#richard burton

[burtonandtaylor]

"Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together."

Elizabeth Taylor

#elizabeth taylor #richard burton #old hollywood #burton and taylor #black and white #vintage #1960's #love #photography #60's #quote #quotes #lipstick #makeup #old hollywod glamour #glamour #cleopatra #cat on a hot tin roof #Taylor #burton #queen Elizabeth

[marlocandeea]

Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole

#pics that make you go HMMM bi style #the rituals are intricate #richard burton #elizabeth taylor #peter o'toole #that guy in the 2nd pic going 👁️👄👁️ and rightly so #elizabeth is everything tho ... #under milk wood

[emailsfromanactor]

"Practically everything you can think of is in Hamlet; even homo­sexuality, if you look for it deep enough."

—Richard Burton, interview in John Gielgud Directs Richard Burton in Hamlet: A Journal of Rehearsals

#richard burton #hamlet #shakespeare #emails from an actor

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Paul Newman (Paris Blues, A New Kind of Love)—those blue eyes! that cleft chin, that jawline! plus his company makes that really good organic salad dressing!!!!!

Richard Burton (The Taming of the Shrew, Cleopatra)—idk man i mean Elizabeth Taylor must have seen SOMETHING in him (it's the welshness. he's so wales. it's the wales of it all)

This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.

#paul newman #richard burton #classic hollywood #classic movies #old movies #fuck that old man #round 1 #hotvintagepoll #old hollywood

[oldshowbiz]

After a week of working with Lucille Ball on an episode of Here's Lucy, Richard Burton wrote in a diary entry dated Thursday, May 17th, 1970:

“Those who had told us that Lucille Ball was ‘very wearing’ were not exaggerating. She is a monster of staggering charmlessness and monumental lack of humour. She is not ‘wearing’ to us because I suppose we refuse to be worn. I am coldly sarcastic with her to the point of outright contempt but she hears only what she wants to hear… Nineteen solid years of double-takes and pratfalls and desperate up-staging and cutting other people’s laughs if she can, nervously watching ‘the ratings’ as she does so ... I loathed her the first day. I loathed her the second day and the third. I loathe her today but now I also pity her. After tonight I shall make a point of never seeing her again ... this behemoth of selfishness..."

#lucille ball #feuds #sitcoms #here's lucy #richard burton #elizabeth taylor #sitcom babylon

[boleynecklace]

Anne of The Thousand Days + Hever Castle

#perioddramaedit #weloveperioddrama #perioddramasource #anne of the thousand days #anne boleyn #genevieve bujold #queen anne boleyn #henry viii #richard burton #tudorerasource #anneboleynedit #16th century #classicfilmblr #*gifs #*gifset #userrias #userrias gifs #historicwomendaily #pdedit #userperioddrama #filmedit #perioddramagif

[davidhudson]

Lee Marvin, February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987.

With Richard Burton during the making of Terence Young’s The Klansman (1974).

#lee marvin #richard burton #cinema #film #movies

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

#movies #polls #who’s afraid of virginia woolf? #who’s afraid of virginia woolf #whos afraid of virginia woolf? #whos afraid of virginia woolf #60s movies #mike nichols #richard burton #elizabeth taylor #george segal #requested #have you seen this movie poll

[fashioninpaper]

From Tom Tierney’s book Great Characters from Shakespeare.

#paper dolls #tom tierney #Shakespeare #hamlet #Ophelia #Richard Burton #elizabeth taylor

[burtonandtaylor]

#elizabeth taylor #richard burton #old hollywood #burton and taylor #vintage #black and white #1960's #1940s #photography #60's #love #actress #british actors #makeup #fashion #old hollywod glamour #hollywood glamour #glamour

[nikidontsurf]

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor photographed on the south bank of the River Thames in London, 1963. Photo by Milton H. Greene.

