Judy Garland

Judy Garland’s Historic Childhood Home Is On The Market

... like home. Judy Garland’s Historic Childhood Home Is on the Market. The star’s family moved to the Lancaster, California, home in the late 1920 s. From Rex/Shutterstock. Judy Garland began working in films as a child, and like any dutiful Tinseltown parents, Garland’s mother and father, Frank and Ethel Gumm, wanted her and her sisters to be as close as possible to the glittering Hollywood lights. In the late 1920 s, the family (including Garland and her two older sisters, Mary Jane Gumm and Virginia Gumm), moved from Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to Lancaster, California—northeast of Los Angeles—and lived there until 1933 before moving closer to Hollywood. The property, which boasts a long history, is now on the market, reports __link__. The downtown home has served many purposes since it housed Garland’s family, reported the Los Angeles Daily News in 2008. Once a homeless shelter and then gutted by fire, the ...

Judy Garland’s Husband Details Her Many Struggles In New Memoir

... “When Judy came out in her short white lace negligee, her arms were in front of her and she said, ‘Look, darling, what I’ve done!’ ” writes Luft. “Her wrists had been slashed and she was bleeding profusely.”. Luft quickly made tourniquets for her arms and took her to a doctor. According to Luft, Garland’s biggest struggle was her dependency on pills, specifically Benzedrine, which Luft claimed she took to lose weight so she could be, in her words, “camera-ready.”. “Whenever she began to drop considerable weight, it was dangerous, signaling an unhealthy use of pills,” he writes. After years of substance abuse and attempts to quit cold-turkey, Luft claims that one day he searched Garland’s bedroom, where she often spent evenings alone, to find evidence of drug use. “Pills were hidden in packages of cigarettes… The clothes hamper was filled with beer bottles and a vodka bottle all empty,” Luft writes. Though Luft has been criticized for marrying Garland for his own benefit ( he ...

Judy Garland Slashed Her Own Throat With A Razor, Reveals Ex-husband

... Meet Me in St Louis and Easter Parade. She is the mother of Liza Minnelli and also had two children with Luft, Lorna and Joey Luft, who are both actors. Judy Garland found fame at the age of 17 when she was cast as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. RELATED ARTICLES. 46 shares. Luft’s autobiography, Judy and I: My Life with Judy Garland, will be published by Chicago Review Press in March. Randy Schmidt, who edited the memoir, said: ‘Many people claim Judy. was an alcoholic. Sid disputes this and gives detailed testimony to her real demons, which were the pills. ‘More than any of her five husbands, [Luft] was the closest to what some might call the love of her life. ‘Even though they divorced in 1965, Sid was still the guy she most depended upon for the remaining four years of her life.’. Judy Garland and actor Tom Drake in 1944 musical film Meet Me In St. Louis. Schmidt said the memoir was ‘Sid’s long-lost love letter’ as he writes of Miss Garland’s intelligence ...

Marilyn Monroe Bat Sie Vor Ihrem Tod Um Hilfe

... Journal" geschrieben hat. Darin beschreibt Garland eine Hollywood-Party, bei der die beiden Filmstars zusammen waren. Monroe soll ihr "von Raum zu Raum gefolgt" sein. "Ich möchte nicht zu weit weg von dir sein", soll die Blondine gesagt haben. "Ich habe Angst!" Doch wovor sie Angst hatte, hat Garland laut eigenen Angaben nicht erfahren. "Ich wünschte, ich hätte mit ihr sprechen können, in der Nacht, in der sie starb", bedauerte Garland den Tod der Freundin. Sid Luft beschreibt in seinen Memoiren auch, wie die damals frisch getrennte Monroe - von wem, schreibt er nicht - das Ehepaar Luft und Garland einmal zuhause besucht und mit den beiden Kindern gespielt habe. "Marilyn war süß und sehr unglücklich", erinnerte er sich. Fünf Ehen und drei Kinder. Judy Garland war fünfmal verheiratet: Die Ehe mit Songwriter David Rose dauerte von 1941 bis 1945. Mit Regisseur Vincente Minnelli war sie von 1945 bis 1951 verheiratet. Die beiden bekamen Tochter Liza Minnelli. Ehe Nummer drei ging sie mit dem Showproduzenten Sidney Luft ein. Diese dauerte von 1952 bis 1965. Sie wurden Eltern von Tochter Lorna und Sohn Joey ...

Obamas Move Out Of White House; Judy Garland’s Childhood Home Listed

... Steven Burton of Keller Wilians Antelope Valley has the listing for the home. ( Realtor ). A $250 million Bel Air property is now the most expensive home on the market in the United States. Bruce Makowsky built the fully furnished, four-level, 38,000-square-foot spec house, which includes a bowling alley, candy room and movie theater, as well as an included helicopter, which one can park on the roof. The 12-bedroom, 21-bath home also has three kitchens, an infinity pool with a swim-up bar, and a $30 million car collection. It also comes with 7 full-time staff members, who have already been paid for the next two years. ( Los Angeles Times ). Tennis star Novak Djokovic is in contract to buy two separate two-bedroom units at Renzo Piano-designed 565 Broome. The apartments are on a “high floor,” though they are not adjacent, so it doesn’t seem he’s planning on combining them. The building won’t be complete until 2018, and it’s unclear how much the tennis champion paid for the apartments, which each measure around 2,000 square feet. Similarly sized apartments in the building, however, begin at $5.4 million. ( Wall ...

