The Films Of Judy Garland

Author : John Fricke
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780762443680

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Judy by John Fricke Pdf

Through her incomparable work on screen, stage, record, radio, and television, Judy Garland earned renown as “The World’s Greatest Entertainer.” It was as a motion picture star though, that she first rose to international fame. From her feature film debut in 1936 through the aptly titled I Could Go on Singing in 1963, she lit up the screen with a magic uniquely hers—and dazzled world-wide audiences of all ages. Judy Garland starred in two dozen of the all-time classic movie musicals, among them A Star is Born, Meet Me in St. Louis, Babes in Arms, Easter Parade, For Me and My Gal, and The Harvey Girls. Her dramatic turns in Judgment at Nuremberg, The Clock, and A Child is Waiting won added acclaim. And perhaps most unforgettably, she starred as Dorothy Gale in the best-loved motion picture of all time: The Wizard of Oz. Judy: A Legendary Film Career tells the story of Garland’s movie work in unprecedented detail. Hundreds of never-before-published photos, newly-assembled contemporary reviews, insight from her costars and coworkers, and production histories are provided for each film in which she appeared. Highlighting and complimenting the feature films is a definitive biography; an examination of Judy’s short subjects; details of the movies she did not complete; and an enthralling compendium of film projects for which she was considered or rumored. The text is illustrated by more than five hundred photos, encompassing poster art; costume tests; behind-the-scenes candids; onstage and backstage glimpses of her theatrical successes; and personal snapshots. Judy is the exhaustively researched work of historian John Fricke. He celebrates as never before the heart, humor, and incandescent motion picture achievement of the one-and-only Judy Garland.

Author : Brian Baxter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 0904159469

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The Films of Judy Garland by Brian Baxter Pdf

Author : James L. Neibaur
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476685953

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The Films of Judy Garland by James L. Neibaur Pdf

Judy Garland was an entertainment icon whose performances on stage, screen and television had a tremendous impact across decades and media. This film-by-film study of her work follows her progression from pig-tailed child to a top motion picture star, with such timeless classics as The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St Louis, and A Star is Born. Garland's talent and versatility as an actress are explored through each of her movie roles. More than just a reference filmography, this work examines how Garland's talents were realized and understood by producers and the world. It analyzes the star's relatonships with various co-stars and directors and details how she balanced her painful insecurities with her often focused and driven approach to her work. Through the context of her work on film, Judy Garland's innate and enduring star power is readily appreciated and acknowledged.

Author : Lorna Luft,Jeffrey Vance
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780762464807

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A Star Is Born (Turner Classic Movies) by Lorna Luft,Jeffrey Vance Pdf

New York Times bestselling author and daughter of Judy Garland tells the story of A Star Is Born -- at once the crowning achievement and greatest disappointment in her mother's legendary career. This is a vivid account of a film classic's production, loss, and reclamation. A Star Is Born -- the classic Hollywood tale about a young talent rising to superstardom, and the downfall of her mentor/lover along the way -- has never gone out of style. It has seen five film adaptations, but none compares to the 1954 version starring Judy Garland in her greatest role. But while it was the crowning performance of the legendary entertainer's career, the production turned into one of the most talked about in movie history. The story, which depicts the dark side of fame, addiction, loss, and suicide, paralleled Garland's own tumultuous life in many ways. While hitting alarmingly close to home for the fragile star, it ultimately led to a superlative performance -- one that was nominated for an Academy Award, but lost in one of the biggest upsets in Oscar history. Running far too long for the studio's tastes, Warner Bros. notoriously slashed extensive amounts of footage from the finished print, leaving A Star is Born in tatters and breaking the heart of both the film's star and director George Cukor. Today, with a director's cut reconstructed from previously lost scenes and audio, the 1954 A Star is Born has taken its deserved place among the most critically acclaimed movies of all time, and continues to inspire each new generation that discovers it. Now, Lorna Luft, daughter of Judy Garland and the film's producer, Sid Luft, tells the story of the production, and of her mother's fight to save her career, as only she could. Teaming with film historian Jeffrey Vance, A Star Is Born is a vivid and refreshingly candid account of the crafting, loss, and restoration of a movie classic, complemented by a trove of images from the family collection taken both on and off the set. The book also includes essays on the other screen adaptations of A Star Is Born, to round out a complete history of a story that has remained a Hollywood favorite for close to a century.

