The Judy Garland Christmas Show (1963)

[@Demille40]

Judy was hardly the tragic figure she is too often thought of. She was an extraordinary person who led an extraordinary life. I think she did extremely well with the hand she was dealt. Liza herself said her mother loved life, loved to laugh, loved her craft, loved her audiences and loved her family. Judy died young, true, but she accomplished more in those 47 years than most of us do in 70. That’s a lot to celebrate.

[@judygarlandforever]

@@Demille40 People love to think of Judy as a walking tragedy, but she wasn't. She had a great life despite her problems.

[@FernSidman]

Frank Sinatra said it best when he stated in an interview, “In 100 years, I’ll be forgotten, but not Judy. Judy will be remembered. She’ll always be remembered.” They remained very close lifelong friends and when she suddenly died he paid out of his own pocket to have her buried in Fernwood Cemetery in the Westchester area of New York

[@ruthmarner6582]

I don’t think you understand the meaning of tragedy.

[@akrenwinkle]

​@@ruthmarner6582 You're right; those who deny the obvious don't really know what the word means, as is commonly defined in legitimate dictionaries. The life of every alcoholic and drug addict is a tragedy. Yes, it is possible to have a sense of humor, enjoy kidding around, having a good laugh, like to party. But beneath all that, for Judy, was winding up without health, money, a home, possessions, family, and the thing that mattered most to her, work worthy of a star. Anyone should see the photos of her in May 1969 and say, "Tragedy? What tragedy?"

[@akrenwinkle]

@@ruthmarner6582 You're right. The happy-happy what tragedy? narrative is folklore, denial of what's obvious.

[@LoisQuichocho]

This was One of The Greatest Christmas Shows I’ve ever Watched. It was Lovingly, and Beautifully Performed by All The Family and Guest Stars. I could watch it Again and Again. Thank You Judy Garland. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@gnirolnamlerf593]

Can you imagine being eight years old (like Joey), having the most famous singer in the world as your mother, and appearing on a show with her that would be watched by tens of millions of people, and singing "Where is Love?" from _Oliver_ . Impossible burden to place on a boy? I don't know how Joey reacted to the situation, but if you look at that one shot while he is singing, Judy is so damn proud. I remember my mother and father, who were not famous at all, when I'd be doing something up on a stage in elementary school (like playing Abe Lincoln, Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny), beaming with pride. You're convinced at that age that you can do anything when you know you can rely on your parents to be proud of you. I hope Joey felt that way too. This show, sixty-one years later, is still a treasure. Thank you.

[@baylorsailor]

I don't think the kids would have thought of their mother that way at that age. She probably had to fight to get them on the stage at all, as kids are kids no matter who their parents are.

[@patriciadean5452]

I know a girl who is 11, she started singing at age 3, just loves singing. One can't say Judy's son felt pressure unless they knew him.

[@artistinlederhosen]

i have great respect for liza. she quietly worked for years to pay off her mother’s debts. she could have flaked out or presented herself as a martyr but she didn’t. a truly decent human who treasured her parents.

[@MustangLeaf2010]

America had just buried President JFK on November 25th, 1963. This show aired on December 22nd, 1963. This was such a beautiful way to spread Christmas cheer to a nation in mourning.

[@jaquen1977]

What beautiful context. Thank you for providing it!

[@richardk8821]

Thank you for posting this. As “a friend of Dorothy’s,” I have truly enjoyed it. There will never be another Judy Garland.

[@FernSidman]

When the nation needed someone to help cheer them up, Judy was chosen. Let’s remember that this show aired only a few weeks after the assassination of JFK

[@zibbyzubb]

She sure loved her children. This is such a great Christmas special.

[@RevPev13]

Having just watched the movie bio of Judy, this was so special to see. She certainly was a class act. The kids were terrific, appearing so comfortable. Wow Lorna Luft had such a powerful and beautiful voice. I sure want to look into her music. It was great seeing the handsome talented Jack Jones. All around wonderful show. Liza was a natural born talent for sure. Loved this!! 💙🎶

[@TrinaP-un5xq]

How ON EARTH can you NOT LOVE HER?!?!?❤❤

[@drewpall2598]

I like to think that Judy Garland is somewhere over the rainbow way up high perhaps swinging on a star. Thanks, Judy Garland, for the excellent body of work left behind in films, television appearances, and recordings June 10, 1922 - June 22, 1969

[@HarrietteSucher]

This was Xmaa in our San Francisco home, 1 TV & family in the living room. B&W but we knew what things looked like in color. 🎉❤

[@bonniebrown6960]

This was about 5 years before I was born, but I do remember Christmas specials like these when I was growing up. It's a shame they don't have them anymore. I loved this era. I wish it would come back again. I'm sure her kids always cherished this, especially after their mom passed away. A lot of people still love Judy Garland. She sure did love her kids too. Merry Christmas everyone.. !! 🎄🎀🎄🎀🎄🎀🎄

[@kwah2o84]

Same here exactly! 5 years before I was born.

