
They met while married to other people — on the set of what would be one of Hollywood’s most notorious productions (Cleopatra), no less — got married, divorced, then remarried, then re-divorced. Simply put, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are the standard-bearers for epic Hollywood romance. By the mid-1960s, Burton and Taylor — “Dickenliz,” as they were called — had become the “It” celebrity couple, constantly in the lens as they jet-setted around the world.
