耀眼的女主角

时光飞逝，好莱坞曾经的传奇女神伊丽莎白·泰勒离开我们已经整整一周年了。79岁高龄的她在去年的3月23日溘然长逝，现在让我们追随女神的人生轨迹，静静的怀念她传奇的故事，她火热的爱情。

LEADING LADY 耀眼的女主角

An actress, a philanthropist and a Hollywood legend known as one of the most beautiful women in the world, Elizabeth Taylor – who died of congestive heart failure at age 79 on March 23 – leaves behind a legacy every bit as colorful as any of her screen roles. "Elizabeth is bigger than life," her friend, songwriter Carol Bayer Sager, once told PEOPLE of the star. "She's the closest thing we have in America to royalty."

巨星降生

A STAR IS BORN 巨星降生

Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in Hampstead, London, on Feb. 27, 1932, to art dealer Francis Taylor and Sara, a former stage actress. Her unique beauty inspired her mother to put her into show business, and by age 3 Elizabeth was taking ballet lessons. "I never could kick up my heels like other kids; there were too many restraints," Taylor wrote in her 1988 memoir Elizabeth Takes Off. "My life was overscheduled and overdisciplined."

国宝

'NATIONAL' TREASURE 国宝

Taylor appeared in her first movie, the 1942 comedy There's One Born Every Minute, when she was 9 years old. MGM noticed her potential – and remarkable violet-colored eyes – and signed her for 1943's Lassie Come Home. The following year, she made her star-making turn in National Velvet (pictured), playing the determined Velvet Brown, who takes her horse all the way to the Grand National.

首披嫁衣

HERE COMES THE BRIDE 首披嫁衣

At only 18, Taylor married hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr. in Beverly Hills. MGM paid for the May 6, 1950, ceremony and lavish reception at the Bel-Air Country Club as the studio promoted its star's movie, Father of the Bride. But there was no fairytale ending. "The honeymoon and the relationship were both over by the time we returned," Taylor wrote about Hilton's drinking and abusive behavior in Elizabeth Takes Off. In less than a year, the marriage was over.

挚友蒙哥马利

FAITHFUL FRIEND 挚友蒙哥马利

In 1951, the actress became a leading lady when she costarred with Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (pictured on the set). The two forged a close bond; her enduring Hollywood friendships would later become a statement. When Giant costar Rock Hudson died of AIDS in 1985, she helped start the American Foundation for AIDS Research and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. "I want to do all I can because I have to live with me," Taylor told PEOPLE about her activism.

真爱

TRUE LOVE 真爱

Taylor married for the third time, in 1957, to movie producer Mike Todd – who was 25 years her senior. "I have had two great loves in my life. Mike Todd was the first," Taylor later wrote. Her happiness would be short-lived: Todd's plane, the Liz, crashed on March 22, 1958, killing him. "I honestly didn't think I would survive and didn't much care if I did not," she later said of mourning the father of her daughter, Liza.

热火地带

'HOT' ZONE 热火地带

After Todd's death, a reluctant Taylor continued filming the 1958 screen adaptation of the Tennessee Williams stage classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Playing southern siren Maggie the Cat, the actress sizzled in her signature role as a love-starved wife opposite Paul Newman – and earned an Oscar nomination. "I'm proud of my performance, and I feel it helped me to recover gradually from Mike's death instead of drowning in my sorrow," she wrote about the film.

作为母亲

MATERNAL ROLE 作为母亲

Taylor took pride in her large and loving family: She was the mother of four children, the grandmother of 10 and the great-grandmother of several. "My best friends," she called her kids – including sons Michael and Christopher Wilding (pictured circa 1956), from her second marriage to British actor Michael Wilding; daughter Liza Todd; and Maria Burton, whom she later adopted with husband Richard Burton.

“内部事务”

DOMESTIC DRAMA “内部事务”

Hollywood couple Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds were close friends of Taylor and Mike Todd. But after Todd's death, the crooner and Taylor found solace in each other – and started a scandalous affair. Fisher ultimately left Reynolds and married Taylor in May 1959. "The press made much of Eddie's leaving his wife, Debbie Reynolds, but their marriage was in trouble long before I hit the scene," Taylor later insisted.