Author : Sid Luft,Randy L. Schmidt
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613735862

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Judy and I by Sid Luft,Randy L. Schmidt Pdf

The third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the final act of Judy's meteoric career, producing her iconic, Oscar-nominated performance in A Star Is Born and expertly shaping her concert career. Previously unpublished, and only recently found, Sid Luft's intimate autobiography tells their story. Their romance lasted Judy's lifetime, despite the separations, the reconciliations, and the divorce. Under Luft's management, Judy Garland came back, bigger than ever, building a singing career that rivaled Sinatra's. However, Judy's drug dependencies and suicidal tendencies put a tremendous strain on their relationship. Despite everything, Sid never stopped loving Judy and never forgave himself for not being able to ultimately save her from the demons that drove her to an early death.

Author : Joe Morella,Edward Z. Epstein
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806502061

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Judy by Joe Morella,Edward Z. Epstein Pdf

Contains all the film the actress made, including cast listings, credits, and reviews. Over 300 photographs.

Author : Emily R. Coleman
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : UCSD:31822015624208

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The Complete Judy Garland by Emily R. Coleman Pdf

The ultimate guide to her career in films, records, concerts, radio, and television, 1935-1969.

Author : Joe Morella
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59236627

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Judy by Joe Morella Pdf

Author : Greg Lenburg
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1508456674

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Judy Garland Movie Poster Book by Greg Lenburg Pdf

Actress and singer Judy Garland is best remembered for her role as Dorothy in the 1939 musical fantasy film, “The Wizard of Oz” (1939), in which she sang the classic Academy Award-winning ballad, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Although “The Wizard of Oz” skyrocketed Garland to stardom, she is also remembered for her musical and dramatic roles, especially her “backyard musicals” with the legendary Mickey Rooney. In all, during a 40-year career, she made 32 feature films, in addition to doing voice over work for two more. The “Judy Garland Movie Poster Book” presents, for the first time in color, full page posters from all of Garland's films. There are all here: “Meet Me in St. Louis” (1944), “The Harvey Girls” (1946), “Ziegfeld Follies,” “Easter Parade” (1948), “The Pirate” (1948), “Presenting Lilly Mars” (1953), “A Star is Born” (1954), “Judgement at Nuremberg” (1961) and many more. As an added treat, a sample of posters are included which were used to promote her films when they were released in foreign countries.

Author : Randy L. Schmidt
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781613749456

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Judy Garland on Judy Garland by Randy L. Schmidt Pdf

“It’s going to be one hell of a great—everlastingly great—book with humor, tears, fun, emotion, and love,” Judy Garland said of her plans to tell her life story, but she died at the age of forty-seven before seeing it through. Judy Garland on Judy Garland is the closest we will likely come to experiencing and exploring the legend’s abandoned autobiography. Collecting and presenting the most important Garland interviews and encounters that took place between the years 1935 and 1969, this work opens with her first radio appearance under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and concludes with her last known interview, one taped for Radio Denmark just months before her death. What makes this collection unique and distinguishes it from the plethora of Garland biographies is that it places Judy in the role of storyteller. She wrote a number of essays for various publications and sat for countless print, radio, and television interviews. These and other autobiographical efforts she made are proof that Judy Garland wanted her story told, and wanted it told in her own words. Finally, forty-five years after her death, here it is. Randy L. Schmidt is the author of the acclaimed bestselling biography Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter and the editor of Yesterday Once More: The Carpenters Reader. He has also written articles for the Advocate and the Observer. He teaches music in Denton, Texas.

