I was surprised at how the balance of their relationship had changed. His final meeting with her gives him a chance to reflect on what he had been to her - and what Burton was now to become for her: I appeared on the television quiz show What's My Line as the mystery guest. I couldn't sit still, so I did the only thing that made sense at the time. I missed her more than I had ever missed anyone in my life. I couldn't stop loving her, and needing her. The only singing I was doing was around the house.Īnd what did he do when he she ran off with Richard Burton? I was caught in a magnificent trap, and even though I was madly in love with her, it was still a trap. "I had successfully made the transition from one of the country's most popular singers to Elizabeth's companion and nurse. Rather, he entered into a contract with her to let her run his life, and to be subject to her every whim, to deal with her incessant pill-taking, her endless booozing, her tantrums, her sulks, and her impossible Jezebel nature. and, often, to laugh: "The one thing that it was impossible to ever forget when you were with Elizabeth Taylor," he tells us, "was that you were with Elizabeth Taylor."įisher did not marry Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor" - is enough to make a grown man cry. The tale of Elizabeth and Eddie - they called him "Mr. Sexually she was every man's dream she had the face of an angel and the morals of a truck driver. And we get the feeling that he's still stunned that a poor kid from the streets of Philadelphia could end up, all of a sudden, living "under the bank on the hill, where the money just rolls down." With Elizabeth Taylor. It's the sense of wonder that you and I would have if we woke up one morning to find ourselves a star. Here's a genuine juvenile enthusiasm in Been There, Done That. I was begging her to stop, telling her, "It's not you, it's me. It was crazy, this hysterical naked woman trying to drive while I ran alongside the car, holding on to her door. She got into her Cadillac and turned on the engine. She got out of bed, totally naked, and ran down the stairs. He said to her, "Elizabeth, what would you think about going to see a psychiatrist?"Īs it turned out, not very much. I tried to stay calm, although it's hard to stay calm when foam is coming out of your wife's mouth.Īnother time, he dared to venture the opinion that she should do something about her addictions. Once when he threatened to leave, she swallowed an entire bottle of Seconol. It was just awful not awful enough to make me miss my life with Debbie, but awful. She was drinking and taking pills and passing out. The story is fascinating the one-liners are funny the vignettes are out of this world.Įspecially when he is telling us exactly what it was like to live with Elizabeth Taylor.
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First off, Eddie Fisher and his co-writer know how to put words together. But there is something else going on here. In anyone else's hands, this would be your typical ho-hum let-me-tell- you-about-being- a-star-and- getting-laid routine. So much fun, so many parties, and the women! One wonders how he was able to find time to record songs between his bouts of passion. And women? Queen Elizabeth asked him to dance Bette Davis "made drool eyes at me." He knew, sometimes intimately, Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Gina Lollobrigida, Brigette Bardot, Joan Collins, Sue Lyon, Lana Turner, Margaret Truman. He knew all the stars of American 50s entertainment - Mike Todd, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, Anthony Quinn, Donald O'Connor. Throughout all these musical chairs, he was singing, pouring out records - and the money was pouring in. When that marriage collapsed, he got hitched to Connie Stevens. Soon enough, he left Debbie for Elizabeth Taylor. "That's simple: Don't marry Debbie Reynolds." "I've often been asked what I learned from that marriage," he says. Their's was the ideal marriage, at least to the media. When he went to Korea, President Truman said that he was his "favorite PFC." When he returned, he married Debbie Reynolds, the girl next door. I didn't know flats or sharps, and I couldn't read music. "My technique was that I opened my mouth and let it out. "I had 65,000 fan clubs and the most widely broadcast program on television and radio." "I had more consecutive hit records than the Beatles or Elvis Presley," he tells us in Been There, Done That. By the time he was twenty-one, his records were selling in the millions. By the time he was fifteen-years-old, Eddie Fisher was on three different radio shows in Philadelphia.
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