Famously, the turbulent relationship between Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor and the Welsh actor Richard Burton began in Rome while they were making the film epic Cleopatra.
At that point, she was married to her fourth husband, American crooner Eddie Fisher, and had three children. Burton had two by his Welsh wife, Sybil. What followed was a crazed mix of tragedy, farce and overwhelming erotic attraction.Burton and Taylor's first scene together. Taylor arrives on set with Eddie, two secretaries, two maids, make-up people and hairdressers. She is wearing a mink, which she ostentatiously lets drop to the floor.
Burton is furious with Eddie for daring to bring Sybil into it. When Taylor asks Eddie: 'Why did you tell Sybil?' he answers forlornly: 'Because I love you and would do anything to keep you.'Eddie leaves Rome 'on business'. Burton takes Taylor out for the evening to the Via Veneto, Taylor wearing a leopard-skin coat and hat. According to Jack Brodsky and Nathan Weiss, publicists on the picture, Taylor and Burton are 'the hottest thing ever'.
Richard Burton kisses his beautiful actress-wife Elizabeth Taylor following their successful benefit performance of prose and poetry readings at the Lunt-Fontanne TheatreBurton makes a statement to the Press, saying the affair is 'all bloody nonsense'.Newspaper reporters and photographers invade Rome. Cameramen hide in trees and bushes. Journalists pretend to be priests collecting donations.
The front page of today's New York Daily News, dominated by the headline 'Eddie Fisher Breaks Down: In Hospital Here; Liz in Rome', is turned into a screen-print by Andy Warhol. Actor and fellow Welshman Emlyn Williams, visiting Rome on a mission of mercy for Sybil, leaves a note for Burton, saying of Taylor: 'Look here, she's just a third-rate chorus girl.' When they meet, Burton states calmly, 'I'm going to marry her' — conveying his earnestness by saying it in Welsh.Taylor and her three children, Michael, Christopher and Liza, are taken by Burton in his Lincoln to Corsetti's Restaurant, where they eat lobster and ice-cream.
He had 'vague memories of trying to get her awake'. There followed a 'hair-raising drive' back to Rome, 102 miles away, with Taylor dropped anonymously at the Salvator Mundi hospital.Sybil returns to Rome. Paparazzi photos of Burton and Taylor smooching on the beach in Porto Santo Stefano have been published in the London papers, which even Sybil can't pretend not to have seen.
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