“ought to be an anthem for all the world”
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Judy Garland
Judy Garland was an American actress, singer, and vaudevillian whose career spanned four decades. She is known for her artistic range and strong contralto voice, working in a variety of genres including musicals, comedies, and dramas. Her career and personal life, marked by both public fascination and private struggle, made her a cultural icon.
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“with the purity of an archetype, is the human dream of leaving , a dream at least as powerful as its countervailing dream of roots.”
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“I suddenly knew that this was the beginning of a new life ... Hollywood thought I was through; then came the wonderful opportunity to appear at the London Palladium, where I can truthfully say Judy Garland was reborn.”
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“looked prettier than a garland of flowers”
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Encore Michigan: Classics Songs Soar as Emmy Winner Embodies Judy Garland
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elDiario.es: El robo que conmocionó a Hollywood: el FBI tardó 13 años en encontrar los icónicos zapatos de Judy Garland
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The Guardian: End of the Rainbow review – Jinkx Monsoon’s Judy Garland could be the talk of the town
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The Guardian: ‘There was a lot of addiction and trauma in my family’: why Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon plays a perfect Judy Garland
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The centennial of her birth, she was honored with a perfume named after her, entitled "Judy—A Garland Fragrance", created by Vincenzo Spinnato
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The Guardian: Judy Garland’s 20 best films – ranked!
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Strassler described Garland as "more than an icon
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Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (2009).
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Harvey Weinstein optioned Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland and planned to create a stage show and film based on the biography
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Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (2004).
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Released album “The Great Vocalists of Jazz & Entertainment: I’m Nobody's Baby”.
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Released album “A Star Is Born”.
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Released album “You Made Me Love You”.
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Released album “Classic Judy Garland: The Capitol Years: 1955-1965”.
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Released album “Over the Rainbow and Beyond”.
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Released album “The Judy Garland Show: The Show That Got Away”.
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Released album “Judy in Love / Alone”.
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Released album “Judy Garland Over the Rainbow”.
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Released album “The Essential Judy Garland”.
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Released album “Swingin’ Ladies of Jazz”.
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Released album “Poor Little Rich Girl”.
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Released album “Over the Rainbow: Original Recordings 1936-1949”.
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Released album “Over the Rainbow: The Very Best of Judy Garland”.
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Released album “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”.
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Released album “As Time Goes By”.
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Released album “Over the Rainbow and Other Hits”.
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Released album “Over the Rainbow”.
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Released album “Judy Garland at Her Best”.
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Released album “Legends of the 20th Century: Judy Garland”.
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Released album “Cocktail Hour”.
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Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best of Judy Garland”.
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Released album “The Very Best Of”.
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The American Film Institute ranked her the eighth-greatest star of classic Hollywood cinema
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Identified her as a "chameleon" due to her ability to alternate between comedic, musical and dramatic roles, citing The Wizard of Oz, The Clock, A Star is Born, and I Could Go On Singing—her final film role—as prominent
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Released album “Judy Garland in Hollywood: Her Greatest Movie Hits”.
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Released album “Zing Went the Strings of My Heart”.
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Released album “It Was a Good Time: The Best of Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli”.
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Released album “The Unforgettable Judy Garland”.
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Released album “A (Musical) Anthology”.
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Released album “Rainbows”.
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Released album “Judy Garland: Duets”.
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1997).
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Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for Judy at Carnegie Hall (1997).
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Released album “A Portrait of Judy Garland”.
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Was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
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Released album “The Best of Judy Garland”.
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Released album “The Music, The Life, The Legend”.
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Released album “Duets”.
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Released album “Complete Decca Cast Recordings”.
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Released album “I Can't Give You Anything But Love”.
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Released album “Portrait of Judy Garland”.
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Released album “Collectors’ Gems From the M‐G‐M Films”.
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Released album “American Legends: Judy Garland”.
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Released album “The Platinum Collection: 40 Great Tracks”.
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Released album “Christmas Through the Years”.
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Released album “The Judy Garland Christmas Album”.
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Released album “The Judy Garland Show”.
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Released album “25th Anniversary Retrospective”.
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Released album “Moviestar Collection: Songs”.
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Released album “The Judy Garland Show - Fly Me to the Moon”.
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Released album “Mickey & Judy: The Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney Collection”.
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Released album “Spotlight on Judy Garland”.
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Released album “The Complete Decca Masters”.
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Released album “The Young Judy Garland”.
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Released album “Classic Songs From The Stage & Screen”.
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Released album “Judy Garland on Radio, Volume 1 (1936-1944)”.
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Released album “The Judy Garland Collection”.
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Released album “Always Chasing Rainbows: The Young Judy Garland”.
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Released album “The London Sessions”.
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Released album “The Best of the Decca Years, Volume 2: Changing My Tune”.
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Released album “16 Classic Performances”.
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Gerald Clarke of Architectural Digest dubbed Garland "probably the greatest American entertainer of the twentieth century
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Released album “The One & Only”.
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Released album “My Greatest Songs”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “That’s Entertainment!”.
