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->''"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."''

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actor and singer who had huge success during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, mostly known nowadays for her role as Dorothy Gale in the 1939 movie ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.

She began her film career as a child performer in a group called the Gumm Sisters, before being signed with Creator/{{MGM}} in the 1930s. According to Garland and her biographers, her mother was a cruel StageMom who pushed her into performing from a very young age and forced her to take both sleeping and diet pills, but many of her unpleasant memories of her mother [[UnreliableNarrator may be fabricated or embellished]].

Her producers were harsh to her, encouraging her to take amphetamines to work longer hours. They also told her she wouldn't be as beautiful as her other co-stars, and Louis B. Mayer (the second M of [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM]]) [[JerkAss frequently referred to her as]] [[EmbarrassingNickname "the fat one" or "the Hunchback"]]. Probably because of this, she fell into drug addiction quite young.

She was [[SerialSpouse married five times]] before her death at the age of 47 due to a drug overdose. From her marriage to filmmaker Creator/VincenteMinnelli (with whom she made three films), she had a daughter, Creator/{{Liza|Minnelli}}, herself an accomplished performer. Her daughter by Sidney Luft, Creator/{{Lorna|Luft}}, is also an actress.

Garland has ascended into pop culture as a [[LGBTFanbase gay icon]], owing in no small part to the fact that much of her early life mirrored that of many gay men -- and it probably helps that she [[FagHag regularly socialized with gay men, often accompanying them to gay bars]]. The use of the rainbow as a symbol for gay culture and wider LGBT culture in general is probably due in some part to Garland's song "Over the Rainbow" in ''The Wizard of Oz''. According to her daughters, she would have loved that.

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!! Productions Judy Garland was involved in include:

