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The Southwark Poisoning Case was a notorious series of murders committed by Severino Klosowski, a Russian Pole. Becoming a publican, Severino Klosowski advertised for barmaids whom he then slowly poisoned with doses of antimony. Tow of his victims were an Elizabeth Taylor, who died in February 1901 and a Maude Marsh who died at the Crown public house, Borough High Street, in October 1902. Severino Klosowski was tried, found guilty of murder and executed at Wandsworth in April 1903.
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Richard Burton (real name Richard Walter Jenkins Jr) was a Welsh actor, film producer and director. He was born in 1925 at Pontrydyfen and died in 1984 of a cerebral hemorrhage. In the 1960s, Richard Burton had a public affair with a fourteen year-old school girl, justifying it with the grossly inaccurate claim that 'it's everyman's fantasy to make love to a school girl'. His outspoken attack on Winston Churchill led him to be barred from appearing in further BBC productions, but he was prolific in Hollywood films and is remembered for twice being married to and twice divorced from Elizabeth Taylor.
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Amanda Barrie is an English actress. She was born in 1935 at Ashton-Under Lyne. She played 'Alma Halliwell Sedgewick Baldwin' in the television soap-opera 'Coronation Street', but was most notable as 'Cleopatra', taking off Elizabeth Taylor, in the 1964 film, 'Carry On Cleo'.
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Elizabeth Taylor is an English actress. She was born in 1932 at London to American parents. She started acting at the age of 10, her first film role being in the 1943 'Lassie Come Home', but her greatest role was perhaps as the leading lady in the 1963 'Cleopatra'.
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Pamela Matthews is an English actress, record producer, dialogue director, and acting coach. She was born in 1922 at Caterham, Surrey. Her show business career started in 1945 when she was the assistant to the costume designer for the musical 'Dubarry is a Lady' at the St James' Theatre in London. In the same year she apeared in two British Ministry of Information films, one entitled 'Take care Of Your Feet' before in 1946 having her first speaking part in a film, 'Pink String And Sealing Wax' although her single spoken line was edited out before the film's release. The same year she was 'discovered' by Peter Ustinov while doing a stunt dive for the leading lady in the film 'This Man Is Mine' . In 1951 she joined the Rome Dubbing Society and worked dubbing Italian films into English. Perhaps her most notable jobs were dialogue director for the 1962 film 'Cleopatra' starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, dialogue director for 'Von Ryan's Express' and dialogue director as well as coaching the children for
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Beau Brummell is an historical drama starring Stewart Granger and Elizabeth Taylor in the story of 18th century English playboy George Brummell. Beau Brummell was directed by Curtis Bernhardt in 1954.
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Cleopatra is a historical drama starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown and George Cole in the story of Queen Cleopatra of Egypt forced to give up her throne after her country is overrun by the Romans. Cleopatra was directed in 1963 by Joseph L Mankiewicz.
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Ivanhoe is an historical adventure starring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine and George Sanders in a story about a knight fighting to secure the release of imprisoned King Richard, despite resistance from the evil Prince John. Ivanhoe was directed by Richard Thorpe in 1952.
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Jane Eyre is a period drama starring Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Agnes Moorehead and Elizabeth Taylor in a story based upon the novel by Charlotte Bronte about a shy young woman who becomes a governess in a large Yorkshire mansion with a troubled master. Jane Eyre was directed by Robert Stevenson in 1943.
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National Velvet is a drama starring Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury and Jackie Jenkins in a story about a young woman who wins a racehorse in a raffle and asks a former jockey to train it for entry into the Grand National, only to find her family can not afford the race entrance fee. National Velvet was directed by Clarence Brown in 1944.
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