Paul Newman among Elizabeth Taylor's many famous co-stars

(CBS) With her lengthy screen resume and high-profile personal life, Elizabeth Taylor became a Hollywood legend. Throughout her acting career she consistently worked with some of the biggest names in film and television.

Taylor was already one of Hollywood's biggest stars by the time she worked with Paul Newman in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958). Newman's career was in an upswing - he starred in "The Left Handed Gun" and "The Long, Hot Summer" earlier that year - when he played Brick Pollitt, alcoholic husband to Taylor's Maggie "the Cat" in the screen version of Tennessee Williams' play.

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By the time Taylor starred in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," she'd been appearing on screen for more than a decade with the biggest stars in movies.

Even in her first film role in "There's One Born Every Minute" (1942), one of her co-stars was Carl Switzer, better known by his household name, Alfalfa, from the "Our Gang" shorts.

It was Taylor's role in "National Velvet" (1944) that shot her to stardom and set the trend for her appearing on screen with heavy hitters. Her co-star in "Velvet" is Mickey Rooney, who was then at the height of his box office success.

A partial list of Taylor's co-stars includes Rock Hudson and James Dean ("Giant); Spencer Tracy ("Father of the Bride," in which she plays the bride to Tracy's put-upon father); William Powell ("Life with Father"); Montgomery Clift ("A Place in the Sun," "Raintree County," "Suddenly Last Summer"); Richard Burton ("Cleopatra," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" for whcih Taylor won the Best Actress Academy Award) Roddy McDowell ("Lassie Come Home"); Eddie Fisher ("BUtterfield 8," Taylor's first Best Actress Oscar); Marlon Brando ("Reflections in a Golden Eye"); Warren Beatty ("The Only Game in Town"); Michael Caine ("X, Y and Zee"); Henry Fonda ("Ash Wednesday"); Peter O'Toole ("Under Milk Wood").

One of Taylor's last roles was in the TV movie "These Old Broads" (2001) alongside Debbie Reynolds. Taylor and Reynolds' ex-husband, Eddie Fisher, were married from 1959 to 1964. Fisher left Reynolds to marry Taylor.