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true wuv
November 1, 2012

Thirty Romantic Photos of the Real Liz and Dick

By Stella Bugbee

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This month brings us the campy-at-best biopic Liz & Dick, starring Lindsay Lohan as Liz Taylor and Grant Bowler as Richard Burton, on Lifetime. The movie centers on the passionate love affairs and Hollywood careers that often brought Taylor and Burton together in ten different movies, including Cleopatra, The Taming of the Shrew, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — which earned Taylor a second (and final) Academy Award for Best Actress in 1966. Taylor famously married eight times, but it was Burton who got two of those tries. So it makes sense that their romance was as epic and diamond-drenched as anything Hollywood writers could have written themselves. After looking through these photos, we’re convinced Burton must have truly loved Taylor. He lived with her through crazy diets, sixties kaftans, go-go boots, and turbans. In the later years, he pushed her in a wheelchair through an airport; of course, she was swaddled in mink. To see that — and their happier, fur-free moments — click through our slideshow of the glamourous couple.

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April 2, 1962 In Rome. Photo: Corbis
June 15, 1962 In Porto d'Ischia, Italy, for the filming of Cleopatra. Photo: Corbis
1963 In Cleopatra. Photo: Corbis
March 15, 1963 At a benefit premiere of Lawrence of Arabia in Paris, France. Photo: Corbis
August 25, 1963 On the set of Becket in England. Photo: Corbis
December 23, 1963 In Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Photo: Corbis
January 12, 1964 In Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Photo: Corbis
March 17, 1964 Showing off their wedding rings in Toronto, Canada. Photo: Corbis
June 22, 1964 At a benefit at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. Photo: Corbis
August 14, 1964 Enroute to their home in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Photo: Corbis
September 18, 1964 Filming The Sandpiper on Doud Beach in California. Photo: Corbis
1965 On the set of The Sandpiper. Photo: Corbis
1965 In The Sandpiper. Photo: Corbis
February 14, 1966 In Dr. Faustus at Oxford University. Photo: Corbis
February 14, 1966 Ater a performance of Dr. Faustus at Oxford University. Photo: Corbis
March 5, 1966 Vactioning in Gstaad, Switzerland. Photo: Corbis
April 23, 1966 In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Photo: Corbis
1967 In The Comedians. Photo: Corbis
December 26, 1967 Vactioning in Gstaad, Switzerland. Photo: Corbis
1967 In The Taming of the Shrew. Photo: Corbis
January 22, 1968 At Le Bourget Airport in France. Photo: Corbis
August 19, 1968 Arriving in New York aboard the Queen Elizabeth. Photo: Corbis
1968 On the set of Boom. Photo: Corbis
1968 In Dr. Faustus. Photo: Corbis
Circa the Seventies  Photo: Corbis
1971 At the airport in London. Photo: Corbis
December 10, 1973 Arriving at the airport in London. Photo: Corbis
November 10, 1975 Celebrating Burton's 50th birthday in London. Photo: Corbis
December 1975 Vacationing in Gstaad, Switzerland. Photo: Corbis
Circa the Eighties  Photo: Corbis
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