biography
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Garland, Judy
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originally Frances Gumm
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1922–69)
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| biography:
| Actress and singer, born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA. She made her first stage appearances in vaudeville with her parents, and became a juvenile film star in Broadway Melody of 1938, followed by The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Meet Me in St Louis (1944), directed by Vincente Minnelli, whom she later married. A demanding series of musical leads coupled with drug problems exhausted her by 1950, and she spent the next four years in variety performances, returning to films with the 1954 remake of A Star is Born. Concerts and occasional films continued with public success, but her private life was full of overwhelming difficulties, and she died in London, apparently from an overdose of sleeping pills. |
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