sentences:  The play was profiled in the William Goldman book "".The film was budgeted at $11 million because of Taylor's insistence it be shot in Paris, France, so she could be near her then-husband Richard Burton, who was working on the film "Staircase" (1969) with Rex Harrison at the time.Stevens had previously directed Taylor twice with great success, in "A Place in the Sun" (1951) and "Giant" (1956).