ELIZABETH TAYLOR

ELIZABETH TAYLOR and Richard Burton's love is legendary but she actually flatly rejected him at first for a very good reason. When they started their affair ...

For six months the affair stopped and started, mainly due to Burton and Taylor's own fighting. A crew member reported: "Ifor beat the living sh** out of Burton for what he was doing to Sybil. Beat him up so that Richard couldn’t work the next day. A romantic trip down the coast to Porto Santo at Easter was splashed across the worlds' papers. When he heard about their spouses' meeting, Burton furiously called Fisher and said: "You nothing, you spleen. And the day I left Rome, it cost them another $100,000. Taylor said: "For the first scene, there was no dialogue—we had to just look at each other. And I wasn’t ‘there.’" Taylor later admitted: "He was probably putting it on. Taylor, however, was not impressed and later described her instant rejection of what was offered. Burton, to his horror, was flatly and categorically turned down. He had been married to first wife Sybill since 1949, but that had never stopped him and he saw no reason why it should now. ELIZABETH TAYLOR and Richard Burton's love is legendary but she actually flatly rejected him at first for a very good reason.