Coming soon...The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Judy Garland Biographies -a discussion

[@sheldoncooper1134]

This will be a much needed discussion on Judy Garland. Keep up the great work. 👏 👏 👏 ❤❤❤

[@TheGarlandGab]

Thank you x

[@nzarzecki]

I practically feel like I "manifested" this! 😭 I've literally been thinking I wish you all would talk about all the different biographies!

[@TheGarlandGab]

😊

[@LT82659]

I’m so excited for this one because I just got the Anne Edwards biography!! Like literally just now it’s my hands still half-wrapped.

[@TheGarlandGab]

I hope that you enjoy it but I won't lie that it's not one of my favourites, sorry. (Sarah)

[@GLSoap]

I can't wait, I've read or heard from KZbin so much wrong info about Judy over the past years. The only book I have is the Judy A Legendary Film Career by John Fricke.

[@TheGarlandGab]

That is a great book to start with.

[@TrangPakbaby]

Oooh, I can’t wait for this! I definitely have my faves and not so faves 😂

[@TheGarlandGab]

Let's see if you agree with us 😅

[@patwhittington9207]

Can't wait!

[@TheGarlandGab]

Hope we don't disappoint.

[@patwhittington9207]

@@TheGarlandGab sure you will be terrific as always!🥰

[@TheGarlandGab]

@@patwhittington9207 Thank you x

[@melodyjones9681]

You’re performing a public service. I’m a Judy fan and an avid reader and it’s hard to know the factual from the trash. My barometer is if they tell the story with love. Give the Legend her due, with love and respect.

[@akrenwinkle]

A book written as a fan letter, a love letter, a tribute... is it a true biography? On the opposite side, a book written by someone with a grudge like Mel Torme or Stevie Phillips- isn't on the level either. Another problem: When Judy tells someone something, whether it be she was forced to live on black coffee and cigarettes or was groped by Munchkins, and it winds up in a book... do we accept everything Judy said as truth because we love her?

[@TheGarlandGab]

Did Judy actually tell people those things though? The munchkin myth came from Sid Luft in his book published after his death, after numerous attempts to publish one before. Sid never mentioned it before and Judy only joked publicly about one of the actors asking her out. I have never heard her mention the cigarettes and coffee diet either.

[@TheGarlandGab]

P.s thank you so much for the lovely comment

[@akrenwinkle]

@@TheGarlandGab The first time I saw the story about Judy forced to live on cigarettes, black coffee, and Mr. Mayer's chicken soup was in "Weep No More, My Lady" by last husband Mickey Deans and Ann Pinchot, 1972. He also told of her working 3 days straight, then knocked out with sleeping pills, to be awakened with pep pills to repeat the cycle. These are things that Judy told him, he put them in his book, and half a century later, they are generally accepted as fact. Sid, to promote his book, later said Judy told him that the male Munchkins groped her up her Dorothy costume and because they were so tiny, they thought they could get away with anything. Eventually Sid's unfinished tome came out in the forms of a truncated book and video. That tale is also more or less accepted as factual, not an example of Judy's wild sense of humor and eagerness to entertain.