JUDY GARLAND ON "WHAT'S MY LINE"

[@Tonyvideoguy]

The audience went nuts! I love how they would answer the questions for her (with their applause).

[@stephenguppy8886]

Still not as big as the reaction to Liberace in 1955.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@stephenguppy8886 So?

[@photo161]

There has never been a bigger star in the history of show business than the legendary Judy Garland.

[@captainnice9698]

One of the most talented women EVER to grace film. The work she left behind will forever be shown. Hollywood did her SO wrong. However, she will live on FOREVER

[@MaskedMan66]

She didn't to too well to herself either.

[@joshgordon8369]

So much power and so much life in such a tiny body

[@MaskedMan66]

Just like Pat Benatar!

[@Kexgoija]

I'll take whatever she does. The GREATEST VOICE OF THE 20th CENTURY. Singing ro "Dear Mr. Gable", the ridiculous "zing, zing zing went my heart strings", "the man that got away".....NOBODY COULD GET AWAY WITH WHAT SHE COULD. WHAT A H E A R T!

[@MaskedMan66]

Not forgetting "Over the Rainbow!"

[@jacklynlopez2323]

Wow...!!! Judy Garland was so well known, that she had to use a clicker and a bell instead of altering her voice!!!

[@akrenwinkle]

One of the many folktales about Judy was that she was seated beside Ray Charles on an airplane flight and they chatted for a long spell, and he didn't know it was her.

[@aleolidemu6169]

​@@akrenwinkle I think that her mellow "speaking" voice hasn't anything to do with her powerful "singing" voice. Even her phrasing is different ❤.. 💜🌿

[@Lilysnowy5571]

Wow,what a legend,I loved her in wizard of oz and also in the movies she did with Mickey Rooney

[@jrbon4619]

She is lit!

[@SciFiGirl007]

If you listen to interviews given by Bennett Cerf, he states that Judy was in a drunken stupor 5 minutes before going in; in fact she wasn’t even dressed. Within record time,, she was dressed and ready to go on. A true professional but sad from a human perspective. A brilliant entertainer.

[@madeleinelavine9302]

SciFiGirl007 is

[@miyoshiumeki]

She says she has the flu and then proceeds to kiss everybody. Today, they would all be leaning away from her when she approached.

[@superbu1]

Arlene Francis told the story of her appearance in great detail in her autobiography. I don't recall her saying Judy was drunk (which doesn't mean she didn't), but she did say the producers had a backup in case she didn't show up, which was to be the man who cast and coordinated the mystery guests... can't recall his name, I'll just call him the casting director. My recollection of Arlene's story is that Judy didn't show up until AFTER the show started (and it was live). She went in her dressing room and slammed the door. The makeup woman followed her in and almost immediately came out in tears. "She screamed at me and told me to get out," the woman said. The casting director went into the dressing room and he too came out moments later, white as a sheet. "My God, her hair's still in curlers!" he exclaimed. He wrote a note to be passed to host John Daly to inform him that he would be the mystery guest after all. The man stood there offstage with chalk in his hand (to write his name on the blackboard in front of the blindfolded guests, as happened in every episode), the show came back from commercial, and John Daly announced, "And now the appearance of our mystery guest..." and continued his usual spiel from there, instructing the cast to put on their blindfolds. Suddenly Judy threw open her dressing room door, all dolled up, makeup done, hair done -- she'd done it all herself. She sidled up next to the casting director. "How long have we got?" she asked. "About five seconds!" he said. "Then what the fuck was rush?" quipped Judy as she grabbed the chalk out of his hand and strolled onstage.

[@fromthesidelines]

According to Gil Fates in his "What's My LIne?" book, after Judy had refused to appear, Mark Goodson told John Daly, "No problem, I'll be the mystery guest." He stood in the wings, chalk in hand, waiting to enter on John's cue.....when Judy sailed past him, taking the chalk, and strolled on stage as if nothing had happened backstage.

[@brkitdwn]

superbu1 Arlene was protecting her by not saying she was drunk or had been drinking. If not drinking she definitely was on pills, hence her sarcastic comment at the end, said in jest.

