National Museum Cardiff on Saturday.Becoming Richard Burton tells the remarkable story of how a boy from modest beginnings in south Wales developed into an international star of stage and screen.It seeks to dig into the man behind the headlines.
He was a global celebrity but also a family man, a bibliophile who despite his his jet-set lifestyle always felt very much part of Wales.Sally Burton, the actor’s widow, said the “shorthand way” to remember her late husband was through his two marriages to Elizabeth Taylor and “his excesses”.She accepted that visitors to the exhibition are bound to be drawn to spectacular objects such as the costumes he and Taylor wore in the 1963 epic Cleopatra.The jacket he wore while playing Major Smith in the.
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