3/27/2011

Elizabeth Taylor died at the age of 79









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Film legend Dame Elizabeth Taylor ……………………… (die) ……………. (in) (on) (at) Wednesday March 23 of congestive heart failure at the age of 79.

Taylor's striking beauty …………………………. (demand) the attention of audiences from the moment she……………….. (appear) on the screen.

She …………………. (rise) to fame as a child star. Her role in "National Velvet" …………………… (make) Taylor a star at the age of 12, and the parts and the fame ……………………… (keep) on coming.

Twice she ……………………… (win) the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role in Butterfield Eight, about a call girl involved with a married man, and ............................... (in) (on) (at) 1966 as a constantly bickering wife opposite actor Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

She ……………………(be born) …………. February 27, 1932 ………… (in) (on) (at) London. Her American parents ………………….. (be) originally from Arkansas City, Kansas. Francis Taylor ……………………… (be) an art dealer, and Sara …………………. (be) a former actress

At the age of three, Taylor …………………… (begin) taking ballet lessons. Shortly before the beginning of World War II, her parents ………………………………. (decide) to return to the United States to avoid hostilities. Her mother …………………………. (take) the children first, arriving ……………… (in) (on) (at) New York ……………… (in) (on) (at) April 1939 while her father ………………………. (remain) ……………….(in) (on) (at) London to wrap up matters in his art business, arriving ……………. (in) (on) (at) November.

They ……………………… (settle) ………… (in) (on) (at) Los Angeles, California, where her father ………………………………..(establish) a new art gallery. It soon …………………………(attract) numerous Hollywood celebrities who ………………………..(appreciate) its modern European paintings. The gallery also ………………………… (open) many doors that …………………………. (lead) the Taylors directly into the society of money and prestige within Hollywood's movie colony.

Taylor …………………………… (go) from child star to Hollywood starlet and ………………….. (become) known for her acting talent, beauty and striking violet eyes.

Her stormy personal life and eight marriages - two to Richard Burton - as well as her friendship with the late pop-icon Michael Jackson, ………………………. (make) her a constant source of stories for the press.

She also ………………………….. (introduce) her own perfume and ………………………………………..(raise) money for several causes, including money for medical research on AIDS.

………………………. (in) (on) (at) May 16, 2000, in a ceremony ………………….. (hold) ……………………..(in) (on) (at) Buckingham Palace, Taylor ………………. (be) named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.

Taylor ………………………………. (be) hospitalized for congestive heart failure six weeks ago in Los Angeles.

At the time of her death she …………………. (have) four children, ten grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

She ………………………….. (be buried) in a private ceremony the day after she ……………………… (die) at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

At her request, the funeral ……………………… (begin) 15 minutes after it ……………………. (be) scheduled to start. As her representative …………………(tell) the media "She …………….. (be) so notorious for her unpunctuality that she even ………….. (want) to be late for her own funeral."

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