Judy Garland

...cut to a more realistic 25 films a year. During that period, MGM came up with a successful run of musicals featuring the likes of Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and Frank Sinatra. The studio continued to produce expensive musicals, but after...

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AUDIO EXCERPT: "Irv loved that movie, Meet Me in St. Louis. He had to read the entire script to Judy Garland because L.B. Mayer said, 'She doesn't want to do the picture! ' She didn't want to be outshone in the movie by the little girl's...

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...up with," Gerard says. Mercer wrote the lyrics for "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," for the film The Harvey Girls, starring Judy Garland. Though Mercer was married to the same woman, Ginger, from the age of 20 until his death at...

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...allows cameras into her home for the first time in this new special (10 p.m. ABC). The Harvey Girls: An intended mail-order bride (Judy Garland) meets several women planning to open a train-stop restaurant in this 1946 musical directed by...

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...all travel to the Emerald City and back again. Maybe there's just something about "The Wizard of Oz" -- and the way little Judy Garland makes "Over the Rainbow" forever new -- that speaks to all of us, wherever we are, however young or old.

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...talent makes them unique; their transgressions make them human. Michael Jackson, who died in June at age 50, outlived Edith Piaf and Judy Garland by three years, and Elvis by eight. (Forget Madonna that woman is too smart to self-immolate.)

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...returns as a rich man and Cathy's stuck with stuffy. Simply the best fairytale ever put to film. Kansas farm girl Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog Toto get caught in a tornado and end up in a place filled with witches, munchkins,...

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...Joan Crawford tucking into a sandwich while chatting to a Clark Gable - still in costume - and, somewhere out of view, a teenage Judy Garland would be popping the pills that kept her weight down. But, during the 1960s, studio profits began...

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Seattle Children's Theatre is presenting "Peter Pan." And Issaquah's Village Theatre is taking on a live version of the classic Judy Garland movie musical, "Meet Me in St. Louis." Both qualify as chestnuts, yet with the right handling,...

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...terms, it's fully understandable that a production company called Running Subway would put together Judy Garland in Concert, in which Garland sings on high-tech video screens, backed by a live symphony orchestra. The show, which made its...

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