Judy Garland

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  • JUDY GARLAND



    Information from IMDb


    Date of Birth
    10 June 1922,
    Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA


    Date of Death
    22 June 1969,
    Chelsea, London, England, UK (accidental barbiturate overdose)


    Birth Name
    Frances Ethel Gumm


    Nickname
    Baby Gumm
    Miss Show Business
    Joots


    Height
    4' 11½" (1.51 m)


    Spouse
    Mickey Deans (15 March 1969 - 22 June 1969) (her death)
    Mark Herron (14 November 1965 - 9 January 1969) (divorced)
    Sidney Luft (8 June 1952 - 19 May 1965) (divorced) 2 children
    Vincente Minnelli (15 June 1945 - 29 March 1951) (divorced) 1 child
    David Rose (28 July 1941 - 8 June 1944) (divorced)


    Trade Mark


    Her beautiful contralto singing voice


    Frequently played sensitive, sweet girls and women


    Her small, delicate physical presence


    Deep,sultry voice


    Trivia
    She was considered an icon in the gay community in the 1950s and 1960s. Her death and the loss of that emotional icon in 1969 has been thought to be a contributing factor to the feeling of the passing of an era that helped spark the Stonewall Riots that began the modern gay rights advocacy movement.


    Sister of Mary Jane Gumm and Virginia Gumm.


    Mother of Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft, and Joey Luft.


    6/12/64: She married Mark Herron, although her divorce from Sidney Luft was not settled. They were married in Mandarin by a Buddhist monk, and the validity of this marriage is not clear.


    There is surviving footage of Garland performing the lead role of Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun (1950) before she was replaced by Betty Hutton, and this has been included in many documentaries. Undoubtedly, the best is That's Entertainment! III (1994), which for the first time assembled raw unedited footage for two musical numbers and presented them as they would have looked had the film been completed with Garland. Also surviving today are Garland's prerecordings of all songs for the production.


    Originally screen-tested and signed to play the main supporting role of Helen Lawson, in Valley of the Dolls (1967). The studio even provided her with a pool table in her dressing room at her request. Eventually she backed out of the film and was ultimately replaced by Susan Hayward. She kept her costume when she walked off the film, and proceeded to wear the sequined pantsuit while performing in concerts around the world. The character of Neely O'Hara in the film was partially based on her own history (with pills, alcohol, and failed marriages). Sadly, it was Garland's real-life pill addiction that contributed to her leaving this film.


    6/27/69: Her funeral was held in Manhattan at the Frank E. Campbell funeral home at Madison Ave. and 81st St., and 22,000 people filed past her open coffin over a 24-hour period. Ex-husband Vincente Minnelli did not attend. James Mason delivered the eulogy. Her body had been stored in a temporary crypt for over one year. The reason for this is that no one had come forward to pay the expense of moving her to a permanent resting spot at Ferncliff Cemetery in Ardsley, NY. Liza Minnelli had the impression that Judy's last husband, Mickey Deans, had made the necessary arrangements but Deans claimed to have no money. Liza then took on the task of raising the funds to have her properly buried. Death was caused by an "incautious self-overdosage of Seconal" which had raised the barbiturate level in her body beyond its tolerance.


    Interred at Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York, USA.


    Judy heard the same phrase in two movies: For Me and My Girl (1942) and Easter Parade (1948). In both, her love interest (played by Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, respectively) says this: "Why didn't you tell me I was in love with you?"


    The day she died, there was a tornado in Kansas.


    Liza Minnelli said that Judy planned on calling her autobiography "Ho-Hum".


    Her portrayal of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939) was the inspiration for the character of Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island" (1964). (From Kansas, ponytails, lived on a farm with an aunt and uncle...).


    Liza Minnelli originally wanted Mickey Rooney to deliver Garland's eulogy, but she was afraid that he wouldn't be able to get through it. So James Mason did it instead.


    According to singer Mel Tormé, she had a powerful gift of retention. She could view a piece of music once and have the entire thing memorized.


    1997: Posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.


    1998: Garland's album, "Judy at Carnegie Hall" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.


    First cousin three times removed of US President Ulysses S. Grant.


    September 2002: A Los Angeles federal judge barred Sidney Luft from selling the replacement Juvenile Oscar she received for The Wizard of Oz (1939). Luft was also ordered to pay nearly $60,000 to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to end their second lawsuit against him for repeatedly trying to sell the statuette.


    Favorite actor was Robert Donat (best known for his portrayal of the title character in the film Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)).


    Her soulful and iconic performance of "Over The Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz (1939) claimed the #1 spot on June 22, 2004 in The American Film Institute's list of "The 100 Years of The Greatest Songs". The AFI board said "Over The Rainbow" have captured the nation's heart, echoed beyond the walls of a movie theater, and ultimately stand in our collective memory of the film itself. It has resonated across the century, enriching America's film heritage and captivating artists and audiences today.


    She discouraged her children from entering show business, pointing out her financial and health problems resulting from the nature of the entertainment business. Nevertheless, two of her children, Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft both became entertainers. Her son Joe lives in relative anonymity as a freelance photographer.


    She experienced financial difficulties in the 1960s due to her overspending, periods of unemployment, owing of back taxes and embezzlement of funds by her business manager. The IRS garnished most of her concert revenues in the late 1960s. Her financial difficulties combined with her erratic behavior due to her drug dependencies helped break up her marriages and estrange her children from her a year before her death.


    Was a member of The International Order of Job's Daughters.


    She was voted the 23rd Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.


    Groucho Marx called her not winning an Oscar for A Star Is Born (1954), "the biggest robbery since Brink's." Hedda Hopper later reported that her loss to Grace Kelly for The Country Girl (1954) was the result of the closest Oscar vote up till that time that didn't end in a tie, with just six votes separating the two. In any event, it was a heartbreak from which she never really recovered and which has remained a matter of some controversy ever since.


    Always had crooked front teeth, for which an MGM dentist fitted her with removable caps to wear in her films, including The Wizard of Oz (1939).


    Her daughter Liza Minnelli was once married to Jack Haley Jr., the son of her The Wizard of Oz (1939) co-star Jack Haley, who played the roles of The Tin Man, in fantasy, and Huck, after Dorothy awoke from her dream.


    Has a special variety of rose named after her. The petals are yellow (Garland adored yellow roses) and the tips are bright red. It took devoted fans almost nine years after her death to find a rose company in Britain interested in naming a rose officially for her, and the Judy Garland rose didn't appear in the US until 1991. Several JG rose bushes are planted outside of her burial crypt, and at the Judy Garland museum in Grand Rapids.


    She was three-quarters Scottish and one-quarter Irish in ancestry.


    1952: Received a Special Tony Award "for an important contribution to the revival of vaudeville through her recent stint at the Palace Theatre.".


