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Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor pernah menikah 8 kali dan bercerai 7 kali (menjanda sewaktu ditinggal mati suami ke-3, Michael Todd), termasuk di antaranya dua kali menikah dan dua kali cerai dengan aktor Richard Burton. hmmm doyan amat kawin cerai dan dia memenangkan 2 piala oscar loe dalam film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? sebagai martha pada tahun 1966 dan Butterfield 8 sebagai gloria wandrous tahun 1960. dan yang film yang membuat dia terkenal walau ngak dapat oscar cleopatra. Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (lahir di Hampstead, London, Inggris, 27 Februari1932 adalah pemeran wanita Amerika Serikat kelahiran Inggris yang dua kali memenangi Academy Award sebagai Aktris Terbaik.ok kita lihat perjalanan sie cleopatra ini
Early years (1932–1942)
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in London, the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor and Sara Viola Warmbrodt[4] (1895–1994), who were Americans residing in England. Taylor's older brother, Howard Taylor, was born in 1929.[5] Her parents were originally from Arkansas City, Kansas. Francis Taylor was an art dealer, and Sara was a former actress whose stage name was "Sara Sothern." Sothern retired from the stage when she and Francis married in 1926 in New York City. Taylor's two first names are in honor of her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Mary (Rosemond) Taylor. A dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States, she was born a British subject through her birth on British soil and an American citizen through her parents.[citation needed] She reportedly sought, in 1965, to renounce her United States citizenship, to wit: "Though never accepted by the State Department, Liz renounced in 1965. Attempting to shield much of her European income from U.S. taxes, Liz wished to become solely a British citizen. According to news reports at the time, officials denied her request when she failed to complete the renunciation oath, refusing to say that she renounced 'all allegiance to the United States of America.'"[6]At the age of three, Taylor began taking ballet lessons with Vaccani. Shortly before the beginning of World War II, her parents decided to return to the United States to avoid hostilities. Her mother took the children first, arriving in New York in April 1939,[7] while her father remained in London to wrap up matters in the art business, arriving in November.[8] They settled in Los Angeles, California, where Sara's family, the Warmbrodts, were then living.
Through Hedda Hopper, the Taylors were introduced to Andrea Berens, a wealthy English socialite and also fiancée of Cheever Cowden, chairman and major stockholder of Universal Pictures in Hollywood. Berens insisted that Sara bring Elizabeth to see Cowden who, she was adamant, would be dazzled by Elizabeth's breathtaking dark beauty; she was born with a mutation that caused double rows of eyelashes, which enhanced her appearance on camera.[9] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer soon took interest in the British youngster as well but she failed to secure a contract with them after an informal audition with producer John Considine had shown that she couldn't sing. However, on September 18, 1941, Universal Pictures signed Elizabeth to a six-month renewable contract at $100 a week.
Taylor appeared in her first motion picture at the age of nine in There's One Born Every Minute, her only film for Universal Pictures. Less than six months after she signed with Universal, her contract was reviewed by Edward Muhl, the studio's production chief. Muhl met with Taylor's agent, Myron Selznick (brother of David), and Cheever Cowden. Muhl challenged Selznick's and Cowden's constant support of Taylor: "She can't sing, she can't dance, she can't perform. What's more, her mother has to be one of the most unbearable women it has been my displeasure to meet."[10] Universal cancelled Taylor's contract just short of her tenth birthday in February 1942. Nevertheless on October 15, 1942, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed Taylor to $100 a week for up to three months to appear as "Priscilla" in the film Lassie Come Home.
