Elizabeth Taylor
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Elizabeth Taylor

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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest-paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her seventh on its list of the greatest female screen legends.

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Flash: The Making of Weegee the FamousNinety-Nine Glimpses of Princess MargaretInseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American HistoryThe Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern CenturyThe Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He CreatedStranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her WorldThe Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard KeynesThe Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm XRed Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia PlathThe Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth CenturyThe Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American MythL.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American CenturyA Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War IIThe Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's NarrativeDaughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American HistoryBetty Friedan: Magnificent DisrupterWinnie and Nelson: Portrait of a MarriageG-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
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The Grimkés: The Legacy of Slavery in an American FamilyMr. B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth CenturyMetaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to LifeUp from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark TimesKing: A Life