    When she married Vincente Minnelli, Louis B. Mayer gave her away.


    Had weight problems most of her life. Drastic weight fluctuations often affected continuity in her films and can be seen in Words and Music (1948) and If You Feel Like Singing (1950).


    She was voted the 22nd Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine.


    Was named #8 Actress on The AFI 50 Greatest Screen Legends


    3/23/90: Pictured on one of four 25¢ USA commemorative postage stamps honoring classic films released in 1939. The stamp shows Judy Garland as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939), along with Toto (portrayed by Terry). The other films honored were Beau Geste (1939), Stagecoach (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939).


    Is portrayed by Judy Davis and Tammy Blanchard in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) (TV), by Elizabeth Karsell in James Dean (2001) (TV) and by Andrea McArdle in Rainbow (1978) (TV).


    The song "Quiet Please, There's A Lady On Stage" from the stage musical "The Boy From Oz" was written by Peter Allen (Liza Minnelli's former husband) as a tribute to her.


    Was pregnant with her first child Liza Minnelli while filming her minor role in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946). In order to hide her pregnant stomach she was hidden behind stacks of dishes while singing "Look For The Silver Lining". She had also recorded a song "Do You Love Me", which was cut before release. Her scenes were directed by her then husband Vincente Minnelli.


    After serving as the music director on her short-lived CBS series, Mel Tormé wrote a vicious tell-all book about his talented but challenging former boss. So frustrated from the experience, his words in "The Other Side of The Rainbow: With Judy Garland on the Dawn Patrol" portrayed Garland as hopelessly drug-addicted, unprofessional and a horror to work with.


    2006: Her performance as Vicki Lester in A Star Is Born (1954) is ranked #72 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.


    Her performance as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939) is ranked #17 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.


    During her first marriage to David Rose, Judy was forced to undergo an abortion at the insistence of MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer who feared that pregnancy would hurt her good-girl image. The event left her traumatized for the rest of her life.


    6/10/06: Pictured on a 39¢ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series.


    The godparents of her daughter Liza Minnelli were Ira Gershwin and Kay Thompson


    Grandmother of Vanessa and Jesse Richards, children of singer Lorna Luft.


    Godfather of her daughter Lorna Luft was Frank Sinatra


    Father was movie theater owner Francis 'Frank' Gumm (born 20 March, 1886 - died 17 November, 1935). Mother was Ethel Milne (born 17 November, 1893 - died 05 January, 1953).


    Born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota and later lived up in Lancaster, California. John Wayne, then attending college at USC, was a neighbor of Judy's.


    Gave birth to all three of her children via Caesarean section. She also suffered from postpartum depression after the birth of her two daughters Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft.


    The famous theme song David Raksin wrote for Laura (1944) was originally entitled "Judy" in honor of her.


    Had intense fears of flying, horses, and guns.


    Was considered for the role of Careen O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), but the role was eventually given to Ann Rutherford, so Judy immediately began working on The Wizard of Oz (1939), a film which was considered for as early as 1937.


    As a teenager on the MGM lots, she was good friends with Lana Turner and Ann Rutherford.


    Johnnie Ray was best man at her wedding to fifth husband Mickey Deans.


    Did not attend the 1955 Academy Awards, where she was nominated as Best Actress for her portrayal of Vicki Lester in A Star Is Born (1954), because she was in hospital after giving birth to her third child and only son Joey Luft.


    She only performed "Over The Rainbow" three times during her many television appearances, which spanned 14 years. She performed it on her first TV Special, "Ford Star Jubilee" (1955) episode, "The Judy Garland Special" in 1955, sang it to her children on The Christmas Edition of her weekly "The Judy Garland Show" (1963), and on _"The Mike Douglas Show" in August 1968_.


    Betty Asher, who worked on the MGM lots, served as her maid of honor during her wedding to Vincente Minnelli in 1945.


    Was close friends with Lauren Bacall, who had once been her neighbor during the 1950s. Had Judy won the 1955 Best Actress Oscar for A Star Is Born (1954), Lauren would have accepted the Oscar statuette on her behalf.


    Offered the lead role in The Three Faces of Eve (1957), but turned down the role because the storyline bore too many resemblances to her own personal life. The role was then given to Joanne Woodward who went on to win the Best Actress Oscar for her performance.


    Was Matron of Honor at the wedding of actor Don DeFore and Marion Holmes DeFore on February 14, 1942.


    The only witnesses present at her Las Vegas wedding to David Rose in 1941 were her mother and stepfather.


    In a performance of "Come Rain Or Come Shine" on her 1963-1964 variety show on CBS TV, though forgetting some of the words and seemingly "out of sync" with the orchestra she still managed to give a quite powerful and memorable performance.


    Performed two songs in films that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song: "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz (1939) and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" from The Harvey Girls (1946). Performed four more songs that were nominated: "Our Love Affair" from Strike Up the Band (1940), "How About You?" from Babes on Broadway (1941), "The Trolley Song" from Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), and "The Man That Got Away" from A Star Is Born (1954). Performed others that became standards, including "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from Meet Me in St. Louis (1944).


    She performed with her sisters at the 1933-1934 World's Fair in Chicago on the infamous midway (where Sally Rand was the main attraction), more specifically in the Old Mexico Club, where they sold out every night. During their third week at the club, it unexpectedly closed due to an expired liquor license. Judy served as the grand marshal in a parade for the Fair's "Children's Day" in early 1934. It was during their last day in Chicago that Frances Gumm changed her name to Judy Garland during a performance at the Oriental Theater, partly at the advice of George Jessel, who was emceeing.


    She headlined "Ford Star Jubilee: The Judy Garland Special (#1.1)" (1955)), CBS' first special. She performed many of her standards, including "Get Happy", "Carolina in the Morning" and "The Trolley Song". She and guest David Wayne as tramps performed "A Couple of Swells" from Easter Parade (1948), Wayne doing Fred Astaire's part. After that number, she--still in tramp make-up--closed the show with "Over The Rainbow".


    Mentioned in the song "Happy Phantom" by Tori Amos, "Dance in the Dark" by Lady Gaga, and "A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel" by U2.


    Initially refused to appear in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) as she had recently begun to portray characters her own age, such as in Presenting Lily Mars (1943), and was tired of playing virginal teenage characters. She later relented after much persuasion and not only did she meet her future husband Vincente Minnelli on set but her performance in the film was also one of her most famous during her MGM years.


    The first film she made after marrying Vincente Minnelli was The Harvey Girls (1946).


    Became good friends with Doris Day on the Warner Bros. lots when she was filming A Star Is Born (1954) at the same time that Day was filming Young at Heart (1954).


