Richard Burton Trashing Alain Delon

Wednesday 27th, Rome :.... I did two scenes today one with Schneider and one with Delon. Delon is surprisingly small. From a distance he looks six feet but close to he is only about 5’ 8".

Thursday 7th [...] Another good thing is that apart from 3 scenes I don't have to work with Delon who is so non-actor that I think I would be embarrassed.mHe should be ok though in this part as E says he is marvellous at playing killer-gangsters and so on.

I Am also pleased that I have only one scene with Miss Schneider as from what I hear she is uneasy to work with. [...] Ron, with his usual look of dark foreboding, says that she ruined the film they did in Israel for John Heyman with Richard Harris playing the star male lead and directing which Ron says was meant to be a sweet film about a small boy's adoration for a great veteran footballer but, he said, with more and more and darker and darker foreboding, she raped Mr Harris and by means of the bedroom literally fucked the film up into a love story between herself and Mr Harris.."

Burton was quite a bitch.

Scratch an actor...

Romy Schneider:

‘Ah,’ Ron says, ‘Romy Schneider is the kind who will come in on her days off like pretending that she wants to watch you work because you're a great actor and all that I'm telling you Rich you've got to watch it.’ ‘But Ron. I've met the woman and I thought she was pretty dog-like and wouldn't have been interested in her even in the old days.’ ‘

I saw her a lot when we were doing Sandpiper in Paris and she was doing Pussycat with the Peters O'Toole and Sellers and she was for ever in the bar and so were we, that I simply can't remember what she looks like. I have a vague memory of someone small"

’Yesterday, we worked well. [...] I worked with Romy Schneider for the first time. She is very arch. She displayed none of the ‘temperament’ which apparently manifests itself in screaming at the hairdresser, make-up man etc..

Burton was a closet case; this is all misplaced desire. We've all done it - been indifferent if not downright hostile to someone we're attracted to but could never have.

R5 Hahaaa, LMAO

Anyway, maybe this was his real opinion about Alain Delon.

He's absolutely right about this:

[quote]A sort of perennial juvenile delinquent who gets vicarious kicks out of hob-nobbing with the underworld. Very attractive to women.

Excellent description of Delon.

R8 Agree,

Also "Alain Delon who apparently will go with a Swan to get on" was a perfect description of Delon.

WTF "queer as an Arab" mean?!!!

Don't Alain and Brigitte Bardot both have the same right-wing views? Asking for a friend.

R11 Yes.

Every time I see OP's excerpts from these diaries, all I can think of is what awful people and creeps they all are. Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Helmut Berger - stupid, crass trash, all of them.

"at the pinnacle of our scandal" - what he really loves is being a celebrity. Just a loser.

R13 = Bitter Alain Delon

Burton sounds obsessed and jealous. R5 has it right.

I see that DL queens really Loves Alain Delon. In the other thread of Richard Burton and Helmut Berger, in which Burton called Helmut a "queer", bullied and threatened him. People were downplaying Burton's actions, blaming and trashing Helmut Berger instead.

R13 What does Helmut Berger have to do with this thread?!!

This movie "The Assassination of Trotsky" 1972 is soooo bad and unintentionally hilarious!

Director Joseph Losey made some excellent movie and many crap films.

Damn R12. Fuck them all then. Never got the hot regarding Delon. The politics are another reason to be unimpressed by him. And Bardot has turned into an ugly racist, anti-semitic bag lady.

What was it about Burton that brought out the chav trash in Liz? They both were so tacky in the late 60s and early 70s. Was she like this with Mike Todd?

Alain Delon is one of the greatest movie stars but he was by most accounts an extremely shady person. And there are rumors he was involved in sex trafficking in France.

[quote] "If a slap is macho, then I am macho," he said, adding that women had hit him and that he had never "broken" a woman.

His son said Delon had beaten his mother, breaking eight of her ribs and her nose twice.

Delon has been vocal about his sympathies towards the far-right movements in France and his interest in stopping immigration into his country.

He has also claimed publicly that gay couples shouldn't have the right to have or adopt children.

R20 True, and DL queens are only interested in trashing Helmut Berger (when he was not even mentioned in this thread) while lusting over Alain Delon.

Delon was the definition of a beautiful man. Very very handsome. Too bad he’s an asshole

He and Bardot should be deported.

Allegedly, Rock Hudson made a pilgrimage to Europe to meet up with Alain and check him out up close and personal. He let it be known after their "meeting" that, quelle horreur, Alain had a small/average dick. NEXT!!!!

Hudson liked light hair on his men.