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Judy Garland: Mickey Rooney
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Judy Garland remained a popular performer, playing gigs around the world. But her personal life was as troubled as ever. Not long after her divorce from Luft, she married to actor Mark Herron in 1965. The union didn’t last. After divorcing Herron in 1967, she remarried two years later. She wed former bandleader and club manager Mickey Deans a few months before her death in 1969.
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Garland's personal and professional life continued to be a series of ups and downs, marked by faltering performances, comebacks, lawsuits, hospitalizations, and suicide attempts. After divorcing Luft she married Mark Herron, a younger, inconsequential actor with whom she had travelled for some time; the marriage lasted only months. Mickey Deans, a discotheque manager 12 years her junior, whom she married earlier that year, found her dead in their London flat on June 21, 1969. Death came from an "accidental" overdose of barbituates. She is buried in Hartsdale, New York.
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In march of 1969, Judy married her fifth husband, Mickey Devinko, better known as Mickey Deans, a gay night-club promoter. Judy had an unfortunate habit of marrying gay men. They lived together ina tiny mews house in Chelsea, London. For a look inside, click here. The evening of Saturday June 21 1969, Judy and Mickey were watching a documentary, The Royal Family, on television, when they had an argument. Judy ran out the door screaming into the street, waking the neighbors. Several versions of what happened next exist, but the fact remains that a phone call for Judy woke him at 10:40 the next morning, and she was not sleeping in the bed. He searched for her, only to find the bathroom door locked.
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On June 22, 1969, less than two weeks after her 47th birthday, Garland was found dead in a London hotel bathroom by her last husband, Mickey Deans. That night a confrontation between patrons of Stonewall and the NYPD kicked off into a street battle culminating in gays barricading themselves in the bar. It was the catalyst for the beginning of Gay Lib and the first of many political battles won over the next thirty years.
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Beginning in vaudeville with her sisters, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There she made over two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney, and the film with which she would be most identified, The Wizard of Oz (1939). After 15 years, Garland was released from the studio but gained renewed success through record-breaking concert appearances, including a critically acclaimed Carnegie Hall concert, a well-regarded but short-lived television series and a return to film acting beginning with A Star Is Born (1954).
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Early in 1968, Judy went to London and there married her fifth husband, a 35 - year old discotheque manager named Mickey Deans. She began a three week engagement at a London cabaret, which turned out to be the worst flop of her career. Not only was she habitually late for performances, but her voice frequently cracked and she constantly forgot her lines.
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