The Plot Against JUDY GARLAND 1966-1967 ultra rare magazine/autobiography interview recording
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- Judy Garland had a bit of a history of agreeing to write her autobiography and then, either from losing interest or letting more important matters get in the way, dropping the project altogether. Not wanting to sue, the publishers would recoup the advance they gave Judy by selling whatever material they did get from her to a magazine for a cover story. That happened again in 1966 when, strapped for cash, Judy once again agreed to write a book. After starting the project with an assist from her publicist, and soon to be fiancé, Tom Green, her fortunes suddenly changed for the better when she got cast in a major movie and an extended East Coast concert tour was lined up for her by ex-husband, Sid Luft. Judy stopped work on the book and the publisher, looking to cut his losses, sold whatever material had been submitted to the Ladies Home Journal. The magazine published the story in 1967 as The Plot Against Judy Garland. Here is an hour's worth of Garland's recorded memories that were used as the basis for the article. Judy remembers her early childhood and complicated family relationships, and then discusses what had to have been her most bitter dealing with MGM.
I thought I’d heard everything ever recorded from Judy, and then you share this treasure. Thank You!
I was thinking the exact same thing!!
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She sounds very calm and composed, and I’m heartened by how human and humble she sounds and how much of her life before stardom she recalls.
It’s like you’re sitting in a bar with her and you managed to get her attention.
It is so sad to see how she suffered at the hands of others. I take comfort in the fact that when she was living in London in the 1960s, she said she was in regular attendance at the Anglican Church. (That church held her funeral service.) Whenever she sang a religious song (like "You'll Never Walk Alone"), it seemed that it had great personal meaning to her. So I hope she is happy now in Heaven with Jesus.
HOW FANTASTIC- this is a perfect companion piece to the “JUDY SPEAKS” tapes!
One of my mother’s mantra’s was “I wish you’d never been born, your the reason I can’t leave your father and YOU are just like him”. @ the ripe old age of mid-sixties this, amongst many other knife sharp one liners are difficult to un-hear even now she has deceased. Terribly sad to listen to a used and abused child trafficked to HollyWoodn’t. Thank you to the interviewer who was empathetic + understanding + kind. ❤👵🏻🇬🇧
Thanks for sharing. A fascinating but harrowing tale of Judy's early life. The poor lady didn't stand a chance. So sad :(
They used & abused her to become wealthy while getting rich, while it ruined her life.
She never felt loved from the day she was born and that’s all she wanted was love and to be loved. So heart breaking
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Her mid Atlantic accent is clear 😊. I am grateful for this post. I feel as though I am being provided personal insight into this person's life. She is brilliant and it is impossible not to just love her all the more. 👏 👏 👏 bravo and thank you for this amazing snapshot into what happens to the person who is adored but still has to be a mother, a wife, a performer and business woman in a world of wolves😢. The principle one being her very mother!
Judy sounds so mentally broken here at 44, compared to the bright, sharp girl who managed all those scripts, lyrics, and dance routines at MGM.
In her last years, she had to grope for every other word.
She was phenomenal. There was nothing she couldn't do! This was very difficult to listen to. I almost didn't complete it.
R.I.P. Our beautiful Judy.❤️
she sounds better than she does a few years after this nearing her untimely death though :/ which is so sad...
This is GOLD!!!! Thank you very much for sharing.
Thank you for sharing this. The more I learn about her fascinating life the more I love her...from afar. I doubt I could handle the stress of a close friendship.
This brings a whole new dimension, on what others have written about her over the years.
Her laugh is so genuine ❤️
I thought it before, but this recording confirms it, that Judy was intelligent, sensitive, humorous and acutely aware of her audience: Whether it be performing in a concert hall or talking (as here) to an individual. I don’t think Tom Green is particularly good in facilitating Judy's recollections; he meanders and asks questions to which she has already answered. At one point he checks the recording machine, and I love Judy's enquiry when she says, “What *are* you doing?”. When he tells her, she says that he should have done it before she started. He also makes a silly remark about her parents “hopscotching” on stage, and Judy, quite rightly, sets him straight with a subtle rebuke.
STFU
@Elspeth Coogan Quite right. I couldn't help but roll my eyes because he sounded more like a psychiatrist than an interviewer at various points.
Gorgeous artwork featured with this video! ❤️
This is wonderful, thank you!
You can hear in Her voice how much she adored her father. I wonder how different her life might have been if her father didn’t die so young. I don’t think MGM and her mother would have gotten away with abusing this wonderful woman.
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This is a fascinating recording. It's a woman who's truth has been altered due to anger and seemingly being intoxicated on most likely prescription medication. It's erratic anger and dialogue of someone under and influence although likely through no fault of her own. I often understand how many assumed she was "drunk" or on "dope" but actually Judy herself wouldn't understand her behaviour. This was due to her Ritalin medication which she had become dependent on during this time. She actually acknowledges her slurred speech as her mind working faster than her brain but we do know this wasn't always the case. A very intelligent woman who's body was by this point failing her at still a young age. She didn't understand it which makes it all the more sad. Fascinating piece of material Buzz nonetheless.
I think the mind working faster than the mouth is also something that ritalin does isn't it? my brain works like a rocket and i blur my words or skip over some of them entirely to get everything out in a rush before i promptly forget what I want to say - but my ex had quite severe inattentive type ADD and ritalin seemed to have a weird parralaxing effect on his brain - he'd um and er much less and focus much better but he'd miss out words instead, and be very twitchy and fidgety
What BS. She is absolutely clear-minded, here; your comments are obviously tainted by what you think you know about Judy Garland. If you were unaware of her addiction, you would never make such an off-target, high-handed comment. She is not erratic, at all, and her “truth” doesn’t seem to be “altered” by anger-she merely recounts a childhood in which she was objectified by a horrendous mother and 2 bratty sisters. Yeeesh.
