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Get Happy by Gerald Clarke
Get Happy by Gerald Clarke









"Most people would have been so daunted by awful childhood. Mayer, if you want to tell me where I sing from, from now on, just point.'"

Get Happy by Gerald Clarke

And finally she got up enough courage to say to him, 'Mr. He would tell her how beautifully she sang and then put his hand on her left breast and say, 'This is where you sing from!' And this went on for four years, from the age that one of the worst offenders was Louis B. But nobody, absolutely nobody that I'veĮver talked to knew that they'd put the bite on Judy, who was then a teenager. Everybody in the world of course knows about the Hollywood casting couches. These had revelations that really quite surprised me. he had actually finished, with the help of a ghost writer, 68 pages in 1960-61. Late in the project, I discovered what was truly astonishing and astounding: her unpublished and unfinished autobiography. the real Judy talking, very confessionally. at a very low ebb in her life, just pouring her heart out. "I found tapes that she had made for an autobiography in the mid-60's.

Get Happy by Gerald Clarke

Some of which are quite romantic, about a crippled sister who had an unhappy love affair, pushed her wheelchair off a bridge in Georgia and died.

Get Happy by Gerald Clarke

or instance: There are all sorts of stories about Judy Garland's father, Frank Gumm, and his early life, After several times, that's the accepted wisdom. "What I quickly discovered was that much of what had been written was just not true that things, as you know, once they're in print, tend to be taken as gospel and then they're reprinted over and overĪgain.

  • Elizabeth Kendall Reviews Gerald Clarke's 'Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland' (January 9, 2000).
  • An interview by Bill Goldstein, books editor of The New York Times on the Web, April 4, 2000.Ĭlick here to listen to the entire interview (35 minutes).Ĭlick below to listen to selections from the interview.











    Get Happy by Gerald Clarke