Actor Roddy McDowall has been friends with Elizabeth Taylor since they starred in "Lassie Come Home" back in 1943.
But despite that closeness, he didn't catch the romantic sparks flying between Liz and Richard Burton when the three were making "Cleopatra" some 20 years later.Taylor was married to singer Eddie Fisher at the time, and McDowall didn't realize anything was going on between her and Burton (whom Taylor subsequently married - twice).
"I was only aware of how opulent the movie was and how long it took to make," McDowall, 64, told Parade magazine in an interview to be published Sunday.