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Released album “I'm Always Chasing Rainbows”.
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Released album “The Best of the Decca Years, Volume One: Hits!”.
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Released album “Little Girl Blue”.
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(as Dorothy) and in 2006 (as Vicki Lester from A Star Is Born)
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Released album “Chasing Rainbows”.
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Released album “The Best of the Capitol Years”.
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Released album “The Judy Garland Story”.
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Released album “The Legendary Judy Garland: I Could Go On Singing”.
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Released album “ジュディ・ガーランド・ベスト・コレクション”.
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Released album “The Hits of Judy Garland”.
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Released album “Best of Judy Garland: From MGM Classic Films”.
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Released album “The Golden Greats”.
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Released album “Over the Rainbow (In Concert)”.
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Released album “America’s Treasure”.
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“Opis: rozmowa ze Zbigniewem Rogowskim, ok. 1983 roku.”
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Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (1980).
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A selection of Garland's personal items was auctioned off by her ex-husband Sidney Luft with the support of their daughter Lorna and son Joey
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Released album “The Wit & Wonder Of Judy Garland”.
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Released album “Concert”.
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Where an estimated 20,000 people lined up to pay their respects at the Frank E
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Died 1969-06-22.
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Deans found Garland dead in the bathroom of her rented house in Cadogan Lane, Belgravia, London
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“I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.”
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“I wanted to believe, and I tried my damnedest to believe, in the rainbow I tried to get over, and I couldn't! … So what? Lots of people can't!”
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“I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.”
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“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
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Garland had appeared in more than 35 films
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“Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.”
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With Van Johnson as her guest, but problems with her behavior ended her appearances on that show
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And Herron legally married on November 14 of that year
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Garland—along with daughter Liza Minnelli, Carolyn Jones, June Allyson, and Allyson's daughter Pam Powell—held a press conference to protest the previous day's bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala
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Garland and other celebrities such as James Garner, Josephine Baker, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Paul Newman, Rita Moreno, and Sammy Davis Jr
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Garland sued Sidney Luft for divorce on the grounds of mental cruelty
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While Garland was doing her television show
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With guests Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin
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Released album “The Garland Touch”.
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Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1961).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961).
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Was a considerable highlight, called by many "the greatest night in show business history
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Released album “The Magic of Judy Garland”.
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Became the first female recipient and youngest honoree of the Golden Globe Cecil B
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Garland and CBS settled their contract disputes with the help of her new agent, Freddie Fields, and negotiated a new round of specials
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Her voice—although "still rich with emotion"—had finally begun to "creak with the weight of years of disappointment and hard-living
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Released album “That's Entertainment!”.
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Released album “The Letter”.
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Released album “Judy in Love”.
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Released album “Alone”.
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Released album “Judy”.
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Garland performed for four weeks at the New Frontier Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip for a salary of US$55,000 (equivalent to $480,000 in 2024) per week, making her the highest-paid entertainer to work in Las Vegas at the t
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Garland appeared in a number of television specials
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Released album “Miss Show Business”.
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The film was met with critical and popular acclaim
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for A Star Is Born (1954).
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Awarded Special Tony Award (1952).
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Married her tour manager and producer Sidney Luft in Hollister, California
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Began a four-month concert tour of Britain and Ireland, where she played to sold-out audiences throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland
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And 1952; and the failure of A Star is Born meant that she received nothing from that investment
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And was replaced by Betty Hutton, who stepped in to perform all the musical routines as staged by Robert Alton
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Hollywood Fights Back, during which she exhorted listeners to action: "Before every free conscience in America is subpoenaed, please speak up
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Garland was married five times and had three children: Liza Minnelli (with director Vincente Minnelli; born 1946), and Lorna Luft (born 1952) and Joey Luft (with producer Sidney Luft; born 1955).
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Released album “Selections From The Harvey Girls”.
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Released album “Girl Crazy”.
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Released album “Second Souvenir Album”.
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While Garland was pregnant with Rose's child, she had an abortion at the insistence of her mother and studio executives
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Awarded Academy Juvenile Award (1940).
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Including The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms
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And was completed on March 16, 1939, at a final cost of more than $2 million (equivalent to $35 million in 2024)
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When Garland was sixteen, she was cast as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939), a film based on the 1900 children's book by L
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The young teen Garland was in the midst of preparing for a radio performance on the Shell Chateau Hour when she learned that her father had been hospitalized with meningitis and that his medical condition had taken a tur
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Aged 13, she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and was initially cast in supporting roles in ensemble musicals such as Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) and Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)
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The Gumm Sisters enrolled in a dance school run by Ethel Meglin, proprietor of the Meglin Kiddies dance troupe, and appeared with the troupe at its annual Christmas show
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Born 1922-06-10.
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Awarded Grammy Awards.
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Awarded Academy Honorary Award.
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Awarded Tony Awards.
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Won Golden Globe Awards.
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Studied at Hollywood High School.
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Studied at Antelope Valley High School.
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Studied at Harvard University.
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Studied at Hollywood Professional School.
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