Puerto Vallarta, MX. Love

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“During the first part of the 1800s, at the mouth of the Cuale River—then inhabited primarily by crocodiles—there were practically no human dwellers.” -Article on the History of Puerto Vallarta

By the early 1950″s not much had changed in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. How then did this sleepy little place inhabited by overgrown lizards and little else, become a haven for artists and later the unfortunate “Girls Gone Wild” vacationers? There was only one way – Celebrities.

With little provocation celebs flocked to a hedonistic paradise, and popular culture followed…

Meanwhile in the states… It was the early 1950′s and star power was everything.

When Richard met a pregnant Elizabeth, then Mrs. Michael Wilding, her first impression of Burton was that “he was rather full of himself. I seem to remember that he never stopped talking, and I had given him the cold fish eye.”

He too was married with children. But rumors were right, these two were indeed “soul mates”.

Both of them had spent years perfecting their public facades. He, a brilliant British actor of stage and film, she an American sweetheart turned silver-screen goddess.

Richard describing his first sight of a 19-year-old Elizabeth Taylor: “She was so extraordinarily beautiful that I nearly laughed out loud. She … [was] famine, fire, destruction and plague … the only true begetter.

Her breasts were apocalyptic, they would topple empires before they withered … her body was a miracle of construction … She was unquestionably gorgeous. She was lavish. She was a dark, unyielding largesse.

She was, in short, too bloody much … Those huge violet blue eyes… had an odd glint… Aeons passed, civilizations came and went while these cosmic headlights examined my flawed personality. Every pockmark on my face became a crater of the moon.”

Actress Elizabeth Taylor, actor Richard Burton, actress Ava Gardner & unident. man in cantina on location filming The Night of the Iguana.

When Burton was invited with other celebrities to visit Puerto Vallarta for the first time, the airport was still incomplete, and the high class visitors were surprised to find themselves riding donkeys into town through a rugged beach side terrain.

Around this time Burton and Taylor met again on the set of Cleopatra and fell instantly in love, left their partners and began what would become one of the most notorious love affairs in history.

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