Judy Garland

American singer, actress, and vaudevillian, Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm), was born on June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. She was acclaimed for her deep vocals. She started performing with her older sisters, Suzanne Gumm and Jimmie Gumm in Vaudeville. Her parents were settled in Grand Rapids, where they ran a movie theater. Judy was of Scottish, English, and Irish origin. She was named after her parents at a local priestly church. She did her schooling from Hollywood High School and later got graduated from University High School. Her first appearance was on the stage of her father’s movie theater when she was just two-and-half years old during a Christmas show where she sang a chorus of Jingle Bells. The Gumm Sisters made their…

Judy Garland Life in the spotlight is not always as glamorous as it appears to be. Judy Garland, who is most recognized as Dorothy, spent nearly her whole life in the show business. Her appearance made it seem that she had her whole life together, but she had more problems than most realized. She had tons of men, kids, and an outstanding career; what more could a girl want? All of the critiques of show business pushed her in ways she would never imagine. Judy Garland was born on June 10, 1922.…

Judy Garland, on Drugs, Drink, Suicide Attempts and Her Loathing of Hollywood Many know her as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. But there was much more trouble behind Judy Garland than just a pair of ruby slippers. At the young and innocent age of 17 she starred in her 7th film, “The Wizard of Oz”. The same year she had her hand and shoe prints forever embedded in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The reality of her envied life was not so pretty however. The pressures were harsh and so was the work…

Parade (1948) is a musical and a romance about a man, Don Hewes (Fred Astire) who vows to find a dance partner who he can make better than his old dance partner, Nadine Hale (Ann Miller). He eventually finds Hannah Brown (Judy Garland) and they start off really bad. They become a sensational duo after Don figures out what Hannah’s singing and dancing abilities are best at and the two eventually fall in love with each other in the film. Judy Garland is a sensational actor. She has made a big…

The song Over The Rainbow is a very iconic song sung by Judy Garland in the late 1930s. This song was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz that is most likely where it gained most of its popularity and praise. The song has also had a very unique cover done by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole in 1993. This cover of the popular ballad was and is loved by many. This cover also includes a verse from the song What a Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong. Although songs that are covered have mostly the same…

Louis, Minnelli was granted creative freedom to explore more unique and artistic films. One such film was The Pirate starring Gene Kelly and Minnelli’s wife, Judy Garland. While The Pirate endured tumultuous filming, negative critical reviews and underwhelming box office, it still stands as one of Minnelli’s most intriguing pieces of work. While he had been less outright with his feminist perspective in Meet Me in St. Louis, he enjoyed his newly allotted creative freedom to explore the idea in…

Drafts of Nancy drew Case background When Nancy was driving, she saw a little girl. She was in the middle of the road and the truck kept on honking her. When the girl went to the side of the road she fell off a shallow cliff and Nancy went together. The little girl’s great aunt told Nancy to bring her in. The great aunt thanked Nancy for getting Judy backup. She said that Judy’s parents had died in a boat explosion and they left very less money for her. A cousin of the aunt's father, Josiah…

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American singer, actress, and vaudevillian. She was renowned for her contralto vocals[1][2] and attained international stardom that continued throughout a career spanning more than 40 years as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on concert stages.[1] Garland began performing in vaudeville with her two older sisters and was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There, she made…

Born on June 10,1922 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, Judy Garland always led a very troubled life, mostly because in the start she was an unwanted child. When her mother, Ethel Milne Gumm, discovered she was pregnant it wasn’t happy news, it even drove her dad, Frank Gumm, to contact his friend (who was a medical student) to ask about ways to terminate the child. During this time period abortion was very much illegal and the procedure around could harm the mother’s well being so they were advised to…

realized that the kindest action to take would be to let Ophelia decide her own fate, although she clearly was not in a fit state of mind to do this and was barely aware of her surroundings “incapable of her own distress.” Ophelia’s death is “beautified” as she dies in a romantic and beautiful scene befitting her character where she was surrounded by her garland of flowers. (Ophelia herself was “beautified” in a letter from Hamlet which Polonius found to be a “vile phrase.”) There is much…