query: who was judy garland married to?

title: Judy Garland

text: first was with bandleader Artie Shaw. She was deeply devoted to him and was devastated in early 1940 when he eloped with Lana Turner. Garland began a relationship with musician David Rose, and on her 18th birthday, he gave her an engagement ring. The studio intervened because, at that time, he was still married to actress and singer Martha Raye. They agreed to wait a year to allow for his divorce to become final. During that time Garland had a brief affair with songwriter Johnny Mercer. After her break-up with Mercer, Garland and Rose were wed on July 27, 1941.

title: Judy Garland as gay icon

text: would not condone". Judy Garland's father and other significant people in her life were also gay. Frank Gumm would apparently seduce or at least keep company with very young men or older teens, then move on when told to leave or before his activities could be discovered. Garland's second husband Vincente Minnelli was rumored to be a closeted bisexual, and her fourth husband Mark Herron had a long-lasting relationship with fellow actor Henry Brandon, which was only briefly interrupted by his marriage to Garland. From the beginning of her Hollywood career, Garland liked to visit gay bars with openly gay

title: Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

text: Los Angeles. 1969: Judy marries for a fifth and final time. Her new husband is Mickey Deans. They settle in London. Liza, Lorna, and Joey call her on her 47th birthday, and say they will come and spend the summer with her when school finishes in two weeks. Twelve days later, she dies from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills. A hysterical Lorna sobs in Sid's arms. The film ends with Judy performing "Get Happy". The miniseries was released on DVD in region 1 on January 22, 2002 and re-released on DVD on May 22, 2012. Life with Judy Garland:

title: Judy Garland

text: five-week run in which she was paid £2,500 per week, and made her last concert appearance in Copenhagen during March 1969. She married her fifth and final husband, nightclub manager Mickey Deans, at Chelsea Register Office, London, on March 15, 1969, her divorce from Herron having been finalized on February 11. Garland's close friends toward the end of her life included Lauren Bacall, Tony Bennett, Marlene Dietrich, Mickey Rooney, Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, and Mr. & Mrs. Peter Lawford. On June 22, 1969, Deans found Garland dead in the bathroom of their rented mews house in Cadogan Lane,

title: Judy Garland

text: as a child with her two older sisters, and was later signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. She made more than two dozen films with MGM and is often best remembered for her portrayal of Dorothy Gale in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). Garland was a frequent on-screen partner of both Mickey Rooney and Gene Kelly, and regularly collaborated with director and husband Vincente Minnelli. Other film appearances during this period include roles in "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944), "The Harvey Girls" (1946), "Easter Parade" (1948), and "Summer Stock" (1950). Garland was released from MGM in 1950, after 15

title: Judy Garland

text: and singer, on November 21, 1952, and to Joey Luft on March 29, 1955. Garland filmed a musical remake of the film "A Star Is Born" for Warner Bros. in 1954. Garland and Sidney Luft, her then-husband, produced the film through their production company, Transcona Enterprises, while Warner Bros. supplied the funds, production facilities, and crew. Directed by George Cukor, and co-starring James Mason, it was a large undertaking to which she initially fully dedicated herself. As shooting progressed, however, she began making the same pleas of illness that she had so often made during her final films at MGM.

title: Judy Garland

text: their name to the Garland Sisters. Frances changed her name to "Judy" soon after, inspired by a popular Hoagy Carmichael song. The group broke up by August 1935, when Suzanne Garland flew to Reno, Nevada, and married musician Lee Kahn, a member of the Jimmy Davis orchestra playing at Cal-Neva Lodge, Lake Tahoe. In September 1935, Louis B. Mayer asked songwriter Burton Lane to go to the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles to watch the Garland Sisters' vaudeville act and to report to him. A few days later, Judy and her father were brought for an impromptu audition at

title: Judy Garland

text: move permanently to England. At the beginning of 1960, Garland signed a contract with Random House to write her autobiography. The book was to be called 'The Judy Garland Story', and would be a collaboration with Fred F. Finklehoffe. Garland was paid an advance of $35,000, and she and Finklehoffe recorded conversations about her life to be used in producing a manuscript. Garland would work on her autobiography on and off throughout the 1960s, but never completed it. Portions of her unfinished autobiography were included in the 2014 biography, 'Judy Garland on Judy Garland: Interviews and Encounters' by Randy L.

title: Judy Garland

text: the help of Frank Sinatra. Garland requested in her will that her remains be cremated and that her remains be disposed of at the discretion of her executor, it is unknown as to why this wish was not carried out. The remaining business assets of Garland; inclusive of rights to her albums, television specials and her television series "The Judy Garland Show", along with the rights to her name and image are managed by her son Joe Luft who runs 'Royal Rainbow Productions LLC' - the company which oversees the affairs pertaining to the estate of Judy Garland. In 1978,

title: Judy Garland

text: Judy Garland Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American singer, actress, dancer, and vaudevillian. During a career that spanned 45 years, she attained international stardom as an actress in both musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a juvenile Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Special Tony Award. Garland was the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for her live recording "Judy at Carnegie Hall" (1961). Garland began performing in vaudeville

title: Judy Garland

text: Goddard as Garland's pianist. Adrienne Barbeau played Garland in "The Property Known as Garland" (2006) and "The Judy Monologues" (2010) initially featured male actors reciting Garland's words before it was revamped as a one-woman show. Judy Garland Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American singer, actress, dancer, and vaudevillian. During a career that spanned 45 years, she attained international stardom as an actress in both musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a juvenile Academy Award, a Golden Globe

title: Judy Garland

text: Tammy Blanchard (young Judy) and Judy Davis (older Judy) in "" (2001), and Sigrid Thornton in "" (2015). Harvey Weinstein optioned "" and a stage show and film based on it were slated to star Anne Hathaway. Renée Zellweger is set to portray Garland in the upcoming biopic "Judy", which is expected to be released in 2019. On stage, Garland is a character in the musical "The Boy from Oz" (1998), portrayed by Chrissy Amphlett in the original Australian production and by Isabel Keating on Broadway in 2003. "End of the Rainbow" (2005) featured Caroline O'Connor as Garland and Paul

title: Judy Garland Live!

