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Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a British actor. He was once the most expensive actor in Hollywood, married twice and divorced twice with actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Richard Burton was born in the small village of Pontrhydyfen in Wales, England, and grew up in a working-class family, the thirteenth child of the family. His father was a coal miner—a twelve-hour worker.
Burton's family later claimed: "He looked a lot like me... He's very good at eloquence, with great enthusiasm, and with great violence."
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="192" > career</h1>
Burton has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor seven times and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor once, but has never won.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="194" > autobiography</h1>
In 1964, he wrote a semi-autobiographical novel called A Christmas Story about an experience in a Welsh coal mining village. The marriage with Elizabeth Taylor was divided into a fun conversation as many as four times.
Richard Burton waited until his wife, Sybil, was asleep before sneaking into the woodshed in the dead of night.
He carefully moved the logs to the ground one by one. Then he crept in through a crack in a door behind the hut.
yes! When he stood up again, he found himself in the mansion of Hollywood actor Stewart Granger in Beverly Hills.
As he tiptoed through the corridor, he held his breath.
Another of his images is Richard Burton and Angie Dickinson in Thorny Bush. He reportedly had relationships with 2,500 women between 1947 and 1975
He had good reason to be nervous: Not only did Granger possess a fleet of weapons, but he was unlikely to give Burton a chance to explain himself.
If he was caught, what would he say? He didn't seem to have any excuses.
Although the Burtons were tenants of Granger and his wife, Jane Simmons, they lived in a cabin in the courtyard.
But Granger, who slept with his wife in the other bedroom, didn't hear anything.
Even when Burton pushed open Simmons's door, hugged her, and passionately joined her on a large sheepskin carpet.
After that, the actor sneaked out of the wooden house and re-installed all the wood.
After a while, he lay down beside his sleeping wife.
Surprisingly, this wasn't his last adventure with Simmons.
This secret nighttime stealing lasted for months, but their spouses had no doubt about it.
The story of Richard Burton eventually leaving Simmons and marrying (twice) with the screen witch Elizabeth Taylor is often hailed as one of Hollywood's greatest love stories.
Less well known is that the actor (Burton), from the Welsh Valley, has been unfaithful to his two wives.
In fact, in Burton's heyday—1947 to 1975—he was with at least one new woman every other day, about 2500 in total.
At times, his love history is even comparable to that of Warren Beatty, the obsessive boy of the '70s.
The biggest difference, however, was that Burton was married, and that the vast majority of his conquests were done under the noses of the first two Burton ladies.
Not only that, but for most of that time, his married life was enough to satisfy any other man.
"He was a manic-depressive person": Yves Saint Laurent and the former lover of the designer's life said of him.
So how do we explain his shocking atrocities among women?
The first thing to say is that his motivation was very simple: Burton's pursuit of women was unsatisfied until he was in his 40s.
He doesn't need to love his woman or be loved by her; Nor did he have any desire to possess her.
He was willing to touch him anywhere if she wanted: a couch in a dressing room, an empty room in a bar, a garden bench, or even—if his wife wasn't in the—marriage bed. Often, he doesn't even know his lover's name.
Women are attracted to him as much as they are attracted to magnetism.
Many later became enthusiastic about his twinkling, mischievous gray-green eyes—but his primary tool of seduction was undoubtedly his sweet voice.
He has an amazing memory, usually starting with memorizing poems.
If he failed, he continued to read Shakespeare's works, and if needed, he could recite them all night.
If the lady was still standing, he would sing—often in Welsh.
Swordsman: Richard Burton accompanied Princess Grace Kelly of Monaco to Elizabeth Taylor's 40th birthday party
He was quick witty, charismatic, and completely uninhibited under the influence of alcohol, which also helped him.
Nor did he feel ashamed; even the wives of friends like Simmons were his prey.
Writer Ruth Waterbury, who witnessed his flirtations with Los Angeles women in the mid-50s, was shocked that he never seemed to make an obvious perfunctory act.
"He had a sense of idleness and the girls were running over," she said. He didn't plead. He just quietly demanded that the girls obey him completely. ”
Frank Ross commented: He respects women, even if he hints that a relationship is over, "I've seen some of his girls and you can see them confused, first they have made good luck, and when he rejects them, they're all gone." They acted as if they were temporarily blessed – and that was enough for them. ”
If Burton were alive today, he might be classified as an emotional addict and urged to seek treatment.
As his close friend and actor Robert Hardy put it, "He is Don Juan, and in his nature any woman who is not very old or is horribly ugly is essential."
