Elizabeth Taylor built a film career that ran six decades, from child star in National Velvet to the scandal-soaked set of Cleopatra, and this film sets that work against a private life that made as many headlines as the movies did. Interviews with people who knew her, including Natalie Wood and Roddy McDowall, fill out the portrait alongside archival footage and photographs spanning her Hollywood years. The film tracks the eight marriages and seven husbands, from Conrad Hilton Jr. through Richard Burton twice over, treating the tabloid record not as gossip but as the raw material of a life lived entirely in public. Her violet eyes and her beauty get their due as the image MGM sold, but the film spends more time on the woman managing illness, addiction, widowhood, and a press that never let up, than on the glamour shots. What emerges is less a highlight reel than an account of what it cost to be the Queen of Hollywood for that long.