Elizabeth Taylor leaves Los Angeles hospital

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- Actress Elizabeth Taylor was released Wednesday from the hospital where she spent six days being treated for a mild case of pneumonia, her spokesman Said.

Taylor, 68, was admitted Friday to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center near Beverly Hills and was discharged Wednesday afternoon, spokesman Warren Co wan said.

"She's feeling much, much better," he said.

Taylor, whose last big-screen appearance was in the 1994 live-action comedy "The Flint stones," is expected to go before the cameras in September for the ABC television movie "Those Old Broads," co-starring Shirley Masculine, Debbie Reynolds and Joan Collins.

Taylor's bout with pneumonia came almost exactly a year after she spent 10 days in the same hospital with a vertebral fracture caused by a fall at her Abel Air mansion. The two-time Oscar winner suffered a similar back injury about a year before that.

Taylor has had a string of medical problems in recent years. She underwent surgery to remove a benign tumor from the lining of her brain in 1997 and has had two hip-replacement operations.

In 1995 she was treated for high blood pressure and an irregular heartbeat, and in 1990 she nearly died of complications from a respiratory illness that kept her in the hospital for three months.

Taylor won a best-actress Oscar for her role as a call girl in the 1960 film "Butter field 8" and again for her 1966 portrayal of an alcoholic wife opposite her husband at the time, Richard Burton, in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

In May, the London-born actress was given the title "Dame" -- the female equivalent of a knighthood -- by Queen Elizabeth.

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