
Elizabeth Taylor, Part Two
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
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The Actor's Dilemma
When i think of elizabeth taylor, i'm probably picturing joan collins. Because in the eighties, they have the exact same and that's when i cind of becamethey did t v people. They had another problem, the script. The earlier cleopatra was a silent movie. There wasn't dialogue. And so they had to completely rewrite the script. It passed from writer to writer to writer for years. In fact, they started filming without a finished script. Richard burton was cast as mark antony. Rex harrison was cast as caesar. You also might know him from his role as professor henry higgins in my fair
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