Elizabeth Taylor by BOZE HADLEIGH

Author:BOZE HADLEIGH
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781493031061
Publisher: Lyons Press

“He had so much, yet he was alcoholic before, during, and after Elizabeth Taylor. The periods of sobriety were few and his attempts to give up drinking were halfhearted or at any rate temporary. After the death of his brother Ifor in 1972 he made no further efforts to stop.” —MGM hairdresser and ET confidant Sydney Guilaroff

“Thank goodness she accompanied Richard to our Austrian location. She was like an assistant to me . . . invaluable. She sometimes kept Richard from drinking, and when he did drink was able to order him to do things he didn’t want to do. One day, he was so inebriated he thought a required wooden prop was actually high explosives. Richard kept insisting he wouldn’t touch it. We sent for Elizabeth . . . she arrived and yelled at him to get it over with and do the f---ing scene. And he did it. They were a great couple.”

—Brian Hutton, director of Where Eagles Dare, for which Richard Burton was paid $1 million (several times more than costar Clint Eastwood)

“Richard would drink solo or in company but Elizabeth didn’t like to drink alone. The problem was, when he was trying not to drink he sometimes fell off the wagon because she brought along a pitcher of martinis for lunch and would insist that he join her.”

—Peter Ustinov, their director and costar in Hammersmith Is Out

“Elizabeth and I both suffer from feelings of insecurity. We feel particularly unsure of ourselves when we are at a party because no one really wants to know us. They simply stare as if we are prize animals. What we do when we go to parties is drink to kill the icy isolation.” —Richard Burton

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