Elizabeth Taylor's best movies

Elizabeth Taylor is shown in a scene from the 1949 film 'Little Women'. (Reuters/)

Actress Elizabeth Taylor poses as Queen Cleopatra in this photo from Joseph L. Mankiewiez' 1963 film, 'Cleopatra' it deserves to be seen just once for Taylor. (AP/)

Actress Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean are shown in a scene from the 1956 film 'Giant'. (Reuters/)

Actress Elizabeth Taylor in the film 'Butterfield 8' in 1961, won Taylor her first best actress Oscar. (AP/)

Elizabeth Taylor in a white swimsuit in a scene from the 1959 film 'Suddenly Last Summer'. (Reuters/)

Actress Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are shown in a scene from her 1963 film 'Cleopatra' one can almost literally feel her persona deepen from a small studio starlet to sexualized Hollywood rebel. (Reuters/)

Actress Elizabeth Taylor is shown in a scene from her 1967 film 'The Taming of the Shrew'. (Reuters/)

Elizabeth Taylor poses with Montgomery Clift for the film 'Raintree County.' (AP/)

Elizabeth Taylor in the role of Martha, and Richard Burton in the role of George in a scene from the 1966 movie 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?',Based on the Edward Albee play, it won the star a richly deserved second Oscar. (AP/)

Actor Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor are shown in this undated publicity photograph from their 1958 film 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof', showcases the iconic late- '50s Taylor, hanging from a brass bed and daring all those men to do something about it. (Reuters/)