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The 1960s would be defined by Cleopatra,Newport cheap, the infamous 1962 epic that was the most expensive film ever made at the time (even then it cost approximately US$40 million) and also the meeting place of Taylor and Richard Burton, who she subsequently married and divorced twice. The ancient melodrama, for which Taylor earned a million dollar salary (and a million more in overtime because of legendary production overruns), made most of its budget back, but as a couple Taylor and the classically trained Burton were more famous than productive. Aside from a young Mike Nichols’ vituperative domestic drama, 1966’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,Noise Headphones, their joint offerings tended more towards 1968’s disastrous Boom.
After 1967’s underrated Reflections in a Golden Eye,newports cigarettes, overseen by John Huston, in which Taylor and no less than Marlon Brando play a military couple silently at war in their marriage, her work fell away. As if sensing that the decade couldn’t accommodate her, Taylor spent a good part of the 1970s as a Washington-based political wife to U.S. Senator John Warner. It was this period that required treatment for depression and addiction at the Betty Ford Clinic,women Jeans, and the Taylor that emerged a grand dame, essentially playing herself in cameos or in soap opera stints.