her unparalleled beauty were trademarks. they won her both praise and lots of tabloid headlines. manuel gallegus takes a look at her legendary life. most americans first laid eyes on elizabeth rose mond taylor in american velvet. the public would be fascinated by her marriages and scandalous affairs. her countless illnesses, surgeries, seesawing appearance and her remarkable ability to triumph through it all. after a string of films as a teenager in the 50s, critics finally recognized her for her acting as well as her vile et- eyed beauty. she had been divorced twice by 1957. devastated by the death of her third husband in a plane crash, taylor found comfort in his best friend, eddie fisher. soon, the public despised taylor for break up the marriage of fisher and sweetheart carrie reynolds. he became husband number four. it was the biggest hollywood scandal of the decade. less than three years later, the public was back on her side after she almost died of pneumonia. sympa