How to Be a Movie Star (69 page)

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"Probably no news event":
Los Angeles Herald-Tribune,
April 14, 1962.

303 five hundred torch-bearing university students:
New York Daily News,
April 16, 1962.

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Elizabeth broke down in tears:
New York Journal-American,
April 19, 1962.

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"a game which they start": NYT, April 5, 1962.

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"erotic vagrancy":
New York Daily News,
April 13, 1962.

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"He's never been": Graham Jenkins,
Richard Burton: My Brother.

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But the Italian papers: UPI report, as in the
Middletown Press,
April 4, 1962.

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"the nauseating headlines":
The Connecticut Catholic Transcript,
April 12, 1962.

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–5 "self-destruction": AP report, as in the
Hartford Courant,
April 28, 1962.

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seaside bungalow at Porto Santo Stefano:
Hollywood Citizen-News,
April 25, 1962;
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner,
April 25, 26, 1962; LAT, April 25, 26, 1962;
New York Daily News,
April 22, 23, 25, 26, 1962;
New York Mirror,
April 25, 1962.

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anonymous letter threatening her: LAT, May 21, 1962;
New York Daily News,
May 21, 1963.

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"What has happened to our concept":
Catholic Transcript,
April 26, 1962.

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Iris Faircloth Blitch: See the
Congressional Record,
Volume 108. Also LAT, May 23, 1962;
Variety,
May 23, 1962; AP report, as in the
Hartford Courant,
May 23, 1962. Eight years earlier, on November 7, 1954, Rep. Blitch had made an appearance on the television show
What's My Line?
Available online, the program reveals her charm and Southern accent.

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"Her beauty masks": Hopper syndicated column, as in the
Hartford Courant,
April 10, 1962.

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"sick—very sick": Hopper syndicated column, as in the
Hartford Courant,
May 11, 1962.

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"Whoever would have thought the Italians":
Hartford Courant,
April 10, 1962.

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another scandal erupting around Kurt Frings: See transcript of conversation between Hedda Hopper and Ketti Frings, dated February 19, 1963, HHC; Hopper's syndicated column, as in the
Hartford Courant,
February 6 and 16, 1963; LAT, April 22, 1963;
Hartford Courant,
April 20, 1963.

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This time it was the agent's estranged wife: LAT, April 5, 1962.

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"Liz Taylor will never play":
Hollywood Reporter,
July 30, 1962. According to Stevens's files, Connolly's column that day was ghostwritten by John Bradford, but the director was convinced the item had come from Connolly himself, since the columnist had just recently paid him a visit.

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"My affection": George Stevens to ET, August 2, 1962, GSC.

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"I will never go back to America": Bragg,
Richard Burton.

307 "being real vicious": Waterbury transcript, GSC.

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"The Sixties was to pride itself": Bragg,
Richard Burton.

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"He looked very much like me": Hollis Alpert,
Burton
(G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1986).

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"I would rather have played": Bragg,
Richard Burton.

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he admitted that one time he actually gave in: Bragg,
Richard Burton.

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an unrequited object of desire: This was the perception of the director John Schlesinger, who was a fellow Oxford man and also close with Nevill Coghill. The producer Frank Taylor described Philip's attraction to Richard as "unrequited," but said the older man "didn't have sex of any kind." Amburn,
The Most Beautiful Woman in the World.

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"chaps with posh accents":
Playboy,
September 1963.

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"Out came the most perfect rendering": Bragg,
Richard Burton.

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"I'm the least Method actor": Richard Burton to Roy Newquist, tape-recorded interview used as basis for article in
McCall's,
June 1966, and aired on WCBS radio, May 1966 (hereafter Newquist interview).

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"His playing of Prince Hal": Kenneth Tynan was the critic for the
Evening Standard.
Quoted in Bragg,
Richard Burton.

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"[Acting] doesn't especially appeal":
Playboy,
September 1963.

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"Huh! I'm not going to be": Interview on
Larry King Live,
January 15, 2001, CNN transcripts.

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"Sybil was the good loving bride": Alexander Walker, ed.,
No Bells on Sunday: The Journals of Rachel Roberts
(McGraw-Hill, 1985).

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"Oh, my lovely girl": Richard Burton to Claire Bloom, October 7, 1954, Claire Bloom Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.

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"my lovely girl [would] be forced to sleep": Richard Burton to Claire Bloom, November 5, 1954, Claire Bloom Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.

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"Not a chance!":
Hartford Courant,
October 15, 1962.

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"I have been inordinately lucky": Richard Burton diary, November 19, 1968, quoted in Bragg.

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"scared witless to approach me": Richard Burton diary, November 20, 1970, quoted in Bragg.

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"To scream 'fuck' in the lobby": Richard Burton diary, August 11, 1967, quoted in Bragg.

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columnist Herb Caen: Lawrence Grobel,
The Hustons: The Life and Times of a Hollywood Dynasty
(Cooper Square Press, 2000).