text: Judy Garland Live! Judy Garland Live!, also known as Judy Takes Broadway, is a live-performance album recorded at the Manhattan Center in New York City on April 26, 1962, for Capitol Records. The night Garland recorded this album she had a bad case of laryngitis and finished only 10 of the 13 scheduled songs that night. Capitol Records did not release this album due to Garland's laryngitis, although there was a tentative plan for her to remake the LP in a recording studio. Capitol issued the album finally on June 20, 1989, with the title "Judy Garland Live!" The CD

title: The Judy Garland Show

text: America" DVD. Informational notes Inline Citations The Judy Garland Show The Judy Garland Show is an American musical variety television series that aired on CBS on Sunday nights during the 1963–1964 television season. Despite a sometimes stormy relationship with Judy Garland, CBS had found success with several television specials featuring the star. Garland, who for years had been reluctant to commit to a weekly series, saw the show as her best chance to pull herself out of severe financial difficulties. Production difficulties beset the series almost from the beginning. The series had three different producers in the course of its

title: The Judy Garland Show

text: The Judy Garland Show The Judy Garland Show is an American musical variety television series that aired on CBS on Sunday nights during the 1963–1964 television season. Despite a sometimes stormy relationship with Judy Garland, CBS had found success with several television specials featuring the star. Garland, who for years had been reluctant to commit to a weekly series, saw the show as her best chance to pull herself out of severe financial difficulties. Production difficulties beset the series almost from the beginning. The series had three different producers in the course of its 26 episodes and went through a

title: Judy Garland

text: in 1951 and 1952, and the failure of "A Star is Born" meant that she received nothing from that investment. Following a third special, "Judy Garland and Her Guests Phil Silvers and Robert Goulet", Garland's weekly series debuted September 29, 1963. "The Judy Garland Show" was critically praised, but for a variety of reasons (including being placed in the time slot opposite "Bonanza" on NBC), the show lasted only one season and was cancelled in 1964 after 26 episodes. Despite its short run, the series was nominated for four Emmy Awards, including Best Variety Series. Garland was a lifelong and

title: Judy Garland Live!

text: is out of print but has been included in Garland's Amsterdam Concert CD case as an extra bonus. Tracks 10–14 are from the Capitol Records album "Just for Openers". Judy Garland Live! Judy Garland Live!, also known as Judy Takes Broadway, is a live-performance album recorded at the Manhattan Center in New York City on April 26, 1962, for Capitol Records. The night Garland recorded this album she had a bad case of laryngitis and finished only 10 of the 13 scheduled songs that night. Capitol Records did not release this album due to Garland's laryngitis, although there was a

title: Judy Garland

text: "Judy Garland: The Secret Life of an American Legend" author David Shipman claims that several individuals were frustrated with Garland's "narcissism" and "growing instability", while millions of fans found her public demeanor and psychological state to be "fragile", appearing neurotic in interviews. MGM reports that Garland was consistently tardy and demonstrated erratic behavior, resulting in several delays and disruptions to filming schedules until she was finally dismissed from the studio, who had deemed her unreliable and difficult to manage. Farrell called Garland "A grab bag of contradictions" which "has always been a feast for the American imagination", describing her public

title: The Judy Garland Show

text: fired and was replaced by Bobby Cole, a musician Garland had met recently in New York. Tormé would later file suit for breach of contract and write a tell-all book about the series, "The Other Side of the Rainbow: With Judy Garland on the Dawn Patrol". The first episode of "The Judy Garland Show" aired on September 29, 1963. The show, featuring guest star Donald O'Connor, was the seventh one taped. Episodes would continue to be shown out of sequence throughout the series' run. The show scored an 18.7 rating and reviews were largely positive. "Variety" wrote "If Judy Garland

title: Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

text: Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland is a biography of entertainer Judy Garland. Published in 2000, "Get Happy" is author Gerald Clarke's follow-up to his 1988 biography of Truman Capote. Clarke conducted some 500 interviews, including some with subjects who had not previously spoken about Garland, and also drew upon tape recordings that Garland had made in the 1960s for an autobiography. He found Garland's unpublished 68-page manuscript in the Random House archives. Clarke spent ten years on the book, and only made his final decision to write about Garland after reading

title: Judy Garland

text: Schmidt. Her concert appearance at Carnegie Hall on April 23, 1961, was a considerable highlight, called by many "the greatest night in show business history". The two-record album "Judy at Carnegie Hall" was certified gold, charting for 95 weeks on "Billboard", including 13 weeks at number one. It won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal of the Year. In 1961, Garland and CBS settled their contract disputes with the help of her new agent, Freddie Fields, and negotiated a new round of specials. The first, titled "The Judy Garland Show", aired on February 25,

title: The Judy Garland Show

text: show changed yet again to emphasize Garland's performances, singly and with guests. This format, including several "Judy Garland in Concert" solo episodes, would remain more or less intact for the remainder of the series. Despite continuing positive critical comment about Garland's performances, the ratings remained flat. Fans of the show formed a "Save The Judy Garland Show committee" and organized an early letter-writing campaign on behalf of the series but their efforts were not enough to spare the show from cancellation. The final "Judy Garland Show", another concert episode, was broadcast on March 29, 1964. Between 1999 and 2006 Pioneer

title: Judy Garland

text: most superb voice she had ever heard", while singer and actor Bing Crosby said that "no other singer could be compared to her" when Garland was rested. Garland was known for interacting with her audiences during live performances; a "New York Times" biographer wrote that Garland possessed "a seemingly unquenchable need for her audiences to respond with acclaim and affection. And often, they did, screaming, 'We love you, Judy - we love you.'" Garland explained in 1961, "A really great reception makes me feel like I have a great big warm heating pad all over me ... I truly have

title: Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

text: the Howard Stern Show, Harvey said filming would begin summer of 2014 with Hathaway starring. Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland is a biography of entertainer Judy Garland. Published in 2000, "Get Happy" is author Gerald Clarke's follow-up to his 1988 biography of Truman Capote. Clarke conducted some 500 interviews, including some with subjects who had not previously spoken about Garland, and also drew upon tape recordings that Garland had made in the 1960s for an autobiography. He found Garland's unpublished 68-page manuscript in the Random House archives. Clarke spent ten years

title: Judy Garland

text: recording careers, awards, critical praise, and her ability to fill concert halls worldwide, and she required constant reassurance she was talented and attractive. Rooney, however, denied their childhood studio was responsible for her addiction: "Judy Garland was never given any drugs by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Mr. Mayer didn't sanction anything for Judy. No one on that lot was responsible for Judy Garland's death. Unfortunately, Judy chose that path." In 1938, she was cast in her most memorable role, as the young Dorothy Gale in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), a film based on the 1900 children's book by L. Frank Baum. In

