In sharp contrast to her cheerful and wholesome image, Judy Garland’s real life was far from perfect.

The girl next door innocence of her early feel good musicals made everyone happy, apart from Judy herself who was tortured by insecurity, constantly having to beg for affection from her mother and fight to stay afloat on the stormy waters of the Hollywood dream machine.

In this biographical documentary about the life of Judy Garland, I explore her early struggles with the pressures piled on by her ambitious mother and a studio system interested only in box office takings… and where it all went wrong, leading into a losing battle with prescribed medication that ended when she was just 47.

Part One deals with her early years, her Hollywood breakthrough and early films and her first marriage.

In this second part we focus on the second half of her life – which brought her the joy of motherhood but a catalogue of broken relationships and marriages, career triumphs and career lows, comebacks and resilience in the face of adversity.
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Finding Out More
Two websites that have an incredible amount of information on Judy Garland’s life and career are The Judy Room and its sister site Judy Garland News. They are full of unique behind the scenes photographs, newspaper clippings and links to sound recordings and YouTube videos – they have clearly been a labour of love for many years and they are an invaluable archive that supplement the many published biographies. I found Gerald Clarke’s biography, Get Happy to be a very readable account of her life, but it does tend to focus on sensationalising a life that didn’t need much sensationalising. I also used Anne Edwards’ Judy Garland and Gerold Frank’s old but very thorough Judy and some of the memoirs of people who knew her. I have listed some of the best of these on my Amazon Store Page. https://www.amazon.com/shop/professor...

Academic References
LópezMuñoz, F., UchaUdabe, R., & Alamo, C. (2005). The history of barbiturates a century after their clinical introduction. Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 1(4), 329343.

Stern, A. (1938). Psychoanalytic investigation of and therapy in the border line group of neuroses. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 7(4), 467489.

Copyright Disclaimer
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Images
Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Wellcome Collection
The Judy Room
Judy Garland News
Internet Archive

Music
Lullabye Density and Time CC0
Stephen Foster: The Old Folks at Home Takayuki Yamashita CC0
George Gershwin's 3 Preludes, performed by La Pianista CC3.0
Easy stroll Track Tribe CC0
Dead Wrong Jeremy Blake CC0
Resolution Wayne Jones CC0
Everet Almond Get over it CC0
Gustav Mahler Symphony No.4 in G major 3. Ruhevoll European Archive. Musopen Public Domain
Chopin: Prélude op. 28 n° 4 Dorian Pâquet CC4.0
Nadia Boulanger Trois Pièces pour violoncelle et piano Cheng² Duo CC2.0
ClaudePaul Taffanel: Andante Pastoral et Scherzettino. Alex Murray (flute) and Martha Goldstein (piano) CC2.0
Gershwin: 3 Preludes for Clarinet and Piano II. Clarinet: Byeon Gyuri, Piano: Kim Hwajeong CCAttribution
Calm Cam Track Tribe CC0
JS Bach Cello Suite no. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 I. Prélude Pablo Casals Public domain
Savior Telecasted CC0
Mark Gustavson: Quintet for clarinet, 2 violins, viola and cello. CC3.0
Aaron Kenny Gaiety in the Golden Age CC0
Claude Paul Taffanel Wind Quintet in G minor Andante The Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet CC2.0
Gabriel Faure Flute Fantasie. Alex Murray (flute) and Martha Goldstein (piano)
Isaac Albeniz Tango Op.165 Nº2 David Hernando Vitores Kayoko Morimoto (Wasei Duo) CC4.0

Video edited by Manavi Sakunika and produced by Graeme Yorston and Tom Yorston