Minnelli

He positions Minnelli’s hard-fought stardom emerging from under her mother’s rainbow-shaped shadow as a collaboration with many caring mentors — adoring champions and friends who saw gifts too real to be denied.

Minnelli was the perfect talent for a vulnerable new age, projecting strength and fragility equally with those gams, eyelashes and belted feelings.

"Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last summer and is currently playing in select theaters, offers an intimate look at the ups and downs of Liza Minnelli's iconic career and how, in her eyes, she didn't quite have it all — despite all her many successes.

Another friend, actress Mia Farrow, goes into Minnelli's close relationship with her own children, and how she's been so great with them.

Despite Minnelli not having children, one of her friends, Michael Feinstein, says in the documentary that her relationship with her close friends' children brought the "Cabaret" star comfort.