title: Judy Garland

text: created a template that the powers that be have forever been trying, with varied levels of success, to replicate." Garland's live performances towards the end of her career are still remembered by fans who attended them as "peak moments in 20th-century music". Garland has been the subject of over two dozen biographies since her death, including the well-received "" by her daughter, Lorna Luft, whose memoir was later adapted into the television miniseries "", which won Emmy Awards for the two actresses portraying her (Tammy Blanchard and Judy Davis). Strassler observed that Garland "created one of the most storied cautionary

title: The Judy Garland Show

text: Entertainment released all 26 episodes on DVD, as well as 3 compilation DVDs. These DVD releases are listed in the table below. On November 2, 1999, Pioneer Entertainment released "The Judy Garland Show Collection"; containing Shows 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22 and a paperback edition of "Rainbow's End: The Judy Garland Show" by Coyne Steven Sanders. On April 15, 2003, Pioneer Entertainment released "The Judy Garland Show Collection, Volume 2"; containing Shows 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, the "Legends" DVD and the "Songs for

title: Judy Garland

text: the first of her many comebacks, with performances centered on songs by Al Jolson and revival of vaudevillian "tradition". Garland performed complete shows as tributes to Jolson in her concerts at the London Palladium in April and at New York's Palace Theater later that year. Garland said after the Palladium show: "I suddenly knew that this was the beginning of a new life ... Hollywood thought I was through; then came the wonderful opportunity to appear at the London Palladium, where I can truthfully say Judy Garland was reborn." Her appearances at the Palladium lasted for four weeks, where she

title: The Judy Garland Show

text: special, guest starring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, was nominated for four Emmys. Its success led to CBS signing Garland in December 1962 for her weekly series, premiering in fall 1963. Garland's second special was the awkwardly-titled "Judy Garland and Her Guests Phil Silvers and Robert Goulet", presented in March 1963. Alternately promoted as a preview and a pilot for Garland's upcoming regular series, this special was also nominated for an Emmy. Judy Garland's four-year contract for the series called for 26 weekly shows, for which Garland's corporation, Kingsrow Enterprises, would be paid $140,000 per episode. Of that Garland was

title: The Judy Garland Show

text: a letter released by CBS, supposedly from Garland to Aubrey, advising him that she wanted to spend more time caring for her children. Despite "The Judy Garland Show"'s announced cancellation, it was allowed to finish out the 1963/64 season, and continued to tape episodes for broadcast. The final seven episodes taped after the cancellation notice jettisoned any pretense of sustaining a comedy and variety element, and simply presented Judy Garland "In Concert"—sometimes solo for the entire episode, sometimes with musical guests such as Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll or Mel Tormé. During these final episodes, following Show 22 specifically, Tormé was

title: Judy Garland as gay icon

text: of Garland among Stonewall Inn patrons. Because the bar had no liquor license, it was passed off as a bottle club and patrons were required to sign in. Many used pseudonyms and "Judy Garland" was among the most popular. Regardless of the truth of the matter, the Garland/Stonewall connection has persisted and has been fictionalized in "Stonewall", Nigel Finch's feature film about the events leading up to the riots. Lead character Bostonia is shown watching Garland's funeral on television and mourning, and later refusing to silence a jukebox playing a Garland song during a police raid, declaring "Judy stays." "Time"

title: The Judy Garland Show

text: executive producer. Colleran revamped the format yet again, doing away with the insulting humor and focusing the show more on Garland and her singing, although there were still comedy elements in Colleran's initial episodes, with guests such as Bob Newhart and Shelley Berman. As well, Ken Murray was briefly featured as a regular, showing his home movies of Hollywood stars, but was dropped after four episodes. Ratings continued to be poor, and CBS announced the cancellation of "The Judy Garland Show" on January 22, 1964. Officially, it was reported that it was Garland who exited the series, as explained in

title: The Letter (Judy Garland album)

text: The Letter (Judy Garland album) The Letter is a 1959 concept album by American vocalist Judy Garland arranged by Gordon Jenkins. Chronicling a relationship, the album features John Ireland. The Allmusic review by John Bush awarded the album three stars and said "Jenkins' ambitious concept was written well and executed perfectly, and no one was better than Garland for a dramatic romantic role encompassing hope and humor..."The Letter" suffers, as all but the best concept albums do. Ireland is no match for Garland...and the few audio concepts on display tend toward gimmicks. In all, "The Letter" is a fair concept

title: Judy Garland

text: years with the studio, amid a series of personal struggles and erratic behavior that prevented her from fulfilling the terms of her contract. Although her film appearances diminished thereafter, Garland went on to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "A Star Is Born" (1954), and a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961). She also made record-breaking concert appearances, released eight studio albums, and hosted her own Emmy-nominated television series, "The Judy Garland Show" (1963–1964). At age 39, Garland became the youngest and first female recipient

title: Judy Garland at Home at the Palace: Opening Night

text: numbers. A-Side B-Side Judy Garland at Home at the Palace: Opening Night Judy Garland at Home at the Palace: Opening Night is an album by Judy Garland, released in 1967 through ABC Records. The album peaked at number 174 on the "Billboard" 200. In the LP liner notes, George Hoefer, who was associate editor of the magazine "Jazz & Pop", observed, Miss Garland calls the Palace 'home'. Her love affair with the 1,700-seated house began back in the fall of 1951 when she went in for a four-week stay and remained 19 weeks. ... This record takes its listeners right

text: Judy Garland at Home at the Palace: Opening Night Judy Garland at Home at the Palace: Opening Night is an album by Judy Garland, released in 1967 through ABC Records. The album peaked at number 174 on the "Billboard" 200. In the LP liner notes, George Hoefer, who was associate editor of the magazine "Jazz & Pop", observed, Miss Garland calls the Palace 'home'. Her love affair with the 1,700-seated house began back in the fall of 1951 when she went in for a four-week stay and remained 19 weeks. ... This record takes its listeners right into the packed

title: Judy Garland as gay icon

text: Judy Garland as gay icon Actress Judy Garland (1922–1969) is widely considered a gay icon. "The Advocate" has called Garland "The Elvis of homosexuals". The reasons frequently given for her standing as an icon among gay men are admiration of her ability as a performer, the way her personal struggles seemed to mirror those of gay men in America during the height of her fame, and her value as a camp figure. Garland's role as Dorothy Gale in "The Wizard of Oz" is particularly noted for contributing to this status. The aspects of gay identification with Garland were being discussed

title: Judy Garland

text: tremulous, powerful vibrato. Although the octave range of her voice was comparatively limited, she was capable of alternating between female and male-sounding timbres at will with little effort. The "Richmond Times-Dispatch" correspondent Tony Farrell wrote that Garland possessed "a deep, velvety contralto voice that could turn on a dime to belt out the high notes", while Ron O'Brien, producer of tribute album "The Definitive Collection – Judy Garland" (2006), wrote that the singer's combination of natural phrasing, elegant delivery, mature pathos "and powerful dramatic dynamics she brings to ... songs make her [renditions] the definitive interpretations". "HuffPost" writer Joan E.

