Judy Garland-Unused scene.mpg

A glimpse into what might have been

[@alicegray9216]

she looks SO beautiful with no makeup. she was a very pretty woman, one of the prettiest. wish she would’ve seen herself that way

[@theglamourisgone5669]

She was beautiful, no doubt. However she definitely has makeup on here - not glamour makeup, probably just some base to counteract the harsh lights of the day.

[@ladylamb7742]

I'm surprised she left because of ill health. She looks so good in this clip and healthy too. She was also in very good voice!

[@joeyjosephs]

Lady Lamb her health declined more and more, from lack of sleeping and eating because they were always pushing her to be camera thin....she didnt leave, she was fired ....they promised her a long vacation before filming started and never gave it to her

[@sunnydayzie1202]

I believe that she returned from a very short break and was thrown into this film. More pressure meant more pills just to get through. She was suffering from nervous exhaustion. In Judy's own words, the awful director, Busby Berkeley did nothing but scream at her and she said she was in a daze with a constant migraine during the entire filming. The studio was literally working her to death. She took a long break between this and her final film, Summer Stock. You can definitely see the difference; she looks much better in Summer Stock.

[@adam32492]

She did say she wasn’t right for the part. She would have been fine if she had a proper break with Charles Walters as director

[@ralphewell8398]

She is great in the clip.

[@JM-lw3nx]

I fail to see any problem in her performance here. She sounds absolutely great, and the acting was just fine. Oh well.

[@Elphaboi101]

It's so upsetting to see how she acts when she breaks character. You can tell she's crashing when the director yells over her line. She could've been incredible in this film.

[@jacquelineklinges]

What timestamp does the director yell over her line?

[@Elphaboi101]

@@jacquelineklinges right at the very end. He cuts her off before she finishes her line and she loses all sense of what’s going on

[@cjb8010]

Wow! Excellent!

[@robb7398]

Great number - and there was only one cut!

[@etienneperley8240]

betty may have been more theatrical in acting but I lie Judy's voice better and also the kids were better on key in Judy's version too

[@HaywardEntertainment]

I think she made a great Annie Oakley

[@geoffreyfox7741]

Judy would have been remarkable in "Annie". I liked Betty Hutton but she was way too much. Betty was over the top mugging and overacting. Judy didn't leave. Judy was fired from this film by MGM. Judy was having severe problems with amphetamine and narcotic abuse. Her films were often box office champions. However, the movie studios had been divested of their theaters due to anti-trust laws. Movie attendance had dropped by 40% since the end of World War Two and people were beginning to stay home to watch television. The studios were all scrambling to stay afloat. At this point in time, Judy was no longer reliable. She was also beyond help. She would be brilliant one day and then absent or non-functional for two or three. The power at MGM had shifted to the Lowe's corporate offices in New York. Dore Schary had been brought in to cut and control costs. He tried talking to Judy. it did no good. Attempts, later, to send Judy to Boston for Rehab were an expensive failure. She relapsed immediately and was a nightmare to work with on the low budget "Summer Stock". Summer Stock was a hit and Judy had wonderful moments but she remained "too much trouble" to deal with. No one at MGM wanted to work with her. Judy effectively put herself out of the film business. The tragedy was that she lost the most important and lucrative years in a film actress's life. She was blacklisted in the film industry. She was brilliant in "A Star is Born" but her on set behavior was as bad or worse than it ever had been at MGM. That finished her once and for all. It was not her fault the film failed. Warner's ruined it with bad cutting and audience attendance dropped off. Garland was great. Garland was brilliant. Garland was one of the first celebrities to have her drug and alcohol dependencies exposed publically.

[@jonathankieranwriter]

… interesting thoughts, but Garland was destined to go from film legend to stage superstar as a way to save her life, or stall time before her inevitable death. At the end of her tenure at MGM, the word was already out: Judy’s brain maybe handle one film a year. But her musical films were blockbusters. Especially given that they weren’t cowboy westerns or dramas. She was in her own category as a box office wonder. MGM wanted to keep her but it was so obvious that she was too ill to function under oppressive studio strictures that they parted ways mutually. Within a year and half she found her legs back on stage in London and conquered Broadway, winning a Tony, playing to a million people over 5 months. MGM wanted her back for a slew of films, but Garland had discovered that, on her own, she could make five times the money she made under contract, even as a gigantic film star. She told MGM to suck it. Her ‘A Star is Born’ was a one-off work of genius, but ONE person muddied those waters: her husband, who, as PRODUCER spent more time gambling his wife’s earnings at the racetrack than tending to business. Still okay-Garland returning in a magical movie like that made it colossally enduring (as did her performance), but she was finished in film by then. She was Sinatra/Elvis/Como-level as an entertainer. Bags and bags of big money that her handlers and “husbands” embezzled. Absolute genius who accomplished accomplished accomplished but had no personal time to get herself really together for the long haul … and rode a vicious, imposed childhood addiction to an early death.