Adolescent star
Lassie Come Home featured child star Roddy McDowall, with whom Taylor would share a lifelong friendship. Upon its release in 1943, the film received favourable attention for both McDowall and Taylor. On the basis of her performance in Lassie Come Home MGM signed Taylor to a conventional seven-year contract at $100 a week but increasing at regular intervals until it reached a hefty $750 during the seventh year. Her first assignment under her new contract at MGM was a loan-out to 20th Century Fox for the character of Helen Burns in a film version of the Charlotte Bronte novel Jane Eyre (1944). During this period she also returned to England to appear in another Roddy McDowall picture for MGM, The White Cliffs of Dover (1944). But it was Taylor's persistence in campaigning for the role of Velvet Brown in MGM's National Velvet that skyrocketed Taylor to stardom at the tender age of 12. Taylor's character, Velvet Brown, is a young girl who trains her beloved horse to win the Grand National. National Velvet, which also costarred beloved American favorite Mickey Rooney and English newcomer Angela Lansbury, became an overwhelming success upon its release in December 1944. Many years later Taylor called it "the most exciting film" she had ever made,[4] and the film changed her life forever. Although it vastly increased her star power, many of her back problems were traced to injuries from her falling off a horse during its filming.National Velvet grossed over US$4 million at the box office and Taylor was signed to a new long-term contract that raised her salary to $30,000 per year. To capitalize on the box office success of Velvet, Taylor was shoved into another animal opus, Courage of Lassie, in which a different dog named "Bill", cast as an Allied combatant in World War II, regularly outsmarts the Nazis, with Taylor going through another outdoors role. The 1946 success of Courage of Lassie led to another contract drawn up for Taylor earning her $750 per week, her mother $250, as well as a $1,500 bonus. Her roles as Mary Skinner in a loan-out to Warner Brothers' Life With Father (1947), Cynthia Bishop in Cynthia (1947), Carol Pringle in A Date with Judy (1948) and Susan Prackett in Julia Misbehaves (1948) all proved to be successful. Her reputation as a bankable adolescent star and nickname of "One-Shot Liz" (referring to her ability to shoot a scene in one take) promised her a full and bright career with Metro. Taylor's portrayal as Amy, in the American classic Little Women (1949) would prove to be her last adolescent role. In October 1948, she sailed aboard the RMS Queen Mary travelling to England where she would begin filming on Conspirator, in which she would play her first adult role.
Transition into adult roles
Unlike other child actors, Taylor easily transitioned to adult roles.[4] Before Conspirator's 1949 release, a Time cover article called her "a jewel of great price, a true star sapphire", and the leader among Hollywood's next generation of stars such as Montgomery Clift, Kirk Douglas, and Ava Gardner.[11] The film failed at the box office, but 16-year-old Taylor's portrayal of a 21-year-old debutante who unknowingly marries a communist spy played by 38-year-old Robert Taylor, was praised by critics for her first adult lead in a film. Taylor's first picture under her new salary of $2,000 per week was The Big Hangover (1950), both a critical and box office failure, that paired her with screen idol Van Johnson. The picture also failed to present Taylor with an opportunity to exhibit her newly realized sensuality.Her first box office success in an adult role came as Kay Banks in the romantic comedy Father of the Bride (1950), alongside Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett. The film spawned a sequel, Father's Little Dividend (1951), which Taylor's costar Spencer Tracy summarised with "boring… boring… boring". The film did well at the box office but it would be Taylor's next picture that would set the course for her career as a dramatic actress. In late 1949, Taylor had begun filming George Stevens' A Place In The Sun. Upon its release in 1951, Taylor was hailed for her performance as Angela Vickers, a spoiled socialite who comes between George Eastman (Clift) and his poor, pregnant factory-working girlfriend Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters).[4] The film became the pivotal performance of Taylor's career as critics acclaimed it as a classic, a reputation it sustained throughout the next 50 years of cinema history. The New York Times' A.H. Weiler wrote, "Elizabeth's delineation of the rich and beauteous Angela is the top effort of her career", and the Boxoffice reviewer unequivocally stated "Miss Taylor deserves an Academy Award".
