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Judy Garland

A Biography
  • ISBN-13: 9781589797871
  • Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT
    Imprint: TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING
  • By Anne Edwards
  • Price: AUD $36.99
  • Stock: 1 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 14/06/2013
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 141.00mm) 382 pages Weight: 494g
  • Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]
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Praised as "undoubtedly the best of the many books on Judy Garland" by no less a critic than John Lahr (the son of Bert Lahr, the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz), Anne Edwards's biography attempts to present a complete picture of the late actress, and not just the boozing, drug-addicted caricature of a woman that is central to lesser biographies. From Edwards's account we learn, for example, that Garland saw it as her duty to provide for her family financially, a generosity that her mother Ethel exploited with disastrous results. A student of great poets-Shelley, Keats, and Browning in particular-she often tried her own hand at verse; surviving poems are reproduced here. Above all Judy Garland sought to please, whether it was an audience or a studio head, and therein lies her powerful and heartbreaking story.
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