What Happened to Judy Garland? - The Later Years | Biographical Documentary
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- In sharp contrast to her cheerful and wholesome image, Judy Garland’s real life was far from perfect.
The girl next door innocence of her early feel good musicals made everyone happy, apart from Judy herself who was tortured by insecurity, constantly having to beg for affection from her mother and fight to stay afloat on the stormy waters of the Hollywood dream machine.
In this biographical documentary about the life of Judy Garland, I explore her early struggles with the pressures piled on by her ambitious mother and a studio system interested only in box office takings… and where it all went wrong, leading into a losing battle with prescribed medication that ended when she was just 47.
Part One deals with her early years, her Hollywood breakthrough and early films and her first marriage.
In this second part we focus on the second half of her life - which brought her the joy of motherhood but a catalogue of broken relationships and marriages, career triumphs and career lows, comebacks and resilience in the face of adversity.
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Finding Out More
Two websites that have an incredible amount of information on Judy Garland’s life and career are The Judy Room and its sister site Judy Garland News. They are full of unique behind the scenes photographs, newspaper clippings and links to sound recordings and TH-cam videos - they have clearly been a labour of love for many years and they are an invaluable archive that supplement the many published biographies. I found Gerald Clarke’s biography, Get Happy to be a very readable account of her life, but it does tend to focus on sensationalising a life that didn’t need much sensationalising. I also used Anne Edwards’ Judy Garland and Gerold Frank’s old but very thorough Judy and some of the memoirs of people who knew her. I have listed some of the best of these on my Amazon Store Page. www.amazon.com...
Academic References
López-Muñoz, F., Ucha-Udabe, R., & Alamo, C. (2005). The history of barbiturates a century after their clinical introduction. Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 1(4), 329-343.
Stern, A. (1938). Psychoanalytic investigation of and therapy in the border line group of neuroses. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 7(4), 467-489.
Copyright Disclaimer
The primary purpose of this video is educational. I have tried to use material in the public domain or with Creative Commons Non-attribution licences wherever possible. Where attribution is required, I have listed this below. I believe that any copyright material used falls under the remit of Fair Use, but if any content owners would like to dispute this, I will not hesitate to immediately remove that content. It is not my intention to infringe on content ownership in any way. If you happen to find your art or images in the video, please let me know and I will be glad to credit you.
Images
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Wellcome Collection
The Judy Room
Judy Garland News
Internet Archive
Music
Lullabye Density and Time CC0
Stephen Foster: The Old Folks at Home -Takayuki Yamashita -CC0
George Gershwin's 3 Preludes, performed by La Pianista CC3.0
Easy stroll Track Tribe CC0
Dead Wrong Jeremy Blake CC0
Resolution Wayne Jones CC0
Everet Almond Get over it CC0
Gustav Mahler Symphony No.4 in G major 3. Ruhevoll European Archive. Musopen Public Domain
Chopin: Prélude op. 28 n° 4 - Dorian Pâquet CC4.0
Nadia Boulanger - Trois Pièces pour violoncelle et piano - Cheng² Duo CC2.0
Claude-Paul Taffanel: Andante Pastoral et Scherzettino. Alex Murray (flute) and Martha Goldstein (piano) CC2.0
Gershwin: 3 Preludes for Clarinet and Piano II. Clarinet: Byeon Gyu-ri, Piano: Kim Hwa-jeong CCAttribution
Calm Cam Track Tribe CC0
JS Bach - Cello Suite no. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 - I. Prélude Pablo Casals Public domain
Savior Telecasted CC0
Mark Gustavson: Quintet for clarinet, 2 violins, viola and cello. CC3.0
Aaron Kenny Gaiety in the Golden Age CC0
Claude Paul Taffanel- Wind Quintet in G minor -Andante -The Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet CC2.0
Gabriel Faure Flute Fantasie. Alex Murray (flute) and Martha Goldstein (piano)
Isaac Albeniz - Tango Op.165 Nº2 - David Hernando Vitores - Kayoko Morimoto (Wasei Duo) CC4.0
Video edited by Manavi Sakunika and produced by Graeme Yorston and Tom Yorston
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She was surrounded by a pit of vipers all her life, given drugs early on, put down, never was truly loved by the closest people around her. That will f*ck you up for a lifetime.
