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Elizabeth Taylor: Richard Burton
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Taylor's performances were far from over, She moved to Broadway for the first time in a well-received staging of The Little Foxes. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton then appeared on Broadway in 1983, attempting to rekindle the dramatic spark that had leapt between them, in Noel Coward's Private Lives. The critics were cool... feeling that the stage couple projected overtones of the actors' own private times together. It was a poor sequel to their devastatingly effective Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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In 1963, Elizabeth starred in CLEOPATRA which was one of the most expensive productions to date as was her salary, said to be a whopping $1,000,000. This was ... the film where she would meet her future and fifth husband, Richard Burton. (The previous four were, Conrad Hilton, Michael Wilding, Michael Todd (who died in a plane crash), and Eddie Fisher). Her next handful of films were lackluster at best. Elizabeth was to return to fine form with her role of Martha in 1966's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? The role as a loudmouth unkempt woman easily was her finest personal performance to date.
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Possibly the most expensive film ever made, the story of the beautiful Queen of the Nile is vividly captured with a breathtaking Elizabeth Taylor in the title role. Richard Burton and Rex Harrison are Marc Antony and Julius Caesar in this truly grand epic of war and romance. Co-stars Pamela Brown, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova, Kenneth Haigh, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowall, and Francesca Annis. 4 hrs. on two discs. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Surround, French Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English, Spanish; audio commentary.
It’s hard to imagine that two other actresses were considered for the role of Cleopatra before Elizabeth Taylor. Both Joan Collins and Audrey Hepburn were approached yet scheduling conflicts forced them to bow out. Taylor found filming in England’s damp climate so prohibitive she couldn’t work and production was subsequently shut down and later moved to Rome, losing six months of shooting time and countless reels of film. At one point, extras serving as slavegirls went on strike protesting the amorous advances of the many male extras. The most amorous advance of all occurring between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as Marc Antony. Their tempestuous love affair paralleled the very characters they portrayed on screen and would soon rival Cleopatra’s epic status.
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In 1960 Taylor turned in one of her best screen performances as a call-girl in Butterfield 8, for which she won an Oscar as Best Actress. A few months later, in 1961, she signed with 20th Century-Fox for $1 million for the film Cleopatra, with Richard Burton as Marc Antony. The two stars were soon romancing off the set as well as on; even the Vatican spoke out in protest, castigating the "caprices of adult children" and accusing Taylor of "erotic vagrancy." In despair over her alliance with Burton, married and the father of two, Elizabeth Taylor attempted suicide in early 1962. But two years later, the two divorced their respective spouses and married on March 15, 1964.
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Casa Kimberley, Zaragoza 445, telephone and fax (52-3) 222-1336, Ms. Taylor and Mr. Burton’s love nest, was the scene of epic drinking and brawling in those days, a guest house to Hollywood luminaries from John Wayne to Rock Hudson. The casa is still a temple of cinematic high camp on a quiet bend of road in the neighborhood known as Gringo Gulch, five minutes from the center of town and its beaches, Playa Olas Altas and Playa de los Muertos. The Cleopatra suite, with a commanding view of the ocean and a pink whirlpool bath, is the most expensive of the nine bedrooms, $100 off season, $200 in high season..
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