    Did not get on with Lucille Bremer, who played her sister in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). She thought that Bremer couldn't act and repeatedly tried to have her fired from the film, but to no avail.


    Was replaced by Ginger Rogers in the film The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) after being suspended from MGM for her tardiness.


    Replaced June Allyson in the film Wedding Bells (1951) after she became pregnant, but her failure to report to the set led to her being replaced by Jane Powell.


    A close friend was Katharine Hepburn, with whom she would regularly stay during her most serious bouts of depression in order to recover.


    Despite numerous concert and television appearances in the 1960s, Garland remained constantly in debt. This was due in part to then-manager David Begelman embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from his clients, with Garland chief among them. Begelman even went so far as to claim a Cadilac, presented to Garland for an appearance on "The Jack Paar Program" (1962) as his own.


    Adding to her appeal within the gay community, Garland always acknowledged her gay fan base at a time when homosexuality was seldom even discussed. Late in her career and in dire need of money, she even accepted work singing in a New York City gay bar.


    Was in consideration for the role of Sophie MacDonald in The Razor's Edge (1946) but Anne Baxter, who went on to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance, was cast instead.


    One of the few actresses to have danced with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in the movies, other actresses that have also done this includes Rita Hayworth, Cyd Charisse, Vera-Ellen, Debbie Reynolds, and Leslie Caron.


    Returned to work eleven months after giving birth to her daughter Lorna Luft in order to film A Star Is Born (1954).


    Returned to work nine months after giving birth to her daughter Liza Minnelli in order to film The Pirate (1948).


    Despite popular belief that Shirley Temple was the first choice for the role of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939), Garland was cast in the role even before pre-production had begun. As early as February 1938, both Variety and columnist Louella Parsons announced that she was cast in the role of Dorothy.


    According to her biography on the A&E channel, as a young adult in her early acting career, movie producers had her going to six different doctors for prescription drugs, without any one doctor knowing about the other five. It was this process that led to her addiction.


    She was a very active member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee and donated her time and money to many liberal causes (such as the Civil Rights Movement) and political candidates (including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy) for most of her adult life.


    In an eerie twist of fate, she was born in June of 1922 (6/22) and died on June 22 (6/22).


    Married Sidney Luft at Paicines Ranch near Hollister, CA, on June 8, 1952.


    Mini Biography
    One of the brightest, most tragic movie stars of Hollywood's Golden Era, Judy Garland was a much-loved character whose warmth and spirit, along with her rich and exuberant voice, kept theatre-goers entertained with an array of delightful musicals.


    She was born Frances Ethel Gumm on 10 June 1922 in Minnesota, the youngest daughter of vaudevillians Frank and Ethel Gumm. Her mother, an ambitious woman gifted in playing various musical instruments, saw the potential in her daughter at the tender age of just 2 years old when Baby Frances repeatedly sang "Jingle Bells" until she was dragged from the stage kicking and screaming during one of their Christmas shows and immediately drafted her into a dance act, entitled "The Gumm Sisters", along with her older sisters Mary Jane Gumm and Virginia Gumm. However, knowing that her youngest daughter would eventually become the biggest star, Ethel soon took Frances out of the act and together they traveled across America where she would perform in nightclubs, cabarets, hotels and theaters solo.


    Her family life was not a happy one, largely because of her mother's drive for her to succeed as a performer and also her father's closeted homosexuality. The Gumm family would regularly be forced to leave town owing to her father's illicit affairs with other men, and from time to time they would be reduced to living out of their automobile. However, in September 1935 the Gumms', in particular Ethel's, prayers were answered when Frances was signed by Louis B. Mayer, mogul of leading film studio MGM, after hearing her sing. It was then that her name was changed from Frances Gumm to Judy Garland, after a popular '30s song "Judy" and film critic Robert Garland.


    Tragedy soon followed, however, in the form of her father's death of meningitis in November 1935. Having been given no assignments with the exception of singing on radio, Judy faced the threat of losing her job following the arrival of Deanna Durbin. Knowing that they couldn't keep both of the teenage singers, MGM devised a short entitled Every Sunday (1936) which would be the girls' screen test. However, despite being the outright winner and being kept on by MGM, Judy's career did not officially kick off until she sang one of her most famous songs, "You Made Me Love You", at Clark Gable's birthday party in February 1937, during which Louis B. Mayer finally paid attention to the talented songstress.


    Prior to this her film debut in Harmony Parade (1936), in which she played a teenage hillbilly, had left her career hanging in the balance. However, following her rendition of "You Made Me Love You", MGM set to work preparing various musicals with which to keep Judy busy. All this had its toll on the young teenager, and she was given numerous pills by the studio doctors in order to combat her tiredness on set. Another problem was her weight fluctuation, but she was soon given amphetamines in order to give her the desired streamlined figure. This soon produced the downward spiral that resulted in her lifelong drug addiction.


    In 1939, Judy shot immediately to stardom with The Wizard of Oz (1939), in which she portrayed Dorothy, an orphaned girl living on a farm in the dry plains of Kansas who gets whisked off into the magical world of Oz on the other end of the rainbow. Her poignant performance and sweet delivery of her signature song, 'Over The Rainbow', earned Judy a special juvenile Oscar statuette on 29 February 1940 for Best Performance by a Juvenile Actor. Now growing up, Judy began to yearn for meatier adult roles instead of the virginal characters she had been playing since she was 14. She was now taking an interest in men, and after starring in her final juvenile performance in Ziegfeld Girl (1941) alongside glamorous beauties Lana Turner and Hedy Lamarr, Judy got engaged to bandleader David Rose in May 1941, just two months after his divorce from Martha Raye. Despite planning a big wedding, the couple eloped to Las Vegas and married during the early hours of the morning on 28 July 1941 with just her mother Ethel and her stepfather Will Gilmore present. However, their marriage went downhill as, after discovering that she was pregnant in November 1942, David and MGM persuaded her to abort the baby in order to keep her good-girl image up. She did so and, as a result, was haunted for the rest of her life by her 'inhumane actions'. The couple separated in January 1943.


    By this time, Judy had starred in her first adult role as a vaudevillian during WWI in For Me and My Girl (1942). Within weeks of separation, Judy was soon having an affair with actor Tyrone Power, who was married to French actress Annabella. Their affair ended in May 1943, which was when her affair with producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz kicked off. He introduced her to psychoanalysis and she soon began to make decisions about her career on her own instead of being influenced by her domineering mother and MGM. Their affair ended in November 1943, and soon afterward Judy reluctantly began filming Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), which proved to be a big success. The director Vincente Minnelli highlighted Judy's beauty for the first time on screen, having made the period musical in color, her first color film since The Wizard of Oz (1939). He showed off her large brandy-brown eyes and her full, thick lips and after filming ended in April 1944, a love affair resulted between director and actress and they were soon living together.


