Actress Judy Garland was brought to ruin by her mother and Hollywood, famous daughter Liza Minelli is a gay icon

Judy was born Frances Ethel Gumm into a family of theater people and from a very young age performed with her older sisters in the trio “Gumm Sisters”. When Judy was four years old, the family moved from Minnesota to California, where the sisters continued their theatrical career with their parents, changing their name to the “Garland Sisters” and Frances began using the stage name Judy. They performed together until 1935, when one of the older sisters married in Nevada and the sister trio broke up.

Their mother focused on getting her daughters to get and stick in film. For the first time, Judy filmed the short musical The Big Revue at the age of seven, but she had to wait a few more years for further success.

In 1934, a crucial moment came in the form of a talent scout who saw twelve-year-old Judy perform in the theater. The girl impressed him not only with acting, but also with singing, and he invited her to audition at the Metro-Goldwin-Mayer (MGM) film studios, where she was successful and a contract was signed shortly after. They put her together with fellow actor Mickey Rooney, the pair was very popular with the audience, and Judy began to participate in many filmings. In order to endure the demanding, long and exhausting shooting days, the ambitious mother and the MGM studio began to give her a large number of different pills – amphetamines for stamina and barbiturates for sleep. At the same time, she had a strict lifestyle to maintain her slim figure. So here were laid the foundations of her later addiction to medicines and drugs of all kinds.

The real breakthrough in Hollywood came in 1938, when Judy shone as little Dorothy in the film musical The Wizard of Oz and won a children’s Oscar for this role. Remember the famous song from the movie Somewhere Over the Rainbow performed by her.

But at the same time, an endless spiral of problems started in full force, which followed Judy until her untimely death. She was forced to have several abortions, her dependence on medicines and drugs deepened, her psyche was severely broken with many nervous breakdowns and dozens of suicide attempts. In 1950, the studio, which hired her as a child and largely signed off on her destructive lifestyle, canceled her contract and threw her out on the street.

A year later, Judy returned to the theater and went on a successful almost six-month tour of Great Britain. In 1954, she made the film A Star Is Born, which was nominated several times for an Oscar in various categories. Judy was also nominated for Best Actress, but she didn’t convert the nomination and “only” won the Golden Globe for this film (you may remember that five years ago there was a remake starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper). A few more films followed, and in particular the film The Nuremberg Trials (1961), where she played an acting role in a secondary role and again received unaltered nominations for the Oscar and the Golden Globe. After that, she only filmed exceptionally and devoted herself to theater and singing again.

It is certainly worth mentioning the appreciation of her singing qualities – the album “Judy at Carnegie Hall” received four Grammy awards, one Grammy went directly to Garland for Best Female Singer of the Year.

In 1959, she spent many weeks in hospital with hepatitis and was given a few years to live at most. Immediately after the release, however, Garland threw herself back into theater and film scenes. After the success of the film The Nuremberg Trials, she went on a theater tour of Australia, which was not nearly as successful as the British tour. Health problems worsened, Garland anchored in London in one of the nightclubs and in 1969 at the age of 47 she breathed her last in her London home after an overdose of barbiturates. Reportedly, it was not suicide, just a bad overdose, but given the countless unfinished suicides in the past, her death is a matter of conjecture.

Despite all the difficulties, Judy Garland managed to give birth to three children. Her first daughter was born in 1946, the father was director Vincent Minnelli, and the girl was named Liza. later she had twins Lorna and Joey with Hollywood film producer Sidney Luft.

In 2019, an American biographical blockbuster film was filmed about the life of Judy, played by the actress Renée Zellweger (also known from the film series about the deranged Bridget Jones), and whose role won the Oscar for the leading actress.

Liza Minelli had a very complicated relationship with her mother and blamed her for her destructive lifestyle and that her parents divorced when little Liza was six years old. Despite this, or precisely because of this, she lived a life very similar to her mother’s, with a striking parallel to the relationship Judy had with her mother, Líza’s grandmother. The family curse and career path were passed down to the next generation. Already as a little girl, she got into the world of stage and film through her mother, she became an actress and singer, and her iconic Oscar-winning role was in a movie musical.

It’s called Cabaret (1972) and the role of the cabaret singer Sally means eternal fame for her, but also a curse. She never achieved the success of this role in the future and remained, in a way, frozen in the role, when she adopted the film image and performance into her private life. She also played the role of Sally on Broadway in New York for a long time.

In the nineties, her fame began to decline, again due to addictions and health problems. Like her mother, she went through many relationship ups and downs and addictions to alcohol and tranquilizers. But unlike her mother, she has no children (her only pregnancy ended in miscarriage) and managed to get her addictions under control to the point that she is still alive two years before she turns 80. In recent years, he has been moving around in a wheelchair. Quite possibly, the possible child would be burdened, and Liza thus broke the chain of tragic life destinies of the women in this family.

It is interesting to note that both stars were paid tribute to by the film Sex and the City, where Judy Garland appears as the main character of the film Meet in St. Louis, which Carrie’s character looks at in the first of this film’s series. Liza appeared live in the film’s sequel, i.e. in a “double”, as a guest at the wedding of two of the film’s gay men, singing Beyoncé’s song Single Ladies. After all, Judy and especially Lisa have become the TOP female icons of gay men, so what other wedding should Liza show up at.

It’s a law of physics. If many gays gather in one place, Liza Minelli will appear

In the end, Liza surpassed her mother’s fame and achieved an interesting success that only a handful of American artists can be proud of – she managed to win an Oscar, a television Emmy award, a Grammy music award and a theater and musical Tony award.

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