Film legend Elizabeth Taylor celebrated her 75th birthday with a party flanked by her four children and famous friends.

Taylor, who suffers chronic back pain, made a cheerful entrance to the Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas Hotel in a wheelchair escorted by her sons, Michael and Christopher Wilding, and daughters, Maria Burton and Liza Todd, en route to her party at a restaurant on the property.

Taylor's voice was soft and she seemed frail as she chatted briefly with reporters, telling them her secret to making it to 75 was "just living a very healthy, clean life."

The guest list of about 70 people was an eclectic variety of stars, including longtime friend Debbie Reynolds. "We're friends since Elizabeth and I were 17, so that's just two years ago," quipped Reynolds, who turns 75 herself on April 1 and was accompanied at the party by her daughter, actress Carrie Fisher.

Others present included Las Vegas personalities such as hotel-casino mogul Steve Wynn and former headliners Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn of the illusionist duo Siegfried and Roy.

Taylor first achieved stardom at age 12 in "National Velvet" and went on to win two Academy Awards for her role in the 1960 film "Butterfield 8" and for playing the wife opposite her real-life husband at the time, Richard Burton, in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

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