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

Grauman's Chinese Theatre

She was there for Babes in Arms. She was 17 years old.

• FOR MR. GRAUMAN
• ALL HAPPINESS
• Judy Garland
• *Footprints*
• *Handprints*
• 10-10-39

Judy Garland's Footprints

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3 up from left front corner then 2 over to the right

That's Entertainment!

Orchestra Conducted by Jack Marshall

Listening to this album, you'll agree - "That's Entertainment!" It's more than that. For this latest collection of Judy Garland songs is a real cause for celebration among admirers of truly great singing.

It includes a dozen wonderful tunes which she has never before recorded, in a program that is nicely balanced between the sentimental (If I Love Again, Alone Together) and the brightly-paced numbers (Who Cares?, Down With Love). The backings - all under the expert direction of Jack Marshall - are suitably varied. They range from a big orchestra on five of the tunes, to the intimacy of Milt Raskin's solo piano collaboration on It Never Was You. Other vocals are set against a driving eight-man ensemble, while still others feature Jack Marshall's tasteful guitar plus a rhythm section.

Four of the large-scale arrangements are the work of Conrad Salinger, marking a happy reunion between Judy and the man who scored many of her greatest films for M-G-M.

So here is Judy Garland, her voice shining with all that familiar, unmistakable magic that has made her name synonymous with entertainment.

Side One

• That's Entertainment
• Who Cares
• I've Confessed to The Breeze
• If I Love Again
• Yes
• Puttin' on The Ritz

Side Two

• Old Devil Moon
• Down with Love
• How Long Has This Been Going On?
• It Never Was You
• Just You
• Just Me
• Alone Together

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The Garland Touch

Everyone agrees that the brilliant career of Judy Garland has reached new heights within the past couple of years. Her whirlwind tour of sellout concerts, her sensational television show, her phenomenally successful Carnegie Hall recording - all have drawn more superlatives than it would be possible (or necessary) to reprint here.

Meanwhile, the always impressive numbers of devoted Garland fans have grown to an incomparable degree. Hundreds and hundreds of people who may have wondered what all the shouting was about have now joined the cheering section - often with tears of pleasure in their eyes.

As anyone who has ever attended a Garland concert knows, the insatiable demand for "More! More! More!" is as sincere as it is inevitable. And here is Judy's answer to the cries of "More!" that her many record fans are always raising-more marvelous performances, all bearing the unmistakable Garland touch.

These range from the nostalgic Palace medley, which rightfully links Judy with great show-business personalities from another era, to a pair of recent Broadway show-stoppers: "Comes Once in a Lifetime" from Subways Are for Sleeping, and "Sweet Danger" from Kean.

A choral group joins Judy and the orchestra for Cole Porter's seldom encountered "I Happen to Like New York" and also for the inspirational "You'll Never Walk Alone"'

All of the selections are superb songs by top-flight composers, and each one is delivered with a full measure of the special magic that makes Judy Garland one of the most beloved entertainers the world has ever known.

Side One

• Lucky Day
• I Happen to Like New York
• Comes Once in a Lifetime
• Judy At The Palace (Melody): Shine on Harvest Moon, Some of These Days, My Man, I Don't Care

Side Two

• Happiness is a thing Called Joe
• Sweet Danger
• You'll Never Walk Alone
• Do I Love You?
• More Than You Know
• It's a Great Day For The Irish

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I Could Go on Singing

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

I COULD GO ON SINGING marks the first time Judy Garland has both sung and acted in a motion picture since the unforgettable A Star Is Born of 1954. In the intervening years, she has played straight dramatic roles in Judgment at Nuremberg and A Child Is Waiting, recorded the "Mewsette" songs for the sound track of Gay Purr-ee, and scaled new heights of popularity with her fabulous one-woman concerts at Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl and many more.

This last-mentioned phase of Miss Garland's career is vividly re-created on the screen in I COULD GO ON SINGING. As Jenny Bowman, she portrays an American singing star who has the world at her feet, who captivates sold-out houses wherever she sings.

Filmed in England in beautiful color, the entire action takes place during Jenny's visit to London, ostensibly for the purpose of giving a series of concerts at the Palladium. (The Palladium, coincidentally or not, has witnessed many triumphant in-person performances by Judy Garland.)

From the very opening scene of the movie, however, it is easily apparent that Jenny Bowman has a stronger, more personal reason for being in London. She hopes to win back the child whom she has never been able to call her own; and she hopes to recapture the love of the boy's father, now a successful British doctor, David Donne (played by Dirk Bogarde). The latter is distrustful of Jenny, for he strongly feels that she can never be a good mother and at the same time pursue the career that means so much to her.

