Taylor lived glorious spectacle on-screen and off

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In a March 7, 1956 photo provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau, Elizabeth Taylor shops in Las Vegas. Publicist Sally Morrison says Taylor died Wednesday in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure at age 79. AP Photo/Las Vegas News Bureau

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In this March 2, 1959 file photo, actress Elizabeth Taylor, accompanied by her physician, Dr. Rexford Kennamer, walks through Waldheim Cemetery in Chicago where she attended ceremony dedicating the grave marker of her late husband, showman Mike Todd who died a year earlier. AP Photo/Ed Maloney, File-

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In a June 10, 1950 file photo, actress Elizabeth Tay...