Taylor became increasingly unsatisfied with the roles being offered to her at the time. While she wanted to play the lead roles in The Barefoot Contessa and I'll Cry Tomorrow, MGM continued to restrict her to mindless and somewhat forgettable films such as: a cameo as herself in Callaway Went Thataway (1951), Love Is Better Than Ever (1952), Ivanhoe (1952), The Girl Who Had Everything (1953) and Beau Brummel (1954). She had wanted to play the role of Lady Rowena in Ivanhoe, but the part was given to Joan Fontaine. Taylor was given the role of Rebecca. When Taylor became pregnant with her first child, MGM forced her through The Girl Who Had Everything (even adding two hours to her daily work schedule) so as to get one more film out of her before she became too heavily pregnant. Taylor lamented that she needed the money, as she had just bought a new house with second husband Michael Wilding and with a child on the way things would be pretty tight. Taylor had been forced by her pregnancy to turn down Elephant Walk (1954), though the role had been designed for her. Vivien Leigh, almost two decades Taylor's senior, but to whom Taylor bore a striking resemblance, got the part and went to Ceylon to shoot on location. Leigh suffered a nervous breakdown during filming, and Taylor reclaimed the role after the birth of her child Michael Wilding, Jr. in January 1953. [12]
Taylor's next screen endeavor, Rhapsody (1954), another tedious romantic drama, proved equally frustrating. Taylor portrayed Louise Durant, a beautiful rich girl in love with a temperamental violinist (Vittorio Gassman) and an earnest young pianist (John Ericson). A film critic for the New York Herald Tribune wrote: "There is beauty in the picture all right, with Miss Taylor glowing into the camera from every angle… but the dramatic pretenses are weak, despite the lofty sentences and handsome manikin poses."[citation needed]
Taylor's fourth period picture, Beau Brummell, made just after Elephant Walk and Rhapsody, cast her as the elaborately costumed Lady Patricia, which many felt was only a screen prop—a ravishing beauty whose sole purpose was to lend romantic support to the film's title star, Stewart Granger. The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) fared only slightly better than her previous pictures, with Taylor being reunited with The Big Hangover costar Van Johnson. The role of Helen Ellsworth Willis was based on that of Zelda Fitzgerald and, although pregnant with her second child, Taylor went ahead with the film, her fourth in twelve months. Although proving somewhat successful at the box office, she still yearned for meatier roles.[citation needed]
1955–1979
Following a more substantial role opposite Rock Hudson and James Dean in George Stevens' epic Giant (1956), Taylor was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress four years in a row for Raintree County (1957)[13] opposite Montgomery Clift; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)[14] opposite Paul Newman; Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)[15] with Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn and Mercedes McCambridge; and finally winning for BUtterfield 8 (1960),[16] which co-starred then husband Eddie Fisher.[4]In 1960, Taylor became the highest paid actress up to that time when she signed a one million dollar contract to play the title role in 20th Century Fox's lavish production of Cleopatra,[15] which was released in 1963. During the filming, she began a romance with her future husband Richard Burton, who played Mark Antony in the film. The romance received much attention from the tabloid press, as both were married to other spouses at the time.[17] By working overtime, Taylor received more than $2 million for her role.[4]
Her second Academy Award, also for Best Actress in a Leading Role, was for her performance as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966),[18] playing opposite then husband Richard Burton. Taylor and Burton would appear together in six other films during the decade – The V.I.P.s (1963), The Sandpiper (1965), The Taming of the Shrew (1967), Doctor Faustus (1967), The Comedians {1967} and Boom! (1968).
