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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's love affair was unlike anything that had come before it. The iconic couple — who married twice, from 1964 to 1974, and then again from 1975 to 1976 — came ...
The pair’s relationship ended when Taylor fell in love with her “Cleopatra” co-star, Richard Burton. Fisher and Taylor divorced in 1964. Richard Burton (1964-74; 1975-76)
Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. on 10 November 1925 in a house at 2 Dan-y-bont in Pontrhydyfen, Glamorgan, Wales. [11] [12] He was the twelfth of thirteen children born into the Welsh-speaking family of Richard Walter Jenkins Sr. (5 March 1876– 25 March 1957), [13] and Edith Maude Jenkins (née Thomas; 28 January 1883 - 31 October 1927).
In addition to Burton and Fisher, she was married to Conrad Hilton Jr. from 1950 to 1952 and Michael Wilding from 1952 to 1957, and the duo shared sons Michael Jr. and Christopher.
After completing The V.I.P.s, Taylor took a two-year hiatus from films, during which she and Burton divorced their spouses and married each other. [ 8 ] : 112 The supercouple continued starring together in films in the mid-1960s, earning a combined $88 million over the next decade; Burton once stated, "They say we generate more business ...
In 1983, ageing movie stars Richard Burton (Dominic West) and Elizabeth Taylor (Helena Bonham Carter) are in New York City preparing to perform the Noël Coward play, Private Lives. The pair have been married and divorced twice before, but remain friends despite tensions. She still dreams of a reconciliation.
The play was a hit, and four years later Mike Nichols, in his feature debut, brought it to the big screen with Taylor, her real-life husband (twice!) Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis.
She asks him to buy her a ring and he purchases a 69-carat diamond which becomes known as The Taylor-Burton Diamond. Richard's brother Ifor Jenkins becomes crippled by an accident Richard blames himself for; after Richard and Elizabeth have returned home, Ifor dies. Richard becomes depressed and starts cheating on Elizabeth and drinking.