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–14 Elizabeth "redrew the maps of his ambition": Bragg,
Richard Burton.

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"Richard is a very sexy man":
Life,
December 18, 1964.

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"There's no way": Newquist interview.

314 "It was so intense": Interview on
Larry King Live,
January 15, 2001, CNN transcripts.

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"Elizabeth is a pretty girl":
Playboy,
September 1963.

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"Richard has enormous taste":
Look,
May 7, 1963.

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"I generally shut Jess": Richard Burton diary, quoted in Bragg.

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"He is a snakepit":
Look,
May 7, 1963.

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"all great art": Ernest Lehman, unpublished memoir, "Fun and Games With George and Martha: The Virginia Woolf Papers," Ernest Lehman Collection, USC.

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"I sometimes wake up":
Playboy,
September 1963.

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"This was so that Richard": Walker,
No Bells on Sunday.

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"I want to direct in motion pictures": AP interview, syndicated, as in the
Hartford Courant,
September 20, 1964.

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"nervous and tense": Wanger,
My Life With Cleopatra.

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–20 "Congressional investigation": Letter from Rep. Iris F. Blitch to constituents, May 29, 1962, Iris Faircloth Blitch Collection.

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When one member, Rep. Michael Feighan: NYT, February 4 and 14, 1964.

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"new heights of ridiculosity":
Hartford Courant,
February 6, 1964.

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photographs of a topless Jayne Mansfield:
Playboy,
June 1963.

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–21 "Is she modern":
Photoplay,
April 1963.

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THE FINAL ACT THAT SHOOK:
Modern Screen,
[nd] 1962, Constance McCormick Collection, USC.

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"America's 2 Queens":
Photoplay,
June 1962.

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WHY WOMEN CAN'T RESIST:
Modern Screen,
August 1962.

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"no good," "interesting newspaper copy":
New York Daily News,
April 3, 1962.

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"If part of the world":
Look,
May 7, 1963.

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"The press has seemed determined": Anne Ritchie to Iris Blitch, May 25, 1962, Iris Faircloth Blitch Collection.

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"To tell you the truth," "So what do the papers say":
Look,,
May 7, 1963.

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"quiet study": NYT, June 1, 1962.

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"to garner extra dollars": NYT, June 2, 1962.

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"a self-contained media event": Bragg,
Richard Burton.

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"The public wonders": Hopper syndicated column; see
Hartford Courant,
March 21, 1962.

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"a wave of public opinion," "forgot about it": Civil Case No. 66–73,
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation vs. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton,
January 20, 1966, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, National Archives and Records Administration, Pacific Region.

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"I told you":
New York Daily News,
July 15, 1962.

325 "I have paid":
Life,
December 18, 1964.

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"just a little stinking bit": Hedda Hopper to Mildred Cram, February 3, 1964, HHC.

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the usually astute Kenneth McCormick ... editor, Margaret Cousins: Details of Hedda's relationship with her publisher come from a letter Hopper wrote to attorney Howard Ellis, March 29, 1965, HHC.

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"a reckless and wanton disregard":
Variety,
April 5, 1963.

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"I'm going to fight this battle": Wilding,
The Wilding Way.
Here again, it is clear that either Wilding did not write his memoir himself or he was very, very confused, for the description of the libel suit is set circa 1952, ten years earlier than it actually occurred. So any statements from this account must be considered very carefully.

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"All very chatty": Memo, January 10, 1964, HHC.

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"I wish we could be friends": Hopper syndicated column, as in the
Hartford Courant,
January 27, 1964.

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a dispirited Hedda finally agreed to settle with Wilding:
Los Angeles Herald-Express,
March 25, 1965;
Hollywood Citizen-News,
March 26, 1965; LAT, March 26, 1965;
Variety,
March 31, 1965.

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"The suit is settled": Hedda's feelings about the settlement of the Wilding lawsuit, as well as her comments about Mike Connolly, come from a letter she wrote to Howard Ellis, March 29, 1965, HHC.

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"good revenge":
Look,,
May 7, 1963.

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"Do you think it will":
Look,
May 7, 1963.

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"butchery":
Variety,
October 31, 1962.

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"Mr. Mankiewicz took
Cleopatra
over": NYT, October 24, 1962.

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"To look at":
Time,
June 21, 1963.

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"a woman of force and dignity": NYT, June 13, 1963.

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"Italian Hercules spectacular": Quoted in Jerry Vermilye and Mark Ricci,
The Films of Elizabeth Taylor
(Carol Publishing Corporation, 1989).

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Fox was banking on an extraordinarily long run: See Dorothy Kilgallen's column,
New York Journal-American,
February 29, 1962.

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–33 One opinion poll: LAT, June 26, 1963.

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"Here on the lazy west coast": LAT, October 13, 1963.

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"I can live here": Richard Burton to Alexander Walker, quoted in Walker,
Elizabeth.