That pretty much sums up her life.
...surrounded by "us"...
A case study in the effect of seeing a person as a commodity and not a human being. Thank you for this presentation.
When I was a college freshman, in the fall of 1976, I went with a friend, a huge Judy fan, to see a restored print of "The Pirate". The film had not been shown in a theater for over a decade. The theater was a tiny little art movie house in Boston called The Back Bay Screening Room. Vincent Minelli gave a lecture after the film and he was really interesting. There were maybe 50 people there. It's only now, after watching your videos on Judy, I realize that she had passed only 7 years earlier. It's a strange film, her performance was very speedy or very drowsy. Her drug use is pretty evident in several scenes. Vincent Minelli was very gracious, very interesting and he did not sugar coat the difficulties they experienced together.
It's strange film for all sorts of reasons, not one of her best or Minelli's best.
What an interesting evening you must have had, thanks for sharing. 🎥
I do so enjoy your rational, empathetic take on mental distress. Judy will forever be an icon and a cautionary tale.
She will indeed.
She was better than perfect in "Oz," one of the greatest American films ever made.
This is another excellent video, Graeme. Thanks.
Thank you.
How can you speculate a diagnosis on a woman who was drugged as a child? Her brain didn't develop normally. Personality disorder? Abuse us what she suffered.
Thank you. My mom went to a diet Dr in the mid 1960’s. She came home with a large envelope filled with amphetamines, diuretics and laxatives. Our house was spotless and for a bit she was very happy. Then it all crashed down. Fortunately, she got off all of that. Many just can’t. Like Judy. She was the same age as my mom. I can’t imagine the weight on those small shoulders. ❤❤❤
So pleased your mum got through it. Bless you for sharing
I read Mickey Rooney's autobiography and he's written that most principal actors at MGM were also given the upper/downer pill cocktail for the demands of the studio but many stopped using because they didn't like the negative effects. He wrote that Judy liked the highs and lows and could have stopped it but liked it too much.
@@resipsaloquitur5562 Judy was primed to be an addict. Some people (I'm one of them) are born with addictive personalities. Amphetamines numb pain and make you feel good. You really feel elevated and indestructible. It's later on when you don't sleep or eat and start being paranoid and hallucinating you find out it's a devil in disguise.
So very sad. A great talent, gone much too young!@@resipsaloquitur5562
Very very sad. I feel quite drained hearing all of the details of her life. Poor thing was only 47 when she died, she looked so much older.
And I left out a lot - it was no wonder she looked so old.
@@TuckerSP2011 Ray Boger (her friend and costar in the movie Wizard of Oz) said that Judy Garland didn't die, "She just plain wore out"! 😱😳🥺😥
@@CharlieChilders-wm9gb I agree with Bolger. It was criminal to start her on drugs at such a young age. The entertainment industry still is a very difficult one, especially for sensitive people or children. I hope today they do not make kids make film after film with no break. Kids on TV shows are very vulnerable because they have to work so much. Judy's childhood and adulthood were work, work, work, no vacations, no down time, no play. It was vicious to do that to her. Mickey Rooney also suffered these same drug problems....even a farmer knew that horses could not work seven days a week. Giving them a day or two to recover from hard work kept them healthier. But MGM was a money grabber and their stars suffered because of that constant need to rake in the dough.
Still love the kind and understanding way in which these stories are told. Thank you.
When she came to Sydney in 1964 my auntie got the phone number of her hotel and managed to chat to her for about five minutes. She said she was really friendly and sweet. My aunt simply rang her from a public phone box, I don't know how she got the call put through to Judy's room but somehow she did. I'm a lifelong fan of Judy's, it's so sad how it all ended 💔
Imagine if everyone who was her fan did the same thing. The poor fans would never get to see another Judy film. People need to get a life. They're only humans doing a job. People just sucked her dry till there was nothing left.
This was really good. And fair. I love her. ❤
Thank you.
