It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Taylor and Burton appeared together in six other films during the decade among them The V. Taylor's older brother Howard Taylor was born in 1929. Tickets for the show were priced at $2500 and more than 500 people attended.

From her early years as a child star with MGM Elizabeth Taylor became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. National Velvet (1944) was Taylor's first success and Elizabeth Taylor starred in Father of the Bride (1950) A Place in the Sun (1951) Giant (1956) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Suddenly Last Summer (1959). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960) played the title role in Cleopatra (1963) and married her co-star Richard Burton.