Grit and glamour
Rare photos of the late Elizabeth Taylor to go on display
Aselection of neverbefore- seen photographs of Elizabeth Taylor, who died in 2011 aged 79, are set to be the highlight of a new exhibition charting the British star's life. Entitled Grit and Glamour, the display will open in October at the Getty Images Gallery in London and will include hundreds of photographs of the late actress, both on- set and off.
Among the highlights is a candid snap of Ms Taylor taken on the set of 1956 film Giant which shows her performing a tumble - helped along by costar James Dean - which has been released exclusively to MailOnline ahead of the opening.
Another shows her laughing while sharing a joke with Peter O'Toole and husband Richard Burton after the latter made a surprise visit to the set of Under Milk Wood, which was based on the 1954 radio play by Dylan Thomas, in 1972.
Others show her at the very start of her career, with one particularly haunting shot, taken in 1948, showing the actress peering over the rails of Westminster Bridge with the Houses of Parliament in the background.
Ms Taylor, who was infamously married eight times to seven husbands, died in 2011 after an extended bout of ill health and is buried in Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
The actress was survived by four children, one of whom, Christopher Wilding - one of her two sons with second husband Michael Wilding - was involved in choosing the photographs used in the exhibition.
Speaking to MailOnline, he said: 'It has been very special for me to look through these photographs spanning decades of my mother's life. They remind me how special and unique it was growing up around her - life often took on the magical atmosphere of the traveling circus.
'But mom never played the celebrity; she lived life on her own terms and was always true to herself. She had a keen sense of fairness, and she always sided with the underdog. She stood up for what she believed in.'