The History Of Sex In Cinema

The History of Sex in CinemaPart XX: Sex Stars of the SixtiesWhen 20th Century-Fox filed a suit for $50,000,000 against Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in 1964 for damaging the box-office receipts of Cleopatra, as well as their own reputations, with their highly publicized off-screen liaison during the production of that epic disaster, it represented a last gasp on Hollywood's part to control the private lives of its stars through financial penalties. In previous decades, the power of the st...