I think I listened to this, maybe partly, somewhere on TH-cam before. The sound is clear here so I can 👂 this well. Thank you very much.
Wow thank you for sharing this!
Oh, it's so good to hear her laugh. How sweet and beautiful and natural. And so honest to hear her say the main reason for writing her book was for the money. She seemed like such a good, decent person, a great feat, especially considering her history.
Very interesting. Her stories seemed to change from one interview to the next a bit when speaking of her early years. In other moments , she’d talk about how the only time she could ever remember being happy was before they moved to California, and that she loved her father. She seems to be uncomfortable here and happy to move on from talking about it at all. I imagine having a difficult childhood, your memory and interpretation of events can be different or screwed at times.
Love.
In fact the family didn't move away from Grand Rapids until October 1926.
6:55 “this IDIOT BIRD” hahaha I love this!
I just want to THANKYOU so much for this. I think you got mad at me about a year ago for the animated video. So sorry. This is absolutely marvelous. I painted the windows at the museum and it felt great to walk around the house.
That picture is epic
I wonder where and when it was taken.
@@jonperdue6021 i know, I'm trying to Google it
It’s a great photo: It has a ‘Valley of the Dolls’ vibe.
I have the original article in a scrapbook. I’ll look and see if there is a photo credit on it.
@@jonperdue6021 thank you so much.
And these sad, loveless experiences happened to her at such tender ages, they became ingrained in her fiber, stuck in her psyche. Then came the regular, prolonged chemical alteration of her chemistry and mind. The combination was irreversible. So making even more striking and miraculous that she was as talented, loving, and determined as she was. A treasure and inspiration. May God rest her soul.
“That isn’t me barking by the way”. 😂
More…more….more!! This was a Wonderful and informative discussion that I could keep listening to for hours.
Who owns the rights to these great recordings, if you know??
Buzz, thanks for sharing. This was a tough one.
Question: Did Judy own her orchestrations, such as the ones by Mort?
I seem to remember reading even THEY were seized by the IRS !
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lord she is keyed up 35:07. That is just wild . That pill must have had edge or a zap like she suddenly sped way up
She is telling the truth
I’m surprised she says here that she and her father weren’t very close. In everything else I’ve heard in the past, I thought she had a wonderful father-daughter relationship with him. She had a crazy life from beginning to end.
i was shocked by that too. Im not sure why she said that. Maybe she didnt mean it the way it came out? It sounds to me that maybe she was holding a lot of resentment for her mother (for good reason) and was reflecting it onto her father somehow. but i was really confused because i always thought they had a great relationship and she was heartbroken when he died.
This is amazing! How do you manage to find these things?
She's on great form here. Fascinating. So much more than those bloody tapes when we she was bombed and just ranting; that's medication talking, not Judy. She sounds like a nice, fun, strong person...and full of humour. Anyone would have to be strong to have led that life.
So very disturbing. I feel bad for her. She sounds so angry.
Yes, and rightfully so! She had time later in her life to look back, and reflect upon everything that happened to her, however she sadly realized this way too late. She was so very intelligent and she was so very too much involved with all the many concerts and with no rest that she never ever had time to realize what was going on. She always trusted everyone and anyone and this was the beginning of the end. 🤔🙄
Amazing! I’ve only heard the Fred Finklehoffe interviews at this point. Who’s this interviewer?
The movie machine coached all its young starlets to speak with a mildly affected accent, a la New England or Britain, etc. It seemed to stick with her off-camera. She was taught not to be herself, even in speech.
She didn't know fact from fiction well before 1966. This is sad, the way she didn't seem to demonstrate any objectivity or take any responsibility for her own actions.
You should worry about "taking responsibility" for Your own actions.😆
@user-kf8wb2cq4f I'm just stating my observations. I did not comment out of disrespect. It's not meant to rattle fans. I'm a huge fan myself. I recognize that she was in a no win situation.
1. Where in the bloomin hell did you get this?
2. Where is the rest?
I enjoyed listening to this immensely. Who's "Ed" the interviewer?
I miss her, she was smart, funny, besides a big star. Great actor n singer. The money men in her life were greedy bastards.
Flesh peddlers. That's exactly right.
Not shore bout never loved Judy had 5 husband's it takes two she was loved very much wen drugs and alcohol interven that's what spoils things love you Judy RIP 🙏
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Can easily tell Judy is medicated throughout.
She sounds completely sober and coherent. She said so herself in the tape - she's not a good speaker and rambles because she had racing thoughts
37 min mark
nice to hear but thought mickey rooney was her friend but i think its complicated .
They were if the interviewer brought Mickey up I’m sure she would have talked positive about him
After she passed away, I saw a clip with Mickey Rooney where he shrugged off the issue of her suffering at the hands of MGM. I wonder if maybe he was happy to benefit from their relationship but he was not a truly caring and compassionate friend.
The “interviewer” is sickening in his self-serving, sycophantic voice. He ruins anything about this that might be interesting or even relevant. Horrible character.
I"m a long-time fan but boy, is she full of resentment, paranoia and self-pity here, at least starting around the 30 minute mark. Blaming everybody for all her problems--"robbers!" But I have to admit: she makes listening to her a little more bearable with her ever-present wit. :)
She’s full of resentment, paranoia and self pity here because she has reason to be. She blames everyone for her problems because by a wide margin, everyone else is to blame for her problems.
You don't remember anything at the age of two.
On the contrary - I have vivid memories of things that occurred in the house we moved out of before I turned three.
Who's she talking to around 22?
Tom Green.
@@BuzzStephens1 did she have a painful death I hope not she’s a great actress and so kind