On September 26, 1960, Bennett Cerf of Random House wrote a letter printed in the fan publication “Garland Gazette” that said Random House had “not yet seen one line of manuscript of the Judy Garland autobiography.
Judy was paid an advance of $35,000, and she and Finklehoffe recorded their sessions on audiotape some of which have survived, listen to some of those recordings here. Finklehoffe had written the screenplays for some of Judy’s greatest films including Babes on Broadway, For Me And My Gal, Girl Crazy, and Meet Me In St. Titled “The Judy Garland Story,” the book was to be a collaboration with Fred Finklehoffe. January 2, 1960: Judy was still convalescing from her bout with hepatitis when she signed a contract with Random House, to write her autobiography.
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Much of the information and media on this page was provided by many wonderful Garland fans as well as from the collection of the author plus the many biographies and other books about Judy Garland, her peers, and film studies in general.Ī big shout out to Scott Schechter’s still invaluable 2002 book “ Judy Garland – The Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Legend” as well as newspaper online archives. Ever the trouper, she carried on and in spite of the unwanted change in her voice she nevertheless still cast her mesmerizing spell on audiences around the world. Unfortunately, by the middle of the decade, Judy had suffered a near-death experience that almost destroyed her already weakened system, and did permanent damage to her voice.
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In spite of the short success of her TV series and the four films she made before the middle of the decade (five films if you count her vocal-only one solo in Pepe), she always returned to her first true love, the stage. From there she conquered TV with her now-classic series, “The Judy Garland Show” while also becoming a favorite on the talk show circuit. By the middle of 1960, she was back on the concert trail with a renewed vigor and a profound change in her voice making it (as if it wasn’t amazing, to begin with), more electrifying than ever before.ġ961 saw Judy reach her apex with her instantly legendary concert at Carnegie Hall. It was so serious that doctors told her she would never perform again but she miraculously bounced back. She had just survived a horrible bout with hepatitis.
In the early 1960s, Judy Garland enjoyed a golden era, a career renaissance that was unprecedented.
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