I saw my friend write an article about Shirley Temple and I remembered Judy Garland, who played Dorothy in the movie The Wizard of Oz.
Shirley Temple was famous as a child star in Hollywood cinema in the 1930s.
Her smile is really beautiful! ðģ
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 â June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. She is widely known for playing the role of Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939).[2][3] With a career spanning 45 years, she attained international stardom as an actress in both musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on the concert stage. Renowned for her versatility, she received an Academy Juvenile Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Special Tony Award.[4][5][6] Garland was the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, which she won for her 1961 live recording titled Judy at Carnegie Hall.[7]
Garland began performing in vaudeville as a child with her two older sisters, in a vaudeville group "The Gumm Sisters" and was later signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. She appeared in more than two dozen films for MGM. Garland was a frequent on-screen partner of both Mickey Rooney and Gene Kelly and regularly collaborated with director and second husband Vincente Minnelli. Other starring roles during this period included Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Harvey Girls (1946), Easter Parade (1948), and Summer Stock (1950). In 1950, after 15 years with MGM, the studio released her amid a series of personal struggles that prevented her from fulfilling the terms of her contract.
Although her film career became intermittent thereafter, two of Garland's most critically acclaimed roles came later in her career: she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in A Star Is Born (1954) and a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). She also made record-breaking concert appearances, released eight studio albums, and hosted her own Emmy-nominated television series, The Judy Garland Show (1963â1964). At age 39, Garland became the youngest and first female recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the film industry. In 1997, Garland was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Several of her recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and in 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her as the eighth-greatest female screen legend of classic Hollywood cinema.[8]
Garland struggled in her personal life from an early age. The pressures of early stardom affected her physical and mental health from the time she was a teenager; her self-image was influenced by constant criticism from film executives who believed that she was physically unattractive and who manipulated her onscreen physical appearance.[9] Throughout her adulthood she was plagued by alcohol and substance use disorders, as well as financial instability, often owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes. Her lifelong substance use disorder ultimately led to her death in London from an accidental barbiturate overdose at age 47 in 1969.
Like Shirley Temple, Judy Garland was a child star in the 1930s. She was 6 years older than Shirley Temple.
However, Judy Garland's life ended more tragic than Shirley Temple.
Shirley Temple's family was wealthy and peaceful, but Judy Garland's was not.
Judy Garland was oppressed from her childhood by her parents and film studios, and she was exploited.
My friend might be shocked if I said this. From her childhood, she had to engage in sexual relations with film company bosses and directors.
Surprisingly, it is said that her mother forced her to do such an immoral act.ðĻ
When she signed an exclusive contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she was subjected to slavery and exploitation.
Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney also signed exclusive contracts with the studio under similar circumstances.
In the United States in the 1930s, sexual violence and economic exploitation of children were common.
In 1938 when she was sixteen, Garland was cast as the young Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939), a film based on the 1900 children's book by L. Frank Baum. In the film, she sang the song with which she would be constantly identified afterward, "Over the Rainbow". Although producers Arthur Freed and Mervyn LeRoy had wanted to cast her in the role from the beginning, studio chief Mayer first tried to borrow Shirley Temple from 20th Century Fox, but they declined. Deanna Durbin was then asked, but was unavailable; this resulted in Garland being cast.[47]
Garland was initially outfitted in a blonde wig for the part, but Freed and LeRoy decided against it shortly into filming. Her blue gingham dress was chosen for its blurring effect on her figure, which made her look younger.[48] Shooting commenced on October 13, 1938,[49] and it was completed on March 16, 1939,[50] with a final cost of more than US$2 million.[51] With the conclusion of filming, MGM kept Garland busy with promotional tours and the shooting of Babes in Arms (also 1939), directed by Busby Berkeley. She and Rooney were sent on a cross-country promotional tour, culminating in the August 17 New York City premiere at the Capitol Theater, which included a five-show-a-day appearance schedule for the two stars.[52]
Reports of Garland being put on a diet consisting of cigarettes, chicken soup, and coffee are erroneous; as clarified in the book The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece by Oz historians Jay Scarfone and William Stillman, at that time in her life Garland was an anti-smoker, and she was allowed solid food. For example, for a main meal she was sometimes allowed to eat a bowl of soup and a plate of lettuce.[9] In a further attempt to minimize her curves, her diet was accompanied by swimming and hiking outings, plus games of tennis and badminton with her stunt double Bobbie Koshay.[53]
The Wizard of Oz was a tremendous critical success, though its high budget and promotions costs of an estimated $4 million (equivalent to $58.8 million in 2019[54]), coupled with the lower revenue that was generated by discounted children's tickets, meant that the film did not return a profit until it was re-released in the 1940s and on subsequent occasions.[55] At the 1939 Academy Awards ceremony, Garland received her only Academy Award, an Academy Juvenile Award for her performances in 1939, including The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms. She was the fourth person to receive the award as well as only one of twelve in history to ever be presented with one.[56]
The movie The Wizard of Oz, which gave her worldwide fame, really caused her the worst pain.
The actors who performed with her, who played the woodcutter, lion, and scarecrow, ignored and insulted her.
She fought to escape Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's slavery contract.
Although she was a beautiful and gifted woman, her beauty has always been criticized and ridiculed by the media. It was because she didn't have the sensuality and sexiness of her like Marilyn Monroe.
She was unsuccessful as an adult actress and eventually died at the age of 47 from drug addiction.
Shirley Temple's family was wealthy, so she quit acting and worked as a diplomat.
However, Judy Garland was not from her wealthy family.
I fell in love with Judy Garland when I saw her singing Over the Rainbow.ðģð
asked me a long time ago if i've seen beautiful white women in america.
I couldn't answer his question at the time.
Because I had never met the beautiful white women of America in person.
However, I really like Judy Garland's videos and songs. Her figure seemed to symbolize a typical American commoner and beautiful girl. She reminded me of ordinary and beautiful white American women, rather than the sensual, sexy, and innocent gorgeous beauties in American movies.
Judy Garland, who does not despair in the midst of the pain and poverty of reality, and sings that there is hope beyond the rainbow was certainly sad and beautiful.
It was like seeing the life of a poor and difficult American woman different from the life of a rich and glamorous American woman I had imagined. Perhaps my friend 's mother and younger sisters and rick are also living such a life?
The Judy Garland I saw as a child felt like a happy American fantasy princess.
But now I realize that she represents the real suffering, humiliation, and poverty that American women face.
In the movie The Wizard of Oz, I was able to discover that women's lives are painful and sad wherever they go!