[@jaquen1977]

They still do Christmas specials. They’re just usually on streaming platforms now.

[@TrinaP-un5xq]

It's so evident how much her children loved her.❤❤❤

[@jelsner5077]

I wish people still did caroling. Can you imagine if Liza Minnelli and Mel Tormé showed up on your doorstep singing Good King Weneslas? Merry Christmas! 🎅🎄⛄

[@patriciadean5452]

I didnt know Judy had a show. This was a pleasure to watch

[@TVHouseHistorian]

Thrilling to watch this. Oh how I miss the era of Christmas specials!! There was something extra special about watching your favorite TV stars just being themselves. I absolutely love the set design here. It’s so quintessential 1960’s. I heard Liza say one time that the kids wished they really lived in the type of house depicted here. I guess they were not the wealthy movie stars everyone thought they were.

[@BSilva1984]

Judy Garland was the best entertainer, actress, singer and star in the world 🌎⭐✨. She left us much too soon. Rest in Peace beautiful queen 👑. Merry Christmas 🎄.

[@BSilva1984]

thank you

[@binghangchiu7892]

Lovely Lovely Lovely with tears rolling down from my cheek. Judy, I truly hope you to know that someone is admiring you and appreciating what you and your children had done almost 62years ago❤😊

[@maryann1067]

THANK YOU for posting this. I couldn’t find it last year. 😢

[@brendadrew834]

Wonderful and heartwarming to watch again! Wish they still made great Christmas shows like this these days, sadly they don't anymore! Tear up when she sings "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" especially knowing how her incredible life ended. Miss Judy and Mel, but thankfully they left us lasting legacies! May they rest in peace~ Happy Holidays 2024 to all!♥🎄🎵🎶🌈🥰

[@rn2332]

This is one lady that truly loved her children really loved her children God bless Judy Garland this is one woman that really truly loved her children and she would have given her life for them

[@JimmyRaeGarlandJimniRàeJ]

I just wanted to say thank you too and it looks like it was just filmed it looks like it's in HD💚✨🎄

[@BBCHZ]

Thank you so much for uploading this! ❤

[@Italy55]

I’m crying here 🥲🥲🥲🥲 so beautiful

[@aleolidemu6169]

Thank you for reposting this wonder!!!! My Christmas season would have been incomplete without me watching it ❤🍒🎄. Incomparable and Marvelous Judy Garland 💞.. 🪻🌿

[@hawkins55]

Watching this every year near Christmas time!

[@normawatson579]

Remember Judy Garland She Is A Very Good Actress

[@garycarpenter6433]

She's ALWAYS been my favorite this show was in 62... I would be born 5 years later and my sister was born in 69 the year she died she was one of a kind

[@CarlosBorges-md3of]

Gracias por publicar....beautiful Christmas Show

[@miz_logo_lee]

Mel Tormé had such a gorgeous voice as well. Love their duet.

[@geraldineclarke5434]

The absolutely best concert I ever attended was Judy's comeback to Hollywood at the Hollywood Bowl right after that comeback at Carnegie Hall. It was amazing!

[@judygarlandforever]

@@geraldineclarke5434 I'm so jealous you got to see her in person. Must have been incredible! Thanks for commenting.

[@FernSidman]

Frank Sinatra said it best when he stated in an interview, “In 100 years, I’ll be forgotten but not Judy. Judy will be remembered. She’ll always be remembered.” They remained close lifelong friends and when she died, he paid for her burial site in New York.

[@nicolasimpkins3640]

Yet Frank too has us loyal fans as we do to Judy no competition

[@stephentresca3536]

I was born September 1963. I wonder if my parents watched this.

[@ateneaessabia0399]

22:17 The perfect definition of sibilings 🤣 Liza is like... "Oh, my little sister does it so well." And Joey is like "Uh... yeah... that's cool" And at the same time he's like "Please let this be over now." It could be my sibilings and I perfectly 🤣

[@keouine]

The set reminds me of the final scene in Carousel of Progress before grandma got her virtual reality goggles.

[@ateneaessabia0399]

4:44 Liza's discomfort as if to say "Mom, why are they applauding me?🤣

[@cynthiareed4848]

Between her mother and Louie B. Myer and the MGM movie factory as they called it that poor little girl who ended up on drugs because of them and mentally unstable as a adult never stood a chance in her life. And that's so sad . because she was a wonderful actress and a amazing singer and dancer.

[@vlaekershner7305]

I love watching this every Christmas, and always notice new things, like @48:15 how Joey rubs his ear after his mama hits the high note on "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."

[@ateneaessabia0399]

It's like... "Mom, why do you have to sing so loud?" It could perfectly be my mother and I when she speaks loudly to me and I tell her not to scream in my ear 🤣

[@garypesci746]

"Robert" Mackie credited as Ass't Costume Designer, before he became famous for dressing Cher and Carol Burnett, as Bob Mackie.

