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Judy Garland: Recordings
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In an unprecedented one-week stand in 1959, Judy Garland was the first American popular singer to appear at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. Her elaborate revue ... toured to Baltimore, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
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IN Judy Garland's engagement at the Palace Theater here not quite two years ago, there was displayed the kind of magic that has very little to do with the fun of being fooled. The voice was gone.
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Perhaps exhausted from all of the years of constantly working, Judy Garland turned to an array of medication to help keep her going. Still she became unreliable and unstable. She reportedly had her film contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer suspended because of her emotional and physical difficulties in 1950. Garland and Minelli divorced the next year.
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On March 17, 1966, Judy Garland was found dead in her apartment in Compton, California. She had been accused of trafficking drugs and "Lollipop Kid" porn. Garland was a favorite on the south central hitlist because of debts owed to several Los Angeles gangs. There is much controversey surrounding her death, but most believe that she was murdered by her long time nemesis, the Wicked Witch of the Westside.
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Judy Garland has long been considered a [G]ay icon. Gay newsmagazine The Advocate has called her "The Elvis of homosexuals." Reasons frequently given for her standing amongst gay men are admiration of ability as a performer, the way her personal struggles supposedly mirrored those of gay men in America during the height of her fame, and her value as a camp figure.[1][2][3]
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The concert poster for Judy Garland's 1961 performance at Carnegie Hall proclaimed her the "world's greatest entertainer." Rufus Wainwright is certainly less well-known than Garland, but he's retaining the set list and the superlative billing for his recreation of that legendary show.
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