And the Oscar goes to ... Grace Kelly in the biggest robbery in the history of the awards. They should have given Garland an Oscar for the released version and a couple more for the outtakes.
+Keith Smith Agreed - tied with 'The Greatest Show on Earth' winning best picture in 1952. I love Grace Kelly, but the two performances just do not compare.
Kelly was very good but this performance is one for the ages. Kelly released three big hits in 1954 and that might have given her the edge in voting, but that decision ranks with HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY over CITIZEN KANE.
@Narciso Duran The list of movies that didn't win the Oscar is oftentimes more impressive than the one's that did. Time always tells the true story. This particular scene and overall movie is one such example. This is one of the best songs (if not the best) Judy Garland ever sang (and also one of the best movies ever made). How it lost still amazes me, but then there is "All About Eve" and "Sunset Boulevard". Maybe those two lost because they were both so equally good, they just gave it to "Born Yesterday" as they didn't know what else to do? If ever there should have been a "tie", it should have been that year.
It took me a long time to really appreciate just how supremely gifted a vocalist Judy Garland really was. Hers was not the best or most subtle of voices even though it was still quite good. But what sets her apart from many other singers was her unique ability to interpret a lyric, in which she'd lay herself bare and wring from it every ounce of emotion and feeling. You feel like you're her confidant and the center of her attention. Talent like hers is rare and fleeting. Thank heavens we have her recordings.
I have said the same about this wonderful woman and her talents. Her voice & the way she sings these songs. She was abused and used by all around her. She was not emotionally able to accept where or what she was because of these slimeballs did to her. Taken too soon.
I was a Junior in high school when she sang this. Listening to her gave me a mix of joy, pain, and unimaginable excitement. At 83, it still does! Miss you, Judy.
Warner Bros. sound department was astonishing. Even at the advent of stereophonic recording, the depth of the sound in this clip is remarkable. Miss Garland never sounded better. A perfect marriage of talent and technology.
This version should have been the final cut of the film because it showed her the way she liked to sing - sitting & standing close to the band members, which is the way she did it in real life.
I've always find it interesting the scenes where she sings with a band, or even performs in front of people (rather than alone in front of camera) because she interacts with them, looks them in the eye, for me that was one of the things that made her so special, she looked more real than most performers of her time. A great example is the number "I was born in Michigan" from Easter Parade
Ridiculous. The lighting is waaaay too bright, and Garland is much heavier than in the take used. And this outfit makes her look like a Bronx housewife.
Cukor made the correct decision to dump this take. The Arlen song is dark, brooding and melancholic. It's not just about lost love but total abandonment! To have a bright, breezy, fun take would have been so counter productive.
It’s a good take but wouldn’t know why she would be singing, the final take was wonderful, I guess cause the piano guy called her over and just as quickly threw her off the bench.
Judy is singing to a pre-recording....BUT she was known to sing full force when filming, so there were two Judy’s in the room for the lucky few......with Judy belting over herself. Wish we could all be there.
It definitely ranks with Ethel Waters singing "Happiness is a thing called Joe" from the Movie "Cabin in the Sky" of which Judy also climbs inside... as when Judy sang it at her Carnegie Hall Concert 'Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg'
How can such a little 4'11" woman generate such powerful singing with such emotion? It's Judy!! A woman with a supersonic voice and a vibrato that can tear your heart out.
Judy's voice is so divine... so powerful... emotional. IDK. There are no words good enough to describe Judy's voice and the effect it has on the human heart. It's funny. At 16, I fell in love with the voice and persona of Barbra Streisand. Now at 65, I find myself utterly entranced by all things Judy. What IS the magical web this woman weaves around my very soul?
@@lisabragg1883 I believe this. She sings so many songs that Judy sang before her. Really, Judy set the standard of excellence for the twentieth century. And Barbra is continuing that excellence in her own genuine way. I love them both.
Judy possessed a natural gift to tether with the audience. Her vulnerability, struggles with drugs, impossible standards demanded from the movie studio, multiply husbands, and the challenge of being a show biz mother, allowed her to share a connection with her listeners. Judy displayed a rawness while performing. Judy never stood above the people, rather mingled with an ease and comfort of familiarity.
