeth Taylor was born with eyes so blue they appeared violet due to a genetic mutation that caused dark double eyelashes. This striking feature combined with a directness that unsettled grown-ups initially led Universal Pictures to reject her as a child star.
Elizabeth Taylor died of congestive heart failure aged 79 on the 23rd of March 2011 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She had been hospitalized six weeks prior to her death and her funeral took place the following day at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Elizabeth Taylor helped to raise more than $270 million for the cause beginning in the mid-1980s. She began her philanthropic work in 1984 and founded the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991 to raise awareness and provide support services for people with HIV/AIDS.
The film Cleopatra had a final cost of $62 million making it the most expensive film made up to that point. Elizabeth Taylor became the first movie star to be paid $1 million for a role in the film which nearly bankrupted 20th Century-Fox.
Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry sold for a record-breaking sum of $156.8 million at auction by Christie's after her death. The clothes and accessories from her collection sold for a further $5.5 million to benefit her AIDS foundation.