4. Elizabeth Taylor poses for a portrait on the set of the movie "Giant".Picture: Frank Worth, Courtesy of Emage International/Getty Images

5. Elizabeth Taylor takes a photo of James Dean with a Rollieflex twin lens medium format reflex camera as she sits on the hood of a Chrysler on the set of the movie 'Giant' which was released on November 24, 1956. Picture: Frank Worth, Courtesy of Emage International/Getty Images

6. Elizabeth Taylor goes head over heels as actor James Dean helps on the set of the movie 'Giant' which was released on November 24, 1956.Picture: Frank Worth, Courtesy of Emage International/Getty Images

7. Actors Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor lounging on the grass during the filming of 'Raintree County' in Indiana, 1958.Picture: BIPS/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

8. 3rd November 1949: Elizabeth Taylor adjusts the bow tie of Montgomery Clift the American film star, while out together at a Hollywood PremierPicture: Popperfoto/Getty Images

9. Elizabeth Taylor in a white, off-the shoulder ball gown, circa 1951.Picture: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images

10. 15th March 1964: Elizabeth Taylor marries her fifth husband Richard Burton in Montreal.Picture: Express/Express/Getty Images

11. 6th March 1964: Elizabeth Taylor gives her future husband Richard Burton a cursory haircut.Picture: William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images

12. 23rd April 1957: Elizabeth Taylor sips a drink and smokes a cigarette during a stop for interviews at Jersey airport en route to Nice.Picture: Stanley Sherman/Express/Getty Images

13. November 1948: Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the film 'Conspirator'.Picture: George Konig/Keystone Features/Getty Image

14. November 1948: Elizabeth Taylor on Westminster Bridge in London. Picture: Keystone Features/Getty Images

15. Elizabeth Taylor with West Point in the background, 1948. Mark Kauffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

16. November 1948: Elizabeth Taylor feeds the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, London.Picture: Chris Ware/Keystone Features/Getty Images

17. Scotty Beckett and Elizabeth Taylor pose for a publicity shot set in a barn. The young actors appeared together in two films, Cynthia, also known as The Rich, Full Life(1947), and A Date With Judy (1948). Photo: Archive Photos / Getty Images

18. Elizabeth Taylor in the film 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', 1958. Picture: Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images

19. Liz Taylor gazes into the distance while wearing an "All America" sweatshirt, 1948; the pin she wears belonged to Glenn Davis, a 1946 Heisman Trophy-winner she was dating at the time. Mark Kauffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

20. In costume, Richard Burton and Liz Taylor share a look on the set of Cleopatra. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

21. Cleopatra director Joseph L. Mankiewicz chats with Liz Taylor on set. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

22. Elizabeth Taylor and the Queen Mother at the wedding of Sheran Cazalet and Simon Hornby at Fairlawn in Sussex on 15th June 1968. (Photo by Lichfield/Getty Images).

23. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton on location in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, while Burton was filming The Night of the Iguana, directed by John Huston. Stanley Baker follows the couple.Photo: Archive Photos / Getty Images

24. Aside from her prolific film and stage career, Elizabeth Taylor is also widely known for having married seven men during her lifetime. Here, she is pictured with her second husband Michael Wilding, during the 1952 Academy Awards. Elizabeth is all smiles as she leans around her husband to chat with a friend.Archive Photos/Getty Images

25. Stunning beauty Elizabeth Taylor stares off in the distance as she sits beside her second husband Michael Wilding at the 1954 Academy Awards on March 25.Archive Photos/Getty Images

26. Elizabeth Taylor enjoys time with her husband, Michael Wilding, and their son, Michael Howard, in Hyde Park, London. Photo: Erich Auerbach / Popperfoto / Getty Images

27. In 1961 Elizabeth Taylor won the Best Actress Oscar for BUtterfield 8. The actress attended the Academy Awards in a stunning dress by Dior and was accompanied by her husband, Eddie Fisher. Photo: Archive Photos / Getty Images

28. American actress Elizabeth Taylor attends the Lord Mayor's Show.

29. Elizabeth Taylor at the wheel of a convertible with her husband, Michael Wilding.Photo: Archive Photos / Getty Images

30. American actor Montgomery Clift (1920 - 1966) on location in Indiana with Elizabeth Taylor for the filming of the American drama Raintree County.

31. Hume Cronyn, who won a Tony for his performance as Polonius in the 1964 production of Hamlet, gently holds Liz Taylor's famous face in his hands. George Silk—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

32. British-born actress Elizabeth Taylor and her husband, film producer Mike Todd (1909 - 1958), attend Derby Day at Epsom with singer Eddie Fisher and his wife Debbie Reynolds. Fisher later left Reynolds to marry Taylor.

33. Princess Margaret chatting to Richard Burton and his wife Elizabeth Taylor at the Royal Film Performance of 'The Taming Of The Shrew', which stars Taylor and Burton, at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, London, 27th February 1967. Behind them is actor Sir Michael Redgrave.

34. Actress Elizabeth Taylor standing outside sound stages at Paramount Studios during time of filming "A Place in the Sun.". February 1950. Photographer: Peter Stackpole

35. British-born American actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - 2011, right) greets Diana Princess of Wales (1961 - 1997) backstage at the Victoria Palace Theatre after a charity premiere of 'The Little Foxes', London, 9th March 1982.

36. Elizabeth Taylor helps at the dinner table at home circa 1947 in Los Angeles, California.Picture: Earl Theisen/Getty Images

37. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor with photographers at a screening of David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia'.Picture: Stan Meagher/Getty Images

38. Richard Burton surprises co-stars Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O'Toole by joining them in bed for a photo opportunity, during the filming of a love scene for 'Under Milk Wood', 1972. The film was based on a 1954 radio play by Dylan Thomas.Picture: Keith Hamshere/Getty Images

39. cast Elizabeth Taylor, Grit and Glamour images and text credit www. Music wav. created olga.e. thanks for watching actors Elizabeth Taylor, Stanley Baker and Richard Burton in a bar, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 12th January 1964. Burton is in Mexico for location filming on John Huston's 'The Night Of The Iguana'.

40. Elizabeth Taylor poses for a portrait on the set of the movie 'Giant' which was released on November 24, 1956.. Picture: Frank Worth, Courtesy of Capital Art/Getty Images