Eddie Fisher shows up.” And 30 minutes later Sybil Burton arrived. They had not gone to their respective homes that night.’ Around 11 a.m. “I’m sitting there looking in the mirror and Burton comes in in a half-tunic, goes to Elizabeth and kisses her on the forehead and then says ‘good morning’ to me. Only he and Burton were set to work that day, so he was shocked to see Taylor relaxing in the room. ![]() One morning, Landau, who played Julius Caesar’s right-hand man Rufio, arrived in the make-up room. No one was prepared for the hot-and-heavy affair between Taylor, who was married to fourth hubby Eddie Fisher, and Burton, who was hitched to Sybil Burton. The production problems had already received an extraordinary amount of press, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. I don’t know yet, but make a choice that works for both’ It was an interesting challenge always.” Times interview: “I would come into work-I had a nice relationship with Joe and a good rapport-and I’d say, ‘This scene-what happens after this?’ And he would say ‘It’s either going to be this or that. No one knew what was going to be shot until they arrived each day on the set. But there still wasn’t a completed script. Of course, this new production meant new sets and costumes. ![]() ![]() Mankiewicz (“A Letter to Three Wives,” “All About Eve), and two new leading men: Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar and Richard Burton, fresh from his Tony Award-winning turn as King Arthur in “Camelot” as Marc Antony. After she recovered from pneumonia which nearly killed her, the production moved to Rome with a new director, multi-Oscar-winning writer/director Joseph L. The budgets started to soar when the original production with Elizabeth Taylor, who asked for and received $1 million for her services, Peter Finch as Julius Caesar, Stephen Boyd as Marc Antony and veteran filmmaker Rouben Mamoulian as director, stopped production in England when Taylor got sick.
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