“I have been inordinately lucky all my life but the greatest luck of all has been Elizabeth.  She has turned me into a moral man but not a prig, she is a wildly exciting lover-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody’s fool, she is a brilliant actress, she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography, she can be arrogant and wilful, she is clement and loving, Dulcis Imperatrix, she is Sunday’s child, she can tolerate my impossibilities and my drunkenss, she is an ache in the stomach when I am away from her, and she loves me!  She is a prospectus that can never be entirely catalogued, an almanck for Poor Richard.  And I’ll love her till I die.”

So said Richard Burton  about Elizabeth Taylor.  Follow the romance of Bogart and Bacall, who married at Malabar Farm near Mansfield, in Bogart A Life in Hollywood.   And read about today’s Hollywood headline couple. . . . . Brangelina. 

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