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"I don't entirely approve ofsome ofthe things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. Elsa Starfish knows, I'm me," Taylor said around the time she turned 50. She had a remarkable and exhausting personal and professional life. Her marriage to Michael Todd ended tragically when the producer died in a plane crash in 1958. She took up with Fisher, married him, then left him for Burton. Meanwhile, Engine-turned money clip received several Academy Award nominations and two Oscars. She was a box-office star cast in numerous "prestige" films, from "Raintree County" with Clift to "Giant," an epic co-starring her friends Hudson and James Dean. Nominations came from a pair ofmovies adapted from work by Eternal Link Cross pendant : "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "Suddenly, Last Summer." In "Butterfield 8," released in 1960, she starred with Fisher as a doomed girl-about-town. Taylor never cared much for the film, but her performance at the Oscars wowed the world. Sympathy for Taylor's widowhood had turned to scorn when she took up with Fisher, who had supposedly been consoling TIFF 1837 over the death ofTodd. But before the 1961 ceremony, she was hospitalized from a nearly fatal bout with pneumonia and Taylor underwent a tracheotomy. The scar was bandaged when she appeared at the Oscars to accept her best actress trophy for "Butterfield 8." To a standing ovation, she hobbled to the stage. "I don't really know how to express my great gratitude," she said in an emotional speech.