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- The main characters in Judy are all based on real people from Garland’s life.
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Nov 4, 2019 · The main characters in Judy are all based on real people from Garland’s life. Below, read more about the cast and the people they portrayed.
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Sep 27, 2019 · Based on Peter Quilter's Tony-nominated Broadway show, End of the Rainbow, the film sees Judy Garland (played by Renée Zellweger) through one last run of performances, a fifth and final...
- Early Life at MGM
- Relationship with Mickey Rooney
- Liza Minnelli
- Marriage to Sidney Luft
- Marriage to Mickey Deans
- London Performances
The film opens on a young Judy Garland, during her time at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio with whom she had an exploitativerelationship that lasted more than 15 years. MGM’s abuse is personified inthe figure of Louis B. Mayer (Richard Cordery). In the opening moments, he walks with young Garland through the set of The Wizard of Oz and tells her ho...
During her studio years, Garland was indeed close to Mickey Rooney, and as Karina Longworth, the host of the Hollywood history podcast You Must Remember This,once explored in Slate, she really did become infatuated with him. The two were MGM’s top-earning stars at the same time, taking their pills together and spending nights at the studio hospital...
Liza Minnelli makes a brief appearance early on in the movie. Although the real Liza Minnelli publicly announced ahead of Judy’spremiere that she had not sanctioned the movie, Minnelli’s brief appearance in the movie seems fairly faithful to the facts. According to Edwards, “Liza has said of her early years that it was difficult to know who was mot...
Judy Garland was married five times. The two husbands who appear in Judy are Sidney Luft, her third husband and the father of her two younger children (Lorna and Joey), and Mickey Deans, the young nightclub owner who would be her fifth and final husband. In the movie, Luft is more of a foil than a fully realized character—a plot device that threate...
Garland’s relationship with the other husband depicted in the movie, Mickey Deans, similarly mixed romance and business. The real-life Deans became Garland’s lover and manager as well as husband. Unlike the way it was shown in the movie, however, Deans did not show up to Garland’s London hotel room hiding underneath a food trolley. Garland was very...
In Judy, Garland’s five-week engagement at the Talk of the Town officially ends with her tardy, catastrophic performance. Garland stumbles onto the stage late and inebriated, directly as a result of the two pieces of bad news she hears from Luft and Deans, respectively. This fits neatly into Judy’s narrative of Garland as a hot mess: glamorous and ...
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Sep 16, 2019 · Watch Barbara Walters interview Judy Garland in 1969. Then view the movie trailer for the 2019 film starring Renée Zellweger. We examine how accurate the Judy movie is by pitting it against the true story of Judy Garland. See the Judy cast vs. their real-life counterparts.
Sep 27, 2019 · Judy, the biopic of the last year of Judy Garland’s life, takes on the true story of a legend, with a few changes along the way. Judy stars Renee Zellweger in her Hollywood comeback role, and the movie has inspired a whole new flurry of conversations around the life and legacy of one Judy Garland.
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Oct 4, 2019 · The true story behind ‘Judy’ from the woman who worked with Judy Garland. By Emily Zemler. Oct. 4, 2019 9:45 AM PT. LONDON — For Rosalyn Wilder, looking after Judy Garland during the Hollywood...
Sep 26, 2019 · Here’s the true story behind the movie Judy, and the highs and lows of Garland’s life in and out of the spotlight. She became a child star with MGM, but her success largely robbed her of a ...