But even Robert Hardy was wrong, because Burton had an affair with a schoolgirl for a while.
He was 28 years old and married Sybil. In 1954, while starring in The Tempest, he met Rosemary Kingsland in a café opposite the Old Vic Theatre.
Burton's emotional adventure began in 1944, when he was still a student at Oxford University, and at the age of 18 he met a mature student in a pub and gave him his virginity.
From the beginning, he began to race among the female crowds in the town, picking flowers and hunting flowers.
She was a pretty girl with thick black hair and perfect skin, and she was only 14 at the time — though she avoided questions about her age.
Fascinated by Burton, she began to skip hockey practice and hang out in the theater.
"I feel like I'm kind of showing off myself," she said.
After several meetings, Burton took her back to a friend's apartment, where she happily lost her virginity.
Since then, they've met there most wednesdays.
At the end of 1956, Rosemary became pregnant.
And he immediately responded, "You have to dispose of it." Then he paid her to have an abortion.
Later, he told her that he was afraid he would be thrown in jail, but he claimed that being with schoolgirls was every man's fantasy.
Shortly thereafter, he moved to Switzerland for tax reasons, and the affair naturally ended.
From the beginning, he began to hunt flowers and flowers in the crowd of women in the town.
Burton's family, shocked by his female friend, pressured him to marry Sybil Williams from South Wales.
Sybil Williams is a girl Burton met on the set.
The marriage was successful in every way, with only one exception.
Unbeknownst to Sybil, on the day of his wedding in 1949, he met 17-year-old actress Claire Bloom and quickly fell in love.
After he took a bottle of wine and made a bet with another actor that he could take Bloom's virginity, their relationship finally came to an end.
Bloom recalls: "We were quietly raining in my room and my mom was sleeping upstairs"
"Richard left me early in the morning to go home, and I went to bed happily, excited because I was finally a 'woman.'"
She gave him the keys to the house, and Burton often slipped into her bedroom.
Before sunrise, he would come back to Sybil and tell her he had been out drinking with friends all night.
Richard Burton and Claire Bloom starred in the movie Angry Memories: He met her at the age of 17 and took away her virginity
For him, though, even two infatuated women weren't enough.
After he and Sybil moved to London, he took advantage of Sybil's often absenteeism to tour with a theatre.
He randomly looked for girls from bars, movie theater lines and buses, then took turns taking them back and tossed over in the couple's bed.
His friends said the sheer number of his accidental conquests was staggering.
Then he discovers the frustrated wives in Hollywood...
In 1952, he arrived in Los Angeles and found that almost every woman he met was watching him with longing and inviting eyes.
A married female star in her twenties — unnamed because of her powerful husband — walked into his trailer on the set of My Cousin Rachel, locked the door, and took off her white mink coat, revealing that she was wearing only her underwear.
Even when Sybil came to the city, there was no limit to his style.
Not only did he have an affair with Jean Simmons, who starred in "Nightgown," but he also had a relationship with another actress in the same movie.
Burton's only near-defeat was at a New Year's Eve party attended by the elite of Hollywood celebrities.
At midnight, he was seen kissing Simmons on the lips and knocking on a full 12 gongs.
Everyone was stunned, and then Sybil rushed to her husband, slapped him in the face, and walked away. Burton was momentarily stunned, and the music stopped.
Lee Remick says burton has an extraordinary quality that makes women feel like they're the only person in the world worth talking about, which is so happy.
Realizing that they might no longer be popular at the Grangers, Burton and Sybil—who were at the time convinced her husband was just flirting—moved out.
Burton, of course, simply continued to sleep with Simmons and the wives of several Hollywood executives.
By the time he returned to England, he was said to have had more than a dozen of her husbands file for divorce.
A year later, he was back here — but this time, he left his wives behind and ate up on some of Hollywood's leading actresses, including his partner in the 1955 sad film The Actor's Prince, Maggie McNamara.
Another conquest is the star Lee Remick.
"He has an extraordinary quality that makes women feel like they're the only person in the world worth talking to, and that's a kind of happiness," she later said.
Even Lana Turner, the goddess of love who starred with Burton in the movie "Rain of Ranchpoor", was in his trailer and spent a night in the clouds and rain.
Burton reportedly said: "She tried to arrest me at the beginning, but I let myself be arrested." Why not? Who would turn down Lana Turner?"
After a lot of extras, producer Frank Rose said, "Richard is probably the most famous seducer of our time.
His lust for emotion is endless, and it is clear that he can perform satisfactorily at any time, any place, any place, under any conditions. ”
In 1957, after meeting Claire Bloom, he fell in love with the Broadway comedy "Time Unforgettable" with whom he co-starred.
