5/29/2023 0 Comments Elizabeth taylor eyes“Marilyn could put on dark glasses or a dark wig or something, she could walk on the street.” Elizabeth and Richard could not even leave their hotel room without being mobbed, which made them miserable. “One thing Marilyn could do and Elizabeth can’t do is walk on the street by herself,” he said. John Springer was Elizabeth’s publicist during this period of her life and he had also represented Marilyn Monroe. “I’m so happy you can’t believe it,” Elizabeth gushed. They stayed up talking, laughing, and crying until 7:00 a.m. The minister started the ceremony by saying, “You have gone through great travail in your love for each other.” They had been hounded and harassed, pilloried and praised. ![]() Elizabeth was thirty-two and Richard was thirty-eight, he was her fifth husband and she became his second wife. William Lovelace // Getty ImagesĮventually, they each got divorced and they were married in Montreal on March 15, 1964. Taylor and Burton at their first wedding, in Montreal in 1964. Richard ended one note to Elizabeth with: “Would you, incidentally, permit me to fuck you this afternoon?” In another, he wrote: “I love you badly like a disease. The Vatican decried “this insult to the nobility of the hearth.”Įlizabeth and Richard didn’t let the moralizing stop them. In an open letter in Vatican City’s weekly newspaper, Elizabeth was charged with “erotic vagrancy” because she was sleeping with Burton while still married to Fisher (never mind that Richard was cheating on his wife too). Their affair was such enormous news that even the Vatican was paying attention. “How did I know the woman was so fucking famous? She knocks Khrushchev off the front page.” “I’ve had affairs before,” Richard told a publicist working on Cleopatra. Images of them kissing on yachts in the Mediterranean and walking along Rome’s fashionable Via Veneto knocked John Glenn’s orbit of the Earth in 1962 off the front pages. Long before “Brangelina,” “Bennifer,” and “Kimye,” “Liz and Dick” practically invented the paparazzi. Sybil believed that her husband’s affair with Elizabeth would be no different than all the others.Įlizabeth Taylor sitting on the lap of her then-husband Eddie Fisher, speaking with Burton-for whom she’d soon leave fisher-on the set of Bettmann // Getty Imagesīut there was no way to ignore them once they became a global phenomenon – Richard called it “Le Scandale” - a love affair that marked the beginning of the world’s obsession with celebrity. Fisher stopped coming to the set when Richard and Elizabeth had a scene together their flirtation was too obvious and too humiliating. The problem was that both of them were married, Elizabeth to singer Eddie Fisher and Richard to the actress Sybil Burton, with whom he shared two daughters. ![]() “She was like a mirage of beauty of the ages, irresistible like the pull of gravity.” “I fell in love at once,” Richard said later. He was not the arrogant stage actor she had imagined, instead he was achingly vulnerable. “He was such a slob,” she said later, “he was such a mess, and I looked into those green eyes that were twinkling and smiling at me and he drank the whole mug and we kept staring at each other.” She remembered, being so close to him, seeing the grog blossoms-the burst blood vessels on the face of a heavy drinker-and strangely falling for him in that moment. “Hold this, love, will you hold it to my mouth?” She held the cup up to his mouth and started to giggle.Įlizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton met on the set of Cleopatra, and despite a rocky first interaction soon fell in love-and began a long and complicated relationship. ![]() ![]() He got a cup of coffee, but he could not bring the cup to his lips because his hands were shaking so badly. It was five o’clock in the afternoon, and he had not slept for two nights. Richard, then thirty-six, had gone on a bender the night before, drinking everything he could get his hands on. Elizabeth starred as Cleopatra, the woman who had conquered empires, and Richard played Marc Antony, the powerful Roman general who became Cleopatra’s lover. “Here’s the great lover,” she joked, “the great wit, the great intellectual of Wales, and he comes out with a line like that.” Plus, Richard’s reputation as a married man with a penchant for seducing his leading ladies had preceded him.īut her feelings changed on January 22, 1962, when they filmed their first scene together. The first day that Elizabeth Taylor saw the handsome Welsh actor Richard Burton on the set of Cleopatra he walked over to her and whispered, “Has anybody ever told you that you’re a very pretty girl?” It was not a great pickup-line by anyone’s standards, especially since Elizabeth, who was on the cusp of 30 and at the height of her smoldering sensuality, was already the most famous star of the twentieth century known for her raven hair and legendary blue eyes that some swore were an otherworldly shade of violet.
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