RICHARD BURTON - CONTRACT SIGNED - HFSID 173121
Price: $800.00
RICHARD BURTON
Stage contract signed by the veteran stage actor
Contract signed: "Richard Burton" and "Roy Somylo"
on line labeled "Alexander H. Cohen by Roy A. Somylo" ,1p,
8½x11.This is an undated "standard run-of-the-play production contract"
between Burton and the Burlear Company. Richard Burton (1925-1984), a Welsh
stage and screen actor with a magnificent voice, received seven Oscar
nominations for My Cousin Rachel in 1952, The Robe in 1953,
Becket in 1964, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold in 1965,
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 1966, Anne of the Thousand Days
in 1969 and Equus in 1977, with all but the first for Best
Actor. Burton may be best remembered, however, for his tempestuous
romances, movie pairings with Elizabeth Taylor, whom he met on the set of
Cleopatra (1963), and four failed marriages, two of them to Taylor.
He was born Richard Walter Jenkins, Jr., the 12th of a Welsh coal miner's 13
children, but changed his last name to that of Phillip Burton, who helped him
get a scholarship to Oxford. He got his start on the stage in 1943, but had his
career put on hold when he was drafted into the Royal Air Force in 1944. After
his discharge, he had his first hit in 1949's The Lady's Not For Burning.
He began making movies in Britain in 1949, with My Cousin Rachel as his
first Hollywood role. Fine condition.
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