Richard Burton: Prince of Players by Munn, Michael (2009) Paperback

Richard Burton's life and remarkable career are revealed by a writer who knew him from 1968 up to Burton's last film. Recounting the charismatic actor's intimate thoughts and dark secrets,and providinghell-raising stories quashed by the Hollywood systemsuch as affairs with Marilyn Monroe and Lana Turner, being caught in a brothel with Errol Flynn, and in a fist fight with Frank Sinatrathis revealing and deeply moving biography offers a stunning portrait of aman of contradictions andone of Hollywood's greatest stars.