by Sam Kashner
inability to bear further children, 129, 182–83, 201
intervention by family and entry into Betty Ford Center, 424
jewelry, 6, 40, 44–45, 80, 84, 99, 106, 127, 149, 150, 151, 153, 172, 175, 178, 180, 215, 224, 235, 237–38, 252–53, 257, 258–60, 262, 273–77, 286, 290–91, 325, 333, 334, 339, 348, 356, 374, 381, 385, 397, 400, 404–5, 422, 433
John Warner and, 402–5, 410
Judaism and, 173–74, 343, 370–71
Larry Fortensky and, 436, 437
lateness, 13, 20, 110, 111, 326, 416
longing for normal life, 14, 28, 109, 154–55, 171, 187
Maria’s birth mother and, 163–64
Michael Jackson and, 437
Michael Wilding and, 2, 5, 6, 8, 37, 81, 89, 301
Mike Todd and, 5–7, 11, 37–38, 43, 54, 59, 107, 173, 309, 368
Montgomery Clift, saving of, 158
Montgomery Clift’s death, 175–76
Nicky Hilton and, 4, 8, 37
Norman Parkinson photo, 331
obligation to fans of, 410–11, 424
paparazzi and, 247, 433 (see also Taylor, Elizabeth, and Richard Burton romance)
personality and character, 3, 6, 7, 10, 53, 54, 55, 85, 127, 145, 153, 204, 241, 370–71, 405, 424
Peter Darmanin and, 397
photograph approval, 197–98
premonitions, 321–22, 425
prescription drug abuse, 295–96, 342, 358, 422, 424, 435
rehab, 1988, 435
signature color, 94, 404, 405, 412, 417
taxes and, 116
Victor Luna and, 422, 424, 425, 434
voice, 20, 107, 142, 172, 181, 405
wealth, 436
weight gain, 55, 135, 144, 162, 166, 214, 217–18, 243, 262, 311, 334, 358, 404, 405, 421–22, 424
FILM, THEATER, TELEVISION CAREER, 202, 268–69
acting and talent, 14, 18, 20–21, 53, 142, 168, 193, 295, 311, 318–19, 356, 416, 436
Ash Wednesday, 357–58, 359, 360, 375
awards/nominations, 9, 12, 151, 152, 176, 177, 205–7, 209, 229, 281, 411
best work of, 269
The Blue Bird, 388–89
Boom!, 211–20, 238–40, 242, 269
box-office rankings, 112, 131, 196, 246, 327–28
BUtterfield 8, 12, 113, 177, 269, 400, 436
career decline, 209, 230, 234, 251, 267, 269, 281, 288, 323, 356–57, 390, 396
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 7, 8, 9, 76, 211, 269, 436
changes in movie industry and, 76, 112–13, 117, 135–36, 252, 260–61
child stardom, 3, 62–64, 376–77, 437
Cleopatra, 2, 9–31, 38–39, 56–60, 112, 115, 153, 436
The Comedians, 196–204, 209, 228–30
Divorce His Divorce Hers, 344–57
Doctor Faustus, 269, 295, 314
The Driver’s Seat, 371, 375
effort to get work for Montgomery Clift, 157–61
Elephant Walk, 11, 265
Father of the Bride, 4, 114, 137
Father’s Little Dividend, 114
The Flintstones, 436
40th birthday and, 330, 331
Giant, 13, 64, 250, 436
gifts from producers and directors, 63–64, 149–50, 151, 172
Hammersmith Is Out, 316, 323
hiatus from, 112, 403
Hussein as director and, 346–54
Jane Eyre, 437
Julia Misbehaves, 368
Lassie Come Home, 3, 15, 199, 436
The Little Foxes, 411
A Little Night Music, 403
Louis B. Mayer and, 3, 10, 43, 309
Love Letters, 437
Mankiewicz as director and, 14
MGM and, 3, 5, 6, 12, 41, 43, 58, 62–64, 80, 112, 114, 157, 269
The Mirror Crack’d, 435
as mirror of her life, 58, 118, 146–49, 161, 181, 202, 215, 310–12, 356, 376, 417–18
National Velvet, 3, 62–64, 137, 269
Night Watch, 341, 342, 343, 346, 347, 349
“one-shot Liz” or Quicktake Liz, 169, 202, 218
The Only Game in Town, 250–52, 258, 287
A Place in the Sun, 13, 250, 269, 286, 436
popularity with crews, 170, 263, 299–300
Private Lives, 395, 413–24
production companies, 43, 59, 80, 113, 114, 193–94, 401, 411
as queen of camp, 423–24
Raintree County, 328
Reflections in a Golden Eye, 158–61, 176, 189–92, 209, 211, 233–34, 236