title: Judy Garland

text: relatively active Democrat. During her lifetime, she was a member of the Hollywood Democratic committee, and a financial, as well as moral, supporter of various causes, including the Civil Rights movement. She donated money to the campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson II, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy, and Progressive candidate Henry A. Wallace. Garland was friendly with President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy, often vacationing in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. The house she stayed in while vacationing in Hyannis Port is known today as 'The Judy Garland House' for her association

title: The Letter (Judy Garland album)

text: album, its interruptions annoying but its overall power raised by the twin talents of Garland and Jenkins...The original three-track stereo recording is exquisite, and upon its initial release, special copies of "the letter" were placed in envelopes and taped to the front of each record jacket". All music and lyrics written by Gordon Jenkins. The Letter (Judy Garland album) The Letter is a 1959 concept album by American vocalist Judy Garland arranged by Gordon Jenkins. Chronicling a relationship, the album features John Ireland. The Allmusic review by John Bush awarded the album three stars and said "Jenkins' ambitious concept was

title: The Judy Garland Show

text: song, and "Tea for Two", which would feature her chatting with a surprise guest. Van Dyke would perform comedy sketches, sometimes with Garland or the guests. Garland would close each episode by singing the song "Maybe I'll Come Back." The obscure novelty song, selected by Garland and Schlatter over CBS's objections (the network wanted her signature song "Over the Rainbow"), included the line "And President Coolidge is a cousin of mine." Garland as a running gag would substitute a different name for Coolidge's each week. Although initially planned for an East Coast shoot, "The Judy Garland Show" was taped in

title: The Judy Garland Show

text: and manager, Sid Luft, dissolved in acrimony in 1957, after they and agent Freddie Fields were unable to come to terms with the network over the format of her next special. Garland filed a US$1.4 million lawsuit against CBS for libel and breach of contract. (CBS filed a counterclaim) that was not settled until 1961, when Garland and CBS each agreed to drop their claims and negotiations began for a new round of Garland specials for the network. The first of two specials under this new relationship aired on February 25, 1962 and was entitled "The Judy Garland Show". This

title: Judy Garland as gay icon

text: friends Roger Edens, Charles Walters and George Cukor, to the chagrin of her handlers at MGM. Judy Garland as gay icon Actress Judy Garland (1922–1969) is widely considered a gay icon. "The Advocate" has called Garland "The Elvis of homosexuals". The reasons frequently given for her standing as an icon among gay men are admiration of her ability as a performer, the way her personal struggles seemed to mirror those of gay men in America during the height of her fame, and her value as a camp figure. Garland's role as Dorothy Gale in "The Wizard of Oz" is particularly

title: Judy Garland

text: dismissal from the film, author Jacqueline Susann said in the 1967 television documentary 'Jacqueline Susann and the Valley of the Dolls', 'I think Judy will always come back. She kids about making a lot of comebacks, but I think Judy has a kind of a thing where she has to get to the bottom of the rope and things have to get very, very rough for her. Then with an amazing inner strength that only comes of a certain genius, she comes back bigger than ever'. Returning to the stage, Garland made her last appearances at New York's Palace Theatre

text: Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows is a 2001 American two-part, four-hour biographical television miniseries based on the 1998 book "" written by Lorna Luft, the daughter of legendary singer-actress Judy Garland. The miniseries was directed by Robert Allan Ackerman and originally broadcast in two parts on ABC on February 25 and 26, 2001. The miniseries is notable for its meticulous recreations of Garland's films and concerts, and verisimilitudinous impressions of her by Tammy Blanchard and Judy Davis. Her original recordings are used to dub Davis' singing. The miniseries, which

title: Judy Garland as gay icon

text: Carnegie Hall. They were more preoccupied with where they were going to sleep and where their next meal would come from." However, the same historical documentary states that there were several patrons at the Stonewall bar that night, Garland fans who, according to bar patron Sylvia Rivera had come from the very emotional Garland funeral earlier in the day to drink and mourn. Rivera said that indeed there was a feeling in the air that something would happen that night: "I guess Judy Garland's death just really helped us really hit the fan." There was certainly an awareness and appreciation

title: Judy Garland

text: received rave reviews and an ovation described by the Palladium manager as the loudest he had ever heard. Garland's engagement at the Palace Theatre in Manhattan in October 1951 exceeded all previous records for the theater and for Garland, and was called "one of the greatest personal triumphs in show business history". Garland was honored with a Special Tony Award for her contribution to the revival of vaudeville. Garland divorced Minnelli that same year. On June 8, 1952, she married Sid Luft, her tour manager and producer, in Hollister, California. Garland gave birth to Lorna Luft, herself a future actress

title: Judy Garland

text: refined her appearance in several ways, including extending and reshaping her eyebrows, changing her hairline, modifying her lip line and removing her nose discs and dental caps. She appreciated the results so much that Ponedel was written into her contract for all her remaining pictures at MGM. At this time, Garland had a brief affair with film director Orson Welles, who at that time was married to Rita Hayworth. The affair ended in early 1945, although they remained on good terms afterward. During the filming of "Meet Me in St. Louis", Garland and Minnelli had some initial conflict between them,

title: Judy Garland

text: 1962 and featured guests Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Following this success, CBS made a $24 million offer to her for a weekly television series of her own, also to be called "The Judy Garland Show", which was deemed at the time in the press to be "the biggest talent deal in TV history". Although she had said as early as 1955 that she would never do a weekly television series, in the early 1960s, she was in a financially precarious situation. She was several hundred thousand dollars in debt to the Internal Revenue Service, having failed to pay taxes

