On This Day In Herstory (June 21, 1968)

Per David price, "June 21, 1968 ... pictured while holding a press conference to promote her appearance as the first concert performer to entertain at the new Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ."

FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER PRESENTS MISS JUDY GARLAND

FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER announces
ALL SINGIN’, ALL DANCIN’, ALL JUDY!
July 26 - August 9

Impressive retrospective of Judy Garland’s films will feature 31 titles including a presentation of seldom seen short films and rarities as well as a special “sing-along” screening of THE WIZARD OF OZ.

THE PALEY CENTER announces
JUDY GARLAND: THE TELEVISION YEARS
July 20 – August 18

First comprehensive retrospective of Garland’s television appearances highlighted by The Judy Garland Show as well as performances on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show, among others


New York, NY - On the occasion of what would have been Judy Garland’s 89th birthday, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Paley Center have announced the details today for FSLC’s comprehensive retrospective of the peerless film icon’s work, All Singin’, All Dancin’, All JUDY! which will screen at the Walter Reade Theater July 26 – August 9 and The Paley Center’s comprehensive retrospective of Garland’s television work, JUDY GARLAND: THE TELEVISION YEARS which will be presented July 20 – August 18.

With autumn marking the 75th anniversary of Judy Garland's feature film debut (PIGSKIN PARADE, 1936), the Film Society of Lincoln Center will screen 31 titles from July 26 – August 9, including each of her big-screen acting performances, to pay tribute to the incomparable talent known as Judy Garland. All but two films will be presented in 35mm, with the two exceptions (THE WIZARD OF OZ and A STAR IS BORN) presented in stunning 4k digital restorations.

All Singin’, All Dancin’, All JUDY! will mark the first-ever United States celebration of Judy Garland’s movies to be presented by an arts organization of this kind as well as being the most complete and comprehensive retrospective of her films since the London National Film Theatre’s program 40 years ago in 1971.

The program will be coordinated with and produced in association with The Paley Center, which will present the first comprehensive retrospective of Judy Garland’s television work called JUDY GARLAND: THE TELEVISION YEARS from July 20 – August 18. In addition to highlights from The Judy Garland Show, which allowed her to share the spotlight with such entertainers as Mickey Rooney, Barbra Streisand, Ethel Merman, and Peggy Lee, the screening series will include rarely shown guest spots Garland did on such programs as The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show, The Sammy Davis Jr. Show, On Broadway Tonight, and The Jack Paar Program. For more information go to www.paleycenter.org.

Highlights of the films being screened at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway) will include; a sing-along screening (co-presented with NewFest) of THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939); screenings of the Andy Hardy classics that teamed Garland with Mickey Rooney (LOVE FINDS ANDY HARDY (1938), ANDY HARDY MEETS DEBUTANTE (1940) and LIFE BEGINS FOR ANDY HARDY (1941)); classic and beloved musicals (MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) and EASTER PARADE (1948)); and her Academy Award nominated performances in A STAR IS BORN (1954) and JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961).

Another highlight will be a presentation of short films and rarities hosted by noted Judy Garland and THE WIZARD OF OZ authority, historian and author, John Fricke on Friday, July 29 at 7:30PM. An Emmy winner and Grammy nominee for his work on various Garland-based documentaries and recordings, Fricke will be on hand throughout the retrospective to discuss and add insight into the film legend’s career. He is an author of several books on the subject of Garland, THE WIZARD OF OZ and L. Frank Baum (the author of The Wizard of Oz), and will be signing copies of his latest book published by Running Press, JUDY: A Legendary Film Career on Friday, August 5 at the Walter Reade.

FSLC Program Director Richard Pena said, “The idea for this series occurred to us when we were presenting the restoration of THE WIZARD OF OZ at the NYFF in 2009. In discovering the amazing number of web sites, festivals and fan clubs still devoted to Judy Garland, it was clear that she is still very much alive and part of our culture. Working with John Fricke, we have been able to assemble an unprecedented panorama of her work. We’re delighted to give Judy Garland fans and New York film goers an opportunity to see one of the truly magical screen icons up on the big screen, where she belongs.”


FILM LINEUP FOR All Singin’, All Dancin’, All JUDY!

ANDY HARDY MEETS DEBUTANTE (88min) (1940)
Director: George B. Seitz
Faithful pal Betsy Booth (Garland) comes to the aid of small-town Andy (Andy Rooney) when he sets his sights on a wealthy society woman. (35mm)
ANDY HARDY MEETS DEBUTANTE screens Tuesday, August 2 at 6:00PM.