retirement contemplated, 267–68
The Sandpiper, 113–19, 136, 137, 150, 157, 243
Secret Ceremony, 240, 242–43, 246, 269, 288, 436
Stevens as director and, 13, 157, 250–51
Suddenly, Last Summer, 13, 158, 159, 211, 217, 220, 243, 269, 436
Sweet Bird of Youth, 436
The Taming of the Shrew, 161, 164–72, 178–82, 185, 211, 269
These Old Broads, 436
Under Milk Wood, 314, 315, 323, 411, 412–13
as uninsurable, 43, 296
The V.I.P.s, 42–45, 47, 55–56, 112, 168, 225
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 107, 136–52, 157, 168, 205, 218, 269, 436
X, Y, and Zee or Zee & Co., 310–12
Taylor, Elizabeth and Richard Burton romance, vii, ix, 2, 162–63, 292
adoption of child attempted, 345
affair, 21–31, 42–45, 50–51, 57–60
benefit concert in Israel, 390
career decline and, 209, 230, 234, 251, 267, 281, 288, 356–57, 390, 396
contact, post-divorce, 386, 389, 400, 424, 425
decision to marry, 52
denials that he would leave his wife, 42, 43
desire for children, 201, 245–46
divorce (1974), 376, 400–401
divorce (1976), 384–85, 406
Doctor Faustus and, 185, 187, 188
Eddie Fisher and, 25–26, 27
entourage, 3, 9, 19, 20, 25, 96, 99–100, 109, 115, 118, 119, 134–35, 141, 167, 194–96, 197, 200, 226–27, 247, 267, 303, 307, 309, 310, 311, 339, 341, 343–44, 350, 358, 402
as famous couple, 79, 83, 102, 120, 149, 181, 268, 303, 390, 407
fans and dangerous crowds, 35, 38, 39, 47, 79, 92–93, 100–101, 103, 111, 125–26, 127, 148–49, 152, 180, 192, 201, 226–27, 232, 261–62, 358, 416
fighting and arguments, 54, 78, 105, 107, 128, 145, 154–55, 161–62, 166, 203, 260, 270, 271, 273, 284–85, 303, 352–53, 369–70, 393
first sight of each other (1953), 1–2, 18
fundraiser in New York and Taylor’s theatrical debut, 106–7, 112, 295
gifts/jewelry given to Taylor, 45, 84, 99, 100, 153, 178, 224, 237–38, 257, 258–60, 273–77, 333, 343, 381
gifts to Burton, x, 54–55, 120, 149, 272, 354–55, 400
gifts to Burton’s family, 126, 177, 194–95, 196
Hamlet performances and, 93–94, 99, 102, 207
her birthdays, 99, 178–79, 331–35, 397–99
her career hiatus and, 76, 89
her children and Burton, 40, 80, 97, 129–30, 171, 208, 225–26, 319–20, 323, 376
her devotion, 53, 109
Here’s Lucy episode, 294–95
her heath crises and Burton, 183, 242, 244–45, 253–54, 257–58, 265, 266, 293, 393–94
her homosexual friends and, 159–60
her influence on him, 90–92, 230–31, 352
her leaving him (1973), 360–63, 365, 368–70, 375
her presence on set of Anne of the Thousand Days, 263–67
her reaction to his engagement, 387
her reaction to his marriage to Sally Hay, 421–22
her reaction to his marriage to Suzy Hunt, 402
her “remarriage” diamond sold, 397
her resemblance to his sister, 68
her statement on separation, 1973, 362–63, 365, 372
her suicide attempts, 29, 30–31
her visit to Jenkins family after his
death, 433–34
her will and, 437
his birthdays, 149, 324, 304, 393
his career and, 43–44, 48, 89, 90–91, 104, 107, 113, 117–18, 131, 172, 185, 230–31, 370
his divorce from Sybil, 52, 55, 80, 362
his divorce request, 397–99
his final days and, 429
his guilt, 42, 47–48, 50–52, 118, 119–20, 264
his hemophilia and, 159
his infidelity, 341–42, 353, 359, 375
his influence on her accent and behavior, 74–75
his last letter, x, 437–38
his letters, ix–x, 26, 130–31, 171, 265–66, 298–99, 301, 312, 338, 340–41, 342–43, 354–55, 360–61, 367, 437–38
his resemblance to Mike Todd, 24, 403
his resentments, 359
his response to her leaving, 360–61, 365–68, 371, 378, 379–80
