Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Bulgari

Añadido: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Fox had budgeted Cleopatra at $2 million. By the time Taylor finished shooting it, the studio had spent $44 million.

[00:00:08]She was 29, the first woman ever paid a million dollars for a single picture, and on her way to ruin both her marriage and Richard Burton's on the front page of every newspaper in the world.

[00:00:20]To escape the paparazzi, the two of them began ducking into a Bulgari shop on Via Condotti, where the owner kept a back room he called the money room.

[00:00:30]"I introduce Liz to beer," Burton later joked. "She introduced me to Bulgari."