Taylor appeared in John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) opposite Marlon Brando (replacing Montgomery Clift[19] who died before production began) and Secret Ceremony (1968) opposite Mia Farrow. By the end of the decade her box-office drawing power had considerably diminished, as evidenced by the failure of The Only Game in Town (1970), with Warren Beatty.[20]
Taylor continued to star in numerous theatrical films throughout the 1970s, such as Zee and Co. (1972) with Michael Caine, Ash Wednesday (1973), The Blue Bird (1976) with Jane Fonda and Ava Gardner, and A Little Night Music (1977). With then-husband Richard Burton, she co-starred in the 1972 films Under Milk Wood and Hammersmith Is Out, and the 1973 made-for-TV movie Divorce His, Divorce Hers. A chain smoker from an early age, Taylor feared she had lung cancer in October 1975 after an X-ray showed spots on her lungs; she was later found not to have the disease.[21]
1980–2003
Taylor starred in the 1980 mystery film The Mirror Crack'd, based on an Agatha Christie novel. In 1985, she played movie gossip columnist Louella Parsons in the TV film Malice in Wonderland opposite Jane Alexander, who played Hedda Hopper. Taylor appeared in the miniseries North and South. Her last theatrical film was 1994's The Flintstones. In 2001, she played an agent in the TV film These Old Broads. She appeared on a number of television series, including the soap operas General Hospital and All My Children, as well as the animated series The Simpsons—once as herself, and once as the voice of Maggie Simpson, uttering one word "Daddy".Taylor also acted on the stage, making her Broadway and West End debuts in 1982 with a revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes. She was then in a production of Noel Coward's Private Lives (1983), in which she starred with her former husband, Richard Burton. The student-run Burton Taylor Theatre in Oxford was named for the famous couple after Burton appeared as Doctor Faustus in the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) production of the Marlowe play. Taylor played the ghostly, wordless Helen of Troy, who is entreated by Faustus to "make [him] immortal with a kiss".[citation needed]
In the 1980s, she received treatment for alcoholism.[22]
2003–2011
In March 2003, Taylor declined to attend the 75th Annual Academy Awards, due to her opposition to the Iraq war.[23] She publicly condemned then US President George W. Bush for calling on Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq, and said she feared the conflict would lead to "World War III".[24]Taylor is known to have smoked cigarettes into her mid-fifties.[25] In November 2004, she announced that she had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure, a progressive condition in which the heart is too weak to pump sufficient blood throughout the body, particularly to the lower extremities: the ankles and feet. She broke her back five times, had both her hips replaced, survived a benign brain tumor operation and skin cancer, and faced life-threatening bouts with pneumonia twice, one of which (1961), resulted in an emergency tracheotomy. Towards the end of her life she was reclusive and sometimes failed to make scheduled appearances due to illness or other personal reasons. She used a wheelchair and when asked about it stated that she had osteoporosis and was born with scoliosis.[26]
In 2005, Taylor was a vocal supporter of her friend Michael Jackson in his trial in California on charges of sexually abusing a child.[27][28] He was eventually acquitted when the prosecution collapsed due to a lack of concrete evidence.
On May 30, 2006, Taylor appeared on Larry King Live to refute the claims that she had been ill, and denied the allegations that she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and was close to death.[29]
In late August 2006, Taylor decided to take a boating trip to help prove that she was not close to death. She also decided to make Christie's auction house the primary place for selling her jewelry, art, clothing, furniture and memorabilia.[30] Six months later, the February 2007 issue of Interview magazine was devoted entirely to Taylor. It celebrated her life, career and her upcoming 75th birthday.
On December 5, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and California First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Taylor into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.[31]
Taylor was in the news in 2007 for a rumored ninth marriage to her companion Jason Winters, which she dismissed as a rumour.[32] She was quoted as saying, "Jason Winters is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known and that's why I love him. He bought us the most beautiful house in Hawaii and we visit it as often as possible,"[33] to gossip columnist Liz Smith. Winters accompanied Taylor to Macy's Passport HIV/AIDS 2007 gala, where Taylor was honoured with a humanitarian award. In 2008, Taylor and Winters were spotted celebrating the July 4 on a yacht in Santa Monica, California.[34] The couple attended the Macy's Passport HIV/AIDS gala again in 2008.
