Dame Elizabeth Taylor 1932 – 2011

01. Elizabeth Taylor arrives for a play in Los Angeles in this December 1, 2007 file photo. Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Files

Today one of the all time Hollywood greats died. Dame Elizabeth Taylor passed away at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Elizabeth Taylor starred in such classic movies as Giant, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf and her crowning glory Cleopatra. During her acting career she was nominated for an Oscar 5 times and won two of the golden statues. During and after her active acting career she used her fame (and fortune) to support countless causes and charities. May Dame Elizabeth rest in peace.

02. Actress Elizabeth Taylor and husband Michael Wilding are shown at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas in this March 7, 1956 publicity photo from the Las Vegas News Bureau released to Reuters March 23, 2011. Taylor, a two-time Oscar winner and Hollywood beauty whose screen success was sometimes overshadowed by her tumultuous personal life, died of congestive heart failure on Wednesday at age 79. REUTERS/Las Vegas News Bureau/Handout

03. Actress Elizabeth Taylor is shown in a scene from the 1959 film Suddenly Last Summer in this undated publicity photograph. Hollywood legend Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Columbia Pictures/Handout

04. Elizabeth Taylor portrays Pearl Slaghoople as she is shown in in a scene from the 1994 film The Flintstones in this undated publicity photograph. Hollywood legend Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Ron Batzdorff/Universal Studios/Handout

05. Actor Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor are shown in this undated publicity photograph from their 1958 film Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Hollywood legend Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Handout

06. Four of Hollywood's most legendary stars (L-R) Debbie Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine, Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Collins pose in this undated publicity photograph promoting their new ABC television movie These Old Broads, a two-hour comedy written by Carrie Fisher, Reynolds daughter. Hollywood legend Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011 REUTERS/ABC/Handout

07. Actress Elizabeth Taylor (in pool) in a scene from her 1963 film Cleopatra in this undated publicity photograph. Hollywood legend Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011. REUTERS/20th Century Fox/Handout

08. Actress Elizabeth Taylor in a scene from her 1963 film Cleopatra in this undated publicity photograph. Hollywood legend Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011. REUTERS/20th Century Fox/Handout

09. Actress Elizabeth Taylor is shown in a scene from her 1967 film The Taming of the Shrew in this undated publicity photograph. Hollywood legend Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Columbia Pictures/Handout

10. Actress Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are shown in a scene from her 1963 film Cleopatra in this undated publicity photograph. Hollywood legend Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011. REUTERS/20th Century Fox/Handout

11. Actress Elizabeth Taylor is shown in this undated publicity photograph. Hollywood legend Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Handout

12. In this photo provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau, Eddie Fisher poses with his soon-to-be-divorced wife Debbie Reynolds (R), as well as his soon-to-be-next wife, Elizabeth Taylor, at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas on April 3, 1957, kicking off the scandal of the decade. Hollywood legend Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Las Vegas News Bureau Archives/Handout

13. Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson are shown in a scene from the 1956 film Giant in this undated publicity photograph. Hollywood legend Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011 REUTERS/Warner Bros/Handout

14. Actress Elizabeth Taylor is shown in this undated publicity photograph. Hollywood legend Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Columbia Pictures/Handout

15. Singer Michael Jackson and actress Elizabeth Taylor (R) arrive at a concert celebrating 30 years of Jackson's career in New York in this September 7, 2001 file photo. Hollywood legend Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen/Files

16. Actress Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean are shown in a scene from the 1956 film Giant in undated publicity photograph. Taylor died surrounded by her four children on March 23 at age 79, her publicist said. She died at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles surrounded by her four children after having been hospitalized six weeks ago with congestive heart failure, a statement from publicist Sally Morrison said. REUTERS/Warner Bros./Handout

17. Actress Elizabeth Taylor is shown in this undated childhood publicity photo released to Reuters March 23, 2011. Taylor, a two-time Oscar winner and Hollywood beauty whose screen success was sometimes overshadowed by her tumultuous personal life, died of congestive heart failure on Wednesday at age 79. REUTERS/Handout

18. Dame Elizabeth Taylor holds her arms aloft at the close of a live interview on Larry King Live at CNN Studios in Los Angeles, in this file image from February 3, 2003. Taylor's Maltese Sugar sits next to her. Hollywood legend Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at the age of 79 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles ABC News reported on March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Chris Pizzello/CNN/Handout

19. Actors Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton arrive at McCarran airport in Las Vegas in this February 13, 1969 publicity photo from the Las Vegas News Bureau released to Reuters March 23, 2011. Taylor, a two-time Oscar winner and Hollywood beauty whose screen success was sometimes overshadowed by her tumultuous personal life, died of congestive heart failure on Wednesday at age 79. REUTERS/Las Vegas News Bureau/Handout

20. Actress Elizabeth Taylor says enough during a photo session with her husband-to-be Larry Fortensky at a news conference in New York in this September 11, 1991 file photo. Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, died on March 23, 2011 at age 79, her publicists said. REUTERS/Joyce George/Files

21. The signature, hand and foot prints of actress Elizabeth Taylor placed in cement in 1956 to promote her film Giant are pictured in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California March 23, 2011. Taylor died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, aged 79, surrounded by her four children on Wednesday after having been hospitalized six weeks ago with congestive heart failure, according to a statement from her publicist Sally Morrison. REUTERS/Fred Prouser

22. Flowers adorn the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of actress Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood,California March 23, 2011. Taylor died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, aged 79, surrounded by her four children on Wednesday after having been hospitalized six weeks ago with congestive heart failure, according to a statement from her publicist Sally Morrison. REUTERS/Fred Prouser