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During a career that spanned six decades, Elizabeth won two Oscars and made more than 50 films. Some of her most notable films include A Place in the Sun (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Suddenly Last Summer (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? (1956), and Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967). On a Turner Classic Movies promo, Paul Newman called her "a functioning voluptuary … a courageous survivor, a helluva actress and someone I am extremely proud to know" and goes on to comment on her stunning beauty her remarkable violent eyes. This may be the best tribute to the legendary actress who died in March of 2011. As a side note, it was reported that Elizabeth literally turned over in her grave a year after she died when it was announced that Lindsey Lohan would play her in ther Lifetime TV film Liz & Dick. Elizabeth was once considered by many as the most beautiful woman in the world. But her beauty had a physical price with more than one hundred hospitalizations for a variety of serious health challenges including a brain tumor, a stroke, osteoporosis, scoliosis, crippling back pain, a series a respiratory disorders, and congestive heart failure which was first diagnosed in 1994 and which finally caused her death. Millions of trees have been felled for the newspapers and
magazines that carried stories of her marriages with Conrad Hilton, Jr.,
Michael Wilding, Michael Todd ,Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton, Senator John Warner,
and Larry Fortensky. Elizabeth had many romances outside her
marriages. Before marrying Hilton she was
engaged to Heisman Trophy winner Glenn Davis. After leaving Hilton, Howard Hughes
suddenly proposed to Taylor by landing a helicopter nearby and sprinkling
diamonds on her. In 1984 when she broke off her engagement with Mexican lawyer,
Victor Luna, his family held a huge celebration party in Guadalajara. Elizabeth became an AIDS activist after the death of her friend Rock Hudson when she was also condemned by many including receiving death threats for speaking out on the need for compassion and funding for those affected by the disease, and becoming the founding national chairman for the American Foundation for AIDS Research. "At a time when people did not want to touch AIDS patients or be anywhere near them, it was so important that she showed the courage to embrace Rock Hudson," said Art Torres, who was a state senator in the mid-1980s and worked with Taylor on securing some of the first public AIDS funding. Since everyone who knew her or even met her always commented on her striking violet eyes, an appropriate way to celebrate Elizabeth's birthday make a candied violet cake and watching her in Suddenly Last Summer as she watches Sebastian Venable's death by cannibalism at the mouths of local boys whose sexual favors he sought by using Elizabeth's character in her memorable white swimsuit as a device to attract them. |
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Candied Violet Cake This frosting and decorations are for a home made or store-bought angel food cake
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