BABES IN ARMS (90min) (1939)
Director: Busby Berkeley
Children of fading vaudevillians reclaim their families' honor by putting on a show in the barn. Rooney and Garland! Arthur Freed’s first film as head of his own MGM unit! (35mm)
BABES IN ARMS screens Thursday, July 28 at 1:00PM and Monday, August 1 at 6:15PM.

BABES ON BROADWAY (118min) (1941)
Director: Busby Berkeley
A group of aspiring New York performers surmounts all the odds in their efforts to stage a benefit for inner-city children. Rooney and Garland! (35mm)
BABES ON BROADWAY screens Thursday, July 28 at 3:00PM and Monday, August 1 at 8:15PM.

BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938 (110min) (1937)
Director: Roy Del Ruth
The financial backing for a Broadway revue depends on a racehorse, his tap-dancing owner, and her performing partners. Garland’s MGM feature-film debut! (35mm)
BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938 screens Saturday, July 30 at 1:00PM.

A CHILD IS WAITING (102min) (1963)
Director: John Cassavetes
A rootless musician (Garland) seeks stability as a teacher for challenged children, but her emotionalism is deemed counterproductive by the school psychiatrist (Burt Lancaster). (35mm)
A CHILD IN WAITING screens Sunday, August 7 at 8:40PM and Monday, August 8 at 4:15PM.

THE CLOCK (90min) (1945)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
A New York office worker (Garland) meets, loses, and then marries an army corporal (Robert Walker) during his 48-hour leave. (35mm)
THE CLOCK screens Tuesday, July 26 at 9:00PM and Friday, July 29 at 1:30PM.

EASTER PARADE (107min) (1948)
Director: Charles Walters
“The happiest musical ever made” (per the original ad copy): 17 Irving Berlin songs and the only screen teaming of Garland and Astaire. (35mm)
EASTER PARADE screens Friday, August 5 at 6:00PM and Monday, August 8 at 2:00PM.

EVERYBODY SING (91min) (1938)
Director: Edwin L. Marin
The precocious singing daughter (Garland) of a madcap theatrical family saves them from financial ruin, aided by their Russian maid and singing chef. (35mm)
EVERYBODY SING screens Sunday, July 31 at 5:30PM.

FOR ME AND MY GAL (104min) (1942)
Director: Busby Berkeley
Vaudevillians encounter romantic challenges and World War I in their hopes of crashing “the big time”: The Palace Theatre in New York City. (Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.) (35mm)
FOR ME AND MY GAL screens Thursday, August 4 at 6:15PM.

GAY PURR-EE (85min) (1962)
Director: Abe Levitow
Chuck Jones co-wrote this innovative cartoon feature about a country cat (voiced by Garland) who seeks adventure in Paris. Songs by Arlen and Harburg. (35mm)
GAY PURR-EE screens Sunday, August 7 at 10:00AM.

GIRL CRAZY (99min) (1943)
Director: Norman Taurog
A Gershwin score enhances the saga of a New York playboy (Rooney) who is sent to a Western agricultural college and chases the dean’s granddaughter (Garland). (35mm)
GIRL, CRAZY screens Tuesday, August 2 at 3:45PM and Sunday, August 7 at 12:30PM.

THE HARVEY GIRLS (102min) (1946)
Director: George Sidney
Overcoming saloon girls, snakes, arson, and amorous complications, a mail-order bride (Garland) turns waitress in the Old West. With Angela Lansbury. (35mm)
THE HARVEY GIRLS screens Monday, August 1 at 4:00PM and Thursday, August 4 at 8:30PM.

I COULD GO ON SINGING (100min) (1963)
Director: Ronald Neame
While appearing at the London Palladium, a legendary singer (Garland) hopes to rekindle an old love (Dirk Bogarde) and reunite with their illegitimate son. Garland’s final film. (35mm)
I COULD GO ON SINGING screens Sunday, August 7 at 6:30PM and Tuesday, August 9 at 3:45PM.

IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME (102min) (1949)
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Turn-of-the-century Chicago clerks (Garland, and Van Johnson) feud at their music store while carrying on an anonymous lonely-hearts correspondence. (Preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.) (35mm)
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME screens Saturday, August 6 at 8:30PM.

JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (187min) (1961)
Director: Stanley Kramer
An all-star cast revisits the moral issues and responsibilities that permeated the post-war Nuremberg trials of Nazi government officials. With Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Montgomery Clift. (35mm)
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG screens Thursday, August 4 at 2:30PM and Sunday, August 7 at 2:45PM.