    Vincente began to mold Judy and her career, making her more beautiful and more popular with audiences worldwide. He directed her in Under the Clock (1945), and it was during the filming of this movie that the couple announced their engagement on set on 9 January 1945. Judy's divorce from David Rose had been finalized on 8 June 1944 after almost three years of marriage, and despite her brief fling with Orson Welles, who at the time was married to screen sex goddess Rita Hayworth, on 15 June 1945 Judy made Vincente her second husband, tying the knot with him that afternoon at her mother's home with her boss Louis B. Mayer giving her away and her best friend Betty Asher serving as bridesmaid. They spent three months on honeymoon in New York and afterwards Judy discovered that she was pregnant.


    On 12 March 1946 in Los Angeles, California, Judy gave birth to their daughter, Liza Minnelli, via caesarean section. It was a joyous time for the couple, but Judy was out of commission for weeks due to the caesarean and her postnatal depression, so she spent much of her time recuperating in bed. She soon returned to work, but married life was never the same for Vincente and Judy after they filmed The Pirate (1948) together in 1947. Judy's mental health was fast deteriorating and she began hallucinating things and making false accusations toward people, especially her husband, making the filming a nightmare. She also began an affair with aspiring Russian actor Yul Brynner, but after the affair ended, Judy soon regained health and tried to salvage her failing marriage. She then teamed up with dancing legend Fred Astaire for the delightful musical Easter Parade (1948), which resulted in a successful comeback despite having Vincente fired from directing the musical. Afterwards, Judy's health deteriorated and she began the first of several suicide attempts. In May 1949, she was checked into a rehabilitation center, which caused her much distress.


    She soon regained strength and was visited frequently by her lover Frank Sinatra, but never saw much of Vincente or Liza. On returning, Judy made In the Good Old Summertime (1949), which was also Liza's film debut, albeit via an uncredited cameo. She had already been suspended by MGM for her lack of cooperation on the set of The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), which also resulted in her getting replaced by Ginger Rogers. After being replaced by Betty Hutton on Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Judy was suspended yet again before making her final film for MGM, entitled If You Feel Like Singing (1950). At 28, Judy received her third suspension and was fired by MGM, and her second marriage was soon dissolved.


    Having taken up with Sidney Luft, Judy traveled to London to star at the legendary Palladium. She was an instant success and after her divorce to Vincente Minnelli was finalized on 29 March 1951 after almost six years of marriage, Judy traveled with Sid to New York to make an appearance on Broadway. With her newfound fame on stage, Judy was stopped in her tracks in February 1952 when she became pregnant by her new lover, Sid. At the age of 30, she made him her third husband on 8 June 1952; the wedding was held at a friend's ranch in Pasadena. Her relationship with her mother had long since been dissolved by this point, and after the birth of her second daughter, Lorna Luft, on 21 November 1952, she refused to allow her mother to see her granddaughter. Ethel then died in January 1953 of a heart attack, leaving Judy devastated and feeling guilty about not reconciling with her mother before her untimely demise.


    After the funeral, Judy signed a film contract with Warner Bros. to star in the musical remake of A Star Is Born (1937), which had starred Janet Gaynor, who had won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Actress in 1929. Filming soon began, resulting in an affair between Judy and her leading man, British star James Mason. She also picked up on her affair with Frank Sinatra, and after filming was complete Judy was yet again lauded as a great film star. She won a Golden Globe for her brilliant and truly outstanding performance as Esther Blodgett, nightclub singer turned movie star, but when it came to the Academy Awards, a distraught Judy lost out on the Best Actress Oscar to Grace Kelly for her portrayal of the wife of an alcoholic star in The Country Girl (1954). Many still argue that Judy should have won the Oscar over Grace Kelly. Continuing her work on stage, Judy gave birth to her beloved son, Joey Luft, on 29 March 1955. She soon began to lose her millions of dollars as a result of her husband's strong gambling addiction, and with hundreds of debts to pay, Judy and Sid began a volatile, on-off relationship resulting in numerous divorce filings.


    In 1961, at the age of 39, Judy returned to her ailing film career, this time to star in Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, but this time she lost out to Rita Moreno for her performance in West Side Story (1961). Her battles with alcoholism and drugs led to Judy's making numerous headlines in newspapers, but she soldiered on, forming a close friendship with President John F. Kennedy. In 1963, Judy and Sid finally separated permanently, and on 19 May 1965 their divorce was finalized after almost 13 years of marriage. By this time, Judy, now 41, had made her final performance on film alongside Dirk Bogarde in I Could Go on Singing (1963). She married her fourth husband, Mark Herron, on 14 November 1965 in Las Vegas, but they separated in April 1966 after five months of marriage owing to his homosexuality. It was also that year that she began an affair with young journalist Tom Green. She then settled down in London after their affair ended, and she began dating disk jockey Mickey Deans in December 1968. They became engaged once her divorce from Mark Herron was finalized on 9 January 1969 after three years of marriage. She married Mickey, her fifth and final husband, in a register office in Chelsea, London, on 15 March 1969.


    She continued working on stage, appearing several times with her daughter Liza. It was during a concert in Chelsea, London, that Judy stumbled into her bathroom late one night and died of an overdose of barbiturates, the drug that had dominated her much of her life, on the 22nd of June 1969 at the age of 47. Her daughter Liza Minnelli paid for her funeral, and her former lover James Mason delivered her touching eulogy. She is still an icon to this day with her famous performances in The Wizard of Oz (1939), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Easter Parade (1948), and A Star Is Born (1954).
    IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous


    Personal Quotes
    [when told by a reporter that she had a large gay following] I couldn't care less. I sing to people!


    How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.


    Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe - next year at this time - we'd like each other a little more.


    [MGM] had us working days and nights on end. They'd give us pep-up pills to keep us on our feet long after we were exhausted. Then they'd take us to the studio hospital and knock us cold with sleeping pills . . . Then after four hours they'd wake us up and give us the pep-up pills again so we could work another 72 hours in a row. I started to feel like a wind-up toy from FAO Schwarz.


    Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.


    [on her sadistic stage mother] She was the real Wicked Witch of the West.


    I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.


    I wanted to believe and I tried my damndest to believe in the rainbow that I tried to get over and couldn't. So what? Lots of people can't...


    As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all my dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.


    In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.


    My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine. When I was put under stock contract at Metro and had a steady income for the first time, we lived in a four-unit apartment building. I suggested to Mother that we buy it as an investment and rent the other three apartments. She hit me in the mouth and invested the money in a nickel mine in Needles, California, that has never been found. We never got a nickel back.


    Some of the [midget] men used to tease me while we were making The Wizard of Oz (1939). They used to sneak under my dress! I told them if they ever went under there - and I found out about it - they were in big trouble!


