Burton and Taylor

Burton and Taylor

🎞️ Movie 83 min GB
โ˜… 6.4 /10 2013

Film star Elizabeth Taylor invites her ex-husband - twice over - Richard Burton to her fiftieth birthday party where, as a recovering alcoholic, he refuses to get drunk with her. He does however consider her suggestion that they star in a stage revival of the play 'Private Lives'. As they announce the project the press speculate on a romantic reconciliation. With a new girlfriend and the prospect of playing king Lear Burton is not happy with the project, especially with Taylor's pill-popping and her lack of stage experience, which causes problems at rehearsal. The play opens to a critical trashing but is popular with audiences, chiefly, again to Burton's chagrin, because they want to see Taylor and, when she is ill, numbers dwindle and the show is put on hold. After a two month run , with a projected tour, the curtain comes down and Taylor tells Burton she has always loved him and still does. A year later however his old life-style catches up with him and he is dead.

Cast

Dominic West
Dominic West
Richard Burton
Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter
Elizabeth Taylor
Greg Hicks
Greg Hicks
Zev Bufman
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Jeff Mash
Journalist
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Trevor White
Journalist
Lenora Crichlow
Lenora Crichlow
Chen Sam
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Isabella Brazier-Jones
Maria Burton
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Lucille Sharp
Liza Todd Burton
Stanley Townsend
Stanley Townsend
Milton Katselas
Sarah Hadland
Sarah Hadland
Kathryn Walker
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John Lunn
Composer
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David Katznelson
Cinematographer

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Burton and Taylor: TV Trailer - BBC Four
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Burton and Taylor: TV Trailer - BBC Four