title: The Judy Garland Show

text: with Tormé's writing tailored material for the week's guest to perform with Garland near the top of each show. "The Judy Garland Show" premiered on September 29, during Jewison's run as producer. The episode chosen to be the premiere was Jewison's second completed episode, the seventh produced episode overall. Reviews were generally favorable (see below), though Jerry Van Dyke's supporting role was heavily criticized; Van Dyke was let go from the cast after the tenth produced episode. Jewison himself left after episode thirteen, as he had intended. After Jewison, Bill Colleran joined the show as Garland's selection for its third

title: Judy Garland

text: Boston, Massachusetts, in which she was weaned off her medication, and after a while, was able to eat and sleep normally. During her stay, she found solace in meeting with disabled children; in a 1964 interview regarding issues raised in A Child Is Waiting and her recovery at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Judy had this to say: "Well it helped me by just getting my mind off myself and ... they were so delightful, they were so loving and good and I forgot about myself for a change". Garland returned to Los Angeles heavier, and in the fall of 1949,

title: Who I Was Born to Be

text: written by singer/songwriter Audra Mae, grandniece of Judy Garland. In an interview with MTV Audra Mae stated, "I knew it needed to be a song that made sense for her to sing, so I went online and researched her and her life and found out how she got to be where she is, and it came from that". "I knew it needed to be something that she could be proud to sing," Mae explained. "Almost like a mantra — and I'm thrilled that she liked it enough to put it on the album." The music to "Who I Was Born

title: The Judy Garland Show

text: on television would secure Garland's financial future. "The Judy Garland Show" was initially slated to be taped in New York City. The network initially offered the producer's job to Bob Banner, who was at the time producing a series for Garry Moore. Although he was interested, he declined to relocate from the West Coast. Bob Finkel, whose credits included shows for Dinah Shore and Andy Williams, was next approached but similarly refused to relocate. Veteran producer and director Bill Hobin, then heading up "Sing Along with Mitch", was approached to produce and direct the program. Already based in the East,

title: Judy Garland

text: Jonathan Riggs observed that Garland had a tendency to imbue her vocals with a paradoxical combination of "fragility and resilience" that eventually became a signature trademark of hers. Louis Bayard of "The Washington Post" described Garland's voice as "throbbing", believing it to be capable of "connect[ing] with [audiences] in a way no other voice does". Bayard also believes that listeners "find it hard to disentwine the sorrow in her voice from the sorrow that dogged her life", while Dowlin argued that, "Listening to Judy sing ... makes me forget all of the angst and suffering she must have endured." A

title: Bing Crosby Sings with Judy Garland, Mary Martin, Johnny Mercer

text: Bing Crosby Sings with Judy Garland, Mary Martin, Johnny Mercer Bing Crosby Sings with Judy Garland, Mary Martin, Johnny Mercer is a Decca Records compilation album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Mary Martin and Johnny Mercer. Bing Crosby had enjoyed unprecedented success during the 1940s with his discography showing six No. 1 hits in 1944 alone. His films such as "Going My Way" and "The Bells of St. Mary's" were huge successes as were the Road films he made with Bob Hope. On radio, his "Kraft Music Hall" and "Philco Radio Time" shows were very popular. Decca

title: Judy Garland as gay icon

text: to the homosexual, consulting psychiatrists who opined that "the attraction [to Garland] might be made considerably stronger by the fact that she has survived so many problems; homosexuals identify with that kind of hysteria" and that "Judy was beaten up by life, embattled, and ultimately had to become more masculine. She has the power that homosexuals would like to have, and they attempt to attain it by idolizing her." Writer William Goldman, in a piece for "Esquire" magazine about the same Palace engagement, again disparages the gay men in attendance, dismissing them as "fags" who "flit by" chattering inanely. He

title: Judy Garland

text: Jane Powell. Reputable biographies following her death stated that after this latest dismissal, she slightly grazed her neck with a broken glass, requiring only a band-aid, but at the time, the public was informed that a despondent Garland had slashed her throat. "All I could see ahead was more confusion", Garland later said of this suicide attempt. "I wanted to black out the future as well as the past. I wanted to hurt myself and everyone who had hurt me." In September 1950, after 15 years with the studio, Garland and MGM parted company. Garland was a frequent guest on

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text: "astonishing strength and courage", even during difficult times. English actor Dirk Bogarde once called Garland "the funniest woman I have ever met". Ruhlmann wrote that the singer's personal life "contrasted so starkly with the exuberance and innocence of her film roles". Despite her personal struggles, Garland disagreed with the public's opinion that she was a tragic figure. Writer William Randall Beard, who wrote that play based on Garland's life entitled "Beyond the Rainbow", believes that Garland possessed "a wicked sense of humor and a passion", to the point of which she would have questioned anyone who stated she had lived

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text: Age of Hollywood musicals." Turner Classic Movies dubbed Garland "history's most poignant voice". "Entertainment Weekly"'s Gene Lyons dubbed Garland "the Madonna of her generation". The American Film Institute named her eighth among the Greatest female stars of Golden Age Hollywood cinema. In June 1998, "The New York Times" social critic Camille Paglia wrote that, "Garland was a personality on the grand scale who makes our current crop of pop stars look lightweight and evanescent." In recent years, Garland's legacy has maintained fans of all different ages, both younger and older. In 2010, "HuffPost" contributor Joan E. Dowlin concluded that Garland

title: Judy Garland as gay icon

text: goes on, however, to advance the tragic figure theory as well. After first suggesting that "if [homosexuals] have an enemy, it is age. And Garland is youth, perennially, over the rainbow", he wrote: Openly gay comedian Bob Smith offers a comic take on the tragic figure theory, imagining an "Elvis king" and a "Judy queen", debating the idols: In discussing Judy Garland's camp appeal, gay film scholar Richard Dyer has defined camp as "a characteristically gay way of handling the values, images and products of the dominant culture through irony, exaggeration, trivialisation, theatricalisation and an ambivalent making fun of and

