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ARCHIVES
“B-T Archive”: Letters from Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor, undated except where noted; private collection.
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Meryman, Elizabeth Taylor, original unedited manuscript, private collection.
Richard Burton Archive, British Film Institute (BFI) Library, London, England.
Richard Burton clipping file, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, California.
Elizabeth Taylor clipping file, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, California.
Clipping files for Ash Wednesday, Boom!, Cleopatra, The Comedians, Divorce His Divorce Hers, Doctor Faustus, Hammersmith Is Out, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Sandpiper, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Taming of the Shrew, Under Milk Wood, The V.I.P.s, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, California.
Private Lives clipping file, Library of Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, New York, New York.
DVDS AND VISUAL MATERIAL
David Lewin’s interview with Richard Burton, Becket DVD, supplemental material.
Michael Parkinson’s interview with Richard Burton, November 23, 1974, BFI Archive.
Kenneth Tynan’s interview with Richard Burton, Becket DVD, supplemental material.
Tony Palmer, director, In from the Cold, VHS.
DVDs of Anne of the Thousand Days, Ash Wednesday, Becket, Boom!, Cleopatra, The Comedians, Divorce His Divorce Hers, Doctor Faustus, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Sandpiper, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Taming of the Shrew, Under Milk Wood, The V.I.P.s, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
SEARCHABLE TERMS
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ABC-TV, 344, 355
Absolutions (film), 406–7
Academy Awards, 13, 136, 206, 207, 217, 264, 288
Burton losses, 131, 133, 176, 177, 205–7, 290, 291–92, 381, 405–6
Burton nominations, 131, 152, 176, 209, 226, 279, 281, 285–86, 292, 313, 401
campaigning for Burton, 285–86
Hollywood during, 285
post-Oscar parties, 290–91
Taylor Best Actress Awards, 176, 206–7, 229, 281
Taylor doesn’t attend, 206–7
Taylor nominations, 9, 152
Taylor party for losers, 292–93
Taylor presents at, 285, 290
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? nominations, 177
Aimée, Anouk, 206, 229
Albee, Edward, 137, 138, 169, 170, 173, 206, 207, 264
Alexandre de Paris, 19, 199, 200, 228, 325, 326, 347–48
Algonquin Hotel, New York, 324
Ali, Muhammad, 11
All About Eve (film), 13, 14
Alpert, Hollis, 181
American Music and Dramatic Academy, 95, 106, 151, 232
Andrews, Julie, 15, 246
Anhalt, Edward, 74
Annenberg, Walter, 273
Anne of the Thousand Days (film), 252, 260–61, 263–67, 269, 271, 272, 278–79, 281, 288–90, 291
Anouilh, Jean, 73, 74
Anstee, Paul, 93
Archerd, Army, 295
Around the World in Eighty Days (film), 5, 38
Ash Wednesday (film), 357–58, 359, 360, 375, 376
Asquith, Anthony “Puffin,” 45, 53
Assassination of Trotsky (film), 324–25
