Hollywood Couples: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
Elizabeth Taylor started an on-screen alliance with Richard Burton during the filming of Cleopatra in 1963. The sizzling affair titillated the gossip columns the world over and led to her fourth marriage and his second.
When Richard Burton became the lover of Elizabeth Taylor, he achieved world fame; addicted to his new-found celebrity and bewitched by Taylor, he described his first impression as, "the most astonishingly self-contained, pulchritudinous, remote, removed, inaccessible woman I had ever seen.”