It's a good day when a new Prof. Yorston video comes up! Especially, continuing Garland's story.
Glad you enjoyed it.
What a shame. I hadn't known she was only 47 when she passed.
I didn’t know that either, she looked so much older than that, I thought she was in her 60’s.
She looked so much older.
12 days after her 47th birthday.
This poor woman. This was a tiny little thing- who was barely 5 foot tall. Being on heavy drugs from the time she was a child took such a toll. You can see the exhaustion in her face by the time she’s in her early 20s and by the time she’s in her 40s, she looks like she’s 20 years older. All the drugs, forced sleep deprivation and the stress caught up with her. She was so vulnerable and it’s sad that there wasn’t anyone who could or would protect her.
I think Vincente tried, but the damage was already done.
MGM is what happened to dear Judy...so very sad.
The studio didn't help.
She was ruined by the industry
Yes, but before that, it all began with her mother many years before! Later, the studio and her mother both destroyed and became the ruination of her.
I think the industry added to the damage that had already been done by her mother.
@@professorgraemeyorston 100% agree
@professorgraemeyorston completely agree. As you know, most trauma starts with family, and she was unlucky enough to get her (mother) and father. She was abused. Very sad. Plus, everyone around her just watched the train wreck. Thats terrible as well.
Psychiatry is a cruel practice.
Beautifully done. Your hard work is appreciated.
Thank you.
A brilliant two part series about such a talented lady ❤
Thank you Professor, really enjoying your videos. Keep them coming!
Glad you enjoyed them.
Judy will forever live on, the ultimate singer from the heart and connected with her audiences hearts in such a close way as few singers ever have!!! A wonderful biography, thank you, but yes, so very sad that she passed so very young and had such a tragic life of addiction and emotional pain 💜
Thank you.
Thank you. Interesting but also heart breaking. She certainly looked older than 47. On this theme of difficult mothers (which Judy experienced) I was wondering if you may consider doing a video on the American poet Emily Dickinson (who appeared to have a strained relationship with her mother and also, Emily’s poems tended to focus on ‘death’, maybe a response to her unhappiness living with her mother). Also, the opera singer Maria Callas had a strained relationship with her mother. Though in saying this, I heard or read somewhere, sometime in recent years, that when a mother isn’t happy in her marriage (her husband may be a workaholic, he may not be emotionally supportive, expect her to do all the household duties, believe that a wife’s role is to be submissive etc.) then the children receive the raw end of this lack of support within the marriage. Maybe there’s some truth to the saying, ‘happy marriage, happy children’. As always, I find your videos very interesting. A thumbs up 👍
Thank you for this sad study of how easy it is to destroy someone's life for the long term. Appreciate the look at this.
Thanks for watching.
I shall say again, exceptional video, research, 43:49 and presentation! It's truly sad the pressure stars, movie or musical, are exposed to. They live a lonely world, surrounded by "friends". Thanks, appreciated.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks a lot for your intelligent observations. Just watched a Judy Garland biopic from 2001 and came here.
Excellent job! She was such a gifted, wonderful and special talent. I don't think anyone of her contemporizes could equal her voice. I fell in love seeing her at age 5 on TV in the Wizard of Oz. At 19,discoverd her album of her concert at Carnegie hall. I over the yrs. discovered some of her other MGM musicals, her triumph in A star is born. I listen to other CD's, and saw some of her TV show. Thank God for VHS tapes, then DVD's. Her tragedy was her early imposed childhood addiction, and not acknowledged or treatment. She also had childhood diets imposed on her, which, caused her to have eating disorders for the rest of her life. I heard her daughter Lorna say they thought it was "Mysterious illness" In her memoir and the TV min-series she does reveal her mother's addictions and the negative results. I'm sure there were more disturbing times. Was she mentally or a result of the drugs, it's hard to say, it might be a little off both. She did cut herself, whether suicidal, and she threaten suicide, and did overdose on pills. I met Lorna 2x and saw her perform. I also adore Liza. I really try to focus her extraordinary talent, and the legacy she left us.
Thank you.