LIFE BEGINS FOR ANDY HARDY (101min) (1941)
Director: George B. Seitz
Andy (Rooney) weighs post-graduation options — college or a New York job? — while tempted by a Manhattan “wolfess” and championed by Betsy Booth (Garland). (35mm)
LIFE BEGINS FOR AND HARDY screens Tuesday, August 2 at 8:00PM.

LISTEN, DARLING (75min) (1938)
Director: Edwin L. Marin
To prevent her mother (Mary Astor) from re-marrying for security, a teen (Garland) and her best friend “kidnap” the woman in a trailer. (35mm)
LISTEN, DARLING screens Wednesday, July 27 at 3:30PM and Sunday, July 31 at 12:00PM.

LITTLE NELLIE KELLY (98min) (1940)
Director: Norman Taurog
An immigrant, multi-generational Irish family adjusts to life, loss, and love in New York City. (35mm)
LITTLE NELLIE KELLY screens Friday, July 29 at 8:30PM.

LOVE FINDS ANDY HARDY (91min) (1938)
Director: George B. Seitz
When Andy needs a car and a date for the Christmas Eve dance, the visiting girl-next-door solves his problems. With Lana Turner. (35mm)
LOVE FINDS ANDY HARDY screens Wednesday, July 27 at 1:30PM and Sunday, July 31 at 3:30PM.

MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (113min) (1944)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
The happy, turn-of-the-century, St. Louis existence of The Smith Family is threatened when Mr. Smith is offered a job in New York. (35mm)
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS screens Tuesday, July 26 at 6:15PM, Friday, July 29 at 3:30PM and Tuesday, August 9 at 6:00PM.

PIGSKIN PARADE (93min) (1936)
Director: David Butler
A hillbilly melon-thrower and his musical kid sister propel a Texas college to singing, dancing, and gridiron victory. Garland’s feature debut! (35mm)
PIGSKIN PARADE screens Saturday, July 30 at 3:15PM.

THE PIRATE (102min) (1948)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cole Porter wrote the songs for this tongue-in-cheek romp about a Caribbean girl (Garland) in love with the legend of a ruthless seaman (Gene Kelly). (35mm)
THE PIRATE screens Tuesday, July 26 at 4:00PM and Saturday, July 30 at 5:30PM.

PRESENTING LILY MARS (104min) (1943)
Director: Norman Taurog
Indiana teen makes good on Broadway (eventually) thanks to a producer from her hometown and despite his temperamental leading lady. (Preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.) (35mm)
PRESENTING LILY MARS screens Wednesday, August 3 at 6:15PM.

A STAR IS BORN (181min) (1954)
Director: George Cukor
A band singer (Garland) is touted to Hollywood stardom by an alcoholic film legend (James Mason), but their evolving love is undercut by the industry’s machinations. (DCP)
A STAR IS BORN screens Sunday, July 31 at 7:30PM, Friday, August 5 at 2:15PM and Tuesday, August 9 at 8:15PM.

STRIKE UP THE BAND (120min) (1940)
Director: Busby Berkeley
Midwestern teens fight all the odds to get their high school swing band to Chicago for a radio contest. Rooney and Garland! (Preservation print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.) (35mm)
STRIKE UP THE BAND screens Friday, July 29 at 6:00PM and Wednesday, August 3 at 1:30PM.

SUMMER STOCK (108min) (1950)
Director: Charles Walters
A Connecticut barn becomes a summer theater, thanks to its singing/dancing owner and the performing troupe of a New York actor/director. (35mm)
SUMMER STOCK screens Saturday, August 6 at 6:10PM and Tuesday, August 9 at 1:30PM.

THOROUGHBREDS DON’T CRY (80min) (1937)
Director: Alfred E. Green, 1937
A boarding house manager, her niece, a British boy, and an American jockey thwart crooked bookies prior to the big race. (35mm)
THOROUGHBREDS DON’T CRY screens Sunday, July 31 at 1:45PM.

TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY (132min) (1947)
Director: Richard Whorf
In this “bio-pic,” the life of composer Jerome Kern is musically celebrated by an all-star MGM roster; Garland portrays Broadway’s Marilyn Miller. (35mm)
TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY screens Friday, August 5 at 8:30PM.

THE WIZARD OF OZ (101min) (1939) – Co-presented by NewFest
Director: Victor Fleming
A Kansas girl travels with a Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion (and Toto, too) through the magical, musical land of Munchkins, witches, and the Wonderful Wizard. (35mm – Regular version) (DCP – Sing-along version)
THE WIZARD OF OZ screens Saturday, July 30 (Sing-along version) at 11:30AM and Wednesday, August 3 (Regular version) at 4:00PM.

