Elizabeth Taylor presents the Oscar for Costume Design, 1957

Elizabeth Taylor, Modern Screen magazine, May 1953

Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding, Photoplay magazine, July 1952

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in a deleted scene from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton on The Sammy Davis Jr. Show. Aired on January 7, 1966

Liza Minnelli at her wedding reception with Elizabeth Taylor and Faye Dunaway at Halton's home in New York City on December 4, 1979.

Elizabeth Taylor in a costume test for National Velvet (Clarence Brown, 1944)

Elizabeth Taylor, 1957

Elizabeth Taylor, 1958

August 24, 1950 — Elizabeth Taylor returns home from her honeymoon with a new family member, Blanco!

Cleopatra, 1963, on set

Elizabeth Taylor, c.1956

Elizabeth Taylor receives David di Donatello Award, Italy

Elizabeth Taylor, not yet having celebrated her sixteenth birthday, kissing a twenty four year old Peter Lawford. Elizabeth had a schoolgirl crush on Peter, though it was not requited- he told her she turned him off and that she needed to exercise and firm up her calves to look like the slimmer swimsuit models that caught his attention. No hostility was harbored from Elizabeth’s side, though, the two remaining friends for the remainder of their lives. In her autobiography, Elizabeth wrote: “Peter to me was the last word in sophistication. He was terribly handsome, and I had a tremendous crush on him. He invited me out twice after shooting, but he never did kiss me in private life. I was so thrilled that he had taken me out, because I was only sixteen and felt about twelve. The whole company knew I had a crush on him. In the scene, where he has to kiss me I was supposed to say, ‘Oh, Rock, what are we going to do?’ After the kiss I looked at him, turned a hot scarlet and said, ‘Oh, Peter what am I going to do?’ And the whole company fell down laughing. That’s another moment when you wanted the floor to open.”

After showing a clip of the two stars in the MGM/Richard Brooks drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman receive a prolonged ovation when they appear onstage at the 64th Academy Awards to present the Best Picture Oscar at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles on March 30th, 1992. Elizabeth had just celebrated her 60th birthday with a star-studded party at Disneyland a month earlier, and Paul had turned 67 in January.