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</table>Wjhonsonhttp://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php?title=John_Valva&diff=19590&oldid=prevWjhonson at 02:51, 5 September 20082008-09-05T02:51:37Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''John Valva''', actor and ex-lover of [[Roddy McDowall]].<br />
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Right about the time that [[Elizabeth Taylor]] was having an affair with [[Richard Burton]], while still married to [[Eddie Fisher]], Eddie comments in his autobiography that "...Roddy McDowall and his close friend John Valva..." helped Richard was was dead-drunk back to his apartment (page 243).<br />
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So who was John Valva?<br />
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C. David Heymann in his biography of [[Elizabeth Taylor]] states that at the time Liz and [[Eddie Fisher]] stayed in New York, Roddy McDowell and John Valva were "sharing a ten-room apartment in the El Dorado, a grand art deco building at 300 Central Park West" (pg 215). This author goes on to state that when [[Roddy McDowall]] signed on to play Octavian in ''Cleopatra'' "As an accomodation to McDowall, Joe Mankiewicz created a minor part for Roddy's live-in companion; accordingly the director cast John Valva as a Roman soldier named Valvus." (pg 234)<br />
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C. David Heymann states that he conducted a personal interview with John Valva. The summary of this is that Sybil Burton divorced [[Richard Burton]] Dec 1963. Sybil and her daughter Kate moved into the same apartment building where Roddy McDowall was living with his lover John Valva. A few months later she moved to Staten Island and invited John to visit her. "At first, I spent weekends with her. I gradually fell in love with her, or thought I had, and moved in full-time," said Valva. "I left Roddy McDowall to be with Sybil."<br />
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After a month with Sybil, John thought maybe he'd made a mistake and Sybil agreed. He left her, but Roddy wouldn't take him back, so John attempted suicide (page 269-270)<br />
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