Author Roger Lewis details the actors’ legendary marriage in his new book, ‘Erotic Vagrancy.’
CleopatraThe book hews close to its title, offering a 600+ page, thoroughly researched look at one of Hollywood’s most glamorous couples, who were married twice: once from 1964 to 1974, and then again from 1975 to 1976. Lewis takes readers into Taylor and Burton’s collaborations on screen, their infamous breakups and entourage and offers his own perspective on their dynamic.
“By meeting Elizabeth Taylor, that destroyed him as a classical actor,” he continues. “On the other hand, all his roles in the movies he made, he's still got that wonderful voice and that wonderful presence and that great swagger of his.”In contrast, the author says that Taylor thrived professionally within her marriage to Burton.
“Everyone was behaving themselves in accordance to what the studios told them to do and told them how to behave, manufacturing their private lives for public consumption,” Lewis explains. “Burton and Taylor just threw all that out.”Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , which starred both Burton and Taylor, as well as George Segal and Sandy Dennis, the couple largely excelled as a unit, Lewis says.“I think they did learn from each other, and maybe detract from each other a bit, and added a bit to each other,” he says of their performance as husband and wife George and Martha. “They're in real harmony as artists…it's like their marriage there we're watching , but sort of in a stylized way. It's turned into art.
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