![]() With access to her tape recordings – and her revelatory unfinished manuscript – Clarke is able to tell Judy’s story as she herself might have told it. location Published in 2001, this widely popular book. Towards the end of her life, Garland tried to tell her own story. She lived at full throttle on stage, screen, and in real life, with highs that made history and lows that finally. Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clarke is available now for quick shipment to any U.S. Combining a novelist’s skill and a movie director’s eye, Clarke re-creates the golden age of Hollywood with cinematic urgency: Louis B Mayer, the patriarch of MGM sexy Lana Turner, Judy’s friend and idol, who had a habit of trying to snatch away any man Judy expressed interest in clarinettist Artie Shaw, handsome Tyrone Power boy genius Orson Welles and brilliant director Vincente Minnelli, who fathered her first child, Liza. ![]() To tell her story, Gerald Clarke took ten years, travelled thousands of miles across two continents, conducted hundreds of interviews, and combed through mountains of documents, many of which were unavailable to other biographers. Get Happy by Gerald Clarke: 9780385335157 : Books. The woman of half a dozen comebacks and a hundred heartbreaks. ![]() It's an extensive, definitive biography of one of Hollywood's greats, who led a hectic, adventurous and troubled life. Judy Garland, the girl with the pigtails in THE WIZARD OF OZ, was an entertainer of almost magical power. Gerald Clarke is a superb writer, and he portrays both the glamorous as well as not so glamorous sides of Judy Garland - as it should be with a biography. ![]()
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