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Judy Garland: Frank Sinatra
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On Friday, December 26, 1924, Judy Garland stood on the stage of her father's theatre. It was her first performance. She was only two-and-a-half years old. She sang "Jingle Bells" in the new white dress her mother made for her. Her father, Frank Gumm, and her mother, Ethel Gumm, performed there frequently. Her mother played the piano for the theatre.
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Judy Garland moved to California in 1926 so that she could begin her career as a performer on the silver screen. Judy was always close to her father, Frank Gumm, and was devastated when he dies while she was performing on the radio on November 17, 1935.
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In 1961, Garland and CBS settled their contract disputes with the help of her new agent, Freddie Fields, and negotiated a new round of specials. The first, entitled The Judy Garland Show, aired in 1962 and featured guests Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.[69] Following this success, CBS made a $24 million offer to Garland for a weekly television series of her own... to be called The Judy Garland Show, which was deemed at the time in the press to be "the biggest talent deal in TV history." Although Garland had said as early as 1955 that she would never do a weekly television series,[70] in the early 1960s she was in a financially precarious situation. Garland was several hundred thousand dollars in debt to the Internal Revenue Service, having failed to pay taxes in 1951 and 1952, and the financial failure of A Star is Born meant that she received nothing from that investment.[71] A successful run on television was intended to secure Garland's financial future.
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