On December 1, 2007, Taylor acted on-stage again, appearing opposite James Earl Jones in a benefit performance of the A. R. Gurney play Love Letters. The event's goal was to raise $1 million for Taylor's AIDS foundation. Tickets for the show were priced at $2,500, and more than 500 people attended. The event happened to coincide with the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike and, rather than cross the picket line, Taylor requested a "one night dispensation." The Writers Guild agreed not to picket the Paramount Pictures lot that night to allow for the performance.[35]
Personal life
Marriages
Taylor was married eight times to seven husbands, with all but one ending in divorce. When asked why she married so often, she replied "I don’t know, honey. It sure beats the hell out of me."[4] The husbands were:- Conrad "Nicky" Hilton (May 6, 1950 – January 29, 1951) The marriage was unhappy and ended in divorce after nine months.[4]
- Michael Wilding (February 21, 1952 – January 26, 1957) Wilding was 20 years older than Taylor.[4]
- Michael Todd (February 2, 1957 – March 22, 1958) Todd's death ended Taylor's only marriage to not result in divorce. She later called Todd one of the two loves of her life, with Burton.[4]
- Eddie Fisher (May 12, 1959 – March 6, 1964) Todd's best friend, Fisher, consoled Todd's widow, Taylor, after his death. They began an affair while Fisher was still married to Debbie Reynolds, causing a scandal.[4]
- Richard Burton (March 15, 1964 – June 26, 1974) The press closely followed Burton and Taylor's relationship before, during, and after their 10 years of marriage, due to great public interest in "the most famous film star in the world and the man many believed to be the finest classical actor of his generation." Taylor hoped to focus on her marriage over her career, and gained weight in an unsuccessful attempt to not receive film roles.[4]
- Richard Burton (October 10, 1975 – July 29, 1976) Sixteen months after divorcing they remarried in a traditional house in Botswana, but soon separated and redivorced in 1976. Burton once disagreed with others about Taylor's famed beauty, saying that calling her "the most beautiful woman in the world is absolute nonsense. She has wonderful eyes, but she has a double chin and an overdeveloped chest, and she’s rather short in the leg."[4] On another occasion, however, he praised her lavishly, stating that, "She was unquestionably gorgeous. I can think of no other word to describe a combination of plentitude, frugality, abundance, tightness. She was lavish. She was a dark unyielding largesse. She was, in short, too bloody much."
- John Warner (December 4, 1976 – November 7, 1982) As with Burton, Taylor sought to be known as the wife of her husband, a United States Senator from Virginia. Unhappy with her life in Washington, however, Taylor became depressed and entered the Betty Ford Clinic.[4]
- Larry Fortensky (October 6, 1991 – October 31, 1996) Taylor and Fortensky met during another stay at the Betty Ford Clinic and were married at the Neverland Ranch.[4]
Children
With Wilding (two sons):- Michael Howard Wilding (born 1953)
- Christopher Edward Wilding (born 1955)
- Elizabeth Frances "Liza" Todd (born 1957)
- Maria Burton (born 1961; adopted 1964)
List of awards and honors
Taylor won two Academy Awards for Best Actress (for her performance in BUtterfield 8 in 1960, and for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966). She joined a select list of two-time Academy Award winning Best Actress winners which includes Luise Rainer, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh, Ingrid Bergman, Glenda Jackson, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Jodie Foster, and Hillary Swank. Additionally, she was awarded the Jean Herscholt Humanitarian Academy Award in 1992 for her work fighting AIDS.On May 16, 2000, in a ceremony held at Buckingham Palace, Taylor was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, from Queen Elizabeth II.[47]
