I'm seeing The Judy Garland Show which is on air antenna tv and appears to be a series. It was on just one year? Ms. Garland appears stiff and spaced out and like she is in a daze. I know the "studio" made her take Benzedrine to keep her thin and they wouldn't let her eat. Was she taking drugs around this time? I've always liked Liza Minelli. Which other singer would take off her shoes and sing her heart out to entertain her friends?
shareWatching her show on Get-TV & she looks dynamite!
shareI don't think it was drugs..I personally feel it was just too much nervous energy...I would get antsy just watching her....
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I've read that she had a continuing addiction to uppers and downers to help her sleep then pump her up to perform. Not unlike many stars that followed suffering the same fate. Beautiful performer that always gave it her 100% and was a product of the old studio control system. Loved her family and her body just couldn't handle drug and alcohol abuse any longer. Very sad. She looked beautiful in this series but the drug struggle shows in her physique. Very thin and gaunt.
shareI am formerly known as HillieBoliday....Member since May 2006
I am really enjoying watching her show. Her fashions, hairdos...not to mention that powerful voice of hers. This was truly a time capsule from the 1960's.
I'm a big fan of hers....since the late 50's after seeing her in The Wizard of Oz on television. The studios got her addicted to pills from a very early age. Pills for energy to do a grueling day of work, pills to go to sleep and pills to wake up and start again. They didn't consider her 'hollywood pretty,' so her self esteem was so vulnerable.
I read an account about her and Mickey Rooney appearing in a Christmas Day Parade. She was so hungry as she had not had any breakfast......and at that point in the day....no lunch or dinner either! She was eating candy canes that Santa Claus was giving out to the children because she was so famished! Truly despicably exploitative, mean and insensitive!
With all the other ills she had to succumb to in Hollywood....I'm not surprised about the damage she suffered physically, financially, emotionally and professionally during the latter years of her storied life. So sad for someone who brought so much entertainment joy to so many as a great singer and a great actress!
"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"