[@ReynaHerichan7769]

Always waiting for Bennett and Arlene's performances.

[@littlemissmello]

The clearest a name has ever been written down on the board in the history of this show

[@brkitdwn]

littlemissmello considering she was high as a kite.

[@diedonner299]

Except for the y at the end of her name

[@MaskedMan66]

@@brkitdwn Why do you think so?

[@noras.5355]

JUDY!!!!! X OO

[@ronniebishop2496]

She's the only one in the book that doesn't take pills. The panel almost fell out of their chairs. lol 😂

[@Kexgoija]

@@ronniebishop2496 Dear Lyon didn't. Maybe he needed some .

[@brianeduardo1234]

Hard to believe she would be in a little over two years from this... interesting to see how the panellists are referred to so formally

[@salaciousbum1161]

So sad that she is 45 here and looks as though shes in her 60s. Poor woman had a tough life. Loved the movie Judy.

[@happilynutz2212]

Wow, she was lit.

[@antoniod]

Of course, she wound up not being in VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.

[@MaskedMan66]

That's a problem?

[@michaelgrant7322]

I read she was not only having problems remembering her lines on the movie set, but was coming in late. It was also reported that after starting the movie she realized how much she hated playing the evil villain. She was not at all comfortable having to act so mean. So subconsciously she regretted taking the role after starting it. After the studio let her go and replaced her with Susan Hayward, Judy was actually relieved 😌

[@shaldana]

Good lord, she's a mess here, poor thing. She's lit.

[@pgh45rpms]

I never realized that Judy Garland was so petite. Her height is listed as 4 ft. 11 in.

[@shaunreilly774]

How could Arlene and Bennett and anyone else know what Judy was doing backstage before the show, I thought they weren't supposed to know who the mystery guest was until they guessed and/or masks removed; if they didn't know who the mystery guest was then what they wrote about in their books was hearsay!

[@scooterw.8813]

Sad to see someone so young ravaged by drugs and alcohol.

[@anneroy4560]

she never had a problem with the drink ... it was always the uppers / downers ...

[@leeinvegas]

Sadly she did take pills

[@dondawson3377]

Wow...you can really see why they called her Judy "Pills" Garland. Poor soul.

[@scooterw.8813]

But she did take pills.

[@Ann90265]

Scooter w. She was saying the character she was supposed to play did not take pills... but as someone else mentioned, she was cut from the movie due to erratic behavior from pill taking.

[@geniusmchaggis]

it was a joke...everyone in the known universe was aware that she took pills. its why they all laughed when she said it.

[@juanmonge8]

Liza swore up and down that she had no idea that Peter Allen was gay.

[@joeyjosephs]

juan monge what the hell does that have to do with this show

[@joshuahahn301]

joey josephs Judy was in New York to attend the wedding of Liza to Peter Allen.

[@xxKEVZxx]

It’s in the genes...i mean family heirloom...the jeans...it’s in the jeans...🌝🌚

[@miyoshiumeki]

She lives with a gay man now....seems that's her deal. Like mother, like daughter.

[@ronniebishop2496]

Miyoshi Umeki wasn't Judy last husband gay too?

[@frankiebowie6174]

I’m so glad she didn’t do Valley of the Dolls. Too trashy for America’s sweetheart.

[@gailjarvis2592]

She is 43 here. She was ravaged by drugs and narcissism. Celeste Holmes was asked about how it was to work with the "great, tragic, suffering Judy Garland. She said "I've known her forever and she was NOT lonely, tragic, etc., she was DOTED upon!" She - I believe, was Bipolar, although it could just be the drugs, but she was a spinning top. She wasted herself.

[@miyoshiumeki]

By this show, her singing voice was gone.

[@jackanthony976]

When did Celeste Holmes work with Judy? I don't recall any films in which Celeste appeared with Judy.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@jackanthony976 Celeste Holm, and there's no evidence they worked together, even once. But it's true Judy was pampered, doted upon. Harry Warren, who wrote "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe" for her said that if she had worked for Warner Bros., instead of MGM, she'd have been fired quickly.