Richard Burton

After reading this affectionately candid biography, it is hard not to echo Oliviers response on hearing of Burtons death: He was so young, so young Daily MailA man of contradictions, Richard Burtons life and remarkable career are revealed by a writer who knew him from 1968 up to Burtons last film. Recounting Burtons deepest and often darkest thoughts and secrets, as well as hell-raising stories quashed by the Hollywood system, such as affairs with Monroe and Lana Turner, being caught in a brothel with Errol Flynn and a fist fight with Frank Sinatra, Munn offers a stunning portrait of a great man. From nursing Burton through an epileptic seizure to witnessing Burtons part in East End gang violence, this is an intimate and deeply moving biography. Writer, actor, director and former journalist and Hollywood publicist, Michael Munn, has written twenty-one books, including the best selling John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth and the acclaimed Jimmy Stewart: The Truth Behind the Legend