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Always for Judy: Witness to the Joy and Genius of Judy Garland
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About Always For Judy: Witness To The Joy And Genius Of
Always for Judy: Witness to the Joy and Genius of Judy Garland-- To understand a person we have to look at the parents and their background. In Judy s case vaudeville, and the early years of life in Grand Rapids and Lancaster are examined because those are the formative years. Author used Michael Apted s study 7Up as a basis for research to prove the Jesuit saying: Give me the child until he is 7 and I will show you the man. MGM years are divided into three 3 segments. (a) The teenage years after Judy was discovered around 13 years old many movies with Mickey Rooney. She made fifteen films in five years and most of them musicals. (b) The glamorous years, becoming a young woman and her marriage to David Rose. She made ten films in six years again mostly musicals: loosely 25 films in ten years. We must not forget her recording career at Decca. (c) By the time Judy married Vincent Minnelli she was becoming disenchanted with Hollywood. She wanted to perform in a show on Broadway, but she became pregnant with Liza and so back to Hollywood she returned. She makes five films in her final two years with MGM. When Judy was released from her contract with MGM in 1950, she took off for London and started her Concert Career at the Palladium in April 1951. After this great success Sid Luft, who became her manager and later her husband, arranged for her to perform at the Palace, New York for 19 weeks. She marries Sid Luft, goes back to Los Angeles and makes A Star of Born. Children Lorna and Joey are born during the years they lived in Holmby Hills. Judy returns to London in 1957 to the Dominion for a 4-week run. 1958-59 more concerts in the US and becomes very ill with hepatitis. Judy returns to London in 1960. author attended recording studio with Judy. She performs again at the Palladium; this is the first time Judy admitted on stage: This is my home now. Return to the States. signs with Creative Management Associates, tours all over the State and performs her Palladium concer