The ensuing struggle between Jenny and David for the love and future of young Matt (played by 14-year-old Gregory Phillips) becomes the central narrative thread, leading to a number of highly charged emotional scenes that range from the tender to the bitter to the passionate.

But this conflict is not by any means the entire substance of I COULD GO ON SINGING. There are many delightful comedy scenes, including the "Finale" from H.M.S. Pinafore as performed at Matt's boarding school. (Jenny goes backstage afterward to congratulate the all-boy cast, then leads them in a rowdy rendition of "I am the monarch of the sea") And the London settings are breath-taking-almost literally so when Matt and Jenny rent a helicopter and zoom above and around the ancient and modern towers of the city.

Most of all, there are songs - including four wonderful songs performed onstage at the Palladium, with Miss Garland appearing in a succession of noteworthy fashion creations by Edith Head, "By Myself" is a musical expression of Jenny's distressing loneliness, even when she is facing an audience of thousands of admirers, and it arrives on the screen at just the right point to heighten its great dramatic impact. "It Never Was You" is touchingly delivered on a dimly-lit stage and solely with piano accompaniment.

A particularly exciting scene is the one in which the camera follows the backstage preparations for Jenny's opening number ("Hello Bluebird") on her opening night in London. During the final portion of her overture, Jenny stands in the wings, catching the rhythm and mood of the music, and then steps out amid the thunderous standing ovation that greets her before she has sung a note. It is moments like these throughout the film that leave no doubt about it: Only Judy Garland could have played the role of Jenny. No other singing actress could have made this scene believable, because nobody else can make it happen quite like this in real life.

Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg, who have collaborated on many of Judy's greatest hits, have given her a new one in the title song "I Could Go On Singing" - the optimistic note on which the film ends.

May this sound track album provide many wonderful musical memories of an unusual, thrilling and heartwarming motion picture!
Notes by John Sowerwine

Side One

• Main Title ("I Could Go on Singing")
• Overture
• Hello Bluebird
• I Am The Monarch of The Sea
• It Never Was You

Side Two

• By Myself
• Helicopter Ride
• Interlude: Matt's Dilemma
• I Could Go on Singing

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Judy Garland

For lots of old-timers, and even for some not quite so old, the news that came out of London recently about the triumph scored by Judy Garland at the famed Palladium with her charming and talented daughter, Liza Minnelli, came as something of a shock. For them, Judy would always be the effervescent kid who set Andy Hardy's heart on fire, the appealing little girl in pigtails of Wizard of Oz, or the "show-must-go-on" chorus-line heroine of Ziegfeld Girl. But little Judy as the more mature half of a mother-daughter team? Perish the thought.

Well, for those who can't quite accept Judy's advent into the ranks of the great veterans of show business, here is an album which will help to keep her forever young in memory. It also serves a splendid purpose for listeners of all ages by presenting one of the finest singers ever to hit the world of entertainment with some of the outstanding songs that came out of the era of her greatest fame.

For example there are The Trolley Song and The Boy Next Door, both from Meet Me In St. Louis. And some of the tunes in this album go back to even pre-Garland days. Take Singin' In The Rain for instance. This tune is from Broadway Melody, M-G-M's first all-talking, all-singing musical which won the Academy Award as the best feature picture of 1928-29.

The first time the writer of these notes ever heard Judy Garland was not in Pigskin Parade, in which she made her film debut, but in Everybody Sing, her first feature for M-G-M. Present at the time in M-G-M's screening room was Howard Dietz, the brilliant lyricist and advertising genius. When Judy finished her first number, Howard Dietz said aloud: "That's the greatest little hot singer since Howard Dietz"

He said it all.
Notes by Lloyd Seidman

Side One

• Danny Boy
• Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland
• Friendly Star
• I'm Nobody's Baby
• I Cried For You

Side Two

• The Boy Next Door
• Singin' in The Rain
• The Trolley Song
• Put Your Arms Around Me Honey
• Play That Barber Shop Chord

Over the Rainbow

"Judy Garland today is not only the most electrifying entertainer to watch on stage since Al Jolson. She has moved beyond talent and beyond fame to become the rarest phenomenon in all show business: part bluebird, part phoenix, she is a legend in her own time."

This was the tribute that Life Magazine paid to "the first lady of show business" shortly after her magnificent 1961 performance at Carnegie Hall.

Judy's big break came after she appeared at the Wilshire-Ebell Theater on a special vaudeville show. Her performance captured the audience and won her a contract with MGM. Judy attended the studio school with Mickey Rooney (still one of her close friends) and many other child stars of the era. Several months of training followed and then she won her first role in a short subject, "Every Sunday Afternoon." Her only comment on the short when asked about it years later was: "I don't know why I thought I would photograph like a siren, but I did. Then, I saw a freckle-faced, chubby, snubnosed girl on the screen and realized I was looking at myself, I went home and cried myself to sleep." But MGM wasn't crying. They knew they had a talented and promising young performer under contract.

