JAMO magazine June 2014 | Page 17

1966

Taylor won another Oscar for her performance alongside Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1971

Taylor became a grandmother at the age of 39.

1974

Taylor starred in ‘Victory at Entebbe’, a made-for-television movie based on an actual event, which involved Israeli hostages being freed from Entebbe Airport in Uganda. Over the next decade, she went on to have roles in productions including ‘A Little Night Music’, ‘The Mirror Crack’d’, ‘All My Children’, ‘Malice in Wonderland’ and the miniseries ‘North and South’.

1975

After being apart for 16 months Taylor and Burton married again in October but re-divorced.

1976

In July after re-Divorcing Burton , She married Republican senator John Warner and they divorced later. This was followed by a five year marriage to Larry Fortensky.

1982

For the U.S. Senate in Virginia. According to one biographer, Taylor broke "all the rules for being a good political wife." She had also gained considerable weight, and the press attacked her about it. After Warner was elected, he and Taylor divorced.

1983

Taylor then moved to Broadway for the first time in a well-received staging of The Little Foxes. She and Richard Burton appeared together in a 1983 production of Private Lives, but critics felt that the dramatic spark between them was no longer there. Taylor checked into the Betty Ford Clinic in California for treatment for her alcohol addiction.

1984

In August,The death of Burton however, combined with back pain and general ill health, led to her return to drinking and drugs.

1985

Taylor was also alarmed as a number of her friends, including actor Rock Hudson (1925–1985) and fashion designer Halston, became ill with AIDS. Taylor began to speak out on behalf of AIDS research. In 1985 she became the cofounder and chair of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR). Her "Commitment to Life" benefit of that year was the first major AIDS research fundraiser staged by the Hollywood community.