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May 24, 2020 · Sid & Judy: Directed by Stephen Kijak. With Fred Astaire, Count Basie, George Cukor, Rob Dodd. Revealing new look at Judy Garland fifty years after her tragic, untimely death.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- Stephen Kijak
- 2020-05-24
Sid & Judy. Watch Sid & Judy with a subscription on Paramount+, Showtime. Fifty years after the untimely death of Sid Luft's wife, Judy Garland, his journal provides insight into their marriage.
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- Documentary, Biography, Drama, Music
- Stephen Kijak
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In “Sid & Judy,” Garland says this in an interview about her mother: “She was truly a stage mother, a mean one (who would say), ‘You get out and sing or I’ll wrap you around the bedpost and break you off short.’ ” She continued: "(My parents) would argue and fight, and my mother would always use me as a pawn." By the time Garland's mother, Ethel, d...
In “Judy,” Darci Shaw plays a young Garland who takes appetite-suppressing “pep pills,” and Zellwegershows an adult Garland who swallows pills to help her sleep. The star’s real addiction was so serious that as a teenager she was amped on benzedrine to fight exhaustion as she shot musical numbers for Busby Berkeley productions. According to Luft in...
In “Judy,” Zellweger plays a Garland who skips rehearsals and stumbles through a final run of Talk of the Town performances in the months leading up to her death. In real life, Garland’s shows did deteriorate over the five-week gig, with her arriving terribly late and getting booed by audiences. The shows were a far cry from Garland’s 1960 London P...
Though only two of Garland's husbands, Luft and Mickey Deans, get major airtime in "Judy" and "Sid & Judy," she married five times. Her first husband, Emmy-winning composer David Rose (married 1941-44), who was 12 years Garland’s senior, remarried and died in 1990. Her “Meet Me in St. Louis” director Vincente Minnelli (1945-51), who fathered Liza M...
In “Judy,” Garland visits the home of two male fans, and sympathizes with them and their fight for gay rights. That scene was contrived for the movie, but in reality, Garland did become an LGBTQ icon. In “Sid & Judy,” real fans – mostly men and women in Dorothy attire – explain their love for Garland at a screening of “The Wizard of Oz”: “She’s tim...
In Garland’s words, per “Sid & Judy,” being a living legend is “lonesome.” In an interview with Jack Paar, she says that it’s “like a Statue of Liberty, or something like that, who doesn’t breathe. And so no one calls you on the phone and asks you to dinner. So I just sit by the phone.” Later, she says, “I’ve sung, I’ve entertained, I’ve pleased yo...
Judy Garland’s remains were transferred from Westchester County, New York, to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2017. As shown in "Sid & Judy," the star's arrival was celebrated with a "Wizard of Oz" screening at the cemetery on what would've been the star's 95th birthday. Her final resting place is in the mausoleum, renamed the Judy Garland Pavili...
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Oct 18, 2019 · Judy’s marriage to film director Vincente Minnelli is well known for having birthed Judy’s most famous offspring Liza; but at 13 years of marriage, Sid stuck it out the longest.
- Jude Dry
Oct 10, 2019 · Sid & Judy is a deluxe nonfiction soap opera, full of gossipy drama and rousing musical interludes, but it contains few fresh revelations not previously documented in the ever-expanding ...
Judy understands the insinuation and apologizes again, to which Louis leaves, saying, "don't ever hold up a movie of mine." Back in the present day, Judy is talking to the London concert manager, Bernard Delfont, apologizing for her previous behavior and asks for forgiveness, to which he says "already forgotten" and that "had I know you weren't ...
