with Judy Garland: Me & My Shadows

[amicus]

Not long ago, note was taken of the passing of the actor, Jack Palance. A comment was made pertaining to the passing, one by one, of an entire generation of actors and actresses and it made a special impact on me, in particular, as I grew up with that generation of people.

I thought perhaps, for those of you who only know Judy Garland from The Wizard of Oz, and may not know that Liza Minelli, was her daughter, might like some leads to a further appreciation of her life and times.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Judy-Garland-Shadows-REGION/dp/B00005U8QP


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress, considered by many to be one of the greatest singing stars of Hollywood's Golden Era of musical film, best known for her role as Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz. Garland's singing voice had a natural vibrato, which she was able to maintain at extremely low volume. The effects which she was able to project enabled her to convey a wide range of emotion when she interpreted a song. The American Film Institute named Garland among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 8.


with Judy Garland: Me & My Shadows [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
DVD ~ Judy Davis

Actors: Judy Davis, Victor Garber, Hugh Laurie, John Benjamin Hickey, Sonja Smits
Directors: Robert Allan Ackerman
Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, NTSC
Language English, French
Region: Region 1 (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
Studio: Miramax
DVD Release Date: 22 Jan 2002
Run Time: 170 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows is a TV movie raised above the usual weepy-biopic standard by the Emmy Award-winning performances of Judy Davis and Tammy Blanchard, unusually essaying the same role. Since the project is based on a memoir by Lorna Luft, Judy Garland's "other" daughter, the emphasis is on Garland's rocky post-MGM years, spotlighting marriages, pills and spectacular stage comebacks.

Davis handles the neurotic swoops with authority; when Garland sighs on her birthday, "I'm 47 today--with my life, that makes me 412", you believe her. One thing she can't capture is Garland's onscreen incandescence: Davis's lip-syncing of "The Trolley Song" is expert but joyless. The luminous young Blanchard (who won the supporting actress trophy) has a physical and vocal resemblance to the former Frances Gumm that's often breathtaking, and the Wizard of Oz sequences look like outtakes from the real thing. Too much TV-flick telescoping dooms the movie to sketchiness, but the two main performances are over the rainbow. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

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Guess this was my night to watch films...this was on LMN, Lifetime Movie Network, so I guess I did miss the cable jus a lil.

amicus...

 

[amicus]

Hmmm....Bump?

ami

 

[CharleyH]

Not long ago, note was taken of the passing of the actor, Jack Palance. A comment was made pertaining to the passing, one by one, of an entire generation of actors and actresses and it made a special impact on me, in particular, as I grew up with that generation of people.

I thought perhaps, for those of you who only know Judy Garland from The Wizard of Oz, and may not know that Liza Minelli, was her daughter, might like some leads to a further appreciation of her life and times.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Judy-Garland-Shadows-REGION/dp/B00005U8QP


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress, considered by many to be one of the greatest singing stars of Hollywood's Golden Era of musical film, best known for her role as Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz. Garland's singing voice had a natural vibrato, which she was able to maintain at extremely low volume. The effects which she was able to project enabled her to convey a wide range of emotion when she interpreted a song. The American Film Institute named Garland among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 8.


with Judy Garland: Me & My Shadows [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
DVD ~ Judy Davis

Actors: Judy Davis, Victor Garber, Hugh Laurie, John Benjamin Hickey, Sonja Smits
Directors: Robert Allan Ackerman
Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, NTSC
Language English, French
Region: Region 1 (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
Studio: Miramax
DVD Release Date: 22 Jan 2002
Run Time: 170 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows is a TV movie raised above the usual weepy-biopic standard by the Emmy Award-winning performances of Judy Davis and Tammy Blanchard, unusually essaying the same role. Since the project is based on a memoir by Lorna Luft, Judy Garland's "other" daughter, the emphasis is on Garland's rocky post-MGM years, spotlighting marriages, pills and spectacular stage comebacks.

Davis handles the neurotic swoops with authority; when Garland sighs on her birthday, "I'm 47 today--with my life, that makes me 412", you believe her. One thing she can't capture is Garland's onscreen incandescence: Davis's lip-syncing of "The Trolley Song" is expert but joyless. The luminous young Blanchard (who won the supporting actress trophy) has a physical and vocal resemblance to the former Frances Gumm that's often breathtaking, and the Wizard of Oz sequences look like outtakes from the real thing. Too much TV-flick telescoping dooms the movie to sketchiness, but the two main performances are over the rainbow. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

~~~

Guess this was my night to watch films...this was on LMN, Lifetime Movie Network, so I guess I did miss the cable jus a lil.

amicus...

Judy Garland? Liza Minnelli? I may be a chick, but I am a damn fag at heart!

Edit to add: May I inquire as to your fascination?

 

[amicus]

[QUOTE=CharleyH]Judy Garland? Liza Minnelli? I may be a chick, but I am a damn fag at heart!

Edit to add: May I inquire as to your fascination?[/QUOTE]

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Me thinketh Charlie speaks in riddles...chick....fag? hmmm, fascination?

Fascination...well...Yellow Brick Road, Somewhere over the Rainbow, and of course the Wiz and the story has been referenced many times since the 1930's

And Liza Minelli...Cabaret, I think, a song..."I don't care much any more.." Liza has the passion her mother had for music and theatre. There is another daughter, Lorna, and a son of Judy Garland that I know nothing of, but...it is a generation past and much of the trappings of Hollywood and Broadway are no more in the way they were in earlier years....and I course I grew up watching Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in a dozen silly films,, back when it cost a dime for a whole after noon at the theatre and cokes were a nickel....sighs....

memories....



amicus...

 

[CharleyH]

[QUOTE=CharleyH]Judy Garland? Liza Minnelli? I may be a chick, but I am a damn fag at heart!

Edit to add: May I inquire as to your fascination?

~~~


Me thinketh Charlie speaks in riddles...chick....fag? hmmm, fascination?

Fascination...well...Yellow Brick Road, Somewhere over the Rainbow, and of course the Wiz and the story has been referenced many times since the 1930's

And Liza Minelli...Cabaret, I think, a song..."I don't care much any more.." Liza has the passion her mother had for music and theatre. There is another daughter, Lorna, and a son of Judy Garland that I know nothing of, but...it is a generation past and much of the trappings of Hollywood and Broadway are no more in the way they were in earlier years....and I course I grew up watching Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in a dozen silly films,, back when it cost a dime for a whole after noon at the theatre and cokes were a nickel....sighs....

memories....



amicus...[/QUOTE]
Make fun of me all you want - I am a fag in disguise. I LOVE Judy and more than her early works, I love the whole (HOW THEY CHANGED HER PERSONA) with A Star is Born. As for Liza, well she is always much more than Cabaret. Ever seen Julie Moon(I think)? Scorcese's NY NY?