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Burton & Taylor is a BBC Four TV film written by William Ivory and directed by Richard Laxton, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Dominic West as legendary acting duo and former couple, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton during their preparation for a 1983 theatrical production of the play, Private Lives.
Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that they still have feelings for each other.
It is played repeatedly by the hotel orchestra in the play, before being sung by the character Amanda and subsequently reprised in Act 2. [2] The song is a waltz and is written in the key of E-flat major. [1] In his 1992 book Noel and Cole, Stephen Citron describes the song as encapsulating the whole theme of the play of Private Lives. [2]
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When Noël Coward's play proved to be a hit both in London and on Broadway, MGM executive Irving Thalberg bought the rights for a film adaptation starring his wife, Norma Shearer. Coward was uncertain if Shearer was capable of handling the sophisticated dialogue of his comedy of manners , but the actress confidently proclaimed, "I don't care ...