    [on daughter Liza Minnelli] I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.


    [during her short stint as a cast member of Valley of the Dolls (1967)] The stage hands hadn't even built the set yet, and the press had me walking off it!


    When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad -- well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first.


    From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me - whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood.


    I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.


    I have the unfortunate habit of not being able to have an affair with a man without being in love with him.


    If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?


    [of the MGM Studio school] The teacher, I think, was named Ma Barker.


    Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.


    I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.


    Behind every cloud is another cloud.


    Whenever we'd do that little dance up the Yellow Brick Road, I was supposed to be with them - and they'd shut me out! They would close in, the three of them, and I would be in back of them, dancing. So director Victor Fleming - who was a darling man, always up on a boom - would say, 'Hold it! You three dirty hams! Let that little girl in there! Let her in there!'


    You think you can make me sing? Do you think you can? You can get me there, sure, but can you make me sing? I sing for myself. I sing when I want to, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure, whenever I want. Do you understand that?


    Salary
    Every Sunday (1936) $100/week
    Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) $200/week
    Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937) $300/week
    Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) $300/week
    Listen, Darling (1938) $500/week
    The Wizard of Oz (1939) $500/week
    Babes in Arms (1939) $8,900
    Strike Up the Band (1940) $500/week
    Babes on Broadway (1941) $2,000/week
    For Me and My Girl (1942) $2,000/week
    Girl Crazy (1943) $29,000
    The Harvey Girls (1946) $3,000/week
    The Pirate (1948) $150,000
    Easter Parade (1948) $150,000
    Words and Music (1948) $100,000
    If You Feel Like Singing (1950) $150,000
    A Star Is Born (1954) $100,000 + 50% of profits
    "Ford Star Jubilee" (1955) $100,000
    Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) $50,000
    Gay Purr-ee (1962) $50,000 + 10% gross
    "The Judy Garland Show" (1963) $30,000/week


    Filmography


    Actress
    1963 I Could Go on Singing...Jenny Bowman
    1963 A Child Is Waiting...Jean Hansen
    1962 Gay Purr-ee...Mewsette (voice)
    1961 Judgement at Nuremberg...Irene Hoffman
    1954 A Star Is Born...Vicki Lester / Esther Blodgett
    1950 If You Feel Like Singing...Jane Falbury
    1949 In the Good Old Summertime...Veronica Fisher
    1948 Easter Parade...Hannah Brown
    1948 The Pirate...Manuela
    1946 Till the Clouds Roll By...Marilyn Miller
    1946 The Harvey Girls...Susan Bradley
    1945 Ziegfeld Follies...The Star ('A Great Lady Has An Interview')
    1945 Under the Clock...Alice Maybery
    1944 Meet Me in St. Louis...Esther Smith
    1943 Girl Crazy...Ginger Gray
    1943 Thousands Cheer...Judy Garland
    1943 Presenting Lily Mars...Lily Mars
    1943 Strictly G.I. (short)...Guest Star-Judy Garland
    1942 For Me and My Girl...Jo Hayden
    1941 Babes on Broadway...Penny Morris
    1941 Life Begins for Andy Hardy...Miss Betsy Booth
    1941 Ziegfeld Girl...Susan Gallagher
    1940 Little Nellie Kelly...Nellie Kelly/Little Nellie Kelly
    1940 Strike Up the Band...Mary Holden
    1940 Andy Hardy Meets Debutante...Betsy Booth
    1939 Babes in Arms...Patsy Barton
    1939 The Wizard of Oz...Dorothy
    1938 Listen, Darling...'Pinkie' Wingate
    1938 Love Finds Andy Hardy...Betsy
    1938 Everybody Sing...Judy Bellaire
    1937 Thoroughbreds Don't Cry...Cricket West
    1937 Broadway Melody of 1938...Betty Clayton
    1936 Harmony Parade...Sairy Dodd
    1936 Every Sunday (short)...Judy


    Soundtrack
    2012 Upstairs Downstairs (TV series)
    – Somewhere Over the Rainbow (2012) (performer: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - uncredited)

    2010 Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
    – Brother, Can You Spare a Dream?: 1929-1941 (2010) (performer: "Over the Rainbow" - uncredited)

    2010 Michael Feinstein's American Songbook (TV series documentary)
    – Best Band in the Land (2010) (performer: "Over the Rainbow")

    2010 A Star Is Born: Special Features (video) (performer: "Gotta Have Me Go with You", "The Man That Got Away", "Lose That Long Face", "Here's What I'm Here For", "Trinidad Coconut Oil Shampoo", "Born in a Trunk")

    2010 Atop the Fourth Wall (TV series)
    – Ultimates 3 # 3 and 4 (2010) (performer: "Over the Rainbow")

    2009 Doctors (TV series)
    – O Christmas Tree (2009) (performer: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" - uncredited)

    2009 Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (TV documentary) (performer: "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe")

    2009 Hewy's Animated Movie Reviews (TV series)
    – 9 (2009) (performer: "Over the Rainbow")

    2009/I 9 (performer: "Over the Rainbow")

    2009 Taking Woodstock (performer: "No Love, No Nothin'")

    2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (video documentary) (performer: "The Trolley Song" - uncredited, "Hoe Down" - uncredited, "Strike Up the Band" - uncredited, "How About You?" - uncredited, "Look for the Silver Lining" - uncredited, "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" - uncredited, "Who?" - uncredited)

    2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (video documentary) (performer: "We're Off to See the Wizard" - uncredited)

    2009 Life on Mars (TV series)
    – Home Is Where You Hang Your Holster (2009) (performer: "Over the Rainbow" - uncredited)

    2008 Australia (performer: "Over the Rainbow")

    2008/I Milk (performer: "Over the Rainbow")

    2008 True Blood (TV series)
    – Mine (2008) (performer: "Mine" - uncredited)

    2008 The Bread (short) (performer: "Embraceable You")

    2008 Sex and the City (performer: "The Trolley Song")

    2008 Pageant (documentary) (performer: "The Trolley Song")

    2008 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (TV documentary) (performer: "We're Off to See the Wizard" - uncredited, "The Trolley Song" - uncredited, "Hoe Down" - uncredited, "Look for the Silver Lining" - uncredited, "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis" - uncredited, "Get Happy" - uncredited)

    2007 P.S. I Love You (performer: "The Man That Got Away")

    2007 American Masters (TV series documentary)
    – Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends (2007) (performer: "I Left My Heart in San Francisco")

    2007 The Pirate: A Musical Treasure Chest (video documentary short) ("Be a Clown")

    2007 A Life in Words and Music (video short) (performer: "I Wish I Were in Love Again")

    2007 The Good Life (performer: "Do It Again")

    2005 The Family Stone (performer: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas")

    2005 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (documentary) (performer: "That Old Black Magic")

