One hundred years ago Judy Garland was born.
Sweet Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) was born on June 10, 1922 in Grand Rapids in Minnesota.
Garland, real name Frances Ethel Gumm, was among the great divas of the golden age of Hollywood, catapulted to success already in adolescence after playing the main character in Victor Fleming's film inspired by the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum.
A very young Judy charmed everyone with her amazing voice as she sang the song 'Over The Rainbow'.
For the role of her he won the youth Oscar in 1940.
Listen "Judy Garland was born 100 years ago, diva between myth and abuse" on Spreaker. Mother of actress Liza Minnelli, had by second husband Vincente Minnelli, the public and private history of Garland is yes of success but also of abuse and persecution, even from his own parents, two unsuccessful vaudeville actors.
In 1955, Garland was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in George Cukor's A Star Is Born, and in 1962 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in Stanley Kramer's Winners and Losers.
In 1955 she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Film for Her A Star Is Born.
The American Film Institute placed her in eighth place among the greatest stars in the history of cinema.
However, behind so much glamor there was also so much sadness.
Forced into drastic diets to maintain her adolescent image, hence an extremely thin body, she was also forced to assimilate stimulants and narcotics to sustain the often non-stop rhythms of the set.
She was the victim of the tyranny of her mother especially her but also of her studios.
In addition, many adult co-star actors did not accept the star treatment reserved for a young girl.
The 2019 film Judy, directed by Rupert Goold and starring Renée Zellweger as Garland, offers a picture of what the actress went through during her life, albeit focusing on her later years, in a waning phase of her life. success.
Her love life was also extremely troubled.
She married for the first time in her twenties to musician David Rise in hopes of freeing herself from the pressures of Hollywood and family.
She became pregnant immediately but her own mother forced her to have an abortion and the marriage failed miserably.
From there the descent into the tunnel of drug addiction and alcohol abuse began.
In 1945 she married second husband Vincente Minnelli, whom she met on the set of the musical Meet in St. Louis.
A few years later Garland found Minnelli in bed with a clerk and attempted to slit her wrists.
She was prevented by Minnelli himself.
The couple divorced in 1951. The consequences of having discovered her husband in bed with another man and then of the divorce also affected her professionally.
The actress often came on set drunk, she forgot lines,
he was in the throes of hysterics and underwent premature aging.
Garland was married over three times, with producer Sid Luft, then with actor Mark Herron, and three months before she died with musician Mickey Deans.
It was Deans, real name Michael DeVinko, who found her dead in the bathroom of her apartment in London on June 22, 1969. According to the autopsy, it was an accidental death due to excessive intake of barbiturates over a long period of time. time.
The actress had just turned 47.
A doctor who treated her revealed that she would not have long to live anyway due to a severe form of liver cirrhosis.
After being buried in a columbarium in a small town in the state of New York, in 2017 her body was moved to the Judy Garland Pavilion, at the