浪漫三角恋

ROMANTIC TRIANGLE 浪漫三角恋

"When I saw him on the set of Cleopatra, I fell in love and I have loved him ever since," Taylor later said of Welsh actor Richard Burton, her costar in the 1963 film. The pair's lightning-hot romance became a tabloid cover story and she married him nine days after divorcing Eddie Fisher in March 1964. The Battling Burtons – as they were known for their infamous fights – tried their hand at wedded bliss twice. "For some reason, the world has always been amused by us two maniacs," Burton once said.

埃及艳后

QUEEN OF THE NILE 埃及艳后

"It was probably the most chaotic time in my life," Taylor told Vanity Fair about the epic Cleopatra, for which Taylor became the first actor in history to be paid $1 million. When production ran into overtime (partly thanks to her explosive romance with Burton), Taylor's salary hit $4 million-plus, and the nearly bankrupt studio sued her. In time, both sides settled, but the film – at a whopping $44 million ($287 million in current dollars) – still remains the most expensive movie ever made.

体重问题

WEIGHTY MATTERS 体重问题

Taylor went from movie star to politician's wife when she married Sen. John Warner (R.-Va.) in 1976. During their marriage, an unhappy Taylor (at club Studio 54 with Liza Minnelli and Betty Ford in 1979) went from her usual 121 lbs. to more than 180 lbs. Family ultimately urged the actress – who'd been abusing alcohol and prescription pills – to check into the Betty Ford Center on Dec. 5, 1983. "My children, my brother, a few intimate friends made me face the facts," she later wrote.

黄金时刻

GOLDEN MOMENT 黄金时刻

In 1992, a slimmed-down and radiant Taylor received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy Awards. The actress had a long history with Oscar: In addition to several nominations, she won her first golden statue for her role as a promiscuous model in 1960's BUtterfield 8 – despite having herself criticized the quality of the movie. Her second, in 1966, was for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which costarred Richard Burton.

同床异梦

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS 同床异梦

In June 2006, Taylor told Larry King that she had sleepovers with close friend Michael Jackson (together in 2001) and his nephews. "We were all in the bed watching television," she said. "There was nothing abnormal about it. We laughed like children and we watched a lot of Walt Disney." Of her bond with Jackson: "We both had horrible childhoods. Working at the age of 9 was not a childhood for me – and he started at 3."

至高认可

SEAL OF APPROVAL 至高认可

In 2001, President Clinton awarded Taylor the second-highest civilian honor in the nation, the Presidential Citizen's Medal, in recognition of her commitment to AIDS activism. Taylor was also feted at the 25th annual Kennedy Center Honors in 2002. Besides being honored for her philanthropic work and acting career, Taylor also found enormous success as a businesswoman with her White Diamonds fragrance and House of Taylor jewelry line.

贵夫人

GRANDE DAME 贵夫人

Taylor received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' award for artistic excellence at a ceremony with Tom Cruise and Katie Homes in 2005. Confined to a wheelchair following two hip replacements, Taylor – who was made a dame in 2000 by Prime Minister Tony Blair – survived surgery for a benign brain tumor in 1997 and also suffered bouts of pneumonia, scoliosis and congestive heart failure. But as she told Larry King in 2006: "If (people) want to hear that I'm dead, sorry, folks. I'm not. And I don't plan on it."

派对人生

'LIFE OF HER PARTY' 派对人生

Battling reports of her declining health, the then-76-year-old (in Beverly Hills in 2008) spent an evening out at favorite watering hole The Abbey, a popular gay bar in West Hollywood, with martini in hand. "Even if she was not as strong as the last time she was here, she was once again the life of her small party," an onlooker said of the star.