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text: for artistic opportunities squandered, and for personal happiness permanently deferred". In 1998, Carnegie Hall hosted a two-concert tribute to Garland, which they promoted as "a tribute to the world's greatest entertainer". Subsequent celebrities who have suffered from personal struggles with drug addiction and substance abuse have been compared to Garland, particularly Michael Jackson. Garland's older daughter Liza Minnelli had a personal life that was almost parallel to that of her mother's, having struggled with substance abuse and several unsuccessful marriages. Paglia observed that actress Marilyn Monroe would exhibit behavior similar to Garland a decade after "Meet Me in St. Louis",

title: Judy Garland

text: maintain a successful career as a recording artist even after her film appearances became less frequent was unusual for an artist at the time. Garland has been identified as a triple threat due to her ability sing, act and dance, arguably equally as well as each other. Doug Strassler, a critic for the "New York Press", described Garland as a "triple threat" who "bounced between family musicals and adult dramas with a precision and a talent that remains largely unmatched". In terms of acting, a critic for "The Guardian" identified Garland as a "chameleon" due to her ability to alternate

title: The Judy Monologues

text: as a one-woman show, with Elley-Ray Hennessy portraying Garland to rave reviews. "The Judy Monologues" was performed at the 2015 SpringWorks Festival in Stratford, Ontario, with Elley-Ray Hennessy reprising her role as Garland. The Judy Monologues The Judy Monologues is a multimedia one-act play based entirely upon rare voice tapes recorded by Judy Garland in the mid-1960s for her never-written autobiography. Conceived and directed by Darren Stewart-Jones, the original production featured vintage film clips of Garland from MGM's "Till the Clouds Roll By". "The Judy Monologues" premiered at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto, Ontario in September 2010 and

title: The Judy Garland Show

text: responded to the critiques by issuing a statement through talent chief Michael Dann. "We have decided that [Judy] should never appear in sketches and never play any character but herself. And she'll be singing more songs, more medleys, more standards. Songs are her babies. We told her what we think and she's listening. She's far too insecure about television to exercise her own judgment. She knows what's good for her." Behind the scenes, however, the network continued to tinker with the show. In addition to the replacement of key production staff and constantly revising the format, Garland was also summoned

title: The Garland Touch

text: The Garland Touch The Garland Touch is a 1962 Judy Garland album released by Capitol Records. The album assembles recordings made for other projects: six previously unissued selections had been cut in London in early August 1960, while four songs had been previously released—two on the 1958 album "Judy in Love" ("Do I Love You?" and "More Than You Know") and two from her recent 1961 single ("Comes Once in a Lifetime" and "Sweet Danger"). This was Garland's last studio album released during her lifetime. Later in London, Garland cut a 1964 EP for EMI Records: "Judy Garland Sings Lionel

title: Judy Garland

text: the ceremony was performed. The divorce became final on May 19, 1965, and Herron and she did not legally marry until November 14, 1965; they separated six months later. In December 1965, The Supremes were the opening act for Garland at the NRG Arena in Houston, Texas. Garland received $43,000 for the one performance. Due to her financial situation in the late 1960s, Garland had to maintain a grueling concert schedule. In 1967, Garland had 73 scheduled engagements. For her concert performances, Garland could net anywhere between $5,000 and $50,000 per engagement along with a percentage of the box office.

title: Judy Garland

text: consisted largely of cast recordings, show tunes and traditional pop standards, Garland was also capable of singing soul, blues and jazz music, which Dowlin compared to singer Elvis Presley. Garland insisted that her talent as a performer was inherited, claiming, "Nobody ever taught me what to do onstage." Critics agree that, even when she debuted as a child, Garland had always sounded mature for her age, particularly on her earlier recordings. From an early age, Garland had been billed as "the little girl with the leather lungs", a designation the singer later admitted to having felt humiliated by because she

title: Judy Garland

text: that fans and audiences insisted on preserving their memory of Garland as Dorothy no matter how much she matured, calling her "a captive not of her own desire to stay young, but the public's desire to preserve her that way". Thus, the studio continued to cast Garland in roles that were significantly younger than her actual age. According to Malony, Garland was one of Hollywood's hardest-working performers during the 1940s, which Malony claims she used as a coping mechanism after her first marriage imploded. However, studio employees recall that Garland had a tendency to be quite intense, headstrong and volatile;

title: Judy Garland

text: self-esteem, particularly in regards to her weight which she constantly dieted to maintain at the behest of the studio and Mayer; critics and historians believe this to be a result of having been told by studio executives that she was an "ugly duckling". "Entertainment Weekly" columnist Gene Lyons observed that both audiences and fellow members of the entertainment industry "tended either to love her or to hate her". At one point, Stevie Phillips, who had worked as an agent for Garland for four years, had described her client as "a demented, demanding, supremely talented drug-addict". Royce argues that Garland maintained

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text: cause, Garland's physician noted that a prescription of 25 barbiturate pills was found by her bedside half-empty and another bottle of 100 was still unopened. A British specialist who had attended Garland's autopsy stated that she had nevertheless been living on borrowed time owing to cirrhosis, although a second autopsy conducted later, showed no evidence of alcoholism or cirrhosis. Garland died twelve days after her forty-seventh birthday. Her "Wizard of Oz" co-star Ray Bolger commented at her funeral, "She just plain wore out." Forensic pathologist Jason Payne-James believed that Garland had an eating disorder, which contributed to her death. After

title: Judy Garland

text: of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the film industry. In 1997, Garland was posthumously awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Several of her recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and in 1999, the American Film Institute placed her among the 10 greatest female stars of classic American cinema. Despite profound professional success, Garland struggled in her personal life from an early age. The pressures of adolescent stardom affected her physical and mental health from the time she was a teenager; her self-image was influenced and constantly criticized by film executives who believed

title: Judy Garland

text: only its cost, but also the increasing expense of the shooting delays while Garland was ill, as well because the general public was not yet willing to accept her in a sophisticated vehicle. Following her work on "The Pirate", she co-starred for the first and only time with Fred Astaire (who replaced Gene Kelly after Kelly had broken his ankle) in "Easter Parade", which became her top-grossing film at MGM and quickly re-established her as one of MGM's primary assets. Thrilled by the huge box-office receipts of "Easter Parade", MGM immediately teamed Garland and Astaire in "The Barkleys of Broadway".

title: Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

text: the extant biographies. "I did not want to write a book about her if the definitive book had already been written...So, I sat down and I read the biographies that had already been written and came up with no real impression of Judy...There was a disconnect between the woman who emerged from the pages and the woman I saw in the movies and heard on the records...I knew that "the" book had not yet been written." Janet Maslin of The New York Times questions the need for another Garland biography at all, given the number of biographies already available, but