his sense of inferiority, 78, 89
his telegram following separation, 370
investments, art, real estate, other possessions, 194, 201, 217, 226, 240, 252, 267, 278, 400–401
isolation of, 195–96, 197, 310, 354
jealousy, 124, 125, 193, 198, 223–24, 243, 251, 265, 266, 270, 297, 309, 310, 312, 329, 330, 331, 340, 359–60, 374–75
Jenkins family and, 51–52, 75–76, 125, 177–79, 196, 331–35, 433–34
last phone call, 425
Le Scandale, 34, 37, 42, 43, 58, 111, 114, 167, 180, 205, 207, 292, 373, 436
Life magazine cover, 56
lifestyle, 167, 177–78, 193–94, 196, 212, 221–25, 226–27, 236–37, 253, 267, 272, 292, 307, 324–27, 331–35
“Liz and Dick,” viii, 102, 153, 177, 204, 221–22, 225, 231, 268, 294, 335, 359, 390, 415, 417, 419, 422, 424
married life, 89, 161, 162, 181–83, 202, 204, 221–22, 236, 281, 282, 306, 319, 395
meeting in Switzerland, 40–42
meeting on set of Cleopatra, 2, 18
movie-set lunches, 53–54, 169, 351
paparazzi and press, 27–28, 29, 34, 36–38, 56, 111, 153, 170–71, 214, 247, 373, 382–83, 399, 412
passion for each other, ix, 38, 40, 42, 47–48, 87–88, 97, 107, 155, 185, 193, 204, 220, 227–28, 235, 253–54, 255, 262, 270, 284, 300, 354–55, 389–90, 411–12, 424–25, 430, 437
Porto Santo Stefano villa and, 28
production companies, 59, 113, 114, 193–94, 401
in Puerto Vallarta, 76–88, 112, 126, 174, 193, 194, 237, 243, 261–62, 281–82, 283–84, 294, 376, 381, 407
reconciliations, 362, 372–76, 380–82, 389–91
Reflections in a Golden Eye filming and, 189–92
refusal to work apart, 250
remarriage, October, 1975, 391–94
reunion, New York, 1982, 411–12
reuniting in Private Lives, 1983, 413–24
sense of abandoning himself and, 60
substance abuse and disintegration of relationship, 271, 281–85, 292, 317, 337–43, 344–57, 380–85
taxes and, 212, 225, 240, 242, 267, 349
Taylor on Richard Burton, vii, 1, 38, 154–55, 185, 427
travel and vagabond life, 109–12, 129, 135, 154, 179–80, 222, 227, 241–42, 267, 276, 281, 304 (see also Kalizma (yacht)
trips to Wales, 125, 271, 274–75
wealth, 212–13, 252, 267, 277–78, 288, 292, 335
wedding (1964), 99–100
yacht leased and publicity, 236–37
Taylor, Francis, 5, 40–41, 61, 127, 254, 255, 379
Taylor, Howard, 3, 61, 142, 215, 227, 267, 303, 304, 332, 376, 424
Taylor, Mara, 225, 227
Taylor, Rod, 47, 53, 54
Taylor, Sara Sothern, 3, 4, 40–41, 61, 62–63, 64, 254, 257, 267, 293, 332
Taylor-Burton (Cartier) diamond, 257, 273–77, 278, 290–91, 339, 404–5
These Old Broads (TV film), 436
Thomas, Dylan, 66, 120, 147, 169, 202, 313, 314, 315, 316, 412
Time Remembered (play), 122–23
Timon/Altra Films International, 313
Tito, Marshal, 320, 321, 322, 345
Tobruk (film), 297
Todd, Elizabeth Frances “Liza,” 6, 25, 79, 80, 81, 115, 129–30, 154, 171, 195, 208, 240–41, 247, 268, 282, 299, 322, 323, 332, 339, 411, 424, 433
Todd, Michael “Mike,” 5–7, 11, 14, 19, 24, 26, 37–38, 54, 59, 107, 118, 129, 173–74, 215, 283, 309, 322, 368, 376, 379, 403, 423
Todd-AO, 11
Tracy, Spencer, 4, 338–39
“Travelling with Elizabeth, by Her Husband Who Loves Her in Spite of It” (Burton), 109–10
True Grit (film), 289, 297–98
Trumbo, Dalton, 113, 116
Tunder, Pat, 24, 29
20th Century-Fox, 10, 25, 33–34, 45–46, 80, 208, 250, 269, 287, 292
Tynan, Kenneth, 59, 64, 73, 90, 91, 94, 190, 237
Tyson, Cecily, 197, 388
Under Milk Wood
film, 313–16, 323
reading (1982), 411, 412–13
Under the Volcano (film), 423
Universal Pictures, 287, 297
Universal-World Film Services, 216
Unsinkable Molly Brown (film), 118–19
Ustinov, Peter, 196, 228, 316