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Richard Burton: Prince of Players, by Michael Munn

“Richard Burton died of a cerebral haemorrhage in Geneva in 1984 and was buried with a copy of Dylan Thomas’s poems. He was 58. Was he a truly great actor, or will he be remembered only as half of that great celebrity double act, Burton and Taylor? How poignant it was to see him recently on television in The Robe (1953), demonstrating what Michael Munn, in this rather flat little book, calls “his special charisma when in costume”. Burton gleamed and glowered as a Roman tribune who makes up for the trauma of witnessing the crucifixion by seducing Jean Simmons. And he really did seduce Simmons, who was married to Stewart Granger at the time.” Read the review at the Guardian.

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