Highly rare-- in the sense that it's not one of the countless secretarially-signed or crudely faked examples one so commonly encounters-- and quite early signature in her trade mark violet fountain pen (to match her eyes!) on a 4x6-inch tan autograph album page, acquired in-person when she was 15 years of age, in 1947. In good condition, with a minute tear to the upper edge, well away from the writing. After being nominated for three Academy Awards, for Raintree Country (1957), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), beautiful, iconic Elizabeth Taylor snagged two Oscars for BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Elsewhere, she blossomed from an adorable tot into an electrifying leading lady in Hollywood classics like Lassie Comes Home (1942), Jane Eyre (1943), National Velvet (1944), Life with Father (1947), Little Women (1949), Father of the Bride (1950), Father's Little Dividend (1951), A Place in the Sun (1951), Ivanhoe (1952), Giant (1956), Cleopatra (1963), The Sandpiper (1965), and The Taming of the Shrew (1967).

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