Mickey and Judy on the Judy Garland showJudy Garland singing Over the Rainbow in 1943The Wizard Of Oz
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Myspace Graphics at 123glitter.comJudy and Mickey at an award ceremonyOriginal caption: Film actress Judy Garland, celebrating her birthday at the Santa Monica beach home of Louis B, Mayer, receives birthday kisses from Jackie Cooper, (L) and Mickey Rooney, also of the film colony's juvenile set. Judy was 16 years old.Original caption: 6/9/1955- Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, who were childhood stars together at MGM, are reunited in Las Vegas at the Riviera Hotel, where Mickey opened a 4-week engagement last night. Judy came to Las Vegas to see Mickey's new show. This is the first picture taken of the pair together in several years.Mickey, Judy and Shirley Temple!Judy's pin from the 1930's.
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Over the RainbowWhen all the world is a hopeless jumble And the raindrops tumble all around Heaven opens a magic laneWhen all the clouds darken up the skyway There's a rainbow highway to be found Leading from your windowpaneTo a place behind the sun Just a step beyond the rainSomewhere, over the rainbow Way up high There's a land that I dreamed of Once in a lullabyeSomewhere, over the rainbow Skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come trueSome day I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me Where laughter falls like lemon drops away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find meSomewhere, over the rainbow Skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come trueIf happy little bluebirds fly Beyond the rainbow Why, oh, why can't I?
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935)
Every Sunday (1936)
Pigskin Parade (1936)
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)
Silent Night (1937)
Everybody Sing (1938)
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Listen, Darling (1938)
Hollywood Goes To town (1938)
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Babes in Arms (1939)
If I Forget You (1940)
Andy Hardy Meet Debutante (1940)
Strike up the Band (1940)
Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)
Babes on Broadway (1941)
We Must Have Music (1941)
For Me and My Gal (1942)
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Girl Crazy (1943)
Thousands Cheer (1943)
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
The Clock (1945)
The Harvey Girls (1946)
Ziegfeld Follies of 1946 (1946)
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6. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
Judy Garland gets a scare as cops unearth a kidnap plot!(from Movie and Radio Guide, March 23-29, 1940) HARDLY was Judy Garland over the thrill of being named the year's best juvenile and winning an Academy Award, than three carloads of police skidded to a stop in front of the Garland Canyon home, announced a threat had been made to kidnap Judy - and that they were there to see the plot wasn't carried out. Police radios crackled with instructions, cars were stopped, strangers questioned. The neighborhood was in an uproar in a jiffy.Soon Robert Wilson, a 19-year-old Buffalo, N. Y. transient, was in custody. His plot to abduct the young singing star, drive her into the mountains and hold her for $50,000 ransom resulted in his being booked on a charge of suspicion of kidnapping and being held for a mental examination. He had become panicky, "tipped off" the police to his plan via telephone. It was this "tip off" on his own contemplated crime that proved his undoing. To the public, the news of the kidnap plot was very exciting. Judy herself can be excused for feeling a bit nervous about it. But to Hollywood, the threat was simply another in the never-ending real and imaginary plots against the stars.Judy's studio (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) wasn't any too pleased over all the hue and cry. Officials branded all the excitement as a "super-colossal production by the police department."Behind that attitude is to be found the real story of the manner in which kidnapping threats are handled in Hollywood. Threats of one kind and another constantly are being intercepted by the studios, at the rate of about 1,500 per year. Few of these threats ever reach the public prints, and only in rare instances is the Federal Bureau of Investigation called in.Usually these plots are handled almost entirely by studio police, who quietly and efficiently investigate each threat and take whatever measures are necessary to protect their stars. A lot is done, but little said. The public usually never hears about it - and the stars, themselves, except in rare instances, never know their safety has been threatened!Reason for that attitude on the part of the studios is to keep resultant and too sensational publicity from being spread about their players and the film capital. It's only in isolated cases - like the Judy Garland threat - that the system fails to work.
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Mickey and Judy in "Girl Crazy"Dancing Judythe Judy Garland RoseJudy Garland Faces StardomTradition turns topsy-turvy as this thirteen-year-old jostles her elders for first placeby Victoria Johnson (from Modern Movies, August 1937) JUDY GARLAND, child wonder of the screen, bursts upon an astonished world. She's the cutest little dancer and blues singer that's ever been seen or heard. She is only thirteen [ed. note: Judy was 13 when she signed with MGM in September 1935], but already has years of professional life behind her.Judy comes of a theatrical family and has been in almost every city in the United States with her parents "on the road." There were brief stays in Grand Rapids, Mich., Chicago and other cities. But she considers Los Angeles her home. Judy's stage work was as part of a trio, with her two sisters, Virginia and Suzanne.She was born Frances Gumm in Murfreesboro, Tenn. [ed. note: actually born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota], but when George Jessel signed the trio for his act at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago, he changed the last name - and Frances went him one better by switching over to her present "Judy.""I had to fight for the name," she says. "But mother finally agreed to let me change."Judy, for a child who has lived more or less in a world of make-believe, is striking in her lack of affectation. Her large, wide-set brown eyes are shy, yet they dance with interest, and smile. She is quite a movie fan, admiring particularly Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald. The world of pictures, which was opened to her two years ago, is exciting and full of promise. Yet she views it tentatively and gratefully - not as one who has come and conquered.For nearly two years she was under contract before having a part. She had been seen while singing at Lake Tahoe, and an agent brought her to the attention of M-G-M."I didn't think I had much of a chance," she confesses, "I was just at the awkward age. It is funny, but even though there are lots of people my age in the world, few were interested in them. There's a big difference between Shirley Temple and Maureen O'Sullivan. But up until just a little while ago, there wasn't a place in between."That's why I'm grateful to Deanna Durbin. Her work proved to the public that people were interested in actresses or talent of the 'between age.' That was a break for all of us in our early 'teens."Judy is frankly thrilled with her role in "Broadway Melody of 1938." In it she portrays Sophie Tucker's daughter. Sophie, in the film, is an ex-famous actress, whose vogue is passe. She tries to further the interests of her daughter, so the child can carry on where she herself left off.In "Broadway Melody" Judy is given an opportunity to show her stuff. She sings, she dances - and acts. One of the big numbers in the picture features her coming onto the stage in a white streamlined car, lined in padded pink satin with a chauffeur and footman. Buddy Ebsen greets her in the middle of the stage, and off they dance.The studio wisely made no attempt to push or retard her age. She is just a kid of thirteen with short dresses and bobby socks. And she has filled a place long vacant on the screen."I get so many letters from people my own age, saying how they enjoy seeing a person just like them on the screen. They get tired of seeing only small children or or grown-ups, they write."Judy admits she is at a confusing age. "You are all twisted up. Sometimes you'd like to make mud-pies, or play with dolls, but think you're too old. At others, it would be fun to put on high heels and go dancing. Then you're ashamed, because you know you are not old enough. Oh, well, thirteen is a lot of fun, anyway. I've adopted it as my lucky number."You cannot help admiring someone her age suddenly thrust into the glamorous world of films, who has remained balanced. Judy doesn't try to be "girly girly." And she is too smart to try to appear old, as do so many other girls her age."There are about fifteen years that you can be young," she philosophizes. "All the rest, you are grown-up. I think you appreciate being grown-up much better, if you don't try to be that way too soon."So I don't mind being teased now and then for my short skirts and flat heels. I tried some long hose and longer skirts once, but it wasn't any fun. Now I'll wait until I am ready for them instead of looking silly."As for her career, the height of her ambition is to go into real dramatic parts some day. She'd like a picture in which she didn't sing even so much as one number - "just to show she didn't get by on her voice."