Aubrey, James, 287
Auden, W. H., 114, 186
Avedon, Richard, 37
Aznavour, Charles, 255
Bacon, Francis, 401–2
Bacon, James, 83, 295
Bailey, David, 172
Baker, Josephine, 183
Baker, Stanley, 51, 66, 134, 178
Baldwin, James, 261
Balfour, Neil, 387
Ball, Lucille, 294–95, 298
Bankhead, Tallulah, 411
Barcher, Larry, 332
Barnes, Billy, 213
Bart, Peter, 115
Battle of Sutjeska (film), 320–23, 372
Beaton, Cecil, 325
Beatty, Warren, 241, 251, 287, 387
Beaumont, Hugh “Binkie,” 186
Becket (film), 73–74, 87, 90, 96, 131, 133, 185, 196, 268, 269
Bel Air, California, x, 1, 386, 414, 425, 437
Bell, Jean, 388, 389
Bell Inn, Wales, 271, 274–75
Benton, Jim, 267, 274, 278, 306, 344
Bergman, Ingrid, 38, 42, 212
Berkeley, Ron, 24, 119, 167, 227, 321–22, 344, 350, 384, 406
Berman, Pandro S., 63–64
Besançon, Andrew, 247
Betty Ford Clinic, 372, 424, 432, 435
Beverly Hills Hotel, 286, 291, 360, 400
Bible, The (film), 193
Bloom, Claire, 18, 49, 120–22, 128, 167, 394, 427
Bluebeard (film), 327–42, 375
Blue Bird, The (film), 388–89
Bogarde, Dirk, 134, 216, 324
Bogart, Humphrey, 328
Bolt, Robert, 53
Boom! (film), 211–20, 238–40, 242, 269, 272, 288, 373
Boorman, John, 401
Bosworth, Patricia, 160
Boyd, Pattie, 136
Boyd, Stephen, 11, 15
Boy with a Cart, The (play), 90
Bozzacchi, Claudye Ettori, 198–99, 322, 344
Bozzacchi, Gianni, 119, 197–99, 247, 315, 319, 322, 344, 359, 377–78, 382, 431
Bragg, Melvyn, 56, 58, 106, 317
Brando, Marlon, 157, 189–92, 233, 234, 255, 299, 324, 328, 357, 428, 429
Breakthrough (film), 406
Breslin, Jimmy, 302, 420
Bridges, Beau, 316
Brief Encounter (TV movie), 386, 387
Britt, May, 207
Brodsky, Jack, 27, 29
Bronson, Charles, 114
Brooks, Richard, 7
Brown, Pamela, 73
Browne, Roscoe Lee, 196
Browning, Robert, 276
Buchman, Sidney, 13
Buda, Max, 225
Budapest, Hungary, 327–35, 337
David Frost interview in, 339
Taylor’s 40th birthday ball, 331–35
Bufman, Zev, 411, 413, 422
Bujold, Geneviève, 261, 265, 266, 270, 288
Bulgari, Gianni, 45, 99, 172, 175, 178, 235, 237, 332
Burr, Robert, 104
Burton, Jessica, 15, 42, 48, 60, 118, 119–20, 195, 377
Burton, Kate, 15, 48, 60, 135, 195, 225, 247, 299, 304, 333, 339, 376, 390, 402, 412, 433
Burton, Maria, 24–25, 36, 79, 80–81, 97, 115, 119, 127, 130, 171, 183, 195, 208, 282, 299, 322, 332, 333, 352–53, 376, 411, 412, 415, 433
birth mother shows up, 163–64
Burton, Philip, 64, 70–72, 75, 87, 95–96, 106, 134, 151, 166, 186, 232, 309–10, 329, 339
Burton, Richard. See also Taylor, Elizabeth and Richard Burton romance
on acting, 305–6, 318, 335, 372, 396, 427
acting and talent of, 1, 15–16, 20–21, 71, 72, 73, 74, 93–94, 95, 97, 102, 104, 121, 123, 176–77, 193, 268, 318, 421
alcohol, attempts at sobriety, 208, 283–86, 289–91, 293, 300, 302, 322, 324, 331, 334, 336, 338–39, 342, 345, 346, 349, 377, 390, 391, 393–94, 396, 398, 399, 402, 406, 428, 431
alcohol, detox, 1973, 363, 367
alcohol and alcoholism, viii, 1, 15, 21, 48, 50, 51–54, 59, 73–74, 82, 83, 85–86, 92, 96–98, 104, 120, 124–25, 127, 146, 162, 165, 190, 192, 202–4, 209, 217, 220, 226, 241, 251, 253, 258, 270, 271, 281–85, 302–3, 305, 306, 312, 317, 336–40, 353, 354, 358, 360–61, 374, 377–79, 392, 394, 408, 409, 410, 413, 420, 431
