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Judy Garland was a contract player for the MGM studios when she was assigned to do this film as Dorothy. After several directorship difficulties the final director became Victor Fleming and the producer Mervyn LeRoy. Of course, it was Louis B. Mayer, the head of MGM, that was the guiding force behind The Wizard of Oz. The production filming began in October of 1938 and was complete in March of 1939. The film was copyrighted on August the 7; almost ten months to the day since the cameras had first turned under the then director Richard Thorpe. The Wizard of Oz premiered on August 15, 1939 at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. Then, in New York City, at the Capitol Theatre on August 17, 1939 the east coast primiere was held.
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Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. She was the last of three daughters of former vaudeville (traveling variety entertainment) actors Frank and Ethel Gumm. Judy began her show business career before she was three years old at her father's theater, the New Grand Theater. The family soon moved to Los Angeles, California, and to better climates than those found in remote northern Minnesota. By age six she was a veteran performer, appearing with her two older sisters in a vaudeville act. After her father's health declined, the sisters' act soon became the primary source of income for the family.
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MGM musical starring Judy Garland as a farm owner who reluctantly agrees to let her aspiring actress sister's theatrical troupe stage a musical in her barn in exchange for their help on the homestead. But when her sibling takes off for Broadway, Garland steps in and learns about showbiz from leading man Gene Kelly. Songs include "You, Wonderful You" (featuring Kelly's legendary "newspaper dance") and "Heavenly Music." With Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, and Phil Silvers. AKA: "If You Feel Like Singing." 109 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; bonus shorts "The Cuckoo Clock" (1950), "Did'ja Know?"
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Judy Garland married five times and had three children. Her daughter, Liza Minnelli, with director Vincente Minnelli was born on March 12, 1946. Her marriage to Sid Luft brought daughter Lorna Luft on November 21, 1952 and son Joey Luft on March 29, 1955. She died on June 22, 1969 from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills. She was just 47 years old. Judy Garland was a very beautiful and talented actress.
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Judy Garland was born on 10th June 1922 as Frances Ethel Gumm, the youngest daughter and child to vaudevillians Frank and Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, America. At just 2-years-old in December 1924, Baby Frances was drafted into the dance act entitled 'The Gumm Sisters', which included her two older sisters Mary Jane Gumm and Virginia Gumm. It was only when she repeatedly sang 'Jingle Bells' and had to be dragged off the stage kicking and screaming by her maternal grandmother Eva Milne that her mother Ethel could see her youngest daughter was going to be the biggest star. Baby Frances' childhood was extremely unhappy as she spent most of it on the road with her mother and sisters looking for nightclubs and hotels to perform in, often living out of their rented automobile. In 1927, Baby Frances and her family moved to Lancaster, California having been run out of Grand Rapids due to her father's homosexuality and sexual advances on teenage boys. In 1932, Baby Frances left Lancaster and her father behind for a new life in Los Angeles with her mother and sisters where, yet again, there were practically living out of their automobile.
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Turning to the relatively new medium of television, she headlined her own variety series "The Judy Garland Show" (CBS, 1963-64), which was aired opposite the popular "Bonanza" on Sunday evenings. While not a ratings winner, the show has come to be seen as a time capsule and a means of preserving this mercurial singer's talents. When the show was canceled, Garland found herself broke, in debt to the IRS for back taxes and essentially homeless (the government had repossessed her house). Trouper that she was and though battling depression and weight problems, she continued to perform live, unsuccessfully attempting to wipe out her debts, up until just before her death of an accidental overdose of prescription pills just weeks after her 47th birthday in 1969. While the term has perhaps come to be overused, "show business legend" certainly applies to the tiny woman with the voice that could move audiences to laughter or tears or both simultaneously.
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