elizabeth taylor has not been in an american film
she began as a child actress in the early 1940s  and was one of the most popular stars of classical hollywood cinema in the 1950s
classical hollywood cinema  classical hollywood narrative  and classical continuity are terms used in film criticism which designate both a narrative and visual style of filmmaking which developed in and characterized us american cinema between 1917 and the early 1960s and eventually became the most powerful and pervasive style of filmmaking worldwide