[@Diegoix5ks]

Musique of Oliver ! 🎵🎶🎶🎶

[@bethcotner5608]

7:09…that’s the look of a proud mama

[@Pieps.22]

Have a banana. Ist der Junge süß.

[@kwah2o84]

It's pretty obvious that Liza and Lorna modeled their singing style after their mother! Liza sounds almost exactly like her here, (although she did develop more of her own Caberet like style later on) and you can hear the onset of Judy Garland's voice with Lorna! Poor little Joey, tough act to follow, and that was a little painful, (Ain't his mama proud though?) but I'm sure he got much better later on! 😁

[@patriciadean5452]

I thought Joey was great

[@akrenwinkle]

Lorna spilled the beans in her book about Joey, but no review or interviewer dared mention it. She said that Judy took her usual drugs during Joey's pregnancy, and that affected his brain development. Although it's often written that Joey has "worked behind the scenes" or has been "a photographer," there is no evidence he has ever been employed during his life.

[@312chi]

Thank you so much for sharing this! I was wondering if you would be able to share the file with me so I could watch it with my grandmother? Her internet is slow so won’t be able to watch it on KZbin

[@judygarlandforever]

@@312chi Thank you for your kind words. I'll rerender the file and upload it somewhere and give the link. Is that okay?

[@312chi]

@ that would be amazing!

[@judygarlandforever]

@@312chi this is the link mega.nz/file/bMUSDAaZ#opao_VgnzJxaunBIVOnMq6cXWDZZ2f0s01Qf8Tah_Vs

[@johnnyvalter940]

Did anyone notice she sang "if rainbows really fly" rather than "if reindeer really fly"?

[@seanorlosky974]

7:06; 12:36; 22:18: ONE PROUD MAMA. :)

[@sundriesrebecakundomal2920]

💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@rogeriomendon2005]

Dorothy’s Christmas

[@garypesci746]

I always wanted to know if rainbows really know how to fly. She messed up that one.

[@akrenwinkle]

Judy intentionally made hash out of Mel's lyric because he scolded her briefly for flubbing a phrase in his The Christmas Song before that. When she messed up, he said, "Close!" Thinking quickly, she sang "rainbows" instead of "raindeer," as a musical "Eff you, Mel, my own song is more important than yours."

[@alandale2182]

They should've sprang for color for this episode. Jmo.

[@garypesci746]

Lorna looked rather uncomfortable when Judy was singing "Over the Rainbow". Every time her mother looked at her, she forced a smile and as soon as Judy looked away, the smile disappeared. It seemed like a comedy routine, but I doubt it was meant to be funny. It was sad to think that just six years later these kids lost their mother.

[@kimgreen2162]

You need volume!

[@ateneaessabia0399]

4:38 Don't let the jealousy show, Lorna didn't go to hug her 🤣

[@sheg1969]

Come on...give Lorna a break

[@ateneaessabia0399]

@@sheg1969 Well, I can't blame her. She was 11 years old here and I guess it was more laziness than anything else. It could be my brother and I perfectly 🤣 He is 9 years older than me and Liza is 6 years older than Lorna. Although the difference is that they get along very well and on the other hand my brother and I get along well but we don't have that bond of friendship that Liza and Lorna have. So I definitely wouldn't get off the couch to hug him and say hello. But based on Lorna and Liza's friendship, I think either of them would do it. Call me crazy if you want, but I think Liza was "mommy's girl" (no offense) And of course that made Lorna a little jealous like the rest of the little kids 🤣

[@seanm6215]

Those santas kind of scared me. Lol just bursting into her house and doing a crazy dance and then running out. 45:27

[@ateneaessabia0399]

When you're a Grease 2 fan like, there's only one person you want to see in this video 😎🤣

[@rexlex1736]

This should be colorized.

[@ateneaessabia0399]

Liza: I'm home. Me: Wow, Liza, I thought you were a hologram.

[@hanschristianbrando5588]

I always wonder how much longer Liza and Tracy Tightpants stayed together. Of course it's great to see Judy get back at Mel Torme for having the bad taste to say "Close" after she flubbed a minor lyric in "The Christmas Song." Jack Jones should have been more casually dressed; he looks like something out of "Mad Men." And couldn't they have done something with Lorna's hair? (Kick-ass voice, though.)

[@chevreherd]

And what happened to Tracy the "boyfriend " to Liza

[@judygarlandforever]

@@chevreherd they remained friends.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@judygarlandforever I don't believe that. Your evidence?

[@judygarlandforever]

@@akrenwinkle Google.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@judygarlandforever I found he's stuck in either Hoboken or Staten Island, still teaching dance. If you mean they met once since this show, I believe it. If you mean they remained friends, as "remained friends" is commonly defined, no, I see no receipts for that. If you have, please point me to it.

[@judygarlandforever]

@@akrenwinkle I saw some pictures of the two together in some event in the 90's, so I assume they remained friends.