Judy Garland

Geboren am
10. Juni 1922 · Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA
Verstorben
22. Juni 1969 · Belgravia, London, England, Vereinigtes Königreich (Überdosis Barbiturate)
Geburtsname
Frances Ethel Gumm
Spitznamen
- Baby Gumm
- Miss Show Business
- Joots
Größe
1,52 m

According to her biography on the A&E channel, as a young adult in her early acting career 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.
A close friend was Katharine Hepburn, with whom she would regularly stay during her most serious bouts of depression in order to recover.
Garland discouraged her children from entering show business, pointing out her financial and health problems. Nevertheless, Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft became entertainers. Joey Luft lives in relative anonymity as a freelance photographer.
The day she died, there was a tornado in Kansas.
Always had crooked front teeth, for which an MGM dentist fitted her with removable caps to wear in her films, including Das zauberhafte Land (1939).

[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.