Elizabeth Taylor RIP

[salymap]

Another one of the big screen Greats of my youth has gone.

From'National Velvet' onwards she made the news, both on and off the screen. RIP

[Pianorak]

Very sad news. RIP

[Chris Newman]

I loved her in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', 'Doctor Faustus' (I know it got panned but it was really a film of a stage production), 'National Velvet', 'The Taming of the Shrew' and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?'

Her work for Aids sufferers was phenomenal.

R.I.P.

[doversoul1]

She was synonymous with Film Star in my youth when Stars were unreachable. RIP

[Serial_Apologist]

I loved her in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', 'Doctor Faustus' (I know it got panned but it was really a film of a stage production), 'National Velvet', 'The Taming of the Shrew' and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?'

Her work for Aids sufferers was phenomenal.

R.I.P.

Yes - 79-years old - no great age these days. Didn't realise she was London-born, and I'd forgotten the work she'd done for AIDS sufferers. I always felt her best acting was in The Taming of the Shrew - for, er, reaslons that were well understandable. Or "The Shaming of the True" as my old Dad like to put it.

S-A

[Russ]

To be perfectly sexist for a moment, one of the hottest babes in the known universe.

[Anna]

She was extremely beautiful, but what most people remember her for is not her fillms but her passionate love affair with Richard Burton and her amazing eyes.

[Ferretfancy]

It was impossible to keep one's eyes off her on screen, the mark of a true star. She and Montgomery Clift were superb in A Place in the Sun. She may have had lots of temperament but was noted for her loyalty in that odd world of Hollywood, retaining friendships from her earliest childhood.

[Mary Chambers]

She had the most wonderful eyes. Apart from that, I didn't think her beautiful, though perhaps I'm alone in my opinion. For my taste her features were too coarse, even as a child - chubby cheeks, thick eyebrows, short neck. Her colouring was probably lovely, but it's hard to judge under the make-up.

I thought Audrey Hepburn was beautiful, but it's all just a matter of personal taste, I suppose.

[salymap]

Yes Mary I agree. Audrey Hepburn wore clothes that I loved and carried them off to perfection. She had beauty and the grace of a dancer too.

Still,today,we are mourning Liz Taylor, a superstar indeed.

[Quarky]

She was a superstar of the Screen, obviously, and did a lot of charitable work.

Not wishing to be uncharitable, but it is difficult with Hollywood stars, to disentangle hype from reality. As regards the accolade "the most beautiful woman in the world", I never found her so. As a young man I found her very sexy, but subsequently slightly too full in figure for my taste. I can't make a judgement on her acting ability.

[french frank]

I only saw her in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (which I see lost out in several Oscar categories to A Man for All Seasons - cripes! those were the days). Taylor won the award for Best Actress and one did feel something of the Burton-Taylor relationship in that film. I can still see some of those scenes in my mind. She could act.

[BBMmk2]

This woman was quite extrodrinary. She had enormous warmth, genoriosity and humanitarian to, what with the activities she had in HIV/AIDS. RIP