Furious Love (42 page)

Elizabeth and Richard in
Doctor Faustus,
1966, staged for his beloved Oxford University Drama Society (OUDS). The poor reviews of the filmed play scuttled his plans to direct himself and Elizabeth in
Macbeth.
[Terrance Spencer/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images]

At the Save Venice Costume Ball in 1967. Elizabeth's elaborate headdress was created by Alexandre of Paris. It would inspire her fabulous costume in the Burtons' next film, Joseph Losey's
Boom!
[SSPL/Getty Images]

Relaxing in Sardinia on the set of
Boom!
, based on Tennessee Williams's play,
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore.
[© Henry Grossman]

Richard's drinking increased after the death of his beloved brother Ifor. Elizabeth would be one of the first celebrities to seek treatment at the Betty Ford Clinic. Pictured here in 1967. [A.P. Images]

Richard and Elizabeth at the Paris Opera House, September 29, 1967. [Keystone/ Gamma-Rapho]

Richard, Elizabeth, and eleven-year-old Kate Burton braving the crowds outside the Winter Garden Theater in New York, to attend a matinee performance of
Mame
on November 11, 1967. This was their first visit to America in nearly two years. [Corbis]

Richard and Elizabeth on a yacht on the Thames, rented to house their Pekinese and Yorkshire terriers to avoid British quarantine. The British roundly criticized their extravagance. February 1968. [Bob Aylott/Keystone/Getty Images]

Elizabeth showing off the 33.19-carat Krupp Diamond, a gift from Richard, May 20, 1968. “I thought, how perfect it would be if a nice Jewish girl like me were to own it,” she later said. [Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images]

Richard with the French-Canadian actress Geneviève Bujold, in
Anne of the Thousand Days.
Elizabeth was deemed too old to play the young Anne Boleyn, but she dazzled as an extra. Richard was nominated for another Oscar for his role as Henry VIII. May 1969. [© Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy]

If Elizabeth was jealous of Bujold in
Anne of the Thousand Days,
Richard kept a sharp eye on Warren Beatty, her co-star in
The Only Game in Town
. [20th Century Fox/ mptvimages.com]

“She is like the tide, she comes and she goes, she runs to me/as in this stupendous photographic image./In my poor and tormented youth, I had always dreamed of this/woman. And now, when this dream occasionally returns, I extend/ my arm, and she is here…by my side. If you have not met or known her, you have lost much in life,” Richard wrote on this photograph of Elizabeth, c. 1970. [Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin Press]

Richard and Elizabeth at her mother Sara Taylor's home in Bel Air, March 13, 1970, on a break from an interview for
60 Minutes.
[Photofest]