Author : Peter Quilter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408150214

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End Of The Rainbow by Peter Quilter Pdf

Musical drama of Judy Garland's "come-back" concerts Christmas 1968: with a six week booking at London's Talk of the Town, it looks like Judy Garland is set firmly on the comeback trail. The failed marriages, the suicide attempts and the addictions are all behind her. At forty-six and with new flame Mickey Deans at her side, she seems determined to carry it off and recapture her magic. But lasting happiness always eludes some people, and there was never any answer to the question with which Judy ended every show: "If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why, oh, why, can't I?" End of the Rainbow is a savagely funny drama featuring a glorious ensemble of Judy Garland hits and infused with the glamour and the melancholy of stardom. "Every note she sings, every racket she makes, every tear she sheds, every joke she cracks, every pill she pops - is conveyed with alarming honesty. This knockout portrait of a living catastrophe should not be missed." What's On Published to tie-in with the premiere at the Sydney Opera House in July 2005

Author : Joe Morella,Edward Z. Epstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 080651017X

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Judy by Joe Morella,Edward Z. Epstein Pdf

Provides plot summaries, cast, and credits for each of Judy Garland's films, and shares the reminiscences of her colleagues

Author : David Shipman
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015055901154

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Judy Garland by David Shipman Pdf

In this highly-acclaimed biography, Shipman tells the whole story of this doomed and deified performer: her days as a child star, the daughter of a gay father; her ascension to teenage stardom; her introduction to drugs by MGM; her years of alcoholism and substance abuse; her relationship with daughter Liza Minelli; and more. Photos.

Author : Gerald Clarke
Publisher : Delta
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307556332

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Get Happy by Gerald Clarke Pdf

She lived at full throttle on stage, screen, and in real life, with highs that made history and lows that finally brought down the curtain at age forty-seven. Judy Garland died over thirty years ago, but no biography has so completely captured her spirit -- and demons -- until now. From her tumultuous early years as a child performer to her tragic last days, Gerald Clarke reveals the authentic Judy in a biography rich in new detail and unprecedented revelations. Based on hundreds of interviews and drawing on her own unfinished -- and unpublished -- autobiography, Get Happy presents the real Judy Garland in all her flawed glory. With the same skill, style, and storytelling flair that made his bestselling Capote a landmark literary biography, Gerald Clarke sorts through the secrets and the scandals, the legends and the lies, to create a portrait of Judy Garland as candid as it is compassionate. Here are her early years, during which her parents sowed the seeds of heartbreak and self-destruction that would plague her for decades ... the golden age of Hollywood, brought into sharp focus with cinematic urgency, from the hidden private lives of the movie world's biggest stars to the cold-eyed businessmen who controlled the machine ... and a parade of brilliant and gifted men -- lovers and artists, impresarios and crooks -- who helped her reach so many creative pinnacles yet left her hopeless and alone after each seemingly inevitable fall. Here, then, is Judy Garland in all her magic and despair: the woman, the star, the legend, in a riveting saga of tragedy, resurrection, and genius.

Author : Lorna Luft
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439139417

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Me and My Shadows by Lorna Luft Pdf

The question follows Lorna Luft to this day: "What's it like to be Dorothy's daughter?" Although by appearances glamorous and truly thrilling, growing up as the daughter of Judy Garland was anything but a journey over the rainbow. With unsparing candor, Lorna Luft offers the first-ever insider portrait of one of Hollywood's most celebrated families: a rare story of a little girl, her half-sister Liza, and her baby brother trying desperately to hang on to the mother whose life seemed destined to burn brightly but briefly. Lorna makes an extraordinary journey back into the spiral of love, addiction, pain, and loss that lurked behind a charmed facade. Filled with behind-the-scenes dramas, hilarious untold stories, and little-known details of Garland family life, Me and My Shadows is a tribute to Lorna's victory over her own past, a story of hope, of love and its limitations, and a deeply moving testament to the healing powers of embracing one's past and charting a course of self-love and discovery.