U.K.: RICHARD BURTON AND ELIZABETH TAYLOR GIVE PRIVATE SHOWING OF "AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS"
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649704
U.K.: RICHARD BURTON AND ELIZABETH TAYLOR GIVE PRIVATE SHOWING OF "AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS"
- Title: U.K.: RICHARD BURTON AND ELIZABETH TAYLOR GIVE PRIVATE SHOWING OF "AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS"
- Date: 23rd March 1968
- Summary: CINEMA; POSTER; FILM STARS AND GUESTS ARRIVE; BURTON AND TAYLOR; CROWD. Initials GHB/V/AS/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 7th April 1968 13:00
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- Location: LONDON, U.K.
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- Country: United Kingdom
- Reuters ID: LVAD8VAPKZUWTY30KK3LS4RW4F4J
- Story Text: RICHARD BURTON AND HIS WIFE ELIZABETH TAYLOR, TOGETHER WITH MIKE TODD JUNIOR, WERE TONIGHT (SATURDAY) HOSTS TO A SPECIALLY INVITED AUDIENCE AT A PRIVATE SHOWING OF "AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS" AT LONDON'S COLISEUM CINERAMA THEATRE.
THE FILM - ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS MADE BY THE LATE MIKE TODD SENIOR, FORMER HUSBAND OF MISS TAYLOR, - IS BEING RE-RELEASED BY UNITED ARTISTS AND OPENED THREE DAYS AGO.
THE IMAGINATIVE STORY OF A WORLD TOUR BY BALLOON, THE FILM STARS DAVID NIVEN, MEXICAN ACTOR CANTINFLAS, SHIRLEY MACLAINE AND THE LATE ROBERT NEWTON.
TONIGHT'S SHOWING WAS PRECEDED BY A COCKTAIL PARTY AT THE CINEMA AND WAS FOLLOWED BY A SUPER PARTY AT THE DORCHESTER HOTEL.
AMONG THE GUESTS AT THE PERFORMANCE WERE RINGO STARR, OF THE BEATLES POP-GROUP, CLINT EASTWOOD, TELEVISION'S "CHEYENNE", ROBERT BEATTY, MIA FARROW, REX HARRISON, EMLYN WILLIAMS, DAME MARGOT FONTEYN AND RUDOLF NUREYEV.
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