Talk about Burton's first love, British actress Claire Bloom.
In the original "Berlin Spy", the heroine was called Liz, but in the movie version, she was changed to Nancy. This is a very interesting thing. Even if you don't say the reason, it's easy to guess, because Elizabeth Taylor's nickname is Liz. If the heroine continues to be called Liz, the audience will easily think of her.
Taylor is very sensitive and jealous when dealing with rivals, but Claire Bloom, the heroine of "Berlin Spy", is Burton's true love, and has maintained an underground relationship with him for many years. The actress who collaborated the most in theatre and film in the 1950s, most famously in the 53-year-old Vic Theatre version of "Hamlet", how could she not be extra vigilant?
I suspect that Bloom is actually Burton's first love, since knowing her before Sybil (Burton met Sybil in '49 while filming "The Last Days of Dorvin" and got married quickly). And from the beginning to the end, it was completely impossible to see that Burton loved Sybill, and marrying her was just to make her a good domestic helper in housework, because she was his fellow Welsh countryman and was well recognized by his huge family.
Until he met Taylor, the love of his life in 1962, he didn't plan to divorce Sybil, just because he was used to a red flag at home and a bunch of colorful flags outside. As a famous Hollywood actress killer, he has had a relationship with almost all the heroines who played with him. He said that even if both parties had a family and a happy family life, he and the actresses who played his lover could "something amazing happens in reality."
Like all habitual offenders, he wants both a stimulating lover and a stable family, so his wife turns a blind eye.
Later, Taylor continued to force the marriage by crying, making trouble, and hanging himself for two years. Burton was forced to drink to the point of dementia and numbness, but he failed. It wasn't until she finally found the right way wisely, to please his adoptive father and sister, and even his huge family of dozens of people, and then the forced marriage was successful.
Taylor is still like this, not to mention Bloom.
Bloom met Burton in 1948, when 23-year-old Burton became famous overnight for "Women's Names Aren't Talking About", in which she played the heroine, when she was only 17 years old.
She was fascinated by Burton's green eyes, his drunken poetic attitude, his witty storytelling, his magnetic voice, his strong memory, and his surging masculinity, and the two had a relationship directly in the dressing room. , and maintained an underground affair for many years.
It's a pity that Burton refused to leave Sibyl to marry her. She stayed for several years with no success, and finally had to marry.
Even so, in 1965, Taylor was still vigilant against her, guarding Burton on the set every day, for fear that their old love would rekindle.
Taylor also said, "As soon as I saw the woman he loved before me, I had a feeling that I couldn't tell. Although I told myself intellectually that it was feelings, it was stupid, and it was something wrong with me. ."
But even so, she was still very indifferent to Bloom, and never invited her to dinner from beginning to end.
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