The Untold Story Of Judy Garland’s Tragic Love Affair With Sid Luft

... she was troubled, Luft felt protective – and fell hard. He became her manager by the next year, and as Garland began her divorce proceedings – Luft writes, “I knew I was in love with Judy.”. Soon after, Garland was pregnant with his child while they worked on a show together in New York. “I found myself saying, ‘Of course I want your baby, but we’ve got a show to do,’ ”  Luft writes of the unplanned pregnancy in the book. “Because of my negative reaction, Judy didn’t confide in me where and when she was going to have the abortion.”. Despite serious warning signs of Garland’s difficulties – such as unexplained scars on the inside of her wrists – the couple married in 1952. In the years that followed, her dependency on various pills quickly began to dominate their relationship. “She had been encouraged to take pills by the studio bosses and then she began to rely upon them,” Luft writes. “Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor , among others, were similarly caught in the studio dope traps. This feeding of ...

Judy Garland’ Entertains Ccl Women’s Club

... of the Cedar Creek Lake Women's Club. topical featured. ‘Judy Garland’ entertains CCL Women’s Club. By Kathi Nailling Athens Review. Jan 24, 2017. Kathi Nailling/Staff. Rhonda Medina, a professional celebrity impersonator, performs as Judy Garland singing “Over The Rainbow” for members of the Cedar Creek Lake Women's Club. The Cedar Creek Lake Women's Club was entertained by Rhonda Medina, a professional celebrity impersonator during its monthly meeting on Tuesday. Rhonda began training as a dancer and acrobat when she was 2 years old. She has performed twice in the Rose Bowl Parade. Medina, who comes from a family of entertainers told club members her mother always wanted to be a country star.  “My mother finally got close to her dream when she opened for Sammy Davis Jr. at Caesar’s Palace.”. Twenty years ago, Medina made her mark on the entertainment industry when she began performing as a variety of actresses for Universal Studios Theme Park in Hollywood. She currently impersonates 13 different celebrities including Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Bette Midler, Dolly Parton, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Mae ...

Angela Lansbury Remembers Mgm, Where Katharine Hepburn Had Everyone In Awe

... was not taking shape. “MGM did not have a clue as to how to use me. And eventually, I couldn’t wait to leave because I wasn’t getting anywhere.” Her timing turned out right. In the early 1950 s, just as the MGM of old was starting to collapse, Lansbury left—first working freelance in film, later shifting to Broadway. In 1966, Lansbury won a best leading actress in a musical Tony for Mame, and Judy Garland visited her dressing room, just three years before Garland’s death. “‘Angie, I’d give anything to play this part,’” Lansbury remembers Garland saying. “I knew it was somebody reaching out in a sort of desperation, at that point, because this was way, way on, when her kids were growing up, and she was, you know, not doing very well. I said, ‘Think about it. You can do it. What’s stopping you?’ And, of course, I knew she never would. Nevertheless, that was her yearning to do something different, something that was a wonderful ...

Judy Garland's Remains Being Moved To Hollywood Forever Cemetery

... where she will be re-interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Garland, who died from an accidental barbiturate overdose in London in 1969 at the age of 47, is reportedly being moved because her former burial place did not have room for plots for her three children – Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft, and Joey Luft, and grandchildren. Garland will join some of Hollywood's most revered stars who are interred throughout the cemetery grounds, including Rudoph Valentino, Mickey Rooney and founding members of The Ramones, Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone. Meanwhile in a new memoir about the star, written by her ex-husband Sid Luft before his death, he remembers the star's tragic passing. "Emotionally, none of us ever overcame it," Luft, writes of her tragic death in Judy and I: My Life with Judy Garland , excerpted in this week’s issue of ...

Judy Garland’s Childhood Home On Market For $550k

... 1926. In search of the limelight, the budding star and father Frank, mother Ethel, and older sisters Mary Jane and Virginia settled in Southern California in the late 1920 s. Her dad intended to buy a theater where his three daughters could sing and dance. After searching areas close to the bright lights of Los Angeles, including Glendale and West Hollywood , he finally found what he was looking for somewhere over the rainbow in the 500-seat Lancaster Theater. In addition to the theater, the family bought a home on Cedar Avenue, not far from their “Valley Theater,” which Frank had renamed and extensively renovated. The family lived in this cottage from 1926 to about 1933, while performing at the theater and driving to Hollywood for performances, dance lessons, and auditions. When the Gumm Sisters, who later became the Garland Sisters, began booking regular vaudeville gigs in Los Angeles, the family moved closer to Hollywood. Judy Garland signed with MGM in 1935 at the age of 13. Although Garland’s childhood home, built in 1915, has been expanded and remodeled, some of ...

Judy Garland's Childhood Home Is For Sale—and It's Not In Kansas

... have a place to perform. Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm) was the youngest of the performing Gumm Sisters. In addition to the theater, the family bought a home on Cedar Avenue, not far from their “Valley Theater,” which Frank had renamed and extensively renovated. The family lived in this cottage from 1926 to about 1933, while performing at the theater and driving to Hollywood for performances, dance lessons, and auditions. When the Gumm Sisters, who later became the Garland Sisters, began booking regular vaudeville gigs in Los Angeles, the family moved closer to Hollywood. Judy Garland signed with MGM in 1935 at the age of 13. Some of the same moldings and windows still exist in the cottage. Although Garland’s childhood home, built in 1915, has been expanded and remodeled, some of the original features ...