Actress and Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor 79, died this morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks.
One of the last true Hollywood icons, Taylor had not appeared in a movie in years, but her beauty and acting work in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Butterfield 8," which both earned her Academy Awards, "National Velvet," "A Place in the Sun," "Cleopatra," "Father of the Bride," "Giant," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and countless others earned her a legion of adoring fans. In all, she starred in more than 50 films.
The New York Times' Mel Gussow:
"Marilyn Monroe was the sex goddess, Grace Kelly the ice queen, Audrey Hepburn the eternal gamine. Ms. Taylor was beauty incarnate."