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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. Fusing the unpublished recollections of producer, manager and third husband, Sid Luft, with film clips, rare concert footage and Judy's own inimitable words.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- Stephen Kijak
- 2020-05-24
Watch Sid & Judy with a subscription on Paramount+. 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
- How Much of A Stage Mom Was Judy Garland’s Mother?
- What Was Judy's Real History with Prescription Meds?
- How Did Her London Shows Really Go?
- What Happened to Judy’s Husbands and Children?
- Why Did The LGBTQ Community Embrace Garland?
- What Did Garland Say About The Tribulations of Fame?
- Where Is She Buried?
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 9, 2019 · 1.11M subscribers. 284. 53K views 4 years ago #ShoDocs. A revealing new look at legendary entertainer Judy Garland fifty years after her tragic, untimely death. Fusing the unpublished...
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Oct 10, 2019 · Movies. Movie Reviews. ‘Sid & Judy’: Film Review | London 2019. Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh lend their voices to Stephen Kijack's gossipy documentary 'Sid & Judy,' about Judy...
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16+. Comedy · International. Free trial of Paramount+. Watch with Paramount+. Start your 7-day free trial. Details. A revealing new look at Judy Garland fifty years after her tragic, untimely death.
Sid & Judy" tells the true story of Judy Garland's tumultuous love affair with her third husband, Sid Luft. Narrated by Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh, the Feature documentary includes...
