Taylor Swift has just performed a major and somewhat unheralded pop star flex: Getting someone else to star in your music video for you. She’s done it before, casting Sadie Sink as her stand-in for the extended “All Too Well” video, but in her new video for “Elizabeth Taylor,” she turns to archive footage to do the job. The entire clip is made up of footage of the titular Hollywood star: Plenty of candid or news shots, including material from the 1968 documentary Around the World of Mike Todd, but many culled from her filmography, specifically from her peak stardom during the 1950s and ’60s. (Only one film, 1948’s somewhat less well-known Julia Misbehaves, comes from outside of that period.)
The eleven excerpted fiction films are all cited at the end of the video, but for any Swifties who know way more about one Taylor than the other, here’s a
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