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i wish Louella Parsons "GOOD NEWS" from a 1949 MODERN SCREEN magazine had indeed been correct . . . she died twenty years later of an accidental overdose of barbiturates. .
" WHAT IS really the matter with Judy Garland? That is the question hurled at me everywhere I go.
All right, let's get at it.
Judy is a nervous and frail little girl who suffers from a sensitiveness almost bordering on neurosis. It is her particular temperament to be either walking in the clouds with excitement or way down in the dumps with worry. The least thing to go wrong leaves her sleepless and shattered.
She has never learned the philosophy of "taking it easy." Last year, when she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, she got in the habit of taking sleeping pills -- too many of them -- to get the rest she had to have. I'm not revealing any secrets telling you that. It was printed at the time. But for a highly emotional and highly strung girl to completely abandon sedatives, as Judy attempted to do when she realized she was taking too many, puts a terrific strain on the nervous system.
The trouble is, Judy does not take enough time to rest. The minute she starts feeling better she wants to go back to work. She cried like a baby when she learned she was not strong enough to make The Barkleys of Broadway with Fred Astaire so soon following The Pirate and Easter Parade.
"I'm missing the greatest role of my career," she sobbed. With Judy -- each role is always the greatest.
Sometimes I believe Judy's frail little form is packed with too much talent for her own good. She is an artist, and I mean ARTIST, at too many things.
She sings wonderfully and dances almost as well. And as for her acting -- well, listen to what Joseph Schenk, one of the really big men of our industry and head of 20th Century Fox (not Judy's studio) has to say. I sat next to Joe the night we saw Easter Parade. He told me, "Judy Garland is one of the great artists of the screen. She can do anything. I consider her as fine an actress as she is a musical comedy star. There is no drama I wouldn't trust her with. She could play such drama as Seventh Heaven as sensitively as a Janet Gaynor or a Helen Mencken." And I agree with every word Joe said.
I am happy to tell you as I report the Hollywood news this month that Judy is coming along wonderfully, resting and getting back the bloom of health. Soon we will have her back on the screen -- her long battle with old Devil Nerves behind her and forgotten."
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Added: 6th September 2007
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John Candy (1950-1994)
John Ritter (1948-2003)
Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
Kenneth McMillan (1932-1989)
Karen Carpenter (1950-1983)
Raymond Burr (1917-1993)
Walter Matthau (1920-2000)
Roy Orbison (1936-1988)
Sorrell Booke (1930-1994)
Earl Hindman (1942-2003)
Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004)
Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)
Jerry Orbach (1935-2004)
Judy Garland (1922-1969)
John Wayne (1907-1979)
Jack Lemmon (1925-2001)
Charles Rocket (1949-2005)
James Dean (1931-1955)
Natalie Wood (1938-1981)
Steve Irwin (1962-2006)
Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)
Steve McQueen (1930-1980)
River Phoenix (1970-1993)
George Peppard (1928-1994)
Denver Pyle (1920-1997)
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Added: 1st October 2007
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Judy Garland (1922-1969)
John Wayne (1907-1979)
John Ritter (1948-2003)
Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
Walter Matthau (1920-2000)
Jerry Orbach (1935-2004)
John Candy (1950-1994)
James Dean (1931-1955)
Anthony Quinn (1915-2001)
Karen Carpenter (1950-1983)
Richard Nixon (1913-1994)
Roy Orbison (1936-1988)
River Phoenix (1970-1993)
Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004)
Jack Lemmon (1925-2001)
George Peppard (1928-1994)
Steve Irwin (1962-2006)
Steve McQueen (1930-1980)
Sorrell Booke (1930-1994)
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Added: 1st October 2007
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Posted By: Guido |
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This is a wonderful song, originally written back in 1913, that was recorded again by Judy Garland in 1937. Clark Gable passed away on November 16th, 1960, from a fourth heart attack, just two weeks after filming The Misfits, with Marilyn Monroe.
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Added: 16th November 2007
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technicolor Movie stars of the 30's, 40's, 50's . . . Judy Garland, Betty Grable, Maureen O'Hara, Lucille Ball, Carmen Miranda, Esther Williams, Ingrid Bergman, Vivian Leigh, Merle Oberon, Marlène Dietrich, Arlène Dahl, Maria Montez, Alice Faye. . . .
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Added: 25th November 2007
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Here's another wonderful performance by Judy Garland that brings back alot of memories, and some tears as well. It's from the 1944 film, Meet Me in St Louis. It tells the story of four sisters living in St. Louis at the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair in 1904. Judy met her future husband while making this film, he was the director, Vincent Minnelli. In 2005, Time.com named Meet Me in St Louis as one of the 100 best movies of the last 80 years.
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Added: 9th December 2007
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