Cleopatra
Today it seems that cinema stars are just as popular for their private and personal lives as they are for their movies, more so in many cases.
But the turbulent love lives of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are nothing new as romances and affairs between co-stars and Hollywood icons has gone on for years.
Despite being married a whopping eight times over her illustrious careers it's Elizabeth Taylor's relationship with Richard Burton is one of Hollywood's greatest love stories, even if it did end in divorce twice.
The pair met in the early fifties when Taylor was then Mrs Michael Wilding and heavily pregnant. And Taylor's first impression of the actor was not one of attraction saying 'he was rather full of himself. I seem to remember that he never stopped talking, and I had given him the cold fish eye.
However all that changed when they met again on the set of Cleopatra in Rome, Taylor was playing the title role while Burton played the part of Marc Anthony.
Their onscreen romance soon turned into a full blown affair, but the pair were already married. Taylor was married to Eddie Fisher, who had left Debbie Reynolds to be with Taylor.
Burton was married to Sybil Williams, with who he had two children. The couple both obtained divorces and their romance was the talk of Hollywood.
They were married in Montreal on 15 march 1964, Taylor was Burton's second wife while Burton was Taylor's fifth husband.
While their passion for each other was evident Burton's drinking became a problem and they divorced in 1974 after ten years of marriage.
Speaking of their divorce Burton said: "You can't keep clapping a couple of dynamite sticks together without expecting them to blow up."
However their separation didn't last long as Taylor was keen to remarry but he had doubts. But after a twenty four hour cancer scar for Taylor the pair remarried in Botswana in 1975.
Despite his promise to stop drinking he went on t a binge on their honeymoon and the marriage didn't last a year. They divorced for the second time in July 1982.
The pair were both icons of the big screen Taylor winning two Oscars in her career and Burton being nominated seven times the pair's relationship was one of the most talked about during the sixties and seventies.
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