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text: George Jessel in 1934. He encouraged the group to choose a more appealing name after "Gumm" was met with laughter from the audience. According to theater legend, their act was once erroneously billed at a Chicago theater as "The Glum Sisters". Several stories persist regarding the origin of the name "Garland". One is that it was originated by Jessel after Carole Lombard's character Lily Garland in the film "Twentieth Century", which was then playing at the Oriental; another is that the girls chose the surname after drama critic Robert Garland. Garland's daughter Lorna Luft stated that her mother selected the

title: Judy Garland

text: was cast opposite Gene Kelly in "Summer Stock". The film took six months to complete. To lose weight, Garland went back on the pills and the familiar pattern resurfaced. She began showing up late or not at all. When principal photography on "Summer Stock" was completed in the spring of 1950, it was decided that Garland needed an additional musical number. She agreed to do it provided the song should be "Get Happy". In addition, she insisted that director Charles Walters choreograph and stage the number. By that time, Garland had lost 15 pounds and looked more slender. "Get Happy"

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text: Records, and any other business dealings in which she could derive an income. This left Garland in a desperate situation which saw her sell her Brentwood home at a price far below its value and her taking the role of Helen Lawson in "Valley of the Dolls". In February 1967, Garland was cast as Helen Lawson in "Valley of the Dolls" for 20th Century Fox. According to co-star Patty Duke, Garland was treated poorly by director Mark Robson on the set of "Valley of the Dolls" and was primarily hired so as to augment publicity for the film. After her

title: Judy Garland

text: did not exemplify the most glamorous persona required of leading ladies of the time. She was self-conscious and anxious about her appearance. "Judy went to school at Metro with Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, real beauties", said Charles Walters, who directed her in a number of films. "Judy was the big money-maker at the time, a big success, but she was the ugly duckling ... I think it had a very damaging effect on her emotionally for a long time. I think it lasted forever, really." Her insecurity was exacerbated by the attitude of studio chief Louis B. Mayer,

title: Judy Garland as gay icon

text: a child: Some have suggested a connection between the date of Garland's death and funeral on June 27, 1969 and the Stonewall riots, the flashpoint of the modern gay liberation movement, which started in the early hours of June 28. In a 2009 interview, gay historian David Carter stated that this connection is untrue, and based on a mocking reference to the riot by an anti-gay writer in "The Village Voice" the next day. Some observers of the riots contend that most of those involved "were not the type to moon over Judy Garland records or attend her concerts at

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text: name when Jessel announced that the trio "looked prettier than a garland of flowers". A TV special was filmed in Hollywood at the Pantages Theatre premiere of "A Star Is Born" on September 29, 1954, in which Jessel stated: A later explanation surfaced when Jessel was a guest on Garland's television show in 1963. He said that he had sent actress Judith Anderson a telegram containing the word "garland" and it stuck in his mind. However, Garland asked Jessel just moments later if this story was true, and he blithely replied "No". By late 1934, the Gumm Sisters had changed

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text: Got Away" (No. 11). She has twice been honored on U.S. postage stamps, in 1989 (as Dorothy) and again in 2006 (as Vicki Lester from "A Star Is Born"). While on tour In 1964, Garland identified "Over the Rainbow" as her favorite of all the songs she had ever recorded, to which Trussel observed that "Her career would remain inextricably linked". Garland would frequently use an overture from "Over the Rainbow" as her entrance music during concerts and television appearances. According to Paglia, the more Garland performed "Over the Rainbow", the more it "became her tragic anthem ... a dirge

title: Judy Garland

text: persona as "awkward yet direct, bashful yet brash". Describing the singer as "Tender and endearing yet savage and turbulent", Paglia wrote that Garland "cut a path of destruction through many lives. And out of that chaos, she made art of still-searing intensity." Calling her "a creature of extremes, greedy, sensual, and demanding, gluttonous for pleasure and pain", Paglia also compared Garland to entertainer Frank Sinatra due to their shared "emblematic personality ... into whom the mass audience projected its hopes and disappointments", while observing that she lacked Sinatra's survival skills. Despite her success as a performer, Garland suffered from low

title: Judy (film)

text: Judy (film) Judy is an upcoming British-American biographical musical-drama film directed by Rupert Goold. It is based on the life of American singer and actress Judy Garland, focusing on the late 1960s as she arrives in London for a run of sell-out concerts at the Talk of the Town. It is an adaptation of the Olivier and Tony nominated 2012 Broadway play "End of the Rainbow" by Peter Quilter. The film stars Renée Zellweger as Garland, with Rufus Sewell and Michael Gambon in supporting roles. The film was originally scheduled to be released in late 2018. Set in the late

title: Judy Garland

text: end of her career. By the time of her death in 1969, Garland had appeared in more than 35 films. She has been called one of the greats of entertainment, and her reputation has endured. In 1992, Gerald Clarke of "Architectural Digest" dubbed Garland "probably the greatest American entertainer of the twentieth century". O'Brien believes that "No one in the history of Hollywood ever packed the musical wallop that Garland did", explaining, "She had the biggest, most versatile voice in movies. Her Technicolor musicals... defined the genre. The songs she introduced were Oscar gold. Her film career frames the Golden

title: Judy Garland

text: Garland was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and, in the run-up to the 27th Academy Awards, was generally expected to win for "A Star Is Born". She could not attend the ceremony because she had just given birth to her son, Joseph Luft, so a television crew was in her hospital room with cameras and wires to broadcast her anticipated acceptance speech. The Oscar was won, however, by Grace Kelly for "The Country Girl" (1954). The camera crew was packing up before Kelly could even reach the stage. Groucho Marx sent Garland a telegram after the awards

title: Judy Garland

text: was the last segment of "Summer Stock" to be filmed. It was her final picture for MGM. When it was released in the fall of 1950, "Summer Stock" drew big crowds and racked up very respectable box-office receipts, but because of the costly shooting delays caused by Garland, the film posted a loss of $80,000 to the studio. Garland was cast in the film "Royal Wedding" with Fred Astaire after June Allyson became pregnant in 1950. She failed to report to the set on multiple occasions, and the studio suspended her contract on June 17, 1950. She was replaced by

title: Judy Garland

text: (1946). During filming for "The Pirate" in April 1947, Garland suffered a nervous breakdown and was placed in a private sanitarium. She was able to complete filming, but in July, she made her first suicide attempt, making minor cuts to her wrist with a broken glass. During this period, she spent two weeks in treatment at the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. "The Pirate" was released in 1948 and was the first film in which Garland had starred since "The Wizard of Oz" to not make a profit. The main reasons for its failure were not

