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Elizabeth Taylor film marathon on TCM, the schedule

By April MacIntyre Mar 23, 2011, 16:44 GMT

05/27/2010 - Elizabeth Taylor - Celebrity Sightings at Boa Steakhouse in West Hollywood on May 27, 2010 - Boa Steakhouse - West Hollywood, CA, USA © IAKONA / PR Photos

"There was no one like her, everything you could do in life she did."- Larry King

TCM will honor the late, great Elizabeth Taylor by showing some of her finest films.

Today marked the passing of the two-time Academy Award-winning actress,  her films will be shown on April 10 in a 24-hour memorial tribute, set to begin at 6 a.m. (ET/PT).

Taylor's Oscar-winning performances - "Butterfield 8" (1960) at 8 p.m. (ET) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966) at 10 p.m. (ET) are to be savored.

From TCM:

6 a.m. – Lassie Come Home (1943), with Roddy McDowall and Edmund Gwenn; directed by Fred M. Wilcox.

7:30 a.m. – National Velvet (1944), with Mickey Rooney, Anne Revere and Angela Lansbury; directed by Clarence Brown.

10 a.m. – Conspirator (1952), with Robert Taylor and Robert Flemyng; directed by Victor Saville.

11:30 a.m. – Father of the Bride (1950), with Spencer Tracy, Billie Burke, Joan Bennett and Don Taylor; directed by Vincente Minnelli.

1:15 a.m. – Father's Little Dividend (1951), with Spencer Tracy, Billie Burke, Joan Bennett and Don Taylor; directed by Vincente Minnelli.

2:45 p.m. – Raintree County (1957), with Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor and Agnes Moorehead; directed by Edward Dmytryk.

6 p.m. – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), with Paul Newman and Burl Ives; directed by Richard Brooks.

8 p.m. – Butterfield 8 (1960), with Laurence Harvey and Eddie Fisher; directed by Daniel Mann.

10 p.m. – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), with Richard Burton, George Segal and Sandy Dennis; directed by Mike Nichols.

12:30 a.m. – Giant (1956), with James Dean and Rock Hudson; directed by George Stevens.

4 a.m. – Ivanhoe (1952), with Robert Taylor and Joan Fontaine; directed by Richard Thorpe.