Other interests
Taylor had a passion for jewelry. She was a client of well-known jewelry designer Shlomo Moussaieff. Over the years she owned a number of well-known pieces, two of the most talked-about being the 33.19-carat (6.64 g) Krupp Diamond and the 69.42-carat (13.88 g) pear-shaped Taylor-Burton Diamond, which were among many gifts from husband Richard Burton. Taylor also owned the 50-carat (10 g) La Peregrina Pearl, purchased by Burton as a Valentine's Day present in 1969. The pearl was formerly owned by Mary I of England, and Burton sought a portrait of Queen Mary wearing the pearl. Upon the purchase of such a painting, the Burtons discovered that the British National Portrait Gallery did not have an original painting of Mary, so they donated the painting to the Gallery.[36][37] Her enduring collection of jewelry has been documented in her book My Love Affair with Jewelry (2002) with photographs by the New York photographer John Bigelow Taylor (no relation).Taylor started designing jewels for The Elizabeth Collection, creating fine jewelry with elegance and flair. The Elizabeth Taylor collection by Piranesi is sold at Christie's. She also launched three perfumes, "Passion", "White Diamonds", and "Black Pearls", which, together, earn an estimated US$200 million in annual sales. In fall 2006, Taylor celebrated the 15th anniversary of her White Diamonds perfume, one of the top 10 best selling fragrances for more than the past decade.[citation needed]
Taylor devoted much time and energy to AIDS-related charities, and helped raise more than $100 million to fight the disease.[4] She helped start the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) after the death of her former costar and friend, Rock Hudson, also created her own AIDS foundation, the Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation (ETAF). In 2006, Taylor commissioned a 37-foot (11 m) "Care Van" equipped with examination tables and X Ray equipment and also donated US$40,000 to the New Orleans Aids task force, a charity designed for the New Orleans population with AIDS and HIV. The donation of the van was made by the Elizabeth Taylor HIV/AIDS Foundation and Macy's.[38]
In the early 1980s, Taylor moved to Bel Air, Los Angeles, which was her residence until her death. She also owned homes in Palm Springs, London and Hawaii.
Taylor was a supporter of Kabbalah and member of the Kabbalah Centre. She encouraged long-time friend Michael Jackson to wear a red string as protection from the evil-eye during his 2005 trial for molestation, where he was eventually cleared of all charges. On October 6, 1991, Taylor had married construction worker Larry Fortensky at Jackson's Neverland Ranch.[39] In 1997, Jackson presented Taylor with the exclusively written-for-her epic song "Elizabeth, I Love You", performed on the day of her 65th birthday celebration.
In October 2007, Taylor won a legal battle, over a Van Gogh painting in her possession, View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint Remy. The United States Supreme Court refused to reconsider a legal suit filed by four persons claiming that the artwork belonged to one of their Jewish ancestors,[40] regardless of any statute of limitations.
Taylor attended Michael Jackson's private funeral on September 3, 2009.[41]
Filmografi
| Tahun | Judul | Sebagai | Catatan lain |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | There's One Born Every Minute | Gloria Twine | |
| 1943 | Lassie Come Home | Priscilla | |
| 1944 | Jane Eyre | Helen Burns | tidak ditulis dalam daftar pemain |
