- Hardcover: 349 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st Edition edition (Feb 1975)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 067121845X
- ISBN-13: 978-0671218454
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.7 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 772,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Hollywood in the 1920s - where stars were created, glamorised and lionised, and where child-star Francis Gumm took her first step on the path that was to rocket her to world-wide fame and fortune. The beginning of the legend of Judy Garland. In this searching biography that legend is examined and stripped of its glittering veneer. Revealed is a lonely woman desperately searching out love and affection, emotions she only discovered in the adulation of her millions of fans. Kept going by pills and the pressure of those eager to abuse and exploit her, she was driven to breaking point, but still the magic lingered on. A story of dreams and nightmares, marriages and divorces, financial crises and her tragic early death, the sensational Garland legend still survives today.
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Anne Edwards is an American biographer who specialises in theatre, film and opera (including acclaimed lives of Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn) She lives with her songwriter-husband, Stephen Citron, in Los Angeles, but was resident in the UK and Europe in the 1970s.
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IF Judy Garland's mother had walked for eighteen minutes she would have completely covered the east, west, north, and south of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, where her husband had purchased a small movie house. Read the first page
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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By far and away my favourite biography - and I've read alot of them. Anne Edwards does what no other writer tries to do - portrays Judy Garland as a real person and not a drug addict. She gives unbiased reasons for events and shows in her words that Judy Garland was more than just a natural star. You can't help feeling that if she had not been given pills at such a young age and the people around her had not used her, her name and money for so long, she would have lived alot longer and entertained us in her own unique way. Fantastic book.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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This absorbing,in depth biography revealed the terrific hardships that Judy Garland had to try to overcome,and also endure during her painstakingingly difficult and drug induced life. The many people who influenced her life and not always for the right reasons, are brought to life, and one feels the empathy towards Judy who trusted too many wrong people. The pill intake that never stopped from the day the Studio got her hooked right up until her death.This was a star who burnt herself out a long time ago but kept going because she needed her audience much more than they probably ever realised. I defy anybody who reads this book not to feel emotionally entwined with Judy.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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my sister bought a book on judy last year, and it looked really interesting. So i went out and bought my own! i read it this summer,and my heart went out to judy, all the pain she went through is immense. i reccommend this to anyone. i've just spent all morning searching for some of her music and more books!
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