First words Richard Burton spoke to Elizabeth Taylor on Cleopatra set

Famously, the turbulent relationship between Hollywood star and the Welsh actor Richard Burton began in Rome while they were making the film epic Cleopatra.

At that point, she was married to her fourth husband, American crooner Eddie Fisher, and had three children. Burton had two by his Welsh wife, Sybil. What followed was a crazed mix of tragedy, farce and overwhelming erotic attraction.

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