These were happy days for Judy. Like most young girls, she had a favorite movie star and had a crush on him. Hers was Clark Gable and with her vocal coach, Roger Edens, she composed a song to the star. Later she had a chance to sing it to him on a sound stage on his birthday. The song, "Dear Mr. Gable," introduced by her in "Broadway Melody of 1938," became a hit along with Judy and, as a memento, she received a charm bracelet from Gable which was inscribed, "To Judy, my favorite actress, Sincerely, Clark Gable."

Things happened rapidly after that. In "Thoroughbreds Don't Cry," Sophie Tucker taught Judy how to sing a torch song. Then came roles in "Everybody Sing," the Andy Hardy pictures and "Strike Up the Band." Judy was then cast as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz," which proved to be her biggest picture. It won her an Academy Award and the honor of putting her footprints in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater. Other hit pictures followed - "Babes in Arms," "Little Nellie Kelly," "Ziegfield Girl," "For Me and My Gal" and grown-up roles in "As Thousands Cheer," "Ziegfield Follies," "Meet Me in St. Louis" and "Easter Parade."

Judy's story, however, is not all the hit pictures, stage appearances and records she has had. It is something much more because it is about the courage of a girl. A girl who could easily have given up many times but refused to, Instead she came back, battled her illnesses and bad breaks and reclaimed her title as "the first lady of show business."

Side 1

• Somewhere Over The Rainbow
• Come Rain Or Shine
• Just You
• Just Me
• A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow
• When You're Smiling

Side 2

• Old Devil Moon
• I Can't Give You Anything But Love
• Down with Love
• It Never Was You
• That's Entertainment

The Deluxe Set

A 3-record program of her unforgettable performances!

Here's Judy... in a spectacular performance of thirty magnificent songs that have kept her career rocketing on to towering heights. This is Judy Garland singing the songs that made Carnegie Hall audiences shout "More! More!"... that made millions of movie-goers misty eyed and that made European concert crowds ecstatic. She sings them all... songs you wish would go on forever...from lilting romantic melodies like That Old Devil Moon and More Than You Know to torchy rhythm-packed tunes like Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart; When You're Smiling; Chicago and Down With Love. Judy bounces up and down from exuberant moods to blue moods until she wraps it all up with Over the Rainbow. Listen to Judy Garland at her unforgettable star-studded best! She's having a grand time singing the songs audiences love to hear again and again.

Side One

• That's Entertainment
• If I Love Again
• Puttin' on The Ritz
• That Old Devil Moon
• Down with Love

Side Two

• How Long Has This Been Going On?
• It Never Was You
• Just You
• Just Me
• Alone Together
• Maybe I'll Come Back

Side Three

• Zing! Went The Strings of My Heart
• I Can't Give You Anything But Love
• When You're Smiling
• more Than You Know
• I Am Loved

Side Four

• I Hadn't Anyone Til You
• I Concentrate on You
• I'm Confessin'
• Do I Love You?
• Do It Again

Side Five

• Come Rain Or Shine
• Day In, Day Out
• Just Imagine
• Swanee
• The Man That Got Away

Side Six

• Chicago
• Last Night When We Were Young
• April Showers
• Rock-A-Bye Your Baby
• Over The Rainbow

Judy Garland

Autographed Matchbook

Judy Garland

License Plate Portrait

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!

Chapters I

through Chapter XI

By Lyman Frank Baum

The Wizard of Oz

As Dorothy Gale holding Toto
The dog was a Cairn Terrier named Terry but after the massive success of the Wizard they officially changed Terry's name to Toto in 1942 Hollywood Blvd Gift Shop Photos

The Wizard of Oz

With Ray Bolger, and Jack Haley
As The Sacrecrow, Dorothy Gale, and The Tin Man Hollywood Blvd Gift Shop Photos

The Wizard of Oz

Margaret Hamilton, Judy, and Ray Bolger
As the Wicked Witch of the West, Dorothy Gale, and the Scarecrow Hollywood Blvd Gift Shop Photos

The Wizard of Oz

Judy, Jack Haley, and Ray Bolger
As Dorothy Gale, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow Hollywood Blvd Gift Shop Photos

The Wizard of Oz

Jack Haley, Judy, and Ray Bolger
As Dorothy Gale, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow Hollywood Blvd Gift Shop Photos

In the Good Old Summertime

As Veronica Fisher Hollywood Blvd Gift Shop Photos

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.

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I'LL COME TO YOU, SMILING THROUGH THE YEARS

Judy Garland's Final Resting Place

Hollywood Forever Cemetery