Susan Strasberg, who was only 19 years old at the time, had a strikingly beautiful and similar appearance to Bloom.
She immediately became obsessed with Burton and pestered him for months until she finally invited him for the night.
Even the birth of his wife and daughter Kate did not stop the couple.
Strasberg said: "When he dedicated his passion to me, he transcended all my childhood fantasies." And Sybil? As usual, she refused to believe what had happened.
A romantic scene in Richard Burton's return in Rage with Mary Yule, wife of conquest playwright John Osborne
After Burton returned to England, Strasberg was distraught and lay in bed for days in a row with one of his old T-shirts.
A few months later, she flew over to meet him and went straight to the location where he filmed Retrospective in Rage with Claire Bloom and Mary Yule.
It was the happiest time of Burton's life: he not only returned to his dear Bloom, but also had an intimate relationship with Yule, the wife of the playwright John Osborne, not to mention his own.
But even he had to question whether he could find a fourth lover.
As soon as Strasbourg arrived at his powder room, she threw herself into his arms and kissed him passionately.
Moments later, Bloom jumped in through the doorway.
For nearly five seconds, the two women simply looked at each other in shock.
Hopelessly, however, Burton was simply confused: he later admitted that he had never realized his lover looked so similar.
Finally, Bloom screamed, "Get out of the way, you two!"
Then left angrily.
The next day, Strasberg flew out, but that was before she considered jumping off Waterloo Bridge.
As for Burton, he soon began collecting scalps again.
In 1959, he returned to Hollywood to make a movie for Warner Bros. called Thorn Bush.
On set, Burton had extramarital affairs with his co-actor Angie Dickinson and actress Barbara Rush.
That year, Dickinson's marriage to American football star Gene Dickinson broke down.
Some put the blame on Burton.
Finally subdued by a woman who had a chance to control him, this great Welsh prodigal stopped his hunting activities.
For a while, Taylor realized his weakness and warned him when they were married in 1964 that she had zero tolerance for his infidelity.
Meanwhile, he even found a flight attendant on a flight to the East Coast.
Two years later, he returned to Broadway, where he went out of his way to reach out to most of the 20 girls in the Camelot Choir.
The kind choir girls knew exactly what he was doing, so they tampered with the lyrics of a song —"I wonder what the king was doing tonight"—to make the lyrics sound surprisingly like, "I want to know who the king is teasing tonight."
Burton flew directly from Camelot to Rome to shoot the film Cleopatra, where he soon fell into the agony of a chaotic love affair with Elizabeth Taylor.
However, unlike his other entanglements, this time it became the global headline, and Sibo must have noticed.
Burton loses his courage and tells Taylor that he is going back to his wife.
Taylor apparently accidentally took an overdose of sleeping pills after being dumped, and her reaction was jealousy and anger. Once she recovers, she will do everything in her power to get her lover back.
But even she couldn't stop him from repeating his trick.
During the filming of When the Eagle Adventures, he continued his casual relationship with another lead actor, Mary Yule, due to Elizabeth Taylor's absence.
After that, in 1969, Taylor spent every day with Burton on "A Thousand Days annie."
But neither her vigilance nor her charm could resist the charisma of his partner, the 26-year-old French-Canadian actress Geneviève Bujold.
When Taylor was hospitalized with hemorrhoids, Burton's great opportunity came — and then his relationship with Bouyod lasted for many years.
In 1972, Burton and French actress Natalie Delong began a romance while filming Bluebeard, and there were big rumors that he also had a relationship with sexy girl Raquel Welch.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor celebrate their 50th birthday at the Orchid Suite in Dolchester
However, the last straw in his marriage came in 1974, when he flew solo to California to shoot a movie called The Ku Klux Klan.
During filming, he met a teenage waitress (known locally as Miss Pepsi of Bit County), a hotel receptionist, and a group of other women.
In this whirlpool, Taylor soon realized that her marriage was over.
The couple is known to have divorced and remarried 16 months later – but their reunion was short-lived.
Burton has now confirmed to be an alcoholic and has serious health problems, and his affair with model Suzy Hunt dealt a fatal blow to their second marriage.
As far as everyone knows, he was loyal to his last two wives, Susie and Sally Hay, but that was because, on his 50th birthday, he ran out of energy.
He was exhausted by a life of debauchery and was forced to give up his favorite hobby.
But as it goes on, it really bodes well.
Reference Tom Rubison's God Created Burton, published by Myrtle Press, for £20.
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