Dinah Shore interviews Elizabeth Taylor via telephone in 1978. The two women discuss Elizabeth’s career as a child actress; whether or not the public truly knows Taylor; the importance of privacy; how Taylor’s husband, Senator John Warner, would feel if she returned to filmmaking; and what’s really important to Taylor.

Elizabeth Taylor was interviewed at the 2011 Reel Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she was asked to comment on the death of her close friend, singer Michael Jackson. He had died on June 25, 2009 under suspicious circumstances. Taylor herself died on March 23, 2011 of congestive heart failure at the age of 79.

Elizabeth Taylor and singer Michael Jackson are briefly interviewed on the red carpet, with Taylor calling Jackson one of her closest friends. Their friendship was considered one of the oddest in Hollywood and yet it lasted for about three decades. See what else Taylor says about Jackson in this clip.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are interviewed in 1968 about their working relationship and Taylor explains what makes her panic stricken. The two actors were married from 1964-1974, got a divorce, then married again before divorcing a final time.