That would be interesting, because it butterflies away almost everything for which popular culture remembers Taylor: her antics with Eddie Fisher; her pneumonia scare and subsequent tracheotomy; her starring role in the legendary flop, Cleopatra; her resultant, tumultuous romance with Richard Burton, including their several other collaborations (such as her Oscar-winning performance in Virginia Woolf); her friendship with and idolization by Michael Jackson; her substance abuse problems; those last few, particularly embarrassing marriages; her long and painful decline. Her most famous roles pre-1958 were as a child actress: Lassie Come Home, National Velvet...WI Elizabeth Taylor is killed with Mike Todd in that plane crash in 1958? (OTL she had a persistent cold.)
The question then becomes: is she remembered as something of a female James Dean, whose career was tragically cut short despite a great deal of promise? Or simply as one of the myriad child actors who met an unfortunate end at far too young an age?