    2001-2005 Gilmore Girls (TV series)
    – So... Good Talk (2005) (performer: "The Man That Got Away")
    – Red Light on the Wedding Night (2001) (performer: "Get Happy")

    2005 Independent Lens (TV series documentary)
    – Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) (performer: "That Old Black Magic")

    2004 Surviving Christmas (performer: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas")

    2004 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies (TV documentary) (performer: "Over the Rainbow")

    2003 Down with Love (performer: "Down with Love")

    2002 Catch Me If You Can (performer: "Embraceable You")

    2002 Martine (TV movie) (performer: "The Man that Got Away")

    2001 Hildegarde (performer: "If I Only Had a Brain")

    2001 Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (TV movie) (performer: "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" - uncredited, "You Made Me Love You I Didn't Want to Do It" - uncredited, "We're Off to See the Wizard" - uncredited, "Good Morning" - uncredited, "Over the Rainbow" - uncredited, "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" - uncredited, "I Got Rhythm" - uncredited, "The Trolley Song" - uncredited, "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" - uncredited, "I Played the Palace" medley - uncredited, "The Man that Got Away" - uncredited, "San Francisco" - uncredited, "Swanee" - uncredited, "Maybe I'll Come Back" - uncredited, "Get Happy" - uncredited)

    2000 Annie Get Your Gun Intro with Susan Lucci (video documentary short) (performer: "They Say It's Wonderful")

    2000 Little Nicky (performer: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow")

    2000 The Next Best Thing (performer: "Trolley Song")

    2000 Wonder Boys (performer: "Good Morning")

    2000 Hanging Up (performer: "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas")

    1999 Girl, Interrupted (performer: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow")

    1999 Rituals and Resolutions (short) (performer: "Have Yourself a Merry Lil' Christmas")

    1998 Little Voice (performer: "Come Rain or Come Shine" 1946, "That's Entertainment" 1953, "The Man that Got Away" 1953)

    1998 Quest for Camelot Sing-Alongs (video short) (performer: "We're Off To See The Wizard")

    1997 Contact (performer: "Over the Rainbow" - uncredited)

    1997 MGM Sing-Alongs: Being Happy (video short) (performer: "The Trolley Song")

    1995 Stonewall (performer: "Over the Rainbow", "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart")

    1994 That's Entertainment! III (documentary) (performer: "Good Morning" 1939 - uncredited, "God's Country" 1938 - uncredited, "Ballin' the Jack" 1913 - uncredited, "I'm an Indian Too" 1946 - uncredited, "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" 1946 - uncredited, "I Wish I Were in Love Again" 1937 - uncredited, "Swing, Mister Mendelssohn" 1937 - uncredited, "In-Between" 1938 - uncredited, "Over the Rainbow" 1938 - uncredited, "How About You?" 1941 - uncredited, "Minnie from Trinidad" 1941 - uncredited, "Who?" 1925 - uncredited, "March of the Doagies" 1944 - uncredited, "Get Happy" 1929 - uncredited, "Mr. Monotony" 1947 - uncredited)

    1993 Made in America (performer: "Somewhere Over The Rainbow")

    1968-1992 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)
    – Episode dated 22 May 1992 (1992) (performer: "After The Holidays" - uncredited)
    – Episode dated 17 December 1968 (1968) (performer: "All For You", "Til After The Holidays")

    1992 MGM: When the Lion Roars (TV mini-series documentary)
    – The Lion in Winter (1992) (performer: "The Trolley Song" - uncredited, "The Boy Next Door" - uncredited, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" - uncredited, "A Great Lady Has an Interview Madame Crematante", "Be a Clown" - uncredited, "I Want to Go Back to Michigan" - uncredited, "I'm an Indian Too" - uncredited, "Friendly Star" - uncredited, "But Not for Me" - uncredited)

    1991 Great Performances (TV series)
    – The Fred Astaire Songbook (1991) (performer: "A Couple of Swells")

    1991 Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (TV documentary) (performer: "The Man That Got Away" - uncredited)

    1985 That's Dancing! (documentary) (performer: "If I Only Had a Brain", "We're Off to See the Wizard")

    1984 Before Stonewall (documentary) (performer: "Over the Rainbow" - uncredited)

    1983 Terms of Endearment (performer: "For Me and My Gal" 1942, "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" 1918)

    1980 Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (TV documentary) (performer: "Over the Rainbow")

    1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (documentary) (performer: "For Me and My Gal" 1917 - uncredited, "Be a Clown" 1948 - uncredited, "Easter Parade" 1933 - uncredited, "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" 1934 - uncredited, "I Got Rhythm" - uncredited, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" 1944 - uncredited, "A Couple of Swells" 1948 - uncredited)

    1974 That's Entertainment! (documentary) (performer: "Singin' in the Rain" 1929 - uncredited, "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" 1946 - uncredited, "You Made Me Love You I Didn't Want to Do It" 1913 - uncredited, "Babes in Arms" 1937 - uncredited, "Hoe Down" 1941 - uncredited, "Do the La Conga" 1939 - uncredited, "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" 1912 - uncredited, "Babes on Broadway" 1941 - uncredited, "Strike Up the Band" 1927 - uncredited, "Waltz with a Swing" 1936 - uncredited, "Americana" 1936 - uncredited, "Your Broadway and My Broadway" 1937 - uncredited, "We're Off to See the Wizard" 1938 - uncredited, "If I Only Had the Nerve" 1938 - uncredited, "Over the Rainbow" 1938 - uncredited, "But Not for Me" 1930 - uncredited, "The Trolley Song" 1944 - uncredited, "Under the Bamboo Tree" 1902 - uncredited, "The Boy Next Door" 1944 - uncredited, "Get Happy" 1930 - uncredited)

    1969 Mondo Trasho ("Almost Like Being in Love", "We're Off to See the Wizard")

    1968 The Merv Griffin Show (TV series)
    – Episode dated 23 December 1968 (1968) (performer: "If You Were the Only Girl in the World", "Just in Time")

    1968 The Mike Douglas Show (TV series)
    – Episode dated 12 August 1968 (1968) (performer: "For Once In My Life", "How Insensitive", "Over the Rainbow", "Blues Skies")

    1965 The 37th Annual Academy Awards (TV special) (performer: "Cole Porter Medley")

    1962-1964 The Jack Paar Program (TV series)
    – Episode #3.11 (1964) (performer: "Never Will I Marry", "What Now, My Love?")
    – Episode #1.1 (1962) (performer: "Mewsette")

