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Back in the News: Richard Burton’s Fraught Relationship with Churchill

11
Jun
2020
3
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Burton
Burton played a magnificent Churchill in “The Gathering Storm.” He also played to the camera, alternating praise with vitriol depending on his audience.
Posted in: Churchill in Film and Video, Truths and Heresies,
Tags: Clement Attlee, Jack Le Vien, Jane Portal, John Beaufort, John Ramsden, Lady Williams of Elvel, Neville Trotter, Norman Tebbit, Old Vic, Richard Burton, Robert Hardy, The Gathering Storm (1974), The Valiant Years (1962), Winston S. Churchill,
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