"She is shy and witty, she is nobody’s fool, she is a brilliant actress, she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography, she can be arrogant and willful, she is clement and loving, Dulcis Imperatrix, she is Sunday’s child, she can tolerate my impossibilities and my drunkenness, she is an ache in the stomach when I am away from her, and she loves me!”
"How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man’s life, religiously preserve the merest trifles."
Richard Burton RIP (November 10, 1925 - August 5, 1984)
Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton photographed by Milton Greene, 1964.
Richard Burton watching Elizabeth Taylor getting ready, 1965.
She asked if I would stop loving her if she had to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. I told her that I didn’t care if her legs, bum, and bosoms fell off, and her teeth turned yellow and she went bald. I love that woman so much sometimes that I cannot believe my luck. She has given me so much. - Richard Burton
Imagine having Richard Burton’s voice in your ear while you are making love…It drowned out the troubles, the sorrows, everything just melted away…I was the happy recipient of his reputation as a man who knew how to please a woman. Being unfaithful to Richard was as impossible as not being in love with him. - Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton leaving Tre Scalini in Rome, 1960s
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton on the set of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)
↳Burton and Taylor - A Masterpost.
Out of all of the romances in Hollywood, few were as scandalous and iconic as the relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The pair first met when they were working on their film, Cleopatra, in 1961 and at the time they were both already married (Burton to Sybil Williams and Taylor to Eddie Fisher) but despite this they begun a heavily romantic and steamy affair.
In 1963, Richard divorced his wife however Elizabeth did not divorce her husband until a year later and just 9 days after the divorce, Richard and Elizabeth got married for the first time in Montreal, Canada at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The two were married for 10 years before calling it quits and during their marriage, Elizabeth was the subject of many of Richard’s diary entries that were later published as a book in 2012.
"19th November 1968: I have been inordinately lucky all my life but the greatest luck of all has been Elizabeth. She has turned me into a moral man but not a prig, she is a wildly exciting lover-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody’s fool, she is a brilliant actr ess, she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography, she can be a rrogant and wilful, she is clement and loving, Dulcis Imperatrix, sh e is Sunday’s child, she can tolerate my impossibilities and my drun kenness, she is an ache in the stomach when I am away from her, and she loves me!" The Richard Burton Diaries.
A year after their divorce on October 10th, 1975, Burton and Taylor married again however the marriage soon turned sour and they divorced for a second time, though even after their second divorce in 1976, the pair continued to stay obsessed with one another and Elizabeth even celebrated her 50th birthday with Richard on her arm. When explaining why they could not make it work Elizabeth stated, “Maybe we loved each other too much.”
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She asked if I would stop loving her if she had to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. I told her that I didn’t care if her legs, bum, and bosoms fell off, and her teeth turned yellow and she went bald. I love that woman so much sometimes that I cannot believe my luck. She has given me so much.
"What it felt like to be so wanted, so adored! No one had ever felt like that about me. It was all so dramatic, too. Always in the wee small hours when it seemed to Bogie and me that the world was ours - that we were the world. At those times were were. ” ―Lauren Bacall on Humphrey Bogart "She is like the tide, she comes, she goes, she runs to me… In my poor and tormented youth, I had always dreamed of this woman And now, when this dream occasionally returns, I extend an arm and she is here, by my side. If you have not met or known her, you have lost much in life"― Richard Burton on Elizabeth Taylor "Yes, I’ve been known to like ladies…and I do. But with her, it’s different. Everything about her is different than with any other gal. ” ―Clark Gable on Carole Lombard ”Our love was deep and true, even though the fact that we couldn’t live with each other any more than we couldn’t live without each other sometimes made it hard for outsiders to understand. All I know is that if Frank had lost me or I’d lost him during those months, our worlds would have been shattered. ” ―Ava Gardner on Frank Sinatra ”Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat. ” ―Joanne Woodward on Paul Newman ”I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.” ” ―Vivien Leigh on Laurence Olivier
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in London in the 1960s.
“I love her, not for her breasts, her buttocks, or her knees but for her mind. It is inscrutable. She is like a poem.”- Richard Burton on Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton photographed by Douglas Kirkland, 1963.
Not exactly the same photo but…