Two "outsider" Chicago artists I'd love to see your videos about:
1. Henry Darger, the obviously damaged ( almost certainly TBI from his years in a Catholic orphanage ) painter.
2. Vivian Maier, the extremely mysterious street photographer.
Thanks, I'll look into them.
Both are very interesting from a mental health perspective.
Perfect! A nice cup of tea and a well-researched lecture by Professor Yorston.
English breakfast or Earl Grey?
Thank you! All the best from 🇨🇦
Glad you enjoyed it.
Heartbreaking 😢
Thoroughly enjoyed this two part series 💚 Very well researched, informative and fair to Garland’s memory. Thanks very much 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it.
She will Always be my judy of a great voice no matter what her problems where she will never be forgotten .Godbless You Judy.Godbless you Amen🙏🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
No can can take away the legacy she left.
I very much highly recommend a Brian Wilson, & or a Karen Carpenter documentary.
Great suggestions - I'll add them to the list!
Diana Serra Cary (1918-2020) who had starred in movies as 'Baby Peggy' in early childhood but became a tenacious historian re 20th century entertainment, had become acquainted with the Gumm family when the future Judy was about eleven and she would say that the whole family pinning everything on their youngest daughter becoming a STAR doomed the family to ruin- and she could see it happening even THEN ! Mrs. Cary said that her female parent Ethel had tried to make her youngest daughter into another 'Baby Peggy' from infancy onward!
Very interesting thank you, I'm sure her mother's desperation for one of her children to achieve success would have been evident from very early on.
Well done story and depiction of Judy as a human being.
Thanks Professor, A very awesome detailed summation of Judys life in two parts.
My pleasure!
Such a very sad story about a great talent!
Very true.
I’ve managed to find a child is waiting online . I’ve seen it once before a lot of years ago . Going to watch after this . I could go on singing was great and a star is born is my favourite movie . I love Judy & James Mason too .
Oh am so glad to see a new video. And JUDY ❤🎉😊
Hope you enjoyed it!
Looking forward to this. You bring both knowledge and compassion so I know Judy’s story is in safe hands. This channel, your presentation, is on a whole other level. Thank you.🤗
Thank you, I think I try to approach my subjects as I would my patients. I can't avoid the difficult parts of their lives but I try to focus on the positives.
I was always a fan of Judy. Now I'm a fan of Graeme. You've done it again Professor Graeme Yorston! I've never seen such depth and detail. I hope that you are discovered as a star, because you are one. Given what stardom can do, you might say "No Thank You!" and then "Thank you for the compliment." We are all only human but you must be a very interesting person to know.
Thank you, I often wondered whether my team found me interesting as I was going off on one of my historical digressions at work. They were always polite, but had rarely heard of the people I was talking about.
Thanks for all these awesome videos!!!!
Glad you like them!
You are never less then excellent, i love Judy she was an immense talent , but i agee with the late great Barry Norman and his series the Hollywood Greats , he said that others went through the same treat by the studio and came out the other side and that she blame everyone but herself for her problems, it is a a good point 👉
Just discovered your channel Professor and you did Judy proud. I always felt Judy was damaged way before she ever set foot on a MGM soundstage. Her story is still textbook of what's wrong with kids in show business who don't have the proper parenting. Because she started so young, I don't think she ever really got to know who Frances Gumm was. She was constantly being pushed up and performing by manipulative Ethel, the classic stage mother. Kids need to feel validated and loved for the little people that they are, and not just for a talent they possess. It just doesn't seem she was validated as a human. As an ex speed freak I totally get how she could become so addicted to Amphetamines. When you first start to take them the Euphoria makes you feel so good. You are forever chasing that. It's no surprise Judy Garland died young, but rather that she lived as long as she did.
I'm looking forward to checking out your other content.
Thank you and welcome aboard!
Another great video, Dr. Yorston. I agree that it is hard to diagnose when there is heavy, long term drug abuse. I would love to see a video on Marlene Dietrich. Her daughter wrote a book that makes me think Dietrich had NPD. Dietrich had a substance abuse problem that took hold in her middle age.
Thank you, I'll look into her.
❤THANK YOU PROF. A wonderful documentary Very well done
Glad you enjoyed it!
