Liz Taylor and Richard Burton by Bert Stern, 1962

As photographer for 20th Century Fox’s unprecedentedly expensive movie Cleopatra, Stern was on the front lines of an ‘epic folly that was eclipsed only by the international furor over the scandalous romance of its stars, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton,’ as described in an April 1998 article by David Kamp for Vanity Fair

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