Richard Burton Biography part 1/6
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 Screen legends Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton star in four movies in this collection. The titles included are: THE COMEDIANS, THE SANDPIPER, THE V.I.P.’s and WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Please see individual titles for synopsis information. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton Film Collection [5 Discs] |
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 Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century  The definitive story of Hollywood’s most famous coupleHe was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly b… |
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR RICHARD BURTON THE V.I.P.S 8X10 PHOTO
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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton Film Collection (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 2-Disc Special Edition / The Comedians / The Sandpiper / The V.I.P.s) 5 Disc Set
 Movie DVDThe British-born Elizabeth Taylor was the quintessential Hollywood screen goddess. The Welsh-born Richard Burton was one of the most compelling British actors of his generation. Together, they were a perfect storm of talent, glamour, and offscreen scandal, which made even their lesser films essential viewing for those fascinated by cinema’s royal couple. This four-film set captures the prolific couple at the height of their 1960s heyday. The essential entry is Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966), which earned Taylor an Academy Award, and launched the film directing career of Mike Nichols. This adaptation of Edward Albee’s searing play was ahead of its time for its use of profanity, as chronicled in bonus featurettes on this two-disc Special Edition. Taylor and Burton star as the braying Martha, a college president’s daughter, and her husband George, an associate history professor. An ambitious teacher (George Segal) and his mousy wife (a heartbreaking Sandy Dennis) arrive for an unforgettable night of such emasculating sport as “Humiliate the Host,” “Get the Guests,” and “Hump the Hostess.” The V.I.P.s (1963) is a star-studded soap opera about a group of notables stranded at a fog-shrouded airport, each desperate to get off the ground. In addition to Orson Welles as a film director trying to stay one step ahead of the British tax man and Margaret Rutherford (who earned an Academy Award) as a financially strapped duchess, we have Taylor as the unhappy wife of magnate Burton, set to elope with a reformed (?) gigolo (Louis Jordan). The Sandpiper (1965) is one of those vaunted enjoyable “golden turkeys” that at least has the beautiful Big Sur coast and the Oscar-winning song “The Shadow of Your Smile” as consolation for the silly illicit romance between Taylor, an unconvincing bohemian artist, and Burton, the tortured Episcopalian reverend to whose school Taylor’s illegitimate son has been sent. The Comedians (1967) is hardly a laughing matter. Graham Greene adapted his novel of upheaval in Papa Doc-run Haiti. You have to jump 40 years to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to find another couple with Taylor and Burton’s wattage. This collection gives a time capsule glimpse at what all the fuss was about. –Donald Liebenson
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PIER ANGELI ON COVER RICHARD BURTON 1957 EXYU MAGAZINE
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 Becket  Henry II, King of England, tries to secure his throne by appointing his long-time wenching partner, Becket, Archbishop of Canterbu… |
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LOOK January 28 1964 RICHARD BURTON JACQUELINE KENNEDY
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Hamlet “To be or not to be” – Richard Burton (1964)
Richard Burton’s “Hamlet”, directed by John Gielgud, produced by Alexander H. Cohen. Filmed live on Broadway in 1964 and released to theaters in Electronovision. It was the longest running “Hamlet” in Broadway history. Act 3, Scene 1. Richard Burton and Linda Marsh
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The Night of the Iguana In the sleepy village of Puerto Vallarta, the defrocked Reverend T. Laurence Shannon works as a tour guide. While leading a group …
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Richard Burton Interview Parkinson Show 1
A great Interview of Richard Burton in 1973. He just came out from the Hospital and is quite nervous. What a voice, he died too young.
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Richard Burton’s Hamlet Richard Burton stars and Sir John Gielgud directs William Shakespeare’s play of the Danish Prince. This is a “Hamlet” acted in reh…
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Richard Burton Triple Feature
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Richard Burton reads the poetry of Thomas Hardy
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Richard Burton reads the poetry of Thomas Hardy
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To the Gold Coast for GoldA Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.?Volume I
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Richard Burton: A Life
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A biography of Richard Burton containing his own words, through the co-operation of members of his family who made available to Bragg various diaries and letters. There are also fresh insights from Burton’s peers, to provide a frank and intimate account of his life. The sensational highlights of Burton’s private life are well known – his marriages to Elizabeth Taylor, abundant drinking and womanizing and jet-setting lifestyle. Less well-known are his own thoughts on acting, alcoholism and his roots in Wales. These are all revealed in extracts from his diaries and letters. The contributions from Sir John Gielgud, Lauren Bacall, Sir Alec Guiness, John Hurt, John Le Carre and many others add an extra dimension to this biography.
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Bitter Victory
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Jean-Luc Godard once famously wrote, “The cinema is Nicholas Ray.” Much less famous is the movie that occasioned the observation. Bitter Victory marked Ray’s ascension to “auteur” demigod status in France. Unfortunately, American prints ran 20 minutes shorter than the Amère victoire seen in Europe, with the unsurprising result that this enigmatic film–so charged with suppressed desperation and rage, you can hear the neurons snapping–became well-nigh incoherent. It gets worse. The picture, a milestone in the deployment of CinemaScope for emotional subtlety and expressiveness, was dumped to television in a pan-&-scan version that made hash of its compositions and editing rhythm. And that’s the only way it was seen, for decades.
The setting is North Africa early in World War II. Two British officers, played by Curd Jürgens and Richard Burton, lead a commando team into the desert to attack a German post. Commander Jürgens doesn’t know, but comes to suspect, that his wife (Ruth Roman) and Burton were involved sometime before Jürgens married her. The mission recedes into the background as the tension between the two men builds, and issues of ethics, cowardice, and the legitimacy of wartime killing are thrown into relief against the anvil of the desert. Jurgens was an opaque actor, but Burton etches a searingly modern portrait of an alienated soul whose mordant self-awareness avails him nothing; it’s right up there with such Ray-directed landmark performances as James Dean’s in Rebel Without a Cause and Humphrey Bogart’s in In a Lonely Place. –Richard T. Jameson
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