Judy's soulful presence is ACTUALLY the one true thing that makes Wizard of Oz so enduring. If Shirley Temple had played Dorothy as originally planned, it would still have been a charming film, but it would be on the same dust- collecting shelf as March of the Wooden Soldiers...It's Garland' s deeply vulnerable, multi-dimensional presence that gives the film it's lasting power and it's poignancy.
@@user-yb8vr2ip2t I concur with your comment regarding Shirley Temple. Her version would have been popular at the time, 1939, and sold many tickets, though would not been talked about almost 80 years later. I wish Judy Garland was a tad been younger in the Dorothy role, say 12 instead of age 16, I believe. Hmmm, maybe not, her singing voice was rich, warm, and penetrating the way we remember, Some where over the rainbow.
Wow! I've only seen the one in the movie. This is just as amazing. From what I read, Garland actually sang along with the recording she was, I guess lipping. People would come from all over the studio to watch her film these scenes. It was like a free concert. She should have won the Oscar.
I heard they did 24 takes in different dresses and Judy sang each one with the same mannerisms and arrangement. This performance is amazing no matter what!
Well, it's not if she had to *sing* the song over and over for George Cukor. The music track was pre-recorded. All that was required was that she lip sync, hit her marks, and, of course, be an absolute genius as she did it. 😸
@@TheStockwell True, although apparently she sang every take along with the pre-recorded track at full volume and basically blew the roof off the place each time.
It really doesn't get better than this! Judy's phenomenal voice and personality, the song, the musicianship. I can't think of anything since 1954 which comes near the talent on display here.
She gave everything she got every single time she sang a song. Frank Sinatra who was considered the best and even he said she was better than him. Everyone back then said Judy was unbeatable. Frank Sinatra said that Judy gave of herself so openly and so greatly that she seemed to die each time she went on stage. She was a MASSIVE concert draw. The best there ever was or ever will be.
WoW To me Judy Garland was like tasting my first glass of good wine, it was wonderful. It was sweet, yet tart, it was cold yet it warmed me, I never had the same experience with that wine again. It got better. I learned how to appreciate it more. As with Judy. I had all the same feelings about her and more. And as I get older I love her more, I feel her songs more. I wish there was a way I could let her know how much she means to me. How much she has helped shape my memories of my past.
Elener Johnson Wow, Ms. Johnson : you have written a wonderful comment here. You give Judy her so very well-deserved props and say what we open-eared duffers, appreciative as we are, don't convey in our words.
So true! His fingers aren't even on the appropriate side of the piano! I'm really glad they went with completely different lighting in the final cut. This scene makes the movie, for me.
Thank you for this comment. Judy was the best. Her and Aretha and Barbra are the only 3 that are naturally completely open when the sing. They don't strain to hit those money notes. They hit them properly without strain. Just like a great opera singer they are completely open when they hit the big ones. There's never any strain when they sing.
seeing this for the first time in October 2019. this is truly amazing. and as of this date, 15 people gave this thumbs down?! it's just proof that taste is extremely subjective.
How can you not fall in love w/tThat Voice. This version every bit as good as movie cut. Worlds Greatest Enterainer: JUDY GARLAND. Excellent musicians!
i used to pretend i was judy id sing along to her on my record player i was about 10 im 51 now on my own in my bedroom hairbrush for a mic judy on my player id sing my heart out to this fabulous woman to this day no one can sing this song the way judy sang it this will be my favourite of all songs sung by my all time favourite artist judy she was robbed of the best actress oscar ive always stood by my opinion on this coz to me judy was robbed
Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, and all the other singers of this generation owe a debt of gratitude to this tiny woman with the big voice! If it wasn’t for her they wouldn’t be where they are now, she paved the way for them!
2019 I think Judy's Oscar for this movie got derailed for a lot of reasons, but just watching this performance and knowing there are at least two other filmed versions helps or should help critics or nay-sayers understand the emotional toll it takes on a performer to raise their passion to this level time and time again. so glad I found the outtakes...they are true JUDY!
This song shouldn't be sung by anyone else. She has not only her voice but her emotion singing it knowing she's been there. Sad & beautiful at the same time.
Listen, we all know Judy Garland is a once in a century talent and this performance blows me away every time I see it. That being said, can we get a moment to appreciate the fake piano playing at 1:08? It is simply *chef's kiss*. A landmark moment in American cinema.
When they invent time travel, I'm going back to 1954 to right the wrong that Judy didn't get the Oscar. I mean she was ready in her hospital bed and everything. Bloody Grace Kelly.
Interesting you mentioned time travel. When my kids ask me when I’d travel to, I always say 1961 and Carnegie Hall. Oh, to have see her live! My best buddy was much older than me, and he saw her live several times. He was one of the NY gay guys who never missed a show. We need to have a team do time travel, so we can right all these wrongs.
How many people are so good that their songs can impress people 70 years later? People whose grandparents weren't alive when Judy sang this song are blown away by it.
i love that she has a sip of milk before she sings. if there was ever a song that required something more than milk before singing, it's this one. she was the greatest.
JUDY GARLAND THE SURE WINNER OF OSCAR 1955 IF NOT FOR THE HOLLYWOOD POLITICS AND INFLUENCE OF THE BIG SHOTS IN PRODUCTIONS PICKING THE BOX OFFICE GROSSER INSTEAD OF JUDY GARLAND WHO WAS GENUINELY THE BEST ACTRESS AND BEST PERFORMER OF THEM ALL!
Yes Grace Kelly's performance in "The country girl" was the most drastic transformation she had ever made out of all of her pictures. Her portrayal of a mousy frump of a woman was in stark contrast to all of her other personas which we're the ultimate representation of 1950's glamour and style. It was the best dramatic performance of her career. That is all. But we have to remember that the purpose of the Academy is not to merely honor the most intensely dramatic of performances given within a season. But to accolade the most stand out memorable all encompassing of performances given within a season. That is what the true purpose and intention of the Academy Awards is. Unfortunately it all boils down to politics and that standard isn't always honored. Grace Kelly gave the best dramatic performance of her career. But Judy gave the most stand out memorable all encompassing performance of not only her career but also historically arguably one of the greatest of all time if not the greatest. Throughout her career she set standards of performing that no other person has ever been able to come close to achieving.
I was never a fan of Grace Kelly, absolutely beautiful but limited talent. Then look at Judy, and there you reality and oozing talent, and emotion, and it's not acting, it's showing who you are, but as an actor. You are always playing someone else.
I just read that one of Judy’s male ancestors had such a powerful voice that it was heard two miles away. I don’t see how that is possible, but if any family lineage could do it, here you go….
The scene that was actually used in the film was SO much better -- MUCH more atmospheric. You actually believed that these were musicians, after hours, who were just riffing for their own pleasure. And there was James Mason, silently watching and listening in the dark, and already envisioning the splendid career that lay ahead for this inhumanly talented woman.
It is the Academy's eternal shame that they did award the Oscar to this lady.
Judy had the biggest instrument on that stage.
How can one single human being possess THIS much talent?!
And in a 4'11" package. Amazing talent.
@@jamesbusjahn6962 exactly what I just thought. amazing the power.
No one can. It destroyed her. But oh, that light when it was lit.
And the Oscar goes to ... Grace Kelly in the biggest robbery in the history of the awards. They should have given Garland an Oscar for the released version and a couple more for the outtakes.
+Keith Smith Agreed - tied with 'The Greatest Show on Earth' winning best picture in 1952. I love Grace Kelly, but the two performances just do not compare.
Kelly was very good but this performance is one for the ages. Kelly released three big hits in 1954 and that might have given her the edge in voting, but that decision ranks with HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY over CITIZEN KANE.
@Narciso Duran The list of movies that didn't win the Oscar is oftentimes more impressive than the one's that did.
Time always tells the true story.
This particular scene and overall movie is one such example. This is one of the best songs (if not the best) Judy Garland ever sang (and also one of the best movies ever made). How it lost still amazes me, but then there is "All About Eve" and "Sunset Boulevard". Maybe those two lost because they were both so equally good, they just gave it to "Born Yesterday" as they didn't know what else to do? If ever there should have been a "tie", it should have been that year.
Keith Smith I totally agree
Total robbery!! Couldn't agree more
It took me a long time to really appreciate just how supremely gifted a vocalist Judy Garland really was. Hers was not the best or most subtle of voices even though it was still quite good. But what sets her apart from many other singers was her unique ability to interpret a lyric, in which she'd lay herself bare and wring from it every ounce of emotion and feeling. You feel like you're her confidant and the center of her attention. Talent like hers is rare and fleeting. Thank heavens we have her recordings.
I have said the same about this wonderful woman and her talents. Her voice & the way she sings these songs. She was abused and used by all around her. She was not emotionally able to accept where or what she was because of these slimeballs did to her. Taken too soon.
She and Streisand changed everything.
Sounds like one of the best to me
Ladies and gentlemen, THAT is how it is done. What is wrong with you thumbs down people??
I was a Junior in high school when she sang this. Listening to her gave me a mix of joy, pain, and unimaginable excitement. At 83, it still does! Miss you, Judy.
Judy in her prime!
What a voice!
Such a supreme talent.
Should have one the Oscar!
In top form here.
Lovely Lady.❤
Those who know, know. This is the greatest of the great. Judy Garland...no one can touch her.
Warner Bros. sound department was astonishing. Even at the advent of stereophonic recording, the depth of the sound in this clip is remarkable. Miss Garland never sounded better. A perfect marriage of talent and technology.
So she is singing live?!?!
No, she was pre-recorded well before actual shooting began.
Again Judy sends shivers down my spine with this song. Perfect.
It's one of the great bittersweet ballads ever composed...... Harold Arlen & Ira Gershwin 'Taylor made for Judy Garland !!
Perfect👍🌼🌻🌺🌸
Judy Garland is the only woman that ever gave me Goosebumps
As a gay man I must concur.
LOL
This version should have been the final cut of the film because it showed her the way she liked to sing - sitting & standing close to the band members, which is the way she did it in real life.
I've always find it interesting the scenes where she sings with a band, or even performs in front of people (rather than alone in front of camera) because she interacts with them, looks them in the eye, for me that was one of the things that made her so special, she looked more real than most performers of her time. A great example is the number "I was born in Michigan" from Easter Parade
Ridiculous. The lighting is waaaay too bright, and Garland is much heavier than in the take used. And this outfit makes her look like a Bronx housewife.
Cukor made the correct decision to dump this take. The Arlen song is dark, brooding and melancholic. It's not just about lost love but total abandonment! To have a bright, breezy, fun take would have been so counter productive.
James P the power of that voice. A 4' 11" Girl! And he did get away.
It’s a good take but wouldn’t know why she would be singing, the final take was wonderful, I guess cause the piano guy called her over and just as quickly threw her off the bench.
what a voice, and a great singer. She was robbed of the Oscar .
Judy is singing to a pre-recording....BUT she was known to sing full force when filming, so there were two Judy’s in the room for the lucky few......with Judy belting over herself. Wish we could all be there.
God...what a sound. He voice is like a huge bell.
One of the most memorable scenes in Hollywood history, from just about any film.
It definitely ranks with Ethel Waters singing "Happiness is a thing called Joe" from the Movie "Cabin in the Sky" of which Judy also climbs inside... as when Judy sang it at her Carnegie Hall Concert 'Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg'
The Greatest of the Great! Happy 100th Birthday!
How can such a little 4'11" woman generate such powerful singing with such emotion? It's Judy!! A woman with a supersonic voice and a vibrato that can tear your heart out.
The first time I saw this it totally blew me away! Should have been the take used in the movie!
Perfection here! She was totally robbed of the Oscar!
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@@DrMAHMMuseumAtHomeinMusic As Judy once quipped "Give it to the Princess"
Actually I like the blue dress version
She had one hell of a voice. This song was made for her voice... Wow.. 💖 💃 🎶 👌🏼 🔥
Torchy magnificence. The incomparable Judy Garland.
Just superlative! No one will ever equal Judy.
Omg! Never saw this version!!! So natural! So light! Clean and pure Judy!!❤️
Judy's voice is so divine... so powerful... emotional. IDK. There are no words good enough to describe Judy's voice and the effect it has on the human heart. It's funny. At 16, I fell in love with the voice and persona of Barbra Streisand. Now at 65, I find myself utterly entranced by all things Judy. What IS the magical web this woman weaves around my very soul?
Barbra streisand said in an interview that she learned to sing by listening to and watching Judy Garland.
@@lisabragg1883 I believe this. She sings so many songs that Judy sang before her. Really, Judy set the standard of excellence for the twentieth century. And Barbra is continuing that excellence in her own genuine way. I love them both.
Judy possessed a natural gift to tether with the audience. Her vulnerability, struggles with drugs, impossible standards demanded from the movie studio, multiply husbands, and the challenge of being a show biz mother, allowed her to share a connection with her listeners. Judy displayed a rawness while performing. Judy never stood above the people, rather mingled with an ease and comfort of familiarity.
Judy's soulful presence is ACTUALLY the one true thing that makes Wizard of Oz so enduring. If Shirley Temple had played Dorothy as originally planned, it would still have been a charming film, but it would be on the same dust- collecting shelf as March of the Wooden Soldiers...It's Garland' s deeply vulnerable, multi-dimensional presence that gives the film it's lasting power and it's poignancy.
@@user-yb8vr2ip2t I concur with your comment regarding Shirley Temple. Her version would have been popular at the time, 1939, and sold many tickets, though would not been talked about almost 80 years later. I wish Judy Garland was a tad been younger in the Dorothy role, say 12 instead of age 16, I believe. Hmmm, maybe not, her singing voice was rich, warm, and penetrating the way we remember, Some where over the rainbow.
No hundreds of millions spent on CGI, no overstuffed comic book scripts, just sheer perfection and talent. No one today comes close to Judy.
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Su Voz preciada Voz.🎤🎼
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Wow! I've only seen the one in the movie. This is just as amazing. From what I read, Garland actually sang along with the recording she was, I guess lipping. People would come from all over the studio to watch her film these scenes. It was like a free concert. She should have won the Oscar.
I heard they did 24 takes in different dresses and Judy sang each one with the same mannerisms and arrangement. This performance is amazing no matter what!
This is is the third out take I have seen. I think they made the right choice but I love this one too.
My favorite female singer of all time. Thank you Judy for all that you shared with us.
this is when you're jamming with the best. God Bless you Judy.
What a voice what a women with such love and soul in her heart!
I'm a singer and this makes me want to crawl under a rock. She's so damn good on this song!
The director made her do this scene so many times with at least 5 costume changes. Every take she was perfect . 🥰
Well, it's not if she had to *sing* the song over and over for George Cukor. The music track was pre-recorded. All that was required was that she lip sync, hit her marks, and, of course, be an absolute genius as she did it. 😸
@@TheStockwell True, although apparently she sang every take along with the pre-recorded track at full volume and basically blew the roof off the place each time.
It really doesn't get better than this! Judy's phenomenal voice and personality, the song, the musicianship. I can't think of anything since 1954 which comes near the talent on display here.
Talk about putting everything you've got into a song.
She gave everything she got every single time she sang a song. Frank Sinatra who was considered the best and even he said she was better than him. Everyone back then said Judy was unbeatable. Frank Sinatra said that Judy gave of herself so openly and so greatly that she seemed to die each time she went on stage. She was a MASSIVE concert draw. The best there ever was or ever will be.
WoW To me Judy Garland was like tasting my first glass of good wine, it was wonderful. It was sweet, yet tart, it was cold yet it warmed me, I never had the same experience with that wine again. It got better. I learned how to appreciate it more. As with Judy. I had all the same feelings about her and more. And as I get older I love her more, I feel her songs more. I wish there was a way I could let her know how much she means to me. How much she has helped shape my memories of my past.
That's lovely.
Elener Johnson Wow, Ms. Johnson : you have written a wonderful comment here. You give Judy her so very well-deserved props and say what we open-eared duffers, appreciative as we are, don't convey in our words.
:')
Wonderfully, put!! She WAS like a fine wine!!
ommg!;) ive never heard it like that before!;) a glass of wine!;) good one!;)
Speechless and breathless. There’s my girl❣️❣️❣️❣️
So true! His fingers aren't even on the appropriate side of the piano! I'm really glad they went with completely different lighting in the final cut. This scene makes the movie, for me.
This is god given talent. I challenge any singer today to attempt a remake???? So amazing.
SLAYS it...everytime. The last of the Big Belters! Love this a million times!
Thank you for this comment. Judy was the best. Her and Aretha and Barbra are the only 3 that are naturally completely open when the sing. They don't strain to hit those money notes. They hit them properly without strain. Just like a great opera singer they are completely open when they hit the big ones. There's never any strain when they sing.
seeing this for the first time in October 2019. this is truly amazing. and as of this date, 15 people gave this thumbs down?! it's just proof that taste is extremely subjective.
pinkobreftempsla 15 people are REETARDS.
pinkobreftempsla , you are right! They don’t have classic taste!
All done in a single shot! Sheer perfection! There aren’t enough adjectives to describe Judy Garland!
Gorgeous Judy. In one of her best performances. Should have used this take. So wonderful. She gives me goosepimples.
How can you not fall in love w/tThat Voice. This version every bit as good as movie cut. Worlds Greatest Enterainer: JUDY GARLAND. Excellent musicians!
i used to pretend i was judy id sing along to her on my record player i was about 10 im 51 now on my own in my bedroom hairbrush for a mic judy on my player id sing my heart out to this fabulous woman to this day no one can sing this song the way judy sang it this will be my favourite of all songs sung by my all time favourite artist judy she was robbed of the best actress oscar ive always stood by my opinion on this coz to me judy was robbed
Mee too :-)
You and me both, sister! 😂
i've never seen this. What talent!
Amazing! She should have gotten an award for this 💔 l love you Judy!
Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, and all the other singers of this generation owe a debt of gratitude to this tiny woman with the big voice! If it wasn’t for her they wouldn’t be where they are now, she paved the way for them!
Every since my world began, I'm looking for Judy Garland now, the women that got away! ...Gratitude.
Any take! I'll taken! If it's My Girl!
The Divine Garland. 😎! Sing, Judy!
The Incomparable Judy. 🌹🌹
Wonderful Judy Garland my favourite song of hers
God bless you Judy
Perfection!!❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏👏
2019 I think Judy's Oscar for this movie got derailed for a lot of reasons, but just watching this performance and knowing there are at least two other filmed versions helps or should help critics or nay-sayers understand the emotional toll it takes on a performer to raise their passion to this level time and time again. so glad I found the outtakes...they are true JUDY!
This song shouldn't be sung by anyone else. She has not only her voice but her emotion singing it knowing she's been there. Sad & beautiful at the same time.
The greatest torch song.
This is such a perfect song for her to sing.
Every time she sings that song , it does something 2 me!
No I'm not tired but it's just something about her amazing voice that's all !
Magnificent Judy
My favourite version. So natural and intimate. So beautiful.
She's so good, really extraordinary
Listen, we all know Judy Garland is a once in a century talent and this performance blows me away every time I see it.
That being said, can we get a moment to appreciate the fake piano playing at 1:08? It is simply *chef's kiss*. A landmark moment in American cinema.
Sing it, Judy! What a voice!
When they invent time travel, I'm going back to 1954 to right the wrong that Judy didn't get the Oscar. I mean she was ready in her hospital bed and everything. Bloody Grace Kelly.
Woowoo I’m going with you when you go!
Yes, let me know when you book that ticket!!!
Grace Kelly was , I am sure, good in that movie.
But do you know anyone who can relate one thing , from memory, about that movie, or her performance.?
I want to watch the test screening version of the wizard of oz and a star is born .
Interesting you mentioned time travel. When my kids ask me when I’d travel to, I always say 1961 and Carnegie Hall. Oh, to have see her live! My best buddy was much older than me, and he saw her live several times. He was one of the NY gay guys who never missed a show. We need to have a team do time travel, so we can right all these wrongs.
The Version in the Movie was THE BEST version, Happy They picked THAT one!!!! BRILLIANT!!!! Judy was ROBBED of her DESERVED OSCAR!!! What a JOKE!!
I have never seen Judy so unrecognizable-so surprised to hear her voice come out of that woman's mouth.
How many people are so good that their songs can impress people 70 years later? People whose grandparents weren't alive when Judy sang this song are blown away by it.
Give Judy the Damn Oscar will ya !!! Such an injustice 😢
Her performance in that movie was historical and realistic it should have swept the Oscars that year.
Judy and the piano player gettin a little action in this one!
Great film and. Perfect. Pitch.
i love that she has a sip of milk before she sings. if there was ever a song that required something more than milk before singing, it's this one. she was the greatest.
JUDY GARLAND THE SURE WINNER OF OSCAR 1955 IF NOT FOR THE HOLLYWOOD POLITICS AND INFLUENCE OF THE BIG SHOTS IN PRODUCTIONS PICKING THE BOX OFFICE GROSSER INSTEAD OF JUDY GARLAND WHO WAS GENUINELY THE BEST ACTRESS AND BEST PERFORMER OF THEM ALL!
So powerful, so beautiful! I love you Judy!!!
Judy, Judy, Judy.
An absolute one-of-a-kind if they ever existed. Mythic. Oh gosh, we miss you, Judy.
In the presence of greatness, the finest ✨🌟✨🌟❤️
Yes Grace Kelly's performance in "The country girl" was the most drastic transformation she had ever made out of all of her pictures. Her portrayal of a mousy frump of a woman was in stark contrast to all of her other personas which we're the ultimate representation of 1950's glamour and style. It was the best dramatic performance of her career. That is all. But we have to remember that the purpose of the Academy is not to merely honor the most intensely dramatic of performances given within a season. But to accolade the most stand out memorable all encompassing of performances given within a season. That is what the true purpose and intention of the Academy Awards is. Unfortunately it all boils down to politics and that standard isn't always honored. Grace Kelly gave the best dramatic performance of her career. But Judy gave the most stand out memorable all encompassing performance of not only her career but also historically arguably one of the greatest of all time if not the greatest. Throughout her career she set standards of performing that no other person has ever been able to come close to achieving.
I was never a fan of Grace Kelly, absolutely beautiful but limited talent. Then look at Judy, and there you reality and oozing talent, and emotion, and it's not acting, it's showing who you are, but as an actor. You are always playing someone else.
Her little giggle at the very end is so endearing.
I just read that one of Judy’s male ancestors had such a powerful voice that it was heard two miles away. I don’t see how that is possible, but if any family lineage could do it, here you go….
Brilliant!!!❤️
Great to see this outtake! xx
Such a beautiful voice
So inspiring and powerful. No one better to inspire a singer than Judy. XO
Thanks for sharing, I never imagined of actually viewing the alternative.
Judy sure knows how to put a song over the best
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The scene that was actually used in the film was SO much better -- MUCH more atmospheric. You actually believed that these were musicians, after hours, who were just riffing for their own pleasure. And there was James Mason, silently watching and listening in the dark, and already envisioning the splendid career that lay ahead for this inhumanly talented woman.
This outtake version is better than the one put in the film!
This woman is peerless! The greatest ever ! ❤️
Never gets tired❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Simply amazing
I adore this so much....
Her singing is just incredible here - and I thought the take they used was the "ultimate"
It's the same pre-recorded vocal track for all the different takes.
This is the best Judy Garland!
tell me who could sing this better?
master of her craft!
You know, I like this take better than the original.
I never saw this. Amazing. Thank you for posting.