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text: "a tragic life". Her younger daughter Lorna agreed that Garland "hated" being referred to as a tragic figure, explaining, "We all have tragedies in our lives, but that does not make us tragic. She was funny and she was warm and she was wonderfully gifted. She had great highs and great moments in her career. She also had great moments in her personal life. Yes, we lost her at 47 years old. That was tragic. But she was not a tragic figure." Ruhlmann argues that Garland actually used the public's opinion of her tragic image to her advantage towards the

title: Judy Garland

text: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City. Garland performed "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" and "Eli, Eli", a Yiddish song written in 1896 and very popular in vaudeville. They immediately signed Garland to a contract with MGM, presumably without a screen test, though she had made a test for the studio several months earlier. The studio did not know what to do with her, as at age thirteen, she was older than the traditional child star, but too young for adult roles. Her physical appearance was a dilemma for MGM. She was only , and her "cute" or "girl-next-door" looks

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text: this film, she sang the song with which she would be identified, "Over the Rainbow". Although producers Arthur Freed and Mervyn LeRoy had wanted her from the start, studio chief Mayer first tried to borrow Shirley Temple from 20th Century Fox, but they declined. Deanna Durbin was then asked, but was unavailable, resulting in Garland being cast. Garland was initially outfitted in a blonde wig for the part, but Freed and LeRoy decided against it shortly into filming. Her blue gingham dress was chosen for its blurring effect on her figure, which made her look younger. Shooting commenced on October

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text: tales in the industry, thanks to her the many excesses and insecurities that led to her early death by overdose". Garland was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. Several of her recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. These include "Over the Rainbow", which was ranked as the number one movie song of all time in the American Film Institute's "100 Years...100 Songs" list. Four more Garland songs are featured on the list: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (No. 76), "Get Happy" (No. 61), "The Trolley Song" (No. 26), and "The Man That

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text: the funeral of the victims during the press conference. In 1963, Garland sued Luft for divorce on the grounds of mental cruelty. She also asserted that he had repeatedly struck her while he was drinking and that he had attempted to take their children from her by force. She had filed for divorce from Luft on several previous occasions, even as early as 1956, but they had reconciled each time. After her television series was canceled, Garland returned to the stage. Most notably, she performed at the London Palladium with her 18-year-old daughter Liza Minnelli in November 1964. The concert

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text: Cry". Garland was then put in the cast of the fourth of the Hardy Family movies as a literal girl-next-door to Rooney's character Andy Hardy, in "Love Finds Andy Hardy", although Hardy's love interest was played by Lana Turner. They teamed as lead characters for the first time in "Babes in Arms", ultimately appearing in five additional films, including Hardy films "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante" and "Life Begins for Andy Hardy". Garland stated that she, Rooney, and other young performers were constantly prescribed amphetamines in order to stay awake and keep up with the frantic pace of making one film

title: Judy Garland

text: 13, 1938, and was completed on March 16, 1939, with a final cost of more than US$2 million. With the conclusion of filming, MGM kept Garland busy with promotional tours and the shooting of "Babes in Arms", directed by Busby Berkeley. She and Rooney were sent on a cross-country promotional tour, culminating in the August 17 New York City premiere at the Capitol Theater, which included a five-show-a-day appearance schedule for the two stars. Garland was forced into a strict diet during filming; she was given tobacco to suppress her appetite. "The Wizard of Oz" was a tremendous critical success,

title: Judy Garland

text: wisdom of having two girl singers on the roster. On November 16, 1935, Garland was in the midst of preparing for a radio performance on the "Shell Chateau Hour" when she learned that her father had been hospitalized with meningitis and had taken a turn for the worse. Frank Gumm died the following morning at age forty-nine, leaving her devastated at age thirteen. Her song for the "Shell Chateau Hour" was her first professional rendition of "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart", a song which became a standard in many of her concerts. Garland came to the attention of

title: Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy!: Live from the London Palladium

text: Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy!: Live from the London Palladium Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy!: Live from the London Palladium is a DVD by the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, released under Geffen Records in December 2007. The film consists of live recordings from his sold-out February 25, 2007 tribute concert at the London Palladium to the legendary American actress and singer Judy Garland. The DVD complements the release of Wainwright's Grammy Award-nominated double album, "Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall", which contains the same songs from Garland's well-known 1961 album, "Judy at Carnegie Hall". The DVD

title: Judy Garland

text: "Kraft Music Hall", hosted by her friend Bing Crosby. Following Garland's second suicide attempt, Crosby, knowing that she was depressed and running out of money, invited her on to his radio show—the first of the new season—on October 11, 1950. Garland made eight appearances during the 1950–51 season of "The Bing Crosby – Chesterfield Show", which immediately reinvigorated her career. Soon after, she toured for four months to sellout crowds in Europe. In 1951, Garland began a four-month concert tour of Britain and Ireland, where she played to sold-out audiences throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland. The successful concert tour was

title: The Garland Touch

text: Bart's Maggie May", which Capitol Records did not release in the United States until 2002 (on the compilation CD ""). The rest of Judy's releases prior to her death in 1969 came from various concerts and soundtracks: recordings for the films "Gay Purr-ee" (1962) and "I Could Go On Singing" (1963); from her 1963-64 CBS Television series, "The Judy Garland Show"; from 1964 concert performances at the London Palladium (featuring solos and duets with her daughter Liza Minnelli); and from Garland's last engagement at the Palace Theatre in 1967. The Judy Room: The Garland Touch Page The Garland Touch The

title: Garland at the Grove

text: Billy May. It's still a four-star album, but pales quickly next to the 2-disc Carnegie Hall set that easily gets five stars. Garland at the Grove Garland at the Grove is a 1959 live album by American vocalist Judy Garland accompanied by Freddy Martin and his Orchestra. The album was recorded at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The Allmusic review by William Ruhlmann awarded the album four stars and said "From the spring of 1951 on, Judy Garland's reputation rested on her abilities as a live act, but it took another eight years before

title: The Judy Monologues

text: The Judy Monologues The Judy Monologues is a multimedia one-act play based entirely upon rare voice tapes recorded by Judy Garland in the mid-1960s for her never-written autobiography. Conceived and directed by Darren Stewart-Jones, the original production featured vintage film clips of Garland from MGM's "Till the Clouds Roll By". "The Judy Monologues" premiered at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto, Ontario in September 2010 and subsequently played The Pearl Company in Hamilton, Ontario. Performed by three male actors as a tribute to Garland's influence on the gay community, the original cast featured Philip Cairns, Ryan Fisher and Darren