* ''Film/LaFiestaDeSantaBarbara'' (1935): Short film in which Judy sings a song with her two sisters, as part of their act, The Garland Sisters
* Three Film/AndyHardy films: ''Film/LoveFindsAndyHardy'' (1938), ''Andy Hardy Meets Dubutante'' (1940), and ''Life Begins for Andy Hardy'' (1941).
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' (1939)
* ''Film/BabesInArms'' (1939)
* ''Film/BabesOnBroadway'' (1941)
* ''Film/ZiegfeldGirl'' (1941)
* ''Film/ForMeAndMyGal'' (1942)
* ''Girl Crazy'' (1943)
* ''Film/MeetMeInStLouis'' (1944)
* ''Film/ZiegfeldFollies1945'' (1945)
* ''Film/TheHarveyGirls'' (1946)
* ''Film/ThePirate'' (1948)
* ''Film/EasterParade'' (1948)
* ''Film/InTheGoodOldSummertime'' (1949)
* ''Summer Stock'' (1950)
* ''Film/{{A Star Is Born|1954}}'' (1954)
* ''Film/JudgmentAtNuremberg'' (1961)
* ''WesternAnimation/GayPurree'' (1962)
* ''Film/AChildIsWaiting'' (1963)
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!! Tropes associated with Judy Garland:
* AllTheGoodMenAreGay: By sheer coincidence, [[SerialSpouse three of her five husbands]] turned out to be closeted gay men, including Creator/VincenteMinnelli, who fathered her daughter Liza (and as proof that the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, Liza's first husband, Peter Allen, was also a closeted gay man).[[note]]There's strong evidence that Judy's father Frank Gumm was at least bisexual if not closeted; the family left Minnesota after rumors about him trying to seduce young men spread. If so, then possibly FreudWasRight across three generations of the family[[/note]]
* AndYouWereThere: In ''The Wizard of Oz''.
* AntiChristmasSong: [[Film/MeetMeInStLouis "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"]]. Purportedly, the song was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen supposed to be]] even ''more'' depressing - with lyrics such as "have yourself a merry little Christmas / it may be your last / next year we may all be living in the past" - but Garland refused to sing that version.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: In her fedora and tuxedo and tights, in "Get Happy" from ''Summer Stock''. Undoubtedly one of the moments that made her such an LGBT icon.
* BreakupBreakout: She was a vaudeville performer with her older sisters.
* FagHag:
** Married three closeted gay men, and regularly socialized with them, particularly her lifelong friend director Creator/GeorgeCukor (who she often accompanied to gay bars).
** Her fame in the gay community led to the euphemism "Friends of Dorothy," which itself led to the Navy's Intelligence department coming to believe that there was a secret dating ring of homosexual sailors organized by a woman named Dorothy!
** Her death may have had a mild hand in the kicking off of the Gay Liberation movement. It's a generally accepted fact that the Stonewall Inn on the night of the riots had a fair amount of patrons who were trying to drink the pain away after attending her funeral that day, and were in absolutely no mood for the police raiding the place.
* GoodParents: She had her problems, yes, but there's no doubt she loved her children immensely. The fact that Liza, Lorna, and Joey are all still to this day, incredibly loyal and devoted to maintaining her legacy as a force of good has to speak to that.
* TheGreatDepression
* HeyLetsPutOnAShow: Together with Mickey Rooney in the [[TheGreatDepression '30s]].
* HollywoodHomely:[[invoked]] While nowadays she is considered to be one of the most beautiful movie stars of her era, with her GirlNextDoor charm, early in her career the studio heads compared her unfavorable to some of her more glamorous contemporaries, particularly Creator/LanaTurner. Louis B. Mayer was famously quoted as calling Judy "my little hunchback."
* IWantSong: Her most famous (and possibly ''the'' most famous) number, "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Over the Rainbow]]".
* LikeBrotherAndSister: She and Creator/MickeyRooney were always very close, and despite both of their checkered romantic careers, evidently were never more than good friends.
* TheMunchausen: Her daughter Liza Minnelli commented that Garland never let facts get in the way of telling a good story.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Garland became pregnant for the first time at the age of 20, her studio, her mother and her then-husband all but forced her to have an abortion for the sake of her career. The experience traumatized her, and it's widely believed that it contributed to her substance abuse later in life.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Famously, her large breasts were strapped down for ''The Wizard of Oz''.
* OneTakeWonder:[[invoked]] For her part in ''Film/TheHarveyGirls'' song "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", Judy filmed TheOner of Susan coming off the train and singing her solo until the tempo change perfectly on the first take. They did do one more for safety, however.
* ThePollyanna: Despite her difficulties over the years, this has been reported to be her default attitude.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Getting fed up at being cast as adolescents when she was in her twenties, she reluctantly took the role of Esther Smith in ''Film/MeetMeInStLouis''. Her look for the film showed her in a much more grown-up and attractive light, and she later claimed it was the first time a film had ever made her feel beautiful.
* SignatureSong: "Over the Rainbow", which is rivaled only by "The Man That Got Away" (from ''A Star Is Born'') as the most iconic song of her career.[[note]]Devoted film buffs and Garland aficionados tend to prefer "The Man that Got Away" as the best song of her career, but "Over the Rainbow" is far better known among the general public.[[/note]]
* StageNames: She and her sisters performed under their real names for a while. But apparently after being mispronounced as the Glum, Bum, or Dumb sisters one too many times, they were renamed the Garland Sisters - and Frances was renamed Judy.
* SuppressedMammaries: Infamously, to make her look younger for her role as [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Dorothy Gale]].
* TroubledButCute: Even after her problems with addiction and history for turbulent productions became well known, most show people from that era who knew her prefer to remember her as the flawed, yet genuinely kindhearted, beautiful and talented woman that she is famous for today.
* WeightWoe: She struggled with her weight particularly during the 1940s, not helped by having been put on diet pills as a teenager. She was savaged by critics for being too thin in ''Film/TheHarveyGirls'', but then dropped from ''Theatre/AnnieGetYourGun'' for gaining too much weight.
* VocalDissonance: Even when she was young, her singing voice was much deeper and more mature-sounding than her normal, speaking voice which was in a higher register and sharply contrasted her youthful appearance and petite frame. Very apparent when listening to "Over the Rainbow", which she sang when she was sixteen.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: She played a GlamorousWartimeSinger in ''For Me and My Gal'' (which is set in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI).
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Judy aged horribly in later years due in no small part to her alcoholism, heavy smoking, and drug abuse. When she died in 1969 at age 47, she looked at least 60. [[https://jp.pinterest.com/pin/190699365446858886/ Take a look, if you're interested]].
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