She almost died of pneumonia during the filming of Cleopatra.
Many don’t know it, but that movie was originally conceived as a two-parter. Cleopatra and Julius Ceasar and Cleopatra and Mark Antony
(a blurb from the excerpts on the DVD)
I have an aunt that has the health problems that Miss Taylor had...always on the frail side..sick is a terrible way through s long life
Think that Cleopatra almost bankrupted the studio at the time
National Velvet was always a favorite of mine
RIP Miss Taylor