Hollywood icon Dame Elizabeth Taylor as passed away at the age of 79.
Elizabeth Taylor was one of the greatest stars of Hollywood’s golden era. She first graced the big screen in a starring role at age 12 in ‘National Velvet’ in 1944 opposite another child actor at the time, Mickey Rooney. She then blossomed as an adult actress at age 18 in 1951’s ‘A Place In The Sun’ but is probably best known as Cleopatra in the 1963 epic ‘Cleopatra’.
Like many famous people, Dame Elizabeth Taylor had a part in The Simpsons but her part was special. She uttered the one and only word Maggie Simpson ever said … ‘Daddy’.
Her last film role was as Wilma Flintstone’s mother in ‘The Flintstones’ (1994).
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in Hampstead, London on February 27, 1932. She married eight times, twice to Richard Burton.
Her first husband was Conrad Hilton Jr, the son of the found of the Hilton hotel chain and grandfather of Paris Hilton.
Elizabeth Taylor was one Michael Jackson’s closest friends. The two identified with the loneliness of growing up a child star. She was one of Michael’s greatest supporters during his trial for child molestation. She attended his funeral in September 2009.
In November 2004, the Hollywood screen legend announced that she had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure.
She had four children, sons Michael and Christopher Wilding (with second husband Michael Wilding) and daughters Elizabeth Todd (third husband Michael Todd) and Maria Burton (with fifth husband Richard Burton).
She had nine grandchildren.
Dame Elizabeth died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on March 23, 2011. Her four children were with her when she passed.
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VIDEO: Watch Maggie Simpsons' first words, as spoken by Elizabeth Taylor:
