“You do realize,” he said, when she arrived at his flat in her school kneesocks and Oxfords, “this is every man’s fantasy.” She claims that Burton assumed she was 17 – but even after he learned the truth, he was undaunted. After a walk in the moonlight, the sultry star was plying the starry-eyed teen with créme de menthe in his flat, licking her sticky fingers and deflowering her. Burton was 29, famous and married (and already having an affair with Claire Bloom) the girl was a month short of 14, shy, and wearing her mother’s lipstick.Īs Rosemary Kingsland recalls in her just-published memoir, “The Secret Life of a Schoolgirl,” they met in a café near the Old Vic, where Burton was performing. But schoolgirls?Īccording to a new memoir, the charismatic star bedded a 13-year-old. Most of our images are sourced automatically, so the book cover shown might be different to the edition we have in stock.BEFORE and after La Liz, Richard Burton never lacked for women. This is a used book in good condition, meaning that it shows signs of wear but has no major defects. MelvynnBragg's latest novel is "The Maid of Buttermere". Melvyn Bragg is the author of 13 novels his non-fiction includes a study of Laurence Olivier, "Land of the Lakes" and "Speak for England". In the book he discusses marriage, women, his work, arthritis and addiction to drink, and also shows himself to be a fine descriptive writer and humourist with a love of literature. Further films intervened, then, in quick succession, he divorced Elizabeth Taylor, married Suzy Hunt and re-married Taylor, divorced her and married Sally Burton. After a scholarship to Oxford, a brilliant career in the theatre, then Hollywood and films like "The Robe", his career blossomed with "Camelot" and "Cleopatra" after which he married co-star Elizabeth Taylor. Here, the actor who was born Richard Jenkins, the twelfth child of a South Wales miner, stands revealed as never before, often in his own words. Bragg has also had the benefit of conversations with actors and close friends, including Sir John Gielgud, Sir Michael Hordern, Lauren Bacall, Robert Hardy, John Neville, Emlyn Williams, John Le Carre and Alec Guinness. Many of those close to Burton have talked for the first time, including his daughter Kate, his elder sister Cis, who brought him up as her own after the death of his mother when he was two years old and the teacher Philip Burton who adopted him and gave him his name.
This is the first biography of the actor, Richard Burton, to be supported by his own 300,000-word unpublished journals that cover the years of his marriage to Elizabeth Taylor, plus all his papers and unpublished memoirs of his adopted father.
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