“What’s interesting is that Burton is getting it wrong, sort of on purpose, trying to show Gielgud that it must be modern,” said Flynn, who lived as a teenager in Wales, where Burton is a ...

“In a time when the world was much less connected, they were like gods,” said Mark Gatiss, who stars in “The Motive and the Cue,” a hit play about Taylor and Burton in their 1960s heyday.

And yet for long periods in The Motive and the Cue, the hope of arriving at that ... Gielgud’s 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet with Burton as the Danish prince. Burton, at 38, is a screen ...