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Authors: Ellis Amburn

37.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 186.

38.
David and Robbins,
Richard and Elizabeth
, p. 115.

39.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 224.

40.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 125.

41.
Mamoulian resigned after E.T. promised she’d support his reinstatement as director should the production ever be resuscitated, but in the event she demanded Mankiewicz, according to Heymann,
Liz
, p. 223.

42.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 171.

43.
Ibid., p. 140.

44.
Harris,
Natalie and R. J.
, p. 92.

45.
ET
, pp. 97–104; Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 194; Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 211.

Interviews: Joanne Jacobson, Elaine Dundy, Brian Hutton, Edward Dmytryk.

Other books and articles consulted: Tennessee Williams,
Memoirs
(New York: Bantam, 1975); Lamarr,
Ecstasy and Me
, p. 139.

C
HAPTER
7

1.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 204.

2.
ET
, p. 104; Paul Ferris,
Richard Burton
(New York: Coward McCann, 1981), pp. 82, 159, 165; Richard Burton’s notebook, November 19, 1968, in Melvyn Bragg,
Richard Burton
(Boston: Little, Brown), p. 277; Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 197.

3.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, pp. 197–198; Ferris,
Richard Burton
, p. 156; Walker,
Elizabeth
, pp. 243, 244.

4.
Bragg,
Richard Burton
, p. 258; Ferris,
Richard Burton
, p. 106. To prevent gay speculation, Richard always claimed that he was a mere twelve-year-old when Philip became his guardian, but according to Richard’s brother Graham Jenkins, Richard was “well past his seventeenth birthday when he moved in with his guardian.” Emlyn Williams,
Emlyn: An Early Autobiography: 1927–1935
(New York: Viking, 1973), pp. 169, 205, 346; in his 1961 memoir,
George: An Early Autobiography (1905–1927
) (New York: Random House), Williams outed himself, writing of homoerotic yearnings that led to his nervous breakdown at the age of twenty.

5.
Bragg,
Richard Burton
, pp. 64, 126, 149; Ferris,
Richard Burton
, p. 114.

6.
Susan Strasberg,
Bittersweet
(New York: Putnam’s, 1980), p. 87; Claire Bloom,
Leaving a Doll’s House
(Boston: Little Brown, 1996), p. 106.

7.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 207; Burton’s homosexuality: Heymann,
Liz
, p. 29 and Bragg,
Richard Burton
, p. 258.

8.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 242.

9.
“She needed a lot”: “Liz Is Furious as Ex-Hubby Eddie Sells Her Secrets,”
National Enquirer
, Vol. 72, No. 24, 1998, pp. 4–5; Heymann,
Liz
, p. 244, writes that Burton used the term “nailed”; Nickens,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 101; Walker,
Elizabeth
, p. 244; Walter Wanger to Joe Hyams, collaborator on
My Life with Cleopatra
, 1963, quoted in David Kamp, “When Liz Met Dick,”
Vanity Fair
, April 1998, p. 384.

10.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 208: “I was Eddie Fisher. Women loved me, they didn’t cheat on me”; re Percodans: Ibid.

11.
Kamp, “When Liz Met Dick,” p. 384; Walker,
Elizabeth
, pp. 246–247;
ET
, p. 106.

12.
Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 221.

13.
ET
, p. 105, caption following p. 118; Bragg,
Richard Burton
, p. 82.

14.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 208; re gun: Ibid., p. 209.

15.
Ibid., p. 212.

16.
Ibid., pp. 199, 211.

17.
Guilaroff and Griffin,
Crowning Glory
, p. 253; Jack Brodsky and Nathan Weiss,
The Cleopatra Papers
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963), p. 37; Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, pp. 202, 213.

18.
Kamp, “When Liz Met Dick,” p. 384.

19.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, pp. 214, 216; Brodsky and Weiss,
Cleopatra Papers
, p. 38; Bragg,
Richard Burton
, p. 149; Walker,
Elizabeth
, p. 248.

20.
Silverman,
Fox That Got Away
, p. 96; Gussow,
Don’t Say Yes Until I Finish Talking
, p. 221.

21.
E.T.’s Seconal OD: Kamp, “When Liz met Dick,” p. 385; Heymann,
Liz
, pp. 243, 249; Nickens,
Elizabeth Taylor
,p. 143; Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 215; Paul Rosenfield:
The
Club Rules
(New York: Warner, 1992), pp. 63–64; Sybil’s suicide attempt: Heymann,
Liz
, p. 256 and Bragg,
Richard Burton
, pp. 149, 366 and Ferris,
Richard Burton
, p. 159.

22.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 218.

23.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 201; Graham,
Hollywood Revisited
, p. 181; Eddie Fisher’s version of E.T.’s statement: Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 223.

24.
Spoto,
Passion for Life
, p. 207.

25.
Williams,
Emlyn
, pp. 169, 205, 346.

26.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 225.

27.
The quotations in the last two paragraphs are Richard Burton’s in his notebook, August 13, 1971, in Bragg,
Richard Burton
, p. 366.

28.
Kamp, “When Liz Met Dick,” p. 388.

29.
Silverman,
Fox That Got Away
, p. 110.

30.
Kamp, “When Liz Met Dick,” p. 394.

31.
Silverman,
Fox That Got Away
, p. 111.

Interviews: Frank Taylor, Edward Dmytryk; editorial notes from conversations with Susan Strasberg while editorial director, G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

Other books consulted: Bernstein,
Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent
; Rex Harrison,
A Damned Serious Business
(New York: Bantam, 1991); Collins,
Past Imperfect
, p. 82; Lamarr,
Ecstasy and Me
, pp. 7–8, 155.

C
HAPTER
8

1.
Ferris,
Richard Burton
, pp. 77, 154; Bragg,
Richard Burton
, pp. 166, 168.

2.
Bragg,
Richard Burton
, p. 173; Ferris,
Richard Burton
, p. 171; Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 125 (Eddie Fisher writes, “He knew exactly what I meant by that and backed off. End of conversation”).

3.
Ava Gardner,
Ava
(Thorndike, Me.: Thorndike, 1990), p. 438.

4.
Walker,
Elizabeth
, pp. 261, 270; Eddie Fisher’s $500,000: Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 272; Sue Lyon sleeping with Richard Burton and Eddie Fisher: Ibid., p. 16.