    1963-1964 The Judy Garland Show (TV series)
    – Episode #1.18 (1964) (performer: "I've Heard that Song Before" - uncredited, "Moonlight Cocktail" - uncredited, "Pennsylvania 6-5000" - uncredited, "Elmer's Tune" - uncredited, "At Last" - uncredited, "St. Louis Blues March" - uncredited)
    – Episode #1.4 (1963) (performer: "Alexander's Ragtime Band", "Be My Guest", "I Wish You Love", "Side By Side", "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", "Y'all Come", "Crawfishin'", "Somebody Touched Me", "Nobody's Business", "Way, Way in the Middle of the Air", "Y'all Come" Reprise, "Swanee", "Maybe I'll Come Back")
    – Episode #1.1 (1963) (performer: "Call Me Irresponsible" - uncredited, "Sunny Side Up" - uncredited, "Be My Guest" - uncredited, "If You Knew Susie Like I Know Susie" - uncredited, "My Mammy" - uncredited, "Indian Love Call" - uncredited, "Will You Remember Sweetheart" - uncredited, "Italian Street Song" - uncredited, "Fly Me to the Moon In Other Words" - uncredited, "The World Is Your Balloon" - uncredited, "At the Moving Picture Ball" - uncredited, "The Old Soft Shoe" - uncredited, "Chicago That Toddlin' Town" - uncredited, "Maybe I'll Come Back" - uncredited)

    1963 In the Cool of the Day (performer: "Over the Rainbow" - uncredited)

    1963 A Child Is Waiting (performer: "Snowflakes")

    1962 Gay Purr-ee (performer: "Gay Purr-ee Overture", "Little Drops of Rain", "Take My Hand, Paree", "Paris Is a Lonely Town", "Roses Red, Violets Blue", "The Mewsette Finale")

    1962 The Judy Garland Show (TV movie) (performer: "Just in Time", "When You're Smiling", "You Do Something To Me", "The Man that Got Away", "I Can't Give You Anything But Love", "'Let There Be Love' / 'You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You'", "You Made Me Love You I Didn't Want to Do It", "The Trolley Song", "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody", "Swanee", "San Francisco")

    1960 Pepe (performer: "Faraway Part of Town")

    1956 General Electric Theater (TV series)
    – Judy Garland Musical Special (1956) (performer: "I Feel a Song Coming On" - uncredited, "Maybe I'll Come Back" - uncredited, "Last Night When We Were Young" - uncredited, "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" - uncredited, "Dirty Hands! Dirty Face!" - uncredited, "Come Rain or Come Shine" - uncredited, "April Showers" - uncredited)

    1955 MGM Parade (TV series)
    – Episode #1.15 (1955) (performer: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas")
    – Episode #1.14 (1955) (performer: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas")
    – Episode #1.11 (1955) (performer: "For Me and My Gal" - uncredited)
    – Episode #1.10 (1955) (performer: "For Me and My Gal" - uncredited)
    – Episode #1.2 (1955) (performer: "If I Only Had the Nerve/We're Off To See The Wizard" - uncredited)

    1955 Ford Star Jubilee (TV series)
    – The Judy Garland Special (1955) (performer: "Over the Rainbow")

    1954 A Star Is Born (performer: "Gotta Have Me Go with You" - uncredited, "The Man That Got Away" - uncredited, "Here's What I'm Here For" - uncredited, "Lose That Long Face" - uncredited, "Someone at Last" - uncredited, "It's a New World" - uncredited, "Trinidad Coconut Oil Shampoo" - uncredited, "Born in a Trunk" - uncredited, "Swanee" - uncredited, "I'll Get By As Long as I Have You" - uncredited, "You Took Advantage of Me" - uncredited, "Black Bottom" - uncredited, "The Peanut Vendor El Manicero" - uncredited, "Melancholy" - uncredited)

    1950 If You Feel Like Singing (performer: "All for You" - uncredited, "Friendly Star" - uncredited, "Get Happy" - uncredited, " Howdy Neighbor Happy Harvest" - uncredited, "If You Feel Like Singing, Sing" - uncredited, "You Wonderful You" - uncredited, "Portland Fancy" - uncredited)

    1949 In the Good Old Summertime (performer: "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland" - uncredited, "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey I Never Knew Any Girl Like You" - uncredited, "Play That Barbershop Chord" - uncredited, "I Don't Care" - uncredited, "Merry Christmas" - uncredited)

    1948 Words and Music (performer: "I Wish I Were in Love Again", "Johnny One Note")

    1948 Easter Parade (performer: "Happy Easter" - uncredited, "It Only Happens When I Dance with You" - uncredited, "I Want to Go Back to Michigan" - uncredited, "Beautiful Faces Need Beautiful Clothes" - uncredited, "A Fella with an Umbrella" - uncredited, "I Love a Piano" - uncredited, "Snooky Ookums" - uncredited, "Ragtime Violin" - uncredited, "When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam'" - uncredited, "A Couple of Swells" - uncredited, "Better Luck Next Time" - uncredited, "Easter Parade" - uncredited)

    1948 The Pirate (performer: "Mack the Black" - uncredited, "You Can Do No Wrong" - uncredited, "Be a Clown" - uncredited, "Love of My Life" - uncredited)

    1946 Till the Clouds Roll By (performer: "Look for the Silver Lining" - uncredited, "Who?" - uncredited, "Sunny" - uncredited)

    1946 The Harvey Girls (performer: "In the Valley Where the Evenin' Sun Goes Down" - uncredited, "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" - uncredited, "It's a Great Big World" - uncredited, "Swing Your Partner Round and Round" - uncredited)

    1945 Ziegfeld Follies (performer: "A Great Lady Has An Interview Madame Crematante")

    1944 Meet Me in St. Louis (performer: "The Trolley Song" 1944, "The Boy Next Door" 1944, "Skip to My Lou" 1944, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" 1944, "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis" 1904 - uncredited, "Under the Bamboo Tree" 1902 - uncredited, "Over the Bannister" 1944 - uncredited)

    1943 Presenting Lily Mars (performer: "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" 1943 - uncredited, "Every Little Movement Has a Meaning All Its Own" 1910 - uncredited, "When I Look at You" 1943 - uncredited, "Kulebiaka Russian Rhapsody" 1943 - uncredited, "Where There's Music" 1943 - uncredited, "Three O'Clock in the Morning" 1921 - uncredited, "Broadway Rhythm" 1935 - uncredited / "When I Look at You" 1943 - uncredited)

    1943 Girl Crazy (performer: "I Got Rhythm" 1930 - uncredited, "Could You Use Me?" 1930 - uncredited, "Bidin' My Time" 1930 - uncredited, "Embraceable You" 1930 - uncredited, "But Not for Me" 1930 - uncredited)

