Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001)
Actors:
Salvatore Antonio (actor),
Rodger Barton (actor),
Hume Baugh (actor),
Stewart Bick (actor),
Gary Brennan (actor),
Stefan Brogren (actor),
Jim Codrington (actor),
Steve Cumyn (actor),
Richard M. Davidson (actor),
Aidan Devine (actor),
Rory Feore (actor),
Victor Garber (actor),
Noah Henne (actor),
Noah Henne (actor),
Dwayne Adams (actor),
Plot: The movie starts off at the beginning of Judy Garland's life singing when she was two years old. It jumps to when she was 12 and was signed by MGM and later when her father dies. The movie tells about her early struggles with MGM and with the addiction to barbiturates. It then jumps to the marriage to Vincette Minelli and the struggles with that, and leads into the rest of the movie and her marriages to Sid Luft, Mark Herron, and Mickey Deans and ends when she dies in 1969
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actress, alcoholism, amphetamine, award, based-on-autobiography, camera-shot-of-feet, carnegie-hall-manhattan-new-york-city, character-name-in-title, child-star
Genres:
Biography,
Drama,
Music,
Taglines: Dorothy found the end of the rainbow. Judy spent her life looking for it.
Quotes:
Judy Garland: I've got rainbows coming out my ass.
Judy Garland: I cannot take myself seriously. Because if I did I would have died a long time ago. And I dont want to die, dispite what you might have heard.
Judy Garland: Oh, for God sakes, Liza, can't you see Mama's busy?
Judy Garland: He adores me and I need to be adored.
Judy Garland: Since I was twelve years old they've been taking me out the closet and winding me up to sing and stuffing me back in again. Well maybe I don't feel like singing.
Judy Garland: I'm only *really* at home in the light of the spotlight.
Judy Garland: [on the phone] Yes I've heard how difficult it is to work with Judy Garland. Do you know how difficult it is to BE Judy Garland? I've been trying to be Judy Garland all my life!
Judy Garland: Uninsurable? Uh-huh?... of course I can do eight shows a week, I did eight shows a day in vaudeville... well even the greatest performer in the world can occasionally catch a cold and miss a performance! Let me tell you something: I have been in show business for forty years. That's thirty-five movies, six hundred radio shows, seventeen hundred concerts...! Difficult? Yes, I've heard how difficult it is to work with Judy Garland, do you know how difficult it is to *be* Judy Garland? I've been trying to be Judy Garland all my life!
Narrator: It's hard to be a legend's child. She's everywhere I turn like a shadow. It's remarkable, really, how much of our life begins before we're even born. I wonder sometimes what might have happened to us all if mama had just stayed Baby Frances Gumm... but she wasn't allowed to. She became Judy Garland. She became a legend.
Narrator: It hurts when your mother is too sick to take care of you. My mother was handed her first dose of medication when she was a child. Hard work and pills had robbed her of her childhood, now those pills were beginning to destroy mine. I was beginning to understand the connection between her behaviour and her medication.