Elizabeth Taylor Holding Poodle for Rhapsody

Black and white candid capture of Elizabeth Taylor with a dog for her role in "Rhapsody", circa 1954.

Elizabeth Taylor as 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 greatest female screen legends list.