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Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, on June 10, 1922, to Frank and Ethel Gumm. She was born into a family of vaudeville players. Frances performed with her sisters, known as the “Gumm Sisters," and was called "Baby Gumm" until she named her name to Judy. George Jessel changed the girls' performing name to the "Garland Sisters," at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago during the 1934 World's Fair.
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Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American film actress considered by many to be one of the greatest singing stars of Hollywood's Golden Era of musical film. Garland's singing voice had a natural vibrato, which she was able to maintain at extremely low volume. The effects which she was able to project enabled her to convey a wide range of emotion when she interpreted a song. The American Film Institute named Garland among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 8. Biography Childhood and early life Born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, Frances
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Judy Garland, born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, began her show business career before she was three years old. By age six she was a veteran performer, appearing with her two older sisters in a vaudeville act. Mistakenly billed as "The Glum Sisters" in 1931, the sisters at the suggestion of a fellow performer changed their stage name to Garland (the name of a then-prominent drama critic). Shortly thereafter, at her own insistence, she changed her first name from Frances to Judy (after a popular song of the day).
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Judy Garland, born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, began her show business career before she was three years old. By age six she was a veteran performer, appearing with her two older sisters in a vaudeville act. She was billed as 'Baby' Gumm but with her surprisingly mature voice and lively personality she soon began doing solo numbers and stealing the show.
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Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, 1922 in Grand Rapids Minnesota. She was the youngest daughter of Frank and Ethel Gumm (she was named for both of them) and had two older sisters: Mary Jane (nicknamed Susie or Suzy) born in 1915 and Dorothy Virginia (nicknamed Jimmie) born in 1917.
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[Page 7] In an age of faith and piety, [Judy Garland's maternal grandfather] John Milne was a proud and vocal agnostic. He went so far as to name his third son after Robert Ingersoll, the late-nineteenth-century thinker who toured the country lecturing against orthodox religion. Just as Ingersoll delighted in making it hot for "the dear old stupid theologians," was he once phrased it, so John, who was perhaps too fond of the bottle, seemed to enjoy making it hot for his dear old Episcopalian wife. Possessed of an equally strong will, Eva [Judy Garland's maternal grandmother] matched him insult for insult. Their bickering never stopped, and despite all the music, there was not much harmony in the Milne house.
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