Photos: Elizabeth Taylor’s Timeless Beauty
A smiling, tropical Taylor, reclining in a rattan chair for a circa-1950 portrait.
Lipstick for the pool! Taylor gets ready for a dip in a curve-skimming one-piece in 1949.
From MPTV.
A couch-cuddled Taylor poses with the gadget du jour: a 1950s Rolleiflex camera. Cheese!
Languidly draped in off-the-shoulder lace, 1954.
A Pop-art-esque 1955 publicity shot of the stunning star gave her a pixie cut and mod earrings.
Looking positively bridal in creamy lace and a tiara, chin demurely down, for this 1956 seated portrait.
A blossom among the blooms: Taylor arranges a come-hither expression and pose for this 1955 photograph.
A pose and hairstyle that recalls her later portrait by Andy Warhol, here against a striking verdant backdrop in 1951.
Swathed in a headscarf on the set of Giant, 1956.
An MGM head shot of the young actress, in a lively print gown, taken in 1951.
Also on the set of Giant, Taylor poses in a bikini top and waist-cinching slacks in November of 1956.
An iconic shot of Taylor splashing in the ocean, from the set of Suddenly Last Summer (1959). Vanity Fair used this image for the July 2010 cover.
An Easter egg in the ivy, 1961.
Taken in 1963, this shot of a ski-bunny-esque Taylor in the back of a car is a still from the movie The V.I.P.s.
With heavy kohl liner and flipped hair, Taylor adopted the hallmarks of 60s beauty for this 1967 portrait.