❤Thank you❤
Brilliant,tucked up in bed all nice and cosy.Great timing professor 😃
Me too 👍
Hope you enjoyed it!
I didn't know much about Judy Garland - Wizard of Oz, basically - so this has been a very interesting two-part documentary about her. The first thing that struck me was how much she reminds me of Edith Piaf - her voice, some of her facial traits that reveal emotion, that sense of fragility or vulnerability that I think I perceive in both women. Both had tragic childhoods and both were, imo, strong people who against all odds managed to survive and actually succeed in bringing their talents to an adoring public. I don't know a great deal about Edith Piaf, other than what I have just said, so I would love to see a documentary about her - hint, hint - and compare the two women's lives.
My opinion on Judy Garland's potential mental illness is that any problems she had such as mood swings and erratic behaviour were a direct result of substance abuse. Life would have been difficult for her with the upbringing she had, but to then be coerced first by her mother and then by whoever she worked for, well that would have caused a mountain of frustrations, pent up anger, resentment but also feelings of worthlessness since her worth was so tightly connected to her ability and willingness to perform, always perform. Quite honestly, I don't think she had the time or the energy for a mental illness.... she had plenty of medications to make her blot out reality when it all got too much, help her get to sleep whenever she was allowed, make her wake up when it was time to be worth something again, etc. I think her childhood and her life simply caused her to unravel over the years. It also explains all the husbands. She has to have been a nightmare to live with at times and a pure delight at others. That is difficult to deal with for her and anyone living with her. She just wanted to be loved on her terms, for once. How tragic that she was never allowed to just enjoy life as a person, surrounded by people who loved her, even when she was surrounded by people who loved her.
Very interesting - and great suggestion - Edith is definitely on the list.
@@professorgraemeyorston Oh, good! Look very much forward to seeing that. Thanks so much for doing such interesting videos/documentaries.
This was really good. I hope the creators of “The Garland Gab” sees this 😊
I’d love for you to cover
Clara Bow
Dorothy Dandridge
Tupac Shakur
Thanks, Clara Bow is on the list, I'll look into the others.
If it Wasn't for her mother Judy Garland Would be Still alive 😢 it's Heartbreaking what Happend to her she was a beautiful lady she was a Great actress as well 💔
Well maybe not still alive but she would have been alive alot longer😢😢
She is always Dorothy to me and what a singer dancer.
She certainly was.
That C Section must PAINFUL dad saw her in concert in NYC early 1950s
She lived, she sang, she died.
Pretty much all anyone needs to know.
Armchair psychoanalysis isn’t either insightful or revealing. Not dissing you, but the endless number of people who to this day continue to make bank on speculation about this poor tragic woman. She had a gift, and it cost her her soul.
Very interesting. Thanks.
According to a previous documentary I had seen… her life was first ruined by a controlling mother… and then the industry.
Merci beaucoup 🎉🎉🎉
She lived life at the speed of light.
A very thoughtful and well narrated documentary. Thank you Dr Graeme!
Glad you enjoyed it.
She was a gemini born in the year of the dog which isn't an easy combination.
From a medical point of view I think that she suffered like many people after her from lack of caution and advice. She also suffered from the widespread use of barbituriques and emphetamines. Of course if she started a film in october she would catch a cold which might degenerate into something else.
There is one medical mistake which I find very hard to forgive I mean the damage done to her vocal chords in Hong Kong if I got it right.
I think that all those Hollywood stars should understand that God is more helpful and powerful than Alcool.
Finally I wish to point out that women should understand that working while caring for a husband and children is a daunting and life shortening task.
Judy's food intake was brutally restricted.
They certainly tried to in her teens.
one story I love which I think shows her genius and her fame is the Hollywood Bowl open air concert in torrential rain
17, 000 people sat stock still getting drenched rather than leave a Judy Garland concert
As the heavens opened security prepared for a mass exodus but nobody moved.
But this same fame and genius kept her on that roller coaster when in fact she would have been better retiring and living a different more normal life and sorting herself out
I hadn't heard that one, thank you.
