Judy Garland Biography: The Real Life of Dorothy from The Magical Land of Oz
By Chris Dicker
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Judy Garland is known to play the legendary role of Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz." She was not just a good actress, but a singer. She used both in synchrony to showcase her talents. Judy Garland died quite some time ago, but this biography completely captures her spirit, struggles and talents. That's because she always lived at full throttle on stage and personal life.
Before the age of 21, Judy was helping her mother Ethel financially. It was her duty to provide to her family. Her mother exploited this generosity with disastrous results. Who would do that these days?
Judy always set her goals high, but life was too short to complete some unfinished projects, like a documentary, concerts, radio shows, and records, but none of them came to reality. Garland was known for her drug addiction to diet and sleeping pills. She was often depressed as she gained weight due to binge eating disorder.
Judy Garland had five husbands in her life time. The way she coped with troubled marriages was to marry somebody else - jumping from one flower to the next. This created serious personal problems and struggles that affected her work. In what way, more in this biography...
If you want to learn more about Judy Garland in all her magic and despair, grab your copy now!
Chris Dicker
I love writing biographies about celebrities (dead or alive), because there's so much to learn from those people. Success leaves clues, so I study and write about successful people.
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Judy Garland Biography - Chris Dicker
Judy Garland Biography: The Real Life of Dorothy from The Magical Land of Oz
Chris Dicker
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Childhood and Family Background
The Beginning of Her Career
The Wizard of Oz
Her Career After Dorothy
Judy and David
Judy and Vincente
Judy Breaks Down Even More
Judy and Sidney
The Judy Garland Show
Judy and Mark Herron
Judy and Mickey Deans
Sudden Death
Introduction
When thinking of Judy Garland, the first thing that usually comes to everyone's mind is her famous role of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
Her singing, Somewhere over the rainbow
goes straight to the heart. She lived her whole life in show business. From her vaudeville days with her sisters and her parents to her days with Mickey Rooney at MGM, Judy Garland has been a household name in Hollywood for close to a century. Her struggles were genuine, and they were made into the source of public humiliation for years. She started off taking diet pills to keep off the weight, and it escalated into a habit of uppers and downers, which put her into peril more than a time or two.
Her love life and money troubles have also been exploited. She would marry and then see that the only way out was to marry another. She also searched endlessly for her father in all of these men. She was always having money trouble. She owed so much money to the government that the family