![]() Burton and Taylor were such a stunning item, it was deemed worth all the pain.Īnd there was a lot of pain, according to British actress Angela Lansbury, who worked with Taylor on the 1980 Agatha Christie whodunnit 'The Mirror Crack'd'. If Debbie Reynolds or Sybil Burton continued to feel cross about losing their spouses, they were told it was time to get over it. The grievances of previous wives who had lost out to the violet-eyed beauty were shunted to one side. (Later on, Taylor would address her boozing habit by going into rehab - she picked up another husband there, although Larry Fortensky was not actually married to anyone at the time.)Īlthough the Vatican denounced Liz Taylor's morals, attitudes were softening. ![]() It was thought humiliating when your husband left you for Liz Taylor, but I'm talking about quaint old-fashioned times, here.Īll are agreed that Taylor's years with Burton were the happiest of her life: both enjoyed the tempestuousness of their relationship and both were gigantic boozers, as well as gods and goddesses of the silver screen. Sybil Burton, in turn, was not best pleased. She had bagged another woman's spouse yet again. 'Cleopatra' took so long to make, was subject to so many mishaps and seemed so generally interminable to all concerned, that there were jokes about dim starlets working as extras asking, "Say, who do you have to sleep with to get out of this movie?"īut with Taylor as Cleo and Burton as Mark Antony, the celluloid chemistry was dynamite. As everyone knows, they met on the set of the infamous 'Cleopatra' saga. In 1962, came the big one - the gorgeous Richard Burton, who made movies for money, but who had been the definitive stage Hamlet of his generation. Yes, a period of mourning is traditionally observed in widowhood.īut the dame wasn't through with 'stealing' husbands yet. I'll say!Īs for Liz herself, at the time, she exclaimed,"What was I supposed to do, sleep alone?" ![]() Carrie just thought her dad damn weak putty in the hands of the bitch-goddess, Taylor. Then, as a grieving widow, Liz 'stole' another husband, the crooner Eddie Fisher, who was then married to sweet little Debbie Reynolds.ĭebbie was incandescent that the most beautiful woman in the world had nicked her man, and their daughter Carrie Fisher took a long time, and some episodes of depressive illness, to forgive him. Presently, Liz left Wilding for bigger fish, viz, the movie impresario Mike Todd, who died suddenly. Previously, she had been married to Conrad Hilton.īut Wilding was not the last husband she 'stole'. Michael Wilding was, as the world knows, Miss Taylor's second husband in a series of eight marriages. No marriage can be considered safely defended against dissolution. If husbands were to be purloined by any pretty face, whose marriage would be safe? It created a general sense of nervousness among the company of wives. ![]() That was then, and the Lorelei who lured another woman's husband was harshly judged indeed. When a 'bitch' 'stole' someone's husband, the man himself seemingly had no hand, act or part in the larceny, although Michael Wilding, in 1952, was 20 years older than La Taylor. And why? Because the accursed Taylor "bitch" had stolen another woman's husband, the hapless English film star Michael Wilding.Īpparently, men were just innocent creatures ripe for the plucking by such 'bitches'. ![]() Yet the first thing I ever heard about Elizabeth Taylor was a genteel aunt of mine calling her "a gold-plated bitch". I speak of Elizabeth Taylor, recently deceased, and in receipt of more glowingly adoring obituaries than if she had been St Joan of Arc. If you live long enough, and become famous enough, eventually you will be forgiven for everything. ![]()
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