ZIEGFELD FOLLIES (110min) (1946)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
From an elegant Heavenly perch, legendary impresario Florenz Ziegfeld envisions a new edition of his Follies, as populated by MGM. (35mm)
ZIEGFELD FOLLIES screens Tuesday, July 26 at 1:45PM and Saturday, July 30 at 8:00PM.

ZIEGFELD GIRL (132min) (1941)
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
A teen vaudevillian, an elevator operator, and a faithful wife face personal repercussions when selected to perform in the legendary Ziegfeld Follies. (35mm)
ZIEGFELD GIRL screens Wednesday, August 3 at 8:30PM.


Tickets will go on sale Thursday, May 5 both at the box office and on-line. Discounts are available for Film Society members. Read more about The Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Screenings will be held at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, located at 165 West 65th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway.


SCREENING SCHEDULE FOR All Singin’, All Dancin’, All JUDY!

Screening Venue:
The Film Society of Lincoln Center – Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65 Street, between Broadway & Amsterdam (upper level)

Tuesday, July 26
1:45PM ZIEGFELD FOLLIES (110min)
4:00PM THE PIRATE (102min)
6:15PM MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (113min)
9:00PM THE CLOCK (90min)

Wednesday, July 27
1:30PM LOVE FINDS ANDY HARDY (91min)
3:30PM LISTEN, DARLING (75min)

Thursday, July 28
1:00PM BABES IN ARMS (90min)
3:00PM BABES ON BROADWAY (118min)

Friday, July 29
12:30PM THE CLOCK (90min)
2:30PM MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (113min)
5:00PM STRIKE UP THE BAND (120min)
7:30PM Special presentation - Short Films and Rarities presented by John Fricke (85min)
9:45PM LITTLE NELLIE KELLY (98min)

Saturday, July 30
10:30AM THE WIZARD OF OZ (Sing-along version) (101min)
**Movies for Kids
1:00PM BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938 (110min)
3:15PM PIGSKIN PARADE (93min)
5:30PM THE PIRATE (102min)
8:00PM ZIEGFELD FOLLIES (115min)

Sunday, July 31
12:00PM LISTEN, DARLING (75min)
1:45PM THOROUGHBREDS DON’T CRY (80min)
3:30PM LOVE FINDS ANDY HARDY (91min)
5:30PM EVERYBODY SING (91min)
7:30PM A STAR IS BORN (181min)

Monday, August 1
2:00PM EVERYBODY SING (91min)
4:00PM THE HARVEY GIRLS (102min)
6:15PM BABES IN ARMS (90min)
8:15PM BABES ON BROADWAY (118min)

Tuesday, August 2
1:30PM FOR ME AND MY GAL (104min)
3:45PM GIRL CRAZY (99min)
6:00PM ANDY HARDY MEETS DEBUTANTE (88min)
8:00PM LIFE BEGINS FOR ANDY HARDY (101min)

Wednesday, August 3
1:30PM STRIKE UP THE BAND (120min)
4:00PM THE WIZARD OF OZ (101min)
6:15PM PRESENTING LILY MARS (104min)
8:30PM ZIEGFELD GIRL (132min)

Thursday, August 4
2:30PM JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (187min)
6:15PM FOR ME AND MY GAL (104min)
8:30PM THE HARVEY GIRLS (102min)

Friday, August 5
2:15PM A STAR IS BORN (181min)
6:00PM EASTER PARADE (107min)
8:30PM TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY (132min)

Saturday, August 6
6:10PM SUMMER STOCK (108min)
8:30PM IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME (102min)

Sunday, August 7
10:00AM GAY PURR-EE (85min) **Movies for Kids
12:30PM GIRL CRAZY (99min)
2:45PM JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (186min)
6:30PM I COULD GO ON SINGING (100min)
8:40PM A CHILD IS WAITING (102min)

Monday, August 8
2:00PM EASTER PARADE (107min)
4:15PM A CHILD IS WAITING (102min)

Tuesday, August 9
1:30PM SUMMER STOCK (108min)
3:45PM I COULD GO ON SINGING (100min)
6:00PM MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (113min)
8:15PM A STAR IS BORN (181min)


