Judy Garland
Birthday: 1922-06-10
Place of Birth: Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA
Biography: Judy Garland, born Frances Ethel Gumm, (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville with her sisters, Jimmie and Suzie. Judy was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. There she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney and "The Wizard of Oz". After fifteen years, Garland was released from the studio but gained renewed success through concert appearances and later a return to acting. Through a career, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on the concert stage. She received a juvenile Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award as well as a Grammy Award, and a Special Tony Award. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for "A Star is Born" (1954) and Best Supporting Actress for "Judgement at Nuremberg" (1961). At forty, she was the youngest recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the motion picture industry. In 1997, Garland was posthumously awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Several of her recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 1999, the American Film Institute placed her among the ten greatest female stars in the history of American cinema.
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Meet Me in St. Louis
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The Wizard of Oz
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Judgment at Nuremberg
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A Star Is Born
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James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
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Gay Purr-ee
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In the Good Old Summertime
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Babes in Arms
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Ziegfeld Girl
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For Me and My Gal
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The Pirate
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Girl Crazy
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The Harvey Girls
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Easter Parade
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Summer Stock
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Ziegfeld Follies
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Everybody Sing
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Words and Music
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Presenting Lily Mars
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Thousands Cheer
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Babes on Broadway
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Life Begins for Andy Hardy
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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
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Little Nellie Kelly
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Strike Up the Band
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Love Finds Andy Hardy
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Broadway Melody of 1938
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Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
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Every Sunday
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Till the Clouds Roll By
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs fro...
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Legendary Christmas Entertainers
Here are all your favorite holiday entertainers on one delightful DVD! Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, J...
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Showbiz Goes to War
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Listen, Darling
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The Clock
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Pigskin Parade
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Judy Garland: The Concert Years
This very special program-hosted by Judy's daughter, Lorna Luft-is a loving tribute to the life and ...
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Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
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I Could Go on Singing
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
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A Child Is Waiting
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hans...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC....
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Judy Garland: By Myself
As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever ...
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Bubbles
A Vitaphone Varieties short. Features costumed children in a cavern-like land of make-believe where ...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archi...
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Easter Parade: On the Avenue
This documentary tells the story of the making of Irving Berlin's Easter Parade....
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Judy and Liza at the Palladium
This classic show was one of Judy's last appearances at the historic Palladium Theatre in London. Th...
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That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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MGM Christmas Trailer
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Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
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Judy Garland, Robert Goulet & Phil Silvers Special
This very special television event that aired February 1963 helped launch the famed Judy Garland Sho...
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Strictly G.I.
A filmed broadcast of the Command Performance radio programs in which various Hollywood stars appear...
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Judy in a Land Called Oz
Ian Stahlhut's 1992 documentary of Judy Garland's 1964 Australian Tour....
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Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
In a deconstruction of classic Hollywood codes, using repetitive single frame images, the re-editing...
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We Must Have Music
A short history of movie music is presented, from silent films accompanied by a single piano, to the...
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Pepe
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The Dark Side of the Rainbow
The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side o...
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Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he forme...
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Judy Garland Duets
Judy performs beloved musical numbers with Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, and more in this series ...
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That's Entertainment! III
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929...
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A Tale of Two Sisters - Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli
Documentary which aired on television in 2004, about the two daughters of Judy Garland and their rel...
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The Music According to Tom Jobim
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Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Highlights from the great musicals of the 1940s. Stars featured include Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney,...
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From the Ends of the Earth
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Fe...
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Andy Hardy Comes Home
Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and...
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The Big Revue
A musical revue featuring children, primarily girls, is presented. The first number has a chorus of ...
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Hollywood Goes to Town
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest wo...
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Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind th...
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The Judy Garland Christmas Show
1963 Christmas show of the short-lived The Judy Garland Show...
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La La La
When the silent cinema learned to speak, the audience was surprised not only by the voices of the ac...
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To Oz! The Making of a Classic
A look into how L. Frank Baum's classic novel was transformed into one of the most beloved films of ...
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Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
A retrospective of Chita Rivera's film, television and stage career, including interviews with Dick ...
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...
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Sid & Judy
Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entert...
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My Music: A Classic Christmas
Gavin MacLeod and Marion Ross host a Christmas celebration that features classic performances of pop...
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A Holiday in Storyland
This short features Judy Garland's very first film solo, Blue Butterfly. The film footage no longer ...
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That's Dancing!
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie ca...
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The Judy Garland Show
This CBS television special, filmed in 1962, brings together three legends in a once-in-a-lifetime c...
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of c...
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Hollywood’s Children
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell...
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Reunited at MGM: Astaire and Rogers Together Again
A cherished remembrance of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers reunited for the film, "The Barkleys of Br...
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Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Judy Garland
Rarely seen movie trailers reveal Judy Garland's rise to stardom. Hosted by Robert Osborne....
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The Polio Crusade
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
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March of Dimes
Judy and Mickey make a plea for folks to send in money to help fight polio....
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Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe
A tribute to the screen work of Joe Dallesandro set to the music of Judy Garland....
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
A two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s....
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
This is a two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1940s....
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
During the 1950s, musical masterpieces that have yet to be equaled were produced in Cinemascope with...
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Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's
Documentary looking at the history of Hollywood musicals in the 1960s. This decade saw independent f...
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story
An aspiring singer is tasked with promoting the music catalogue of his great-grandfather, the famous...
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BBC Proms - A Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals
Clive Anderson introduces this special concert celebrating 75 years of classic MGM film musicals. Pe...
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Judy Garland Speaks
Between 1963 and 1967, Garland was down on her luck financially, and planned to write a biography. T...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
The top 100 songs of the past 100 years chosen by the American Film Institute are presented by host-...
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Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
Gene Kelly is a legend of the heyday of the Hollywood musical. His name stands for masterpieces such...
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A Bunch of Amateurs
A bunch of British working class amateur filmmakers with nothing left to lose tackle one of Hollywoo...
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Ode to Dorothy
Ode to Dorothy reexamines the relationships of the main characters in The Wizard of Oz, revealing th...
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Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
Rich with archival gems and Liza Minnelli’s own point of view, Bruce David Klein's luminous document...
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Bride of Trailer Camp
A compilation of "coming attractions" from bad '50s melodrama through the greatest disaster movies o...
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Jacqueline Susann and the Valley of the Dolls
Documentary about novelist Jacqueline Susann and her novel "Valley of the Dolls."...
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It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
Rising musician Jeff Buckley had only released one album when he died suddenly in 1997. Now, never-b...
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Oz
A behind-the-scenes look at the 1939 Wizard of Oz film adaptation that tested the limits of its crea...
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That's Dancing!
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie ca...
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The Wizard of Oz at Sphere
The Wizard of Oz at Sphere will transport audiences, making them feel like they have stepped inside ...
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