Three part documentary Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar profiles actor, feminist, business mogul, activist Elizabeth Taylor who broke the mould and re-wrote the rules of celebrity.
Told through unheard tapes and by close family and friends, including Dame Joan Collins. It also features Kim Kardashian who is a producer of the series.
Season One, Episode One:
As a young actor, Elizabeth lands the starring role in MGM’s smash hit film National Velvet -but as she gets older her life is tightly controlled by the studio, who dictate everything from what she eats to who she dates – stage-managing her first marriage to Conrad ‘Nicky’ Hilton as a publicity stunt to promote her starring role in Father Of The Bride. But the marriage is a disaster and Elizabeth decides to live life on her own terms, marrying British actor and producer Michael Wilding, father of her children Michael and Chris, and producing some of her best work – including Giant with James Dean and Rock Hudson, who would become two of her closest and most important friends.
Divorcing Michael, in 1957 Elizabeth marries Mike Todd, a brash, charismatic film producer. But just two weeks into filming Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, which was to earn her critical acclaim, Elizabeth receives devastating news, which changes everything… With insights from Elizabeth’s son Chris Wilding, her granddaughter Naomi Wilding, god-daughter Paris Jackson, friends Sharon Stone, Dame Joan Collins, George Hamilton and fellow child star Margaret O’Brien.
Wednesday, 2 October at 8.25pm on SBS.
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