Flying from Hollywood to London to see her friend was a touching gesture, but Harvey was apprehensive about Taylor's visit on that autumn day in 1973.
Then the top British romantic screen star of the post-war era gave the younger actor a demonstration of the substitute he had found to turn him on: high-revving a static Harley-Davidson motorcycle in his loft while gazing at a poster of himself clad in crotch-hugging leather trousers as a Spanish bandit in the 1961 film The Singer Not the Song.
Just not quite for the reasons they intended.
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Actress Maria Schneider was a French actress.
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