    1943 Thousands Cheer (performer: "The Joint Is Really Jumpin' in Carnegie Hall" - uncredited)

    1943 Strictly G.I. (short) (performer: "Over the Rainbow")

    1942 For Me and My Girl (performer: "For Me and My Gal" 1917 - uncredited, "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" 1911 - uncredited, "Don't Leave Me Daddy" 1916 - uncredited, "By the Beautiful Sea" 1914 - uncredited, "When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose" 1914 - uncredited, "After You've Gone" 1918 - uncredited, "Ballin' the Jack" 1913 - uncredited, "How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm After They've Seen Paree?" 1919 - uncredited, "Where Do We Go from Here?" 1917 - uncredited, "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" 1912 - uncredited, "Smiles" 1917 - uncredited, "Pack Up Your Troubles" 1915 - uncredited, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" 1863 - uncredited / "For Me and My Gal" 1917 - uncredited)

    1942 We Must Have Music (short) (performer: "We Must Have Music")

    1941 Babes on Broadway (music: "La Marseillaise" - uncredited / performer: "Babes on Broadway" - uncredited, "How About You?" - uncredited, "Hoe Down" - uncredited, "Chin Up, Cheerio, Carry On" - uncredited, "Mary's a Grand Old Name" 1905 - uncredited, "I've Got Rings on My Fingers Mumbo Jumbo Jijjiboo J. O'Shea" 1909 - uncredited, "La Marseillaise" - uncredited, "Bombshell from Brazil" - uncredited, "Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones" - uncredited / "How About You?" - uncredited)

    1941 Life Begins for Andy Hardy (performer: "Happy Birthday to You")

    1941 Ziegfeld Girl (performer: "You Never Looked So Beautiful" 1936 - uncredited, "Minnie from Trinidad" 1941 - uncredited, "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" 1918 - uncredited, "Laugh? I Thought I'd Split My Sides" 1941 - uncredited, "Ziegfeld Girls" 1941 - uncredited, "You Gotta Pull Strings" 1936 - uncredited)

    1940 Little Nellie Kelly (performer: "A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow" - uncredited, "St. Patrick Was a Gentle Man" - uncredited, "It's a Great Day for the Irish" 1940 - uncredited, "Singin' In The Rain" 1929 / "A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow" - uncredited, "Nellie Kelly I Love You" 1922)

    1940 Strike Up the Band (performer: "Strike up the Band" 1927, "Our Love Affair" 1939, "Do the La Conga" 1939 - uncredited, "Nobody" 1939 - uncredited, "The Gay Nineties" 1940 - uncredited, "Nell of New Rochelle" 1939 - uncredited, "A Man Was the Cause of It All" 1939 - uncredited, "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl" 1909 - uncredited, "Come Home, Father" 1864 - uncredited, "Drummer Boy" 1939 - uncredited / "Our Love Affair" 1939)

    1940 Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (performer: "Alone", "I'm Nobody's Baby")

    1940 If I Forget You (short) (performer: "If I Forget You")

    1940 The Miracle of Sound (documentary short) (performer: "It's a Great Day for the Irish" - uncredited)

    1939 The Wizard of Oz (performer: "Over the Rainbow" 1939 - uncredited, "Munchkinland Medley: 'Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are', 'The House Began To Pitch', 'As Mayor of the Munchkin City', 'As Coroner, I Must Aver', 'Ding Dong The Witch is Dead', 'Lullaby League', 'Lollipop Guild' and 'We Welcome You to Munchkinland'" 1939 - uncredited, "If I Only Had a Brain" 1939 - uncredited, "We're Off to See the Wizard" 1939 - uncredited, "We're Off To See The Wizard" 1939 - uncredited, "If I Only Had the Nerve/We're Off To See The Wizard" 1939 - uncredited, "The Merry Old Land of Oz" 1939 - uncredited, "If I Were King of the Forest" 1939 - uncredited)

    1939 Babes in Arms (performer: "Babes in Arms" 1937, "Where or When" 1937, "Good Morning" 1939, "God's Country" 1937, "I Like Opera/I Like Swing" 1939 - uncredited, "Figaro" 1939 - uncredited, "Broadway Rhythm" 1935 - uncredited, "I Cried for You" 1923 - uncredited, "My Daddy Was a Minstrel Man" 1937 - uncredited, "Oh! Susanna" 1846 - uncredited, "Mr. Bones and Mr. Tambo" 1939 - uncredited, "I'm Just Wild About Harry" 1921 - uncredited, "My Day" - uncredited)

    1939 From the Ends of the Earth (documentary short) (performer: "Babes in Arms" 1937, "Good Morning" 1939)

    1938 Love Finds Andy Hardy (performer: "In-Between" 1938, "It Never Rains, But What It Pours" 1938, "Meet The Beat Of My Heart" 1938)

    1938 Listen, Darling (performer: "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" 1938, "On the Bumpy Road to Love" 1938, "Ten Pins in the Sky" 1938 / "On the Bumpy Road to Love" 1938, "Ten Pins in the Sky" 1938)

    1938 Everybody Sing (performer: "Swing Mr. Mendelssohn" 1937, "Down on Melody Farm" 1937, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" ca 1872 - uncredited, "Snooks Why? - Because!" 1937, "Ever Since the World Began / Shall I Sing a Melody?" 1937 - uncredited, "Finale" - uncredited, "Frühlingslied Spring Song Op.62 #6" 1842 - uncredited / "Down on Melody Farm" 1937)

    1937 Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (music: "Got a Pair of New Shoes" 1937 - uncredited / performer: "Got a Pair of New Shoes" 1937 - uncredited)

    1937 Broadway Melody of 1938 (performer: "Yours and Mine" 1937 - uncredited, "Everybody Sing" 1937 - uncredited, "You Made Me Love You I Didn't Want to Do It" 1913 - uncredited, "Your Broadway and My Broadway" 1937 - uncredited)

    1937 MGM Christmas Trailer (short) (performer: "Silent Night, Holy Night")

    1936 Harmony Parade (performer: "It's love I'm After", "The Balboa", "The Texas Tornado")

    1936 Every Sunday (short) (performer: "Americana", "Waltz with a Swing" / "Americana")

    1930 Bubbles (short) (performer: "In the Land of Let's Pretend" 1929 - uncredited)

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

  • Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm), was an American actress, singer and vaudevillian.
    Described by Fred Astaire as "the greatest entertainer who ever lived"
    and renowned for her contralto voice,
    she attained international stardom throughout a career that spanned more than 40 years
    as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage.


    Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award
    and won a Golden Globe Award as well as Grammy Awards and a Special Tony Award.
    She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress
    for her role in the remake of A Star is Born and for the Best Supporting Actress
    for her performance in the 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg.


    She remains the youngest recipient (at 39 years of age)
    of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the motion picture industry.

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England