Judy Garland

Judy Garland

Motion Pictures Category Star

• Ceremony was on February 8, 1960

Motion Pictures Star for Judy Garland

Judy Garland

Recording Category Star

• Ceremony was on February 8, 1960

Recording Star for Judy Garland

Judy Garland

As Dorothy Gale from the Wizard of Oz (1939)

• Starring in over 30 films and performing in countless live stage performances, Judy Garland is amongst the greatest female stars in the history of American cinema. She is best known for her roles in classics such as The Wizard of Oz (1939), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) and A Star is Born (1954)
• At the age of four, Garland moved to Los Angeles with her family to pursue acting along with her two older sisters. She began performing with a dance troupe and was soon signed with MGM studios, without a screen test, at 13 years old
• Several years after Garland's death, a rose was named after the star. The Judy Garland rose is yellow in color, a shade that Garland herself was very fond of

Born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, 1922 in Grand Rapids, MN
Died on June 22, 1969 in London, England

Judy Garland

Autographed Matchbook

Judy Garland

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The Wizard of Oz

Script Painting
Created by Rick Almanzan, this picture is made up of the words from the first 11 chapters of L. Frank Baum's novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The movie was filmed in just over six months and earned only $3 million on its initial release, but has been re-issued 14 times! Believe It or Not!

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Chapter XI

Judy Garland

Judy's death no surprise to her doctor
From AP, Reuters, UPI Dispatches

LONDON - "Audiences have kept me alive," Judy Garland once said. But a London surgeon said she was living on borrowed time, and time ran out yesterday for the 47-year-old singing star.
Miss Garland, who made more than 35 films but was best known for her role as a little girl named Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz," was found dead by her fifth husband, Mickey Deans, in the bathroom of her London home.
British newspapers labeled the death "sudden and mysterious but Scotland Yard ruled out suicide and police said prior to a scheduled autopsy that there was no suspicion of foul play.
Dr. Phillip Lebon, a prominent London surgeon who had treated Miss Garland for several years, said she had cirrhosis of the liver and that death could have come any time.
"How she lived this long I don't know," he said
A Scotland Yard spokesman commented: "It was a simple, plain case of sudden death."

INVESTIGATORS FOUND no suicide note in the two-story home. They did not rule out an accidental overdose of medication.
Miss Garland had been married to Deans, a 35-year-old former New York discotheque manager, for 100 days.
A friend, singer Gina Dangerfields, said: "Judy was feeling on top of the world. They were very much in love and it seemed that she had found happiness at last."
Miss Garland had decided to live permanently in England after her marriage to Deans.
Saturday evening all seemed well. Philip Roberge, 29, a friend who dined at the Deans' home, said "Judy was in happy spirits. We had a quiet meal of steak and some wine and we watched TV."
Another friend, the Rev. Peter Delaney, who conducted a service for the couple after their marriage, said, "They both came to my birthday party in my flat on Friday."
Judy looked "exceptionally well, and happy and serene," he said.
The singer who brought tears and joy to millions of fans by singing of a dream world "Over the Rainbow," often suffered the depths of personal despair.

THE JUDY GARLAND story was one of pills, divorces, onstage collapses, illnesses, and audiences that booed her and finished by yelling: "We love you Judy!"
She reportedly attempted suicide a number of times. In the most publicized attempt, she slashed her throat at the age of 28.
But just when Miss Garland appeared washed up, she bounced back again. After she married Deans March 15, she told newsmen: "Finally, finally I am loved."
Born Frances Gumm on June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids, Minn., she was the youngest of three daughters of the vaudeville team of Frank and Ethel Gumm.
It is said she made her first stage appearance in a Grand Rapids theater at the age of 30 months, singing "Jingle Bells," and that she was so thrilled by performing that her father had to pull her off the stage after she'd sung the number seven times.
A widely traveled child star from the age of three, Miss Garland changed her name at the suggestion of George Jessel.
Her first film in 1935 was a two-reel short called "Every Sunday Afternoon," but her first well-known movie was "Pig-skin Parade."

HER 1939 ROLE in the "Wizard of Oz" catapulted her into the hearts of millions.
In 1940, 1941, and 1945 she was named one of the 10 highest-paid stars in Hollywood, earning $150,000 a film.
Her series with Mickey Rooney in the Andy Hardy stories was a national hit, still revived occasionally on TV's late-late show.
Her movies are estimated to have eared $100 million, but tragedy dogged her. At 18 she was under psychiatric care and consuming many kinds of pills.
She was divorced four times — in 1944 after a three-year marriage to composer David Rose; in 1951, after a six-year marriage to director Vincente Minnelli; in 1965, after a 13-year marriage to Sid Luft, her manager; and finally from actor Mark Herron, after a marriage of 19 months.
She has three children: singer Liza Minnelli, 23; and Lorna Luft, 16, and Joey Luft, 14. All three were in the United States when they learned of their mother's death.

MISS GARLAND, WHO OFTEN showed up late for stage appearances in recent years, was booed off the stage in Australia in 1964.
Once when she turned up late for a nightclub appearance, the audience started booing and she replied, "I've been through a lot." Then she sang, and they loved her.
She often blamed Hollywood for her problems, including putting her on drugs and on a psychiatrist's couch at 18.
"No wonder I was strange," she once said. "Imagine whipping out of bed, dashing over to the doctor's office, lying down on a torn leather couch, telling my troubles to an old man... and then dashing to make movie love to Mickey Rooney."
"They'd give us pep pills," she wrote. "Then they'd take us to the studio hospital and knock us cold with sleeping pills... After four hours they'd wake us up and give us the pep pills again."

DESPITE HER TROUBLES, Judy complained in a 1962 interview that she was "always being painted a more tragic figure than I am, and I get awfully bored with myself as a tragic figure."
Others weren't bored. "She was a unique entertainer, a wonderful singer," said actor Eli Wallach. "It's tragic. She is somehow the painful product of the worst part of Hollywood."
Dancer Fred Astaire said: "She was unlimited in her talents and learned everything very quickly... one of the most talented women who ever lived."
Said Mr. Delaney:
"I hope now that people will start to speak kindly of Judy. I shall never forget her tremendous strength through her frailty and her wonderful sense of humor even at the darkest times."
Ray Bolger, who 30 years ago created the role of the scarecrow in the "Wizard of Oz," said he cried like a baby when he heard the news report of Miss Garland's death.
Said Mickey Rooney: "She is - I'm sure - at peace, and has found that rainbow. At least I hope she has.