MERV GRIFFIN remembers JUDY GARLAND includes brief color clip of Judy on Merv's show, December 1968

[@heathermann8788]

She had an empathic ability to connect so rare! She is a priceless and timeless present!

[@rlmack5]

Thanks Buzz!

[@elspethcoogan1499]

Judy was a lovely human being who simple gave too much away, leaving herself with virtually nothing. However, she will always have a place in many people’s hearts. She also lives on through the many recordings and appearances she did in her lifetime. Gone too soon, but never forgotten.

[@ILikeDemocracy7]

Judy was a superb entertainer and a dear person.

[@EagleRockers]

Wow! God bless her!

[@thebutterflyreportbyjeffie9220]

That’s just tragically sad and wrong in so, so, many ways.

[@chrisn7259]

It's odd that she just didn't walk to another hotel in Manhattan--there's one in every block--instead of going to Brooklyn. She may have dried out in Boston, but I wonder if she was thinking clearly. She trusted all the wrong people (especially husbands) when it came to handling her money.

[@stephenacs]

She was still alive in 1968 so why is he talking like she was dead in this clip?

[@rivaridge7211]

This interview with Merv took place several years after Judy's death in 1969, so indeed, Judy had long since passed away. The idea that Judy "borrowed .20 cents from a passerby" ("to make her way to Brooklyn") is absurd, but no doubt, this will make its way into the Garland lore.