alcoholism, final stage, 377–78, 381–82, 384, 392
appearance, 18, 19, 24, 48, 55, 70, 71, 121, 134, 167, 186, 229, 244, 289, 294, 300, 303, 328, 331
Ava Gardner and, 77–78, 85–86
background and family, ix, 18–19, 49, 51, 61, 64, 65–73, 86–87, 97, 110, 186, 359, 383
beating by London thugs, 55–56, 104
brothers and sisters (list), 65
burial and memorial services, x, 432–34
Claire Bloom and, 49, 120–22
death, ix–x, 430–32
depression, 105, 120, 122, 125, 146, 203, 208, 257, 278–79, 283, 289, 354, 387
desire for knighthood, 282, 409
diary, 2, 29–30, 124, 170, 173, 192, 203–4, 213, 227, 241, 245, 262, 263, 268, 284, 288, 292, 302–3, 305, 318, 321, 336, 414
The Dick Cavett Show, 408
directing, 113–14
disasters of 1968, 241, 245–46, 247–48, 255
Dylan Thomas and, 314, 316, 337
earnings, 15, 44, 113, 119, 120, 139, 193, 196, 212–13, 214, 250, 292, 327, 388, 407
engagement to Princess Elizabeth, 387–88
entourage reduced, 402, 428 (see also specific individuals)
epilepsy of, 92, 120, 159, 409
fame, viii, 37, 89, 92, 96, 107, 123, 164, 222, 306, 340
favorite foods, 66, 75, 126
fears and phobias, 91
final written words, 432
gifts to family, 75, 118, 126, 177–79
guilt over Ifor, 248, 271, 273, 335–36, 340
Haitian property, 401, 428
Hampstead, England, home, 50–51, 194, 240, 319
health problems, 104, 233, 283, 306, 312, 320, 382, 407–9, 415, 428–29
hemophilia, 91–92, 120, 159, 435
homosexuality and, 16–17, 160–61, 248–50
Jean Bell and, 388, 389
Judiasm and, 174
love of books, 171–72, 221, 272, 297, 358, 401–2
love of poetry, 18, 86–87, 106–7, 121, 125, 142–43, 169, 174–75, 202, 332
names for, 53, 65
obsession with Faust legend, 189
Oxford and, 53, 72, 112, 114, 185–86, 195, 281, 332, 343–44
Pays de Galle, Céligny, x, 39, 42, 118, 194, 247, 271, 388, 389, 400, 424, 430–32
personality, 1, 10, 18, 81, 96, 97, 152, 192–93, 204, 242, 329, 344, 424
Philip Burton and, 64, 70–72, 87, 95–96
purchases jet, 180
receives CBE, 304–5
Sally Hay and, x, 420–21, 424, 428, 429, 430
Susan Strasberg and, 18, 122–23
Suzy Hunt and, 394, 395, 396–99, 400, 401–2, 406–7, 409, 410
Sybil Burton and, 1, 15, 25, 29, 30, 39, 42, 43, 47–52, 60, 118, 133–34, 240
virility, 16, 18, 24, 49, 229, 302, 415
voice, 18, 20, 33, 48, 70, 71, 74, 93–94, 100, 101, 102, 121, 159, 188, 227, 229, 231, 314, 316, 336, 356, 380, 386, 398, 415, 429, 432
Welsh identity, ix, 1, 50, 66, 69–70, 71, 75–76, 102, 118, 125–26, 179, 314–15, 359, 417
womanizing, 1, 17, 18, 21–22, 27, 49–50, 120–21, 122, 123, 208, 329, 340, 379, 382
writings, 164, 227–28, 281, 359, 413, 434–35, 443–45
FILMS, 268
Absolutions, 406–7
Academy Award losses, 131, 133, 176, 177, 205–7, 290, 291–92, 381, 405–6
Academy Award nominations, 131,
152, 176, 209, 226, 279, 281, 285–86, 292, 313, 401
Anne of the Thousand Days, 252, 260–61, 263–67, 269, 271, 272, 278–79, 281
Assassination of Trotsky, 324–25
“A Walk with Destiny” or “The Gathering Storm,” 387–88