Elizabeth Taylor As Leslie Benedict

This iconic and elegant portrait captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth features actress Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the film 'Giant' for her role as character Leslie Benedict. This recolored half-length shot features the actress in a white bikini top posed with hands behind her head. Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was an English-American actress, business woman and humanitarian born on February 27th, 1932 in London and passed away on March 23rd, 2011 at the age of 79 due to congestive heart failure. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and she was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She continued her career successfully into the 1960s and remained a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend.