God she's beautiful. There is just an aura that she gives off that is pure magic. No matter how many bits she's in, that never leaves her. They could never take that from her.
@@shirleypoplo3341 she did have scoliosis though so you can see especially as she got older she did have quite a curve in her shoulders, but calling someone a hunchback - especially a kid makes them feel like quasimodo. Liza has it too which is why she's got one shoulder higher than the other. I wish more people told her how gorgeous, wonderful, funny and kind she was.
Yes! Can you imagine doing 19 films in just a couple of years as I heard her daughter say as well as Judy during a interview on a British show. She couldn’t rest for a time. Just go, go, go. She was driven so hard and yet just kept going like a magical dancing fairy with an out of world voice.
I have recently looked into Judy Garland's life after seeing a comment online that she was forced into taking pills at a very young age. I wanted to see how truthful it was and I was very saddened to discover how badly she was treated not only by her mother but also by Hollywood. It is unfathomable how at such a tender age she was called ugly, a 'little hunchback' by Mayer and overweight. I personally have a close connection with Judy after getting cast as Dorothy in a school show back when I was 12. I used to sit and watch the Wizard of Oz over and over again wishing I could be as good and as pretty as she was. Yet knowing how she was treated during the filming, her breasts being taped down, the forcing of pills into her system will from now on take the magic away for me. Rest in peace Judy, hope life is better for you somewhere over the rainbow.
@@TrangPakbaby It takes the magic away that she was treated so horrifically despite putting on such a brave face. Her talent was undisputed but the fact she was literally abused makes it harder for me to look at her work so fondly knowing how much she was suffering.
Yeah sadly she didn’t have the right people around her, she had narcissistic people who took and took from her and didn’t care… She seemed like a gentle soul honestly and she deserved better … She left her mark though, such a talent… Hopefully she’s at peace now, happy as can be…
@@brkitdwn It's belated, but... of all the various methods of losing weight, the absolute worst is fasting. That's because the last thing the human body loses when it realizes it's in fasting mode is fat, which is a reserve for survival. Be her own admission, Judy's fast was living on tea and cigarettes. That would explain why no matter how thin she got when older, she always had a disproportionately large middle that costumers had to deal with.
Absolutely been in awe of this amazingly talented actress, sadly she died 2 years before I was born & I was first introduced to her at Christmas time watching The Wizard of Oz ❤❤❤❤
I don't understand the references to drugs and intoxication here. Judy seems totally on form to me. She looks great and is very witty. She did have a hesitant deliberate manner in her speech, particulary in later life. I have seen interviews where the effect of pills is evident but not here. A great interview.
@@Chadsfactor30 when she got involved with Syd Luft , he brought alcohol into the relationship as he was a drinker .Before with Judy it was just the pills . Alcohol slows the motor skills .She looks kind of slow here
@@Chadsfactor30 Chad, she went through binges. Here she is sober. She also mentioned fasting for 30 days. Have you ever fasted? Fasting resets the body and mind. She was clear headed and calm. That's the results of fasting.
This really was her last year where she looked great & the voice was still there. She isn't rail thin & is really gorgeous. Her performance @ the Oscars was great.
She had recently completed a 30 day fast, and what you see here is the result. Fasting detoxes the mind body and soul. She was radiant, clear-headed and clean. Unfortunately, she succumbed to her own demons.
@@brkitdwn Thanks for the info. Truth be told, it's a shame that she didn't have the resources & that addiction wasn't treated the way it is now. But I agree with Ray Bolger: who stated @ her funeral that she just wore out. The fact that she was able to get out there & perform so brilliantly is,a testament to her genious
@@brkitdwn When one fasts for an extended period, the first thing to go is muscle, the last thing one loses is fat. The body goes into survival mode, storing fat for that purpose. That is why no matter how thin Judy got- she fasted a few times- she always had a bulging tum-tum. Fasting, especially for 30 days, is dumb and dangerous, unless of course, one doesn't know what fasting means. It doesn't mean ultra-low calorie, just a little snacking. Fasting means no food and no beverages except no-calorie ones like water, tea, black coffee. If detoxing the body and soul means driving oneself crazy, yes, fasting detoxes.
Judy the Queen in a good shape. Wonderful hair style and her smile just breath-taking. As Mickey Rooney once said: "There was no other way round... the drug dependency in 1940's, 1950/s and 1960's... there was not another Betty Ford Center or so what-so-ever and actors steered clear of coming out with their problems publicly. Judy was at times a living hell inside as Ann Miller once said. Sad... but we couldn't love Judy so much now if it had been different Judy Garland 's magical life story... No, frankly... .. I would love all my life Judy just for her charismatic character, charm and the divine voice of Her....
That Lady worked her butt off she was absolutely way to sweet for all those blood suckers that just took n took took and treated her horrible!!!! She is beautiful and so sweet!!!
JUDY GARLAND WAS ENTERTAINMENT , HER OWN PLANET, SHE OWNED HOLLYWOOD it was so tragic that Hollywood didn’t appreciate it and take care of her in return.
A lovely time capsule of the mid-sixties, even the press people were smoking. There's a part of Judy that wanted to please, to conform as "normal." Judy had many hobbies, most of them not mentionable at a press conference, and certainly not cooking, yet she often worked anecdotes about cooking, dressmaking, and motherhood into her public relations. Her last 3 husbands did work for her, including Mark Herron, yet she denied it, often caring about image, oftentimes not caring. A complex woman.
She looked amazing in 65 and totally sober and no pills during this interview. She still lied (Mark Herron) he dumped her right after this. The “I learned to cook at night” bs is because the speed keeps her up all night. We love our Judy!
No one has commented on the absolutely obnoxious introduction and her obvious and stated displeasure at the horrible statements. The annoyance and anger are clear on her face and she says "Oh, dear," then she closes her eyes to compose herself and goes forward with the interview.
Never have seen this. I knew Mark Herren, her then husband. He can be seen at 5:15 The marriage didn't last long, but he had some very interesting and funny stories he would tell about his marriage to her.
amazing - she's so bright she's 3 steps ahead of everybody but not too clever when it came to men but given her life it's no suprise that her relatinships would be problematic I would love to know what her IQ was
Same but there's different types of intelligence isn't there - she's said herself she wasn't too booklearned - and I don't imagine the 'school' at MGM was particularly good or well structured with the kids having to run off to film scenes all the time but I think her emotional intelligence was off the charts which is no doubt what made her such an incredible performer so many can relate to. You can tell looking in someone's eyes how many lights are on and hers are dazzling
Apparently she hated rehearsing and didn't really need to She was a very quick study For the long 'Atchison Topeka and the SantaFe' sequence in The Harvey Girls she grudgingly went through the steps once and did it perfectly Amazingly if you watch it It's filmed in long take - which was unheard of - and of course she's brilliant
Judy appears very real and vulnerable here, even sweet despite her rapier wit. This can't be too long before her death as she mentions Mark Herron. Ann Miller said there was a force field around here which is part of what people responded to when she performed.
She’s very good at acting vulnerable ,like a little girl so interviewers would not confront her or give her a hard time. Liza does same thing by being overly affectionate with interviewer, she doesn’t pull it off as well.
Len Welch I’ve also heard Liza describe herself as a shy introvert. I think sometimes we don’t think of entertainers as being shy but a lot of them are.
The misnomer about Garland was that her life was “for the most part sad”. Her life, like anyone else’s, consists of happy times and sad except hers was lived out on the world stage and exaggerated by the harsh bright lights of media and public scrutiny. Her story within the realms of show business was not a unique one in terms of addiction, failed marriages, mental health struggles, illness. Garland managed to enjoy her relatively short life through sheer willpower and, contrary to her image, a zest for living. In her darkest hours she suffered and endured loneliness: She was human after all and (if one is honest with oneself) we can all relate to times when everything feels too much to bear. But at such times most of us don’t find ourselves exposed in headlines in national and global news.
@Assurance UMX Judy herself was the source of everything tragic, spreading the folklore that she had been overworked, drugged, and ridiculed by her studio, then unloved and cheated by men. "Sympathy is my business," she told Liza, and she was right.
You know I really feel bad; I am taking the Q18 (New York City Transit); M.T.A. and going to Maspeth; Queens, New York City for a beer because this women got no respect and people think they are funny by criticizing her life story what's wrong if there is a God "the lightning bolts" are coming!
matt mammone With all due respect, Matt, Judy was in full command of her faculties during these interviews. However, you're not far off the mark, here...by this time in her life (1964-66), Judy required 6 to 8 Seconals a night to offset the Dexedrine and Ritalin she took, one for her weight, the other for chronic depression, and to battle her natural tendency towards insomnia. She even remarks on offsetting her trouble sleeping by cooking. And to think, she was conditioned to this pharmaceutical madness, by her first film-studio employer, as early as 1935, at the age of 13, which MGM believed became mandatory as she developed into womanhood (they wanted to keep her looking under-developed, like Shirley Temple, who was 5 or 6 years younger), and by the time of the filming of "The Wizard of Oz" in 1938, she was taking amphetamines and barbiturates daily. By the time she was 20, in a "Photoplay" article in 1942, Hedda Hopper was one of the few people in Hollywood who had the courage to write, tastefully, that she was dependent upon chemical help to function daily. Sadly, Ms. Hopper, who adored Judy, was correct.
Dear Matt: Yes, indeed...the stuff builds up in the system, like layers of paint. And when Judy was conditioned to all this, in the 1930s, pills were considered easy and painless ways to treat everything from headaches to weight loss; America's love affair with pharmacology began then. As for the hair-raising fact of MGM doctors prescribing these powerful drugs to a teenager, they were thought of as just medicine...the Great Depression was called that because it kept people sleepless from anxiety (interestingly, a component of depression and constant worry) and in the dumps; in addition, MGM was the world's greatest "Dream Factory" in the 1930s and 1940s, until television knocked it off its high-horse, with the emphasis on "factory"---its motto, "Ars Gratia Artis," Latin for "Art For Art's Sake," was in direct opposition to how the studio was run, which resembled the mechanical efficiency of a meat-packing plant than the aesthetic gentility of a place where shimmering celluloid creations were born. Judy's own horror story was the rule, not the exception.....even adult talents (Judy had the misfortune of arriving at MGM as a minor, which MGM took as license to run her whole life for her, even into adulthood), such as Donald O'Connor, Mickey Rooney, Ann Miller, Debbie Reynolds, Esther Williams, and Elizabeth Taylor and director Joe Mankiewicz) have reported virtually uniform struggles with either/and/or recollections of drug dependency, being worked beyond endurance with producers and directors (according to Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly was tyrannical with her throughout the making of "Singin' in the Rain," which he choreographed and co-produced, and he and director Stanley Donen---who, according to Garland biographer Gerald Clarke, conspired with new MGM head Dore Schary, who displaced Louis B. Mayer in 1951, to have Garland put into the position of being fired for missing a mere one-hour(!) Saturday dance rehearsal) who screamed and ranted rather than behaved in a humane and rational fashion, and being made to keep film commitments even during personal tragedies, such as deaths in the family and miscarriages (Judy was given Benzedrine at the worst possible time---November, 1935---when her beloved father passed away, and given no time to grieve or sent to a counselor for professional help; her mother, proud of her youngest child's gifts but hardly sad about the death of a gay husband, was salt in the wound Judy carried the rest of her life. Judy found she like the Benzedrine, dubbing them her "Happy Pills," because---at least, in the beginning---they helped her cope with the major depression she suffered over her father's death, so from the onset, she took as many as she liked (and necessitated the need for Seconal, since the Bennies aggravated her insomnia and the daily grind of having to "sparkle, Judy sparkle!" at six in the morning until almost midnight, a practiced then permitted until after WWII, to get the heavy demand for a Judy Garland picture finished and into theatres in the early 1940s. It was madness then, and it's madness, now. And so sad!
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This woman was & still remains in a whole other lane to every other singer/entertainer out there. Judy Garland will forever be the ultimate. Period.
Amen! Period!
Agreed!
Beautiful! Such dignity and grace!
She was so witty, charming, beautiful. There will never be another one like her. Thank GOD for video and film.
she's just amazing...
God she's beautiful. There is just an aura that she gives off that is pure magic. No matter how many bits she's in, that never leaves her. They could never take that from her.
She sure is beautiful!! How in the world did they treat her so bad! Calling her hump back how dare n how horrible!
@@shirleypoplo3341 she did have scoliosis though so you can see especially as she got older she did have quite a curve in her shoulders, but calling someone a hunchback - especially a kid makes them feel like quasimodo. Liza has it too which is why she's got one shoulder higher than the other. I wish more people told her how gorgeous, wonderful, funny and kind she was.
Yes! Can you imagine doing 19 films in just a couple of years as I heard her daughter say as well as Judy during a interview on a British show. She couldn’t rest for a time. Just go, go, go. She was driven so hard and yet just kept going like a magical dancing fairy with an out of world voice.
Judy Garland looking and sounding magnificent, love her forever...
Love when she speaks "marvelous"...😍
Judy was so funny and not always the tragic figure people said of her!! What a legend and we have so few of them now!!
I have recently looked into Judy Garland's life after seeing a comment online that she was forced into taking pills at a very young age. I wanted to see how truthful it was and I was very saddened to discover how badly she was treated not only by her mother but also by Hollywood. It is unfathomable how at such a tender age she was called ugly, a 'little hunchback' by Mayer and overweight. I personally have a close connection with Judy after getting cast as Dorothy in a school show back when I was 12. I used to sit and watch the Wizard of Oz over and over again wishing I could be as good and as pretty as she was. Yet knowing how she was treated during the filming, her breasts being taped down, the forcing of pills into her system will from now on take the magic away for me. Rest in peace Judy, hope life is better for you somewhere over the rainbow.
It shouldnt take the magic away because despite the abuse she persevered and shared her talent with the world. She packed a lot of life in 47 years.
@@TrangPakbaby It takes the magic away that she was treated so horrifically despite putting on such a brave face. Her talent was undisputed but the fact she was literally abused makes it harder for me to look at her work so fondly knowing how much she was suffering.
Yeah sadly she didn’t have the right people around her, she had narcissistic people who took and took from her and didn’t care… She seemed like a gentle soul honestly and she deserved better … She left her mark though, such a talent… Hopefully she’s at peace now, happy as can be…
I love how the interviewer says "Madame" Garland. Its so classy!
This is one of my all time favorite interviews of Miss Garland and she is so with it and so funny and so happy!!
I love the interview, its like it was taken this modern era, she was super humorous and I love that about her🥰🥰🥰🥰
My one very very Favorite look of Judy's . The whole aura seemingly slow" sedation" yet relaxed and her entire composure are beautiful .
Judy was a great entertainer! More importantly, she was an even greater woman! It’s beyond obvious that she is a wonderful angel in Heaven!
Our girl looks AMAZING here!
Fasting has that effect
@@brkitdwn It's belated, but... of all the various methods of losing weight, the absolute worst is fasting. That's because the last thing the human body loses when it realizes it's in fasting mode is fat, which is a reserve for survival. Be her own admission, Judy's fast was living on tea and cigarettes. That would explain why no matter how thin she got when older, she always had a disproportionately large middle that costumers had to deal with.
Absolutely been in awe of this amazingly talented actress, sadly she died 2 years before I was born & I was first introduced to her at Christmas time watching The Wizard of Oz ❤❤❤❤
I Respect plus love her!!!!
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I don't understand the references to drugs and intoxication here. Judy seems totally on form to me. She looks great and is very witty. She did have a hesitant deliberate manner in her speech, particulary in later life. I have seen interviews where the effect of pills is evident but not here. A great interview.
I wouldn't say she is completely intoxicated here, no . But under the influence for sure. She is dazed and not really sharp.
Judy is fabulous....
@@Chadsfactor30 when she got involved with Syd Luft , he brought alcohol into the relationship as he was a drinker .Before with Judy it was just the pills . Alcohol slows the motor skills .She looks kind of slow here
@@Chadsfactor30 Chad, she went through binges. Here she is sober. She also mentioned fasting for 30 days. Have you ever fasted? Fasting resets the body and mind. She was clear headed and calm. That's the results of fasting.
I think she was on guard with the interviewer. His introduction mentioning her "several breakdowns" probably made her heart sink a little.
This really was her last year where she looked great & the voice was still there. She isn't rail thin & is really gorgeous. Her performance @ the Oscars was great.
She had recently completed a 30 day fast, and what you see here is the result. Fasting detoxes the mind body and soul. She was radiant, clear-headed and clean. Unfortunately, she succumbed to her own demons.
@@brkitdwn Thanks for the info. Truth be told, it's a shame that she didn't have the resources & that addiction wasn't treated the way it is now. But I agree with Ray Bolger: who stated @ her funeral that she just wore out. The fact that she was able to get out there & perform so brilliantly is,a testament to her genious
@@drewdeflon4497 that is true. He told on TV one time that Judy didn't die, she just plum wore out. 😓
@@brkitdwn When one fasts for an extended period, the first thing to go is muscle, the last thing one loses is fat. The body goes into survival mode, storing fat for that purpose. That is why no matter how thin Judy got- she fasted a few times- she always had a bulging tum-tum. Fasting, especially for 30 days, is dumb and dangerous, unless of course, one doesn't know what fasting means. It doesn't mean ultra-low calorie, just a little snacking. Fasting means no food and no beverages except no-calorie ones like water, tea, black coffee. If detoxing the body and soul means driving oneself crazy, yes, fasting detoxes.
Judy the Queen in a good shape. Wonderful hair style and her smile just breath-taking.
As Mickey Rooney once said: "There was no other way round... the drug dependency in 1940's, 1950/s and 1960's... there was not another Betty Ford Center or so what-so-ever and actors steered clear of coming out with their problems publicly.
Judy was at times a living hell inside as Ann Miller once said.
Sad... but we couldn't love Judy so much now if it had been different Judy Garland 's magical life story... No, frankly... .. I would love all my life Judy just for her charismatic character, charm and the divine voice of Her....
she's simply amazing isn't she, did your see her light up when he started about liza?! :)
real love
That Lady worked her butt off she was absolutely way to sweet for all those blood suckers that just took n took took and treated her horrible!!!! She is beautiful and so sweet!!!
so beautiful..
inside out she was beautiful person
She was the best and no one other than one that I can think of, as far as singing goes, will always be an icon
*Her cooking was like therapy I bet*
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It's a true testament how Judy was so much larger than life, but somehow remained so grounded.
Very charming woman, her father would've been very proud of her.
This is a great video. I wish there were more of these.
*I sooo much appreciate her and what she had been though such talent being abused still tried and tried. Even with all the bullshit*
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JUDY GARLAND WAS ENTERTAINMENT , HER OWN PLANET,
SHE OWNED HOLLYWOOD
it was so tragic that Hollywood didn’t appreciate it and take care of her in return.
"I slap myself on the hip. I do! Like an old pony..."
She was so beautiful
Love Love Judy She Bought So Much Happeness Too Everyone She Was A True Star I Just Hope She's Found Much Peace Now Love You Judy ❤️💔
A lovely time capsule of the mid-sixties, even the press people were smoking. There's a part of Judy that wanted to please, to conform as "normal." Judy had many hobbies, most of them not mentionable at a press conference, and certainly not cooking, yet she often worked anecdotes about cooking, dressmaking, and motherhood into her public relations. Her last 3 husbands did work for her, including Mark Herron, yet she denied it, often caring about image, oftentimes not caring. A complex woman.
See you over the 🌈 rainbow dear Judy 🙏 xx
The part where he says, "God forbid you.." and she says so forcefully, "That I DIE?" Eesh that part was a bit eery.
Judy was awesome funny too !
"No, I kick the cat." hahahahahaha !!!!
That was so cute
That’s hilarious 😂
QUEEN.
I always have a hard time seeing Judy in Liza, I always see her father but in this interview I can see Liza a lot.
Judy had so much talent wit and had so much humor
💕beautiful💕
Thank You for this ❤️
She looked amazing in 65 and totally sober and no pills during this interview. She still lied (Mark Herron) he dumped her right after this. The “I learned to cook at night” bs is because the speed keeps her up all night. We love our Judy!
She died at 47 so she sure as hell isn’t 65 here!
No one has commented on the absolutely obnoxious introduction and her obvious and stated displeasure at the horrible statements. The annoyance and anger are clear on her face and she says "Oh, dear," then she closes her eyes to compose herself and goes forward with the interview.
Liza said she looked better when she was married to Mark Herron. After she divorced him, noticed she went down quickly.
I don’t support kicking cats but it makes me laugh when she says, “no, I kick the cat.”
Never have seen this. I knew Mark Herren, her then husband. He can be seen at 5:15 The marriage didn't last long, but he had some very interesting and funny stories he would tell about his marriage to her.
amazing - she's so bright she's 3 steps ahead of everybody
but not too clever when it came to men but given her life it's no suprise that her relatinships would be problematic
I would love to know what her IQ was
Same but there's different types of intelligence isn't there - she's said herself she wasn't too booklearned - and I don't imagine the 'school' at MGM was particularly good or well structured with the kids having to run off to film scenes all the time but I think her emotional intelligence was off the charts which is no doubt what made her such an incredible performer so many can relate to. You can tell looking in someone's eyes how many lights are on and hers are dazzling
Judy was an avid reader and very intelligent. I don't remember where I read it, but I remember reading her IQ was 160.
Apparently she hated rehearsing and didn't really need to
She was a very quick study
For the long 'Atchison Topeka and the SantaFe' sequence in The Harvey Girls she grudgingly went through the steps once and did it perfectly
Amazingly if you watch it It's filmed in long take - which was unheard of - and of course she's brilliant
@@marisanmarisan357 You're remembering Jayne Mansfield's famous IQ: 165. Jayne assigned that number to herself, and nobody has ever questioned it.
WTH kind of an introduction is that? 3 marriages, several breakdowns and same old magic?😅 how insulting. Hosts were bold back in the day lol
It's hard to believe this kind of fame doesn't come with fortune.
Judy appears very real and vulnerable here, even sweet despite her rapier wit. This can't be too long before her death as she mentions Mark Herron. Ann Miller said there was a force field around here which is part of what people responded to when she performed.
She’s very good at acting vulnerable ,like a little girl so interviewers would not confront her or give her a hard time. Liza does same thing by being overly affectionate with interviewer, she doesn’t pull it off as well.
Len Welch I’ve also heard Liza describe herself as a shy introvert. I think sometimes we don’t think of entertainers as being shy but a lot of them are.
@@lindseysanders3656 Streisand, has said she's very shy.
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I kick the cat! lol love her!
i read that it was in the 160s
#Lovecraft got me here
her mom threw her to the "dogs" at MGM and they used her as much as possible then tossed her aside. Her life for the most part was sad.
shut up kirk
I don't think she would agree with you.
The misnomer about Garland was that her life was “for the most part sad”. Her life, like anyone else’s, consists of happy times and sad except hers was lived out on the world stage and exaggerated by the harsh bright lights of media and public scrutiny. Her story within the realms of show business was not a unique one in terms of addiction, failed marriages, mental health struggles, illness. Garland managed to enjoy her relatively short life through sheer willpower and, contrary to her image, a zest for living. In her darkest hours she suffered and endured loneliness: She was human after all and (if one is honest with oneself) we can all relate to times when everything feels too much to bear. But at such times most of us don’t find ourselves exposed in headlines in national and global news.
@@elspethcoogan1499 Well said!
@Assurance UMX Judy herself was the source of everything tragic, spreading the folklore that she had been overworked, drugged, and ridiculed by her studio, then unloved and cheated by men. "Sympathy is my business," she told Liza, and she was right.
Oh
when was she in Toronto?
You know I really feel bad; I am taking the Q18 (New York City Transit); M.T.A. and going to Maspeth; Queens, New York City for a beer because this women got no respect and people think they are funny by criticizing her life story what's wrong if there is a God "the lightning bolts" are coming!
:-/ I wish she was more sober....love you Judy.
Aw man. Sorry for Judy. She must have taken a load of Seconal the night before.
matt mammone With all due respect, Matt, Judy was in full command of her faculties during these interviews. However, you're not far off the mark, here...by this time in her life (1964-66), Judy required 6 to 8 Seconals a night to offset the Dexedrine and Ritalin she took, one for her weight, the other for chronic depression, and to battle her natural tendency towards insomnia. She even remarks on offsetting her trouble sleeping by cooking. And to think, she was conditioned to this pharmaceutical madness, by her first film-studio employer, as early as 1935, at the age of 13, which MGM believed became mandatory as she developed into womanhood (they wanted to keep her looking under-developed, like Shirley Temple, who was 5 or 6 years younger), and by the time of the filming of "The Wizard of Oz" in 1938, she was taking amphetamines and barbiturates daily. By the time she was 20, in a "Photoplay" article in 1942, Hedda Hopper was one of the few people in Hollywood who had the courage to write, tastefully, that she was dependent upon chemical help to function daily. Sadly, Ms. Hopper, who adored Judy, was correct.
Dear Matt: Yes, indeed...the stuff builds up in the system, like layers of paint. And when Judy was conditioned to all this, in the 1930s, pills were considered easy and painless ways to treat everything from headaches to weight loss; America's love affair with pharmacology began then. As for the hair-raising fact of MGM doctors prescribing these powerful drugs to a teenager, they were thought of as just medicine...the Great Depression was called that because it kept people sleepless from anxiety (interestingly, a component of depression and constant worry) and in the dumps; in addition, MGM was the world's greatest "Dream Factory" in the 1930s and 1940s, until television knocked it off its high-horse, with the emphasis on "factory"---its motto, "Ars Gratia Artis," Latin for "Art For Art's Sake," was in direct opposition to how the studio was run, which resembled the mechanical efficiency of a meat-packing plant than the aesthetic gentility of a place where shimmering celluloid creations were born. Judy's own horror story was the rule, not the exception.....even adult talents (Judy had the misfortune of arriving at MGM as a minor, which MGM took as license to run her whole life for her, even into adulthood), such as Donald O'Connor, Mickey Rooney, Ann Miller, Debbie Reynolds, Esther Williams, and Elizabeth Taylor and director Joe Mankiewicz) have reported virtually uniform struggles with either/and/or recollections of drug dependency, being worked beyond endurance with producers and directors (according to Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly was tyrannical with her throughout the making of "Singin' in the Rain," which he choreographed and co-produced, and he and director Stanley Donen---who, according to Garland biographer Gerald Clarke, conspired with new MGM head Dore Schary, who displaced Louis B. Mayer in 1951, to have Garland put into the position of being fired for missing a mere one-hour(!) Saturday dance rehearsal) who screamed and ranted rather than behaved in a humane and rational fashion, and being made to keep film commitments even during personal tragedies, such as deaths in the family and miscarriages (Judy was given Benzedrine at the worst possible time---November, 1935---when her beloved father passed away, and given no time to grieve or sent to a counselor for professional help; her mother, proud of her youngest child's gifts but hardly sad about the death of a gay husband, was salt in the wound Judy carried the rest of her life. Judy found she like the Benzedrine, dubbing them her "Happy Pills," because---at least, in the beginning---they helped her cope with the major depression she suffered over her father's death, so from the onset, she took as many as she liked (and necessitated the need for Seconal, since the Bennies aggravated her insomnia and the daily grind of having to "sparkle, Judy sparkle!" at six in the morning until almost midnight, a practiced then permitted until after WWII, to get the heavy demand for a Judy Garland picture finished and into theatres in the early 1940s. It was madness then, and it's madness, now. And so sad!
She was taking amphetamines during the day and sleeping pills at night....but, thats show biz...
she seems sedated
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Very Liza here.