WHO WAS GLENDA GUMM?

One of the least known, yet most controversial figures, in Judy Garland's life was a woman who was first known to the world as Glenda Gumm. Some say Glenda was Judy’s long lost cousin, while others say she was Judy’s discarded twin. What we do know about her is sketchy:

Born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota on June 10, 1922 at 6:06 A..M. (6 minutes after Judy was born), she became a ward of the hospital nursery until she was seven months old. Glenda was then sent to live in a convent in Chile where she remained until the age of 6. Then, until her 18th birthday, she was a year round resident at a Swiss boarding school (with tuition paid by one “M. Rabwin”). She is not known to have had any visitors there, nor did she leave the school grounds for twelve straight years.

After that the details get even fuzzier, but the rumors abound. We do know that upon her release from boarding school her name was changed to Yolanda Enid Vega and she became an operative for the French Resistance.

She graduated from the resistance to become an international Mata Hari and according to rumor had war time affairs with Benito Mussolini, King George, Audie Murphy, Yōsuke Matsuoka, Gertrude Stein, and Lou Costello. She was also a serial bigamist with at least 14 marriages and zero divorces. Oddly enough Glenda never used any of her married names, always choosing to go by various aliases instead.

Under the name Alice America she was awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom by Harry Truman, and using the name Bobbie Fox became an alternate delegate to the 1960 Democratic Convention. During the 50’s she was married briefly to author Norman Mailer and is rumored to have given birth to the actress known as Angela Bassett.

Alice America morphed into Countess Crystal Of Canada and was part of the international jet set in the 1960’s and was seen frequently in the company of Aristotle Onassis, Armand Hammer, Prince Charles, Sandy Duncan, Werner Erhard, and other notables.

In 1968 she was given a two hundred thousand dollar grant by the International String Society to analyze twine and it’s knotting habits.

Thanks to the freedom of information act TJGE investigative team has unearthed a wealth of new and verified information on Glenda Gumm, including eye opening revelations on her relationship with Judy Garland!

What you have read here is just a small sampling of the information unearthed about Glenda Gumm. Over the course of the summer we will share more details with you, as well as photographs and recordings from her 1970’s and 80’s career in regional musical theater and night clubs.

Glenda’s story is so fantastic and compelling it reads like fiction. Stay tuned……