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Boyd spoke about this incident during his appearance on the popular TV programme What's My Line?, which aired on 11 December 1960.
Boyd was originally chosen to play Mark Antony opposite Elizabeth Taylor in 20th Century Fox's epic production of Cleopatra (1963) under the direction of Rouben Mamoulian.
Like all romantic involvements since, it ended without hard feelings. One day Haya (Hayareet) came up and said: ‘Look, you Irish lug- when are you going to snap out of it and rejoining the human race?’ That did it. It was at the local cinema where he developed a deep admiration for the silver screen — not just for the stars, but for the storytelling, the drama, and the glamour it embodied.
Boyd's path to acting began at the Ulster Group Theatre, a Belfast repertory company.
In 1960 she came to Hollywood to work as Stephen’s personal secretary, as he was getting overwhelmed with fan mail. Kill! Despite the fact that their relationship was very short, you can still see a little bit of the playfulness and chemistry they had from their romance in 1958.
Below is a brand new picture I found recently of Stephen and Mariella from 1958
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In the current environment of Hollywood, I think Stephen Boyd would have been very popular among female activists.
A man of tremendous vitality, moody and volatile, a typical Celt, he veers from humor to anger in the wink of an eye. Obviously, up to now, Boyd hadn’t been getting the right roles as a show case for his vital qualities. Stephen never had any children and once said, “There are certain things lacking in me–I’d hate to run the risk of transferring any of my shortcomings to any children of mine.” Stephen truly enjoyed the freedom of bachelor life for most of his years.
In 1952 Boyd moved to London and worked in a cafeteria and busked outside a cinema in Leicester Square to get money as he was literally close to starvation. The ceremony included a wrist cutting exchange of blood to seal their bond. It’s a quiet residence just off the main city street.
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He dropped out of school at age 14, seeking work to help support his large family. At the age of seven he became well known in Belfast for his contributions to the Ulster Radio's Children Hour. Stephen is asked to ogle co-star Yvette Mimieux during a film scene, which he does on cue, but only after being asked to do so by the movie’s director Russell Rouse (“The Oscar”).
Florabel Muir
The Times, Shreveport, Friday August 26, 1966
HOLLYWOOD – Invariably emphasized in picture making are the mystic emanations of ionized sex between male and female – that funny thing called love.
Stephen Boyd is a lean (180 pounds), well built (six-foot-one) charmer of 31, with a dazzling dimple, light brown curly hair, fair skin and the kind of grey eyes which take on color from what he is wearing. Boyd learned the behind the scenes tasks of the theater, and eventually worked his way up to character parts and leads, touring both Canada and the United States with stock companies.
By the time he was twenty, Boyd had a wide range of theater experience, but he longed for the big stage.
But it would be a while until Boyd actually set foot on a Hollywood back-lot. The origin of the Scottish surname is from a burn (rivulet) in Glasgow, namely the molindinar (Mo-lynn-dine-are), and the name has evolved over the years to molindar Mo-lynn-dar and to molinar mo-lynn-ar and to Millar and finally to Miller. I soon realized my love for Maria was an infatuation.
Despite this, Boyd described the filming experience of Ben-Hur (which took place in Cinecittà Studios in Rome), as the most exciting experience of his life.
After Ben-Hur filming was completed, Boyd starred with Academy Award winner Susan Hayward in the California-based drama Woman Obsessed. He then tried his luck in the London theater, but had no success, until one of Britain’s top stars, Michael Redgrave saw him working as a cinema doorman and guessed that Stephen was an out-of-luck actor, and talked to him.
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This led to his joining the Windsor Repertory Company where he soon was playing leading roles, and later small film roles.
Boyd said during an interview in 1963 that "I wouldn't die exactly for Sophia, but I'd come close to it." He would also comment in an interview in 1976 that Sophia was "the most beautiful person I've ever met."
Raquel Welch would claim in 2013 that during the filming of Fantastic Voyage in 1965, she became infatuated with Boyd, who rejected her advances.