Would you ever do a video about Jean Harlow? She was another tragic case of insane manipulation by her own mother, and she was also such a bright star :’(
Great suggestion.
@@professorgraemeyorston yay! I would love this so much
I loved Sylvia Sidney in the film Beetlejuice. Do you all remember how when she smoked the cigarette smoke would leach out of her cut throat? Too much!!
She was in her late 70s when she made Beetlejuice - great casting!
@Professor Graham can you do a deep dive on Mozart or Puccini? Especially Mozart who would have been like the Jimi Hendrix of the time. Or perhaps the rock star of the day full of groupies and fanatic fans. Thank you.
Great suggestions, thank you.
She was ruined by her mother.
Very true.
She didn't have a proper childhood but remember she was 7 in 1929.
I don't understand why people can't use garlic pills to go to sleep and vitamins to boost their energy.
To make her loose weight they could have given her a bowl of rice with a fruit salad made of apple, banana, pineapple and lemon juice.
Judy’s life had one tradegy after another, this was a pity.
She had a tough life.
An episode on Peter Sellers would be fantastic, he was a gifted comedian no doubt but off the set he didnt know who he was and acted very strangely to say the least.
Great suggestion.
Blaming it on the industry does excuse the decades of drugs. Granted, she was hooked early on. Later, she returned because she liked what drugs can do. She had children, in and of, rehab, clean and young she returned time and time again
It is never a simple as blaming addiction on one thing, there were a number of factors including the pressure the studio put her under as well as internal factors that combined to lead her down the path she took.
Dear Professor Yorston, I would like to request a documentary about J. M. Barrie, the complex and fascinating author of “Peter Pan” (and many other, largely ignored, works.) Thank you for your wonderful videos!
Yes, I agreed in another comment. I think he was creepy.
Gee whiz! It takes a while to recover from a C -section.
It does indeed - and she had three of them!
I had two and that was enough. It takes about six weeks to bounce back and heal. And napping when the infant naps is helpful esp. if you are up at night breast feeding. Baby will soon sleep through the night but those first weeks are tricky to manage.
Whose mother SUES the child in court and spreads disgusting stories to the press? What an awful woman she was! Judy was close to her father, and it's sad that he died first. I guess that he was "henpecked" to death!
Yes, he struggled to stand up to his wife.
Success can be dangerous for anyone. Particularly when a studio has a schedule to keep, or a law firm who keeps everyone awake at all hours of the night preparing briefs, businesses who make unrealistic promises with no thought to the people who have to deliver them. Avarice kills body and soul.
I have never understood the adoration of Judy Garland.
I've got some suggestions for possible future videos: Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rasputin; Kenneth Williams, Michael Jackson (if you dare!), Joseph Smith, William Blake
also Lucia Joyce
@@RaoYiLan? Who’s that?
@@margyrowlandJames Joyce's daughter. A fascinating but tragic woman.
@@RaoYiLangreat suggestion.
I have always been so intrigued and a huge fan of this rare talent. She was so horribly taken advantage of her entire life. She was so brilliant. Her live concerts were legendary.
When I am faced with life challenges that I struggle with, I ask God to give me the strength to walk away from infinities with God, I can do anything I walked away. Now I search for all, and everything I need in God, for he is the powerhouse behind my
Judy Garland was an extraordinary talent. She had that big voice coming out of that tiny body. It seems that she paid a huge price for fame. But her hardships are over. Now she's finally at rest.
You are the kinda guy that everyone wants to meet at a party!
Hollywood was and is an evil place. Much blessings to the spirit of Judy.
Man, she was a tortured soul…mother was a tyrant, the studios basically enslaved her, studio heads objectifying her…signed to a life she did not ask for at such a young age….its a miracle she lived as long as she did…
Very true.
Infamous Bennies. Benzedrine. And ECT works for depression even today !
NBC's Bonanza, can you believe it.
You can't argue with the viewer figures - she couldn't compete with the pull of the Ponderosa!
I know, that is pretty funny/sad but Bonanza was a HUGE hit. I remember seeing it in color for the first time when our neighbors bought the first color TV set in the neighborhood. At that time you had to adjust the color at first with a little dial. Lorne Greene's face was green prior to adjustment and I thought that was fitting since his last name was Greene. LOL. An 11-year old's sense of humor.
