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Browse piano sheets by Judy Garland on Zen Virtual Piano. Britannica says Frances Gumm, later Judy Garland, was the daughter of former vaudevillians Frank and Ethel Gumm, who operated the New Grand Theatre in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, where on 26 December 1924, at age two and a half, Frances made her debut. By 1932, a 10-year-old singing sensation, she received her first rave review from Variety, and two years later, at the suggestion of the comedian George Jessel, she adopted the surname Garland. A debut at two and a half, and a rave review at ten, can be read as a stage life that began very early in her childhood. In September 1935 she was signed by MGM without a screen test. She began a popular screen partnership with Mickey Rooney in Thoroughbreds Donāt Cry (1937), and sang You Made Me Love You in Broadway Melody of 1938. In The Wizard of Oz (1939) her heartfelt expression of vulnerability and youthful longing in Over the Rainbow helped make the film one of the most beloved movie classics, and brought her an Academy special award for outstanding performance by a screen juvenile. A song sung in one film that became a signature ties one scene closely to her name, with the Academy special award arriving for that same performance. In Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), directed by her future husband Vincente Minnelli, she sang Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and The Boy Next Door. Britannica notes that she was granted an early release from her MGM contract in September 1950, after Summer Stock. The following year she returned to the stage with performances at the London Palladium and New Yorkās Palace Theatre, and in A Star Is Born (1954), produced through Transcona Enterprises, the company she formed with Sidney Luft, she starred opposite James Mason. A move from the studio to the stage, and then back to the screen in a production of her own, can be read as an actress taking charge of her career, one step at a time. Britannica says her film career has long overshadowed her success as a recording artist, though she cut more than 90 tracks for Decca between 1936 and 1947, and a dozen albums for Capitol between 1955 and 1965, working with arrangers such as Mort Lindsey, Nelson Riddle, Jack Marshall and Gordon Jenkins. Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961) revealed her intense connection to her audiences and was her biggest-selling album; it won five Grammy Awards, including album of the year, and stayed at number one for 13 weeks. In a 1967 WWD interview she said, āI donāt think Iāve ever made a comeback. Iāve always been working,ā and added that she had won a golf tournament and could cook. A singer who refused the word comeback and named golf and cooking beside her career suggests someone who wanted to be seen as more than her stage self, and who spoke about it lightly.
Browse piano sheets by Judy Garland on Zen Virtual Piano.
Britannica says Frances Gumm, later Judy Garland, was the daughter of former vaudevillians Frank and Ethel Gumm, who operated the New Grand Theatre in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, where on 26 December 1924, at age two and a half, Frances made her debut. By 1932, a 10-year-old singing sensation, she received her first rave review from Variety, and two years later, at the suggestion of the comedian George Jessel, she adopted the surname Garland. A debut at two and a half, and a rave review at ten, can be read as a stage life that began very early in her childhood.
In September 1935 she was signed by MGM without a screen test. She began a popular screen partnership with Mickey Rooney in Thoroughbreds Donāt Cry (1937), and sang You Made Me Love You in Broadway Melody of 1938. In The Wizard of Oz (1939) her heartfelt expression of vulnerability and youthful longing in Over the Rainbow helped make the film one of the most beloved movie classics, and brought her an Academy special award for outstanding performance by a screen juvenile. A song sung in one film that became a signature ties one scene closely to her name, with the Academy special award arriving for that same performance.
In Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), directed by her future husband Vincente Minnelli, she sang Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and The Boy Next Door. Britannica notes that she was granted an early release from her MGM contract in September 1950, after Summer Stock. The following year she returned to the stage with performances at the London Palladium and New Yorkās Palace Theatre, and in A Star Is Born (1954), produced through Transcona Enterprises, the company she formed with Sidney Luft, she starred opposite James Mason. A move from the studio to the stage, and then back to the screen in a production of her own, can be read as an actress taking charge of her career, one step at a time.
Britannica says her film career has long overshadowed her success as a recording artist, though she cut more than 90 tracks for Decca between 1936 and 1947, and a dozen albums for Capitol between 1955 and 1965, working with arrangers such as Mort Lindsey, Nelson Riddle, Jack Marshall and Gordon Jenkins. Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961) revealed her intense connection to her audiences and was her biggest-selling album; it won five Grammy Awards, including album of the year, and stayed at number one for 13 weeks. In a 1967 WWD interview she said, āI donāt think Iāve ever made a comeback. Iāve always been working,ā and added that she had won a golf tournament and could cook. A singer who refused the word comeback and named golf and cooking beside her career suggests someone who wanted to be seen as more than her stage self, and who spoke about it lightly.
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Judy Garland
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Judy Garland, born Frances Gumm, was a singer and actress who made her debut at two and a half in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and was signed by MGM in September 1935.
It is the signature song Garland sang in The Wizard of Oz (1939), for which she received an Academy special award for outstanding performance by a screen juvenile.
It is her two-record concert album of 1961, her biggest-selling album, which won five Grammy Awards and stayed at number one for 13 weeks.
Yes, she hosted The Judy Garland Show for 26 episodes during the 1963ā64 season.