13 of Elizabeth Taylor’s most memorable movie looks

Elizabeth entered the Hollywood scene as a child in the early 1940s and kept audiences mesmerised by her striking blue eyes and emotional performances.

Having received two academy awards for best actress for her roles in Butterfield 8 and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Elizabeth Taylor was not only a successful actress but also became a symbol of beauty during the old-Hollywood era.

Scroll through the gallery above to look back at Elizabeth Taylor’s most memorable outfits from her movies of the years including A Place in the Sun and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

1. Cleopatra, 1963

2. Butterfield 8, 1960

3. Little Women, 1949

4. Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf!, 1966

5. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958

6. Ivanhoe, 1952

7. The Taming of the Shrew, 1967

8. The V.I.P.s, 1963

9. A Place in the Sun, 1951

10. Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959

11. Father of the Bride, 1950

12. Raintree County, 1957