I Could Go On Singing

I Could Go On Singing is a 1963 movie starring Judy Garland and Dirk Bogarde. It was Garland's last movie. It was not a huge box office success, but it won Garland much praise for her performance. In Bogarde's autobiographies and in the 2004 biography, it is written that Judy Garland's lines were substantially rewritten by Bogarde (with Garland's consent).

 Plot 
Judy Garland plays a superstar singer named Jenny Bowman. She had met a man 15–16 years before. He is now a prominent physician, played by British actor Dirk Bogarde. They had a child whom she let his father raise in England. Jenny wants to finally see him, but in the end is left to her true home, the stage. Originally titled The Lonely Stage, it was renamed I Could Go On Singing, so that audiences would know it was the first time Garland sang in a movie since A Star Is Born in 1954.

 Cast 
 Judy Garland as Jenny Bowman
 Dirk Bogarde as David Donne
 Jack Klugman as George Kogan
 Gregory Phillips as Matt
 Aline MacMahon as Ida
 Pauline Jameson as Miss Plimpton
 Jeremy Burnham as Hospital surgeon
 Lorna Luft as girl on boat
 Joey Luft as boy on boat

 Music 
All songs performed by Judy Garland.

 I Am the Monarch of the Sea (Judy Garland and Boys) from H.M.S. Pinafore  by Gilbert and Sullivan
 Hello Bluebird, words and music by Cliff Friend
 It Never Was You, Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson
 By Myself, Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz
 I Could Go On Singing, Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg

 Movie reviews 
"Either you are or you aren't - a Judy Garland fan that is. And if you aren't, forget about her new movie, I Could Go On Singing, and leave the discussion to us devotees. You'll see her in close-up...in beautiful, glowing Technicolor and striking staging in a vibrant, vital performance that gets to the essence of her mystique as a superb entertainer. Miss Garland is - as always - real, the voice throbbing, the eyes aglow, the delicate features yielding to the demands of the years - the legs still long and lovely. Certainly the role of a top-rank singer beset by the loneliness and emotional hungers of her personal life is not an alien one to her..."
- Judith Crist, The New York Herald Tribune

"3 stars...Judy Garland is back on screen in a role that might have been custom-tailored for her particular talents. A new song, I Could Go On Singing, provides her with a little clowning, a chance to be gay, a time for wistfulness, an occasion for tears. She and Dirk Bogarde play wonderfully well together, even though the script itself insists on their being mismatched..."
- Dorothy Masters, The New York Daily News

 Soundtrack and video/DVD releases 
It was released on video in 1989, and on DVD in 2004. The soundtrack album was released at the time of the original movie release, and appeared on CD in 2002 along with the Garland album That's Entertainment!

 Other websites 
 The Judy Garland Online Discography "I Could Go On Singing" pages.



References

Category:1963 drama movies
Category:British drama movies
Category:British musical movies
Category:American drama movies
Category:American musical movies
Category:1963 musical movies
Category:Movies directed by Ronald Neame
Category:MGM movies
Category:Movies about entertainers
Category:Movies about singers