One of the best and very well known Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor's life will be celebrated as part of a 24-hour movie marathon on TV in America on 10 April (11). Bosses at the Turner Classic Movies (Tcm) network have scrapped all programming and will run back-to-back Taylor films instead to honour the passing of the two-time Oscar winner regarding to media reports and she has been very popular all over the world.
Many media reports suggested that the tribute will begin with a showing of Butterfield 8 at 6am and feature screenings of classics like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Giant, Lassie Come Home, National Velvet and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
The network will also air the 1949 spy drama Conspirator, which features Taylor in her first adult role. In addition to Tcm's on-air tribute to Taylor, the 2011 Tcm Classic Film Festival in Hollywood will feature a special 60th anniversary screening of her performance opposite Montgomery Clift in George Stevens' A Place in the Sun (1951). The Tcm Classic Film Festival takes place from 28 April to 1 May (11). Taylor died of congestive heart failure on Wednesday morning whihc 23th March 2011 today.
Regarding to wikipedia;Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in Hampstead, a wealthy district of North West London, the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor(1897–1968) and Sara Viola Warmbrodt (1895–1994), who were Americans residing in England.
Taylor's older brother, Howard Taylor, was born in 1929. Her parents were originally from Arkansas City, Kansas.
Her father was an art dealer and her mother a former actress whose stage name was "Sara Sothern." Sothern retired from the stage when she and Francis Taylor 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 UK and the U.S., she was born a British subject through her birth on British soil and an American citizen through her parents.
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.” 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, while her father remained in London to wrap up matters in the art business, arriving in November. They settled in Los Angeles, California, where Sara's family, the Warmbrodts, were then living.