#elizabeth taylor #richard burton #milton h. greene #london #photography #old hollywood #classic hollywood #1960 #60s #1963 #userrutledge #ritahayworrth

[citizenscreen]

Lerner and Loewe's musical "Camelot", starring Richard Burton and Julie Andrews, and introducing Robert Goulet, opened at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway on December 3, 1960. #OnThisDay

#camelot #broadway #julie andrews #richard burton #robert goulet

[sundaynightfilms]

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, 1966

#who's afraid of virginia woolf? #mike nichols #richard burton #elizabeth taylor

[emailsfromanactor]

Do you like Hamlet? John Gielgud? Richard Burton? Theatre and film history? The process of putting on a show? Snarky, insightful, really entertaining commentary on all of the above? Then you're in the right place! Emails from an Actor is a (mostly) real-time readalong of John Gielgud Directs Richard Burton in Hamlet: A Journal of Rehearsals and Letters from an Actor, two books written about the 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet. Both have been out of print for decades, but I acquired PDFs, extracted the text, edited it, and now they exist in accessible form, woohoo! (Edit: Letters from an Actor is coming into print again on March 5! I'm still going ahead with the emails, but buy it when it's out!)

John Gielgud Directs Richard Burton in Hamlet: A Journal of Rehearsals by Richard L. Sterne, is, well, what it says on the tin! Sterne, who played the Gentleman and understudied Laertes, secretly tape recorded rehearsals, going so far as to hide under a platform for a private rehearsal with just Gielgud and Burton. The book summarizes and quotes heavily from those recordings. It also includes a prompt-script for the production with descriptions of the blocking and acting choices - I haven't edited that part yet, but I plan to.

Letters from an Actor by William Redfield, who played Guildenstern, is less objective but way more fun. I love it so much that when I first got it in 2006, I just about killed my hands typing up quotes to share on Livejournal. Redfield had an extensive career in theatre, film, and TV. He's best known for playing Dale Harding in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but if you happen to be a musical nerd, you might know him as Mercury in Cole Porter's Out of This World. (Also relevant to musical nerds: Alfred Drake as Claudius, John Cullum as Laertes, and George Rose as the Gravedigger!) The book is structured as letters to a friend, Robert Mills, who wanted to know about life in the theatre. Redfield took Mills from his audition through opening night on Broadway, relating thoughts and anecdotes about his profession along the way. As in Hamlet, Richard Burton plays a major role, with stories of his own and a glimpse into his life with Elizabeth Taylor in the days surrounding their (first) wedding. The rehearsal process was frustrating for Redfield, and with all the time he and his Rosencrantz spend feeling lost, the book kind of comes across as a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead AU.

I'll be sending out the journal entries and letters on the days they were written and/or are about, with just a little bit of jumping around in time. Subscribe here! I made it private for copyright reasons, but don't worry, I'll approve everyone. The emails will start with some introductory material on January 24 and continue through an epilogue in mid-April. Follow this blog for some extras! And reblogs, if people end up talking about this! Tag me or use the tag "emails from an actor" if you want me to see something.

I'm so excited to share these books with people! But mostly Letters from an Actor. Seriously, it's so good.

#hamlet #shakespeare #john gielgud #richard burton #elizabeth taylor #william redfield #is the guy in the icon by the way #rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #(not really but i think people who like it will also like this so hey!) #emails from an actor

[joeinct]

Richard Burton, Photo by Irving Penn, !950

#irving penn #richard burton

[normasshearer]

George, my husband... George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me, whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. Yes, I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: sad, sad, sad. Whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: yes; this will do. Who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving me and must be punished for it. George and Martha: sad, sad, sad.  

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?  1966, dir. Mike Nichols

#*mygifs #filmedit #filmgifs #filmblr #classicfilmedit #classicfilmblr #classicfilmsource #cinemaspast #moviegifs #dailyflicks #fyeahmovies #uservita #usergina #userelissa #elizabeth taylor #richard burton #george segal #sandy dennis #who's afraid of virginia woolf? #mike nichols #1966 #1960s