首任丈夫——小希尔顿

CONRAD HILTON JR. 首任丈夫——小希尔顿

May 6, 1950–Jan. 29, 1951
Taylor was only 18 when she wed 23-year-old hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton. But the ill-fated marriage began crumbling even before their 14-week European honeymoon was over. Hilton "became sullen, angry and abusive, physically and mentally," Taylor wrote in her 1988 autobiography Elizabeth Takes Off.

第二任丈夫—迈克尔

MICHAEL WILDING 第二任丈夫—迈克尔

Feb. 21, 1952–Jan. 26, 1957
The British actor, whom Taylor met in England while making Ivanhoe, was 20 years her senior and the calm presence she needed after her tumultuous first marriage. Together, they had two sons – Michael (born in 1953) and Christopher (born 1955). "He was a wonderful father," Taylor told PEOPLE in 2006. But after five years of marriage, the couple divorced.

第三任丈夫—麦克托德

MIKE TODD 第三任丈夫—麦克托德

Feb. 2, 1957–March 22, 1958
Movie producer Mike Todd was a self-assured suitor who announced his marriage intentions clearly. "He didn't ask me, he told me," Taylor recalled in Elizabeth Takes Off. At 25 years her senior, he was the first major love in her life. "God, I loved him. My self-esteem, my image, everything soared under his exuberant, loving care," she wrote. Their marriage, which produced daughter Liza, came to a tragic end when the showman died in a crash on his plane, the Liz.

第四任丈夫—艾迪菲舍

EDDIE FISHER 第四任丈夫—艾迪菲舍

May 12, 1959–March 6, 1964
Still reeling from Todd's death, Taylor found solace with her late husband's good friend, singer Eddie Fisher, who was married at the time to actress Debbie Reynolds. "It was distressing to open the papers day after day and see captions under my photographs referring to me as a home wrecker," she later recalled in her autobiography, maintaining that their marriage was already in trouble. But her relationship with Fisher dissolved when she fell in love with her Cleopatra costar, Welsh actor Richard Burton.

第五任丈夫—理查伯顿

RICHARD BURTON 第五任丈夫—理查伯顿

March 15, 1964–June 26, 1974
"I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions, and I can't pretend I didn't know what I was doing when I became involved with Richard," Taylor wrote in her memoir. The married actors' affair on the Rome set of Cleopatra made headlines – and prompted the Vatican to accuse Taylor of "erotic vagrancy." The couple eventually ended their respective marriages and walked down the aisle. But after almost a decade together, their tempestuous relationship had earned them the nickname The Battling Burtons – and they divorced.

第六任丈夫—理查伯顿（第二次）

RICHARD BURTON

Oct. 10, 1975–July 29, 1976
Though their fiery first marriage fizzled, Taylor and Burton (who had adopted a daughter, Maria, born in 1961) gave wedded bliss another shot – briefly. Wags joked that Burton simply wanted to be near all the jewelry he had given his ex. "Even though there were rough times, I wouldn't give up one minute of my time with Richard Burton," Taylor wrote in her autobiography.

第七任丈夫—约翰华纳

JOHN WARNER 第七任丈夫—约翰华纳

Dec. 4, 1976–Nov. 7, 1982
Taylor entered the political realm when she married Virginia Republican (and former Secretary of the Navy) John Warner, whose wife's star power helped elect him to the U.S. Senate in 1979. But the role of the senator's wife did not suit her. "I was told to wear tweeds," she recalled to PEOPLE in 2006. "I couldn't wear purple or Halston pantsuits." An unhappy Taylor – whose weight ballooned, at one point reaching 180 lbs. – ultimately divorced Warner, who retired from the Senate in 2009.

第八任丈夫—建筑工拉里

LARRY FORTENSKY 第八任丈夫—建筑工拉里

Oct. 6, 1991–Oct. 31, 1996
They were an unlikely match – the movie star and the construction worker. After meeting at the Betty Ford Clinic, Taylor tied the knot for the eighth time with Larry Fortensky, a high-school dropout and 20 years his famous wife's junior. But the pair eventually parted ways. "He stopped working," she told PEOPLE. "You can't have love without respect." Taylor vowed never to marry again – and kept her word.