Her husbands also abounded: Billy Rose (whose baby Judy reluctantly aborted), Vincente Minnelli By her 20s, though, she was already dependent on pills, had attempted suicide, was treated for mental exhaustion,Īnd had searched for the right man through affairs with Tyrone Power, Joseph Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, and Yulīrynner-among others. As a female vocalist, her inimitable blend of vulnerability and longing ("like a womanĬarrying a torch for Valentino," said George Jessel) culminated in history-making performances at the London Palladium andĬarnegie Hall. Louis, and the Andy Hardy series) and became As Judy Garland (a name she, not the studio, chose), sheĭazzled in her early movies (including The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. A corker of a biography that reveals Judy Garland as a peerless artist careening wildly through a life that could have endedīiographer Clarke (Capote, 1988) notes Frances Ethel ("Baby") Gumm's early rise, moving steadily from a boffo solo onĪ vaudeville stage at two years old to an MGM contract a decade later.
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