| The White Cliffs of Dover | Betsy | tidak ditulis dalam daftar pemain | |
| National Velvet | Velvet Brown | ||
| 1946 | Courage of Lassie | Katherine Eleanor Merrick | |
| 1947 | Life with Father | Mary Skinner | |
| Cynthia | Cynthia Bishop | ||
| 1948 | A Date with Judy | Carol Pringle | |
| Julia Misbehaves | Susan Packett | ||
| 1949 | Little Women | Amy | |
| Conspirator | Melinda Greyton | ||
| 1950 | The Big Hangover | Mary Belney | |
| Father of the Bride | Kay Banks | ||
| 1951 | Father's Little Dividend | Kay Dunstan | |
| A Place in the Sun | Angela Vickers | ||
| Quo Vadis | Christian prisoner in arena | tidak ditulis dalam daftar pemain | |
| 1952 | Love Is Better Than Ever | Anastacia "Stacie" Macaboy | |
| Ivanhoe | Rebecca | ||
| 1953 | The Girl Who Had Everything | Jean Latimer | |
| 1954 | Rhapsody | Louise Durant | |
| Elephant Walk | Ruth Wiley | ||
| Beau Brummell | Lady Patricia Belham | ||
| The Last Time I Saw Paris | Helen Ellswirth/Willis | ||
| 1956 | Giant | Leslie Lynnton Benedict | |
| 1957 | Raintree County | Susanna Drake | nominasi Aktris Terbaik Academy Award |
| 1958 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Maggie the Cat | nominasi Aktris Terbaik Academy Award |
| 1959 | Suddenly Last Summer | Catherine Holly | nominasi Aktris Terbaik Academy Award |
| 1960 | Scent of Mystery | The Real Sally | tidak ditulis dalam daftar pemain |
| Butterfield 8 | Gloria Wandrous | Aktris Terbaik Academy Award | |
| 1963 | Cleopatra | Cleopatra | |
| The V.I.P.s | Frances Andros | ||
| 1965 | The Sandpiper | Laura Reynolds | |
| 1966 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Martha | Aktris Terbaik Academy Award |
| 1967 | The Taming of the Shrew | Katharina | |
| Doctor Faustus | Helen of Troy | ||
| Reflections in a Golden Eye | Lenora Penderton | ||
| The Comedians | Martha Pineda | ||
| 1968 | Boom! | Flora 'Sissy' Goforth | |
| Secret Ceremony | Lenora | ||
| 1969 | Anne of the Thousand Days | Courtesan | tidak ditulis dalam daftar pemain |
| 1970 | The Only Game in Town | Fran Walker | |
| 1972 | X,Y, and Zee | Zee Blakely | |
| Under Milk Wood | Rosie Probert | ||
| Hammersmith Is Out | Jimmie Jean Jackson | ||
| 1973 | Divorce His - Divorce Hers | Jane Reynolds | |
| Night Watch | Ellen Wheeler | ||
| Ash Wednesday - film | Barbara Sawyer | ||
| 1974 | Identikit | Lise | Judul lain: The Driver's Seat |
| 1976 | The Blue Bird | Queen of Light/Mother/Witch/Maternal Love | |
| Victory at Entebbe | Edra Vilonfsky | ||
| 1977 | A Little Night Music | Desiree Armfeldt | |
| 1978 | Return Engagement | Dr. Emily Loomis | |
| 1979 | Winter Kills | Lola Comante | tidak ditulis dalam daftar pemain |
| 1980 | The Mirror Crack'd | Marina Rudd | |
| 1981 | General Hospital | Helena Cassadine | sebagai figuran sewaktu menghadiri pernikahan Luke and Laura |
| 1983 | Between Friends | Deborah Shapiro | |
| 1985 | Malice in Wonderland | Louella Parsons | |
| North and South | Madame Conti | ||
| 1986 | There Must Be a Pony | Marguerite Sydney | |
| 1987 | Poker Alice | Alice Moffit | |
| 1988 | Young Toscanini | Nadina Bulichoff | |
| 1989 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Alexandra Del Lago | |
| 1994 | The Flintstones | Pearl Slaghoople | |
| 2001 | These Old Broads | Beryl Mason |
Kematian
Kematian Taylor berurusan dengan berbagai masalah kesehatan selama bertahun-tahun. Pada tahun 2004 ia mengumumkan bahwa ia menderita gagal jantung kongestif, dan pada tahun 2009 ia menjalani pembedahan jantung untuk mengganti katup bocor. Pada Februari 2011 gejala baru yang terkait gagal jantung kongestif menyebabkan dia menjadi diterima ke Cedars-Sinai Medical Center untuk perawatan.[1]Taylor meninggal pada tanggal 23 Maret 2011, dikelilingi oleh empat anaknya di Cedars-Sinai Medical Center di Los Angeles, California, pada usia 79.
