Elizabeth Taylor In Hospital Two Days After Injury In Fall

Elizabeth Taylor was in the hospital Sunday, two days after she bruised her hip and back in a fall at her home just hours before a party to celebrate her 66th birthday.

The Academy Award-winning actress was recovering from Friday’s fall at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, her publicist said Sunday.

“I just spoke with her. She’s doing fine,” said Shirine Ann Coburn. “There’s some bruising, nothing serious.”

Miss Taylor was expected to be released within a few days.

Coburn denied a report that Miss Taylor blacked out after the fall and said no bones were broken.

“She didn’t hit her head and she was never unconscious,” she said.

Taylor, who turned 66 on Friday, had brain surgery a year ago to remove a benign golfball-sized tumor. She was hospitalized last March 1 - a week after the surgery - because she suffered a mild seizure, a common occurrence after such an operation, her doctor said at the time.

The Oscar-winning actress (“Butterfield 8” in 1960 and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in 1966) has endured a series of health problems over the decades.

She had both hips replaced in recent years then had to return for hip-adjustment surgery in October 1995 because one of the operations left her with one leg shorter than the other.