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After meeting on the set of Cleopatra in the early 1960s, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton began one of the most publicized and turbulent love stories of all time. Here, Taylor is pictured with her daughter on the set of the film Becket, watching Burton playing a death scene in 1963.

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