She looks like an unwell 70+ year old at 42, very sad.
She felt she had lived her life faster than everyone else and was over 400 in terms of life experiences.
She obviously had "DADDY" issues . Trying to find the older man to fill the void of her Father she loved so much. The man who ran Hollywood were disgusting. They exploited not just women but also some of the male stars they "OWNED" under contract. Such a shame.
GARLAND was quite literally sacrificed before our very eyes. Performing quite literally brought on her early demise. Sad.
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Go wrong? Well for one thing she Got Older. ( a lotta people make that mistake). I wish they’d back off poor Judy Garland! 😢✌️
I can empathize with Judy Garland. I've done every fad diet in the World. When I was 17 back in the 70s, My Mother and my older Sister and Brother used to take Dexatrim. It was available everywhere and heavily advertised on the TV.
The FDA suddenly stopped Dexatrim from being sold without a Doctor's prescription because they determined it was speed.
My God! My whole family was on speed back in those days. We'd take our Dexatrim, our heads would itch,....and then, we'd all go out and fight in the yard.
Interesting, I'd not heard of this product - it sounds like it had some interesting ingredients back in the day.
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Yup...here's one of their Ads.
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I hope psychiatrists have a good sense of humor in the UK too...
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As a child watching the wizard of Oz, my parents would tell us that she died of a drug overdose. I only envisioned her as the women/child I'd seen in thr movie and thought how terrible. Now I know the story. How sad to think. She didn't have any constructive coping skills and was chasing a life style that didn't reflect who she really was only what she thought she needed to be. Poor women! But we all make choices.
Very true.
Edith Piaf would be a good subject for Prof. Yorston
so many similarities to Judy Garland
Yes, Edith is on the to do list.
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😢poor Judy
Prob the most talented woman ever. Her voice is unmatched even at 13 in blackface (which you can see on TH-cam) what went wrong? Alcoholic smoking, abuse by men who kept her on diet pills illegal drugs and they stole her money. That’s what went wrong. She sang like no other chick could, dance and acted on radio and film , If you couldn’t do those three things back in those days you weren’t famous, but she sang better than anybody and she was tiny. She was abused and used .
Only one teeny hiccup -- In the US Busby Berkeley's last name is pronounced BERK-ly not BARK-ly as you Brits pronounce Berkeley Square in London. He was born Berkeley William Enos in 1895 in Los Angeles. How about delving into J. M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan? A book called Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the du Mauriers and the Dark Side of Peter Pan by Piers Dudgeon might be of interest to get you started. Supposedly, Daphne du Maurier, author of the novel Rebecca, based the creepy Mrs. Danvers on Barrie. That always gives me the shivers. UGH. I can no longer read Peter Pan for pleasure. I remember in a recent comment I recall that you said that Wilkie Collins and Dickens knew one another. This seems like another group of authors -- Barrie and the du Mauriers.....and you could make a connection to Lewis Carroll who wrote Alice in Wonderland, which, along with Peter Pan, takes place in lands where there are no parents.....both Carroll and Barrie spent a lot of time with children and photographing them....Daphne is the only person who seems to have found Barrie creepy. She knew him when she was a child -- not sure if a child, preteen or teenager at that time but Barrie was an adult when she knew him.
Very interesting - I'll look into him, thank you.
Poor baby
Louie b Mayer happened to her
A tough man to encounter in your early teens!
❤🎉
Used. By almost everyone who was ever in her life.
She was indeed.
Her mother probably did tap her phones.
Diet, drugs and alcohol take their toll on the human body. We are free to choose which path we want to take in life: the one that leads to health and long life, or the one that leads to poor health and an early death. Our choice!
Yes it is a choice, but circumstances make the healthier choices harder for some people.
Poor Judy, her awful mother! 😭
She didn't have an easy life.
SHE is an example of the pitfalls of a drug addicted person's life--dying at age 47--poor--her kids--Liza, Lorna, and her son--poor them but ...oh well..:(