Intimate Portrait on Lifetime

Part 1 of two. Elizabeth Taylor describes her life on and off the screen, starting with the demands she felt as a child acting at MGM. In addition, details from Taylor's weddings to hotel heir Nicky Hilton, actor Michael Wilding, producer Mike Todd and singer Eddie Fisher. Later, falling in love with and marrying her “Cleopatra” costar Richard Burton. Also: film clips from “National Velvet,” “Giant” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” along with footage of her Oscar-winning turns in “Butterfield 8” and “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”