About The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Under the leadership of Rose Kuo, Executive Director, and Richard Peña, Program Director, the Film Society of Lincoln Center offers the best in international, classic and cutting-edge independent cinema. The Film Society presents two film festivals that attract global attention: the New York Film Festival, currently planning its 49th edition, and New Directors/New Films which, since its founding in 1972, has been produced in collaboration with MoMA. The Film Society also publishes the award-winning Film Comment Magazine, and for over three decades has given an annual award—now named “The Chaplin Award”—to a major figure in world cinema. Past recipients of this award include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, and Tom Hanks. The Film Society presents a year-round calendar of programming, panels, lectures, educational programs and specialty film releases at its Walter Reade Theater and the new state-of-the-art Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, opening June 2011. The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from 42BELOW, American Airlines, The New York Times, Stella Artois, the National Endowment for the Arts, WNET New York Public Media, Royal Bank of Canada and the New York State Council on the Arts. For more information, visit www.filmlinc.com

About The Paley Center
The Paley Center for Media, with locations in New York and Los Angeles, leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public. Drawing upon its curatorial expertise, an international collection, and close relationships with the leaders of the media community, the Paley Center examines the intersections between media and society. The general public can access the collection and participate in programs that explore and celebrate the creativity, the innovations, the personalities, and the leaders who are shaping media. Through the global programs of its Media Council and International Council, the Paley Center also serves as a neutral setting where media professionals can engage in discussion and debate about the evolving media landscape. Previously known as The Museum of Television & Radio, the Paley Center was founded in 1976 by William S. Paley, a pioneering innovator in the industry. For more information, please visit www.paleycenter.org .

For Media specific inquiries, please contact:
John Wildman, (212) 875-5419, jswildman@hotmail.com
Seth Hyman, (212) 875-5625, shyman@filmlinc.com

For Media inquires about the Paley Center screening series:
Carrie Oman, (212)621-6785, coman@paleycenter.org

NEW JUDY CD NOW SET FOR OCTOBER RELEASE

The next major Judy Garland CD to be released, The London Studio Recordings 1957-1964(First Hand Records #12) has pushed it's release date to October of 2011.

Now don't be too disappointed, any CD that has a never before heard alternate take, stereo recording of Judy singing Hello Bluebird is most definitely worth the wait.

ON THIS DAY IN HERSTORY (June 20, 1957)

Per David Price, "June 20, 1957 ... photographed in Dallas, Texas, where she was nearing the end of her engagement at the State Fair Summer Musicals season."

Photo credit: Andy Hanson

On This Day In Herstory (June 19, 1940)

Per David Price, "June 19, 1940 ... on the sound stage at M-G-M filming the "Drummer Boy" number with Mickey Rooney for STRIKE UP THE BAND."

New Homepage For The Yahoo Group

GLENDA GUMM CONFIDENTIAL COVER GIRL

One of our crack investigators (and I call them that because they smoke crack) dug up this vintage copy of Confidential magazine with Glenda Gumm on the cover.

On This Day In Herstory (June 18, 1963)

Per David Price, "June 18, 1963 ... at the opening night of Robert Goulet's engagement at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles. Also in the crowd and pictured here with Judy were [L-R] Jane Fonda, Roddy McDowall, and Henry Fonda. Judy was radiant that night and only days away from the taping of the first episode of her much-awaited weekly CBS Variety Show."

FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER GARLAND RETROSPECTICE LISTINGS / SCHEDULE

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First Look At The Beautiful Flyer For The Paley Center Retrospective

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Glenda Gumm And Jayne Mansfield

On This Day In Herstory (June 17, 1945)

Per David Price, "June 17, 1945 ... stopping in Chicago en route to New York City ... the two new brides. Judy and Donna Reed were married on the same day [June 15th] and the newly married couples traveled together across country to honeymoon."

On This Day In Herstory (June 16, 1964)

Per David Price, "June 16, 1964 .... meeting the press in Yokohama, Japan after Judy and Mark arrived there this day. They had cruised there from Hong Kong on the ocean liner President Roosevelt."

GLENDA GUMM AND LIZA

On This Day In Herstory (June 15,1935)

per David Price, "June 15, 1935 ... advertisement for the CAL NEVA LODGE in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, with the Gumm girls billed as the "GARLAND SISTERS, Harmony Stylists". This was one of the last bookings for the sisters before Judy would be singled out and offered a contract by M-G-M."

Pricing For Judy's Paley Center Retrospective

The Paley Center will present the first comprehensive retrospective of Judy Garland’s television work called JUDY GARLAND: THE TELEVISION YEARS from July 20 – August 18. In addition to highlights from The Judy Garland Show, which allowed her to share the spotlight with such entertainers as Mickey Rooney, Barbra Streisand, Ethel Merman, and Peggy Lee, the screening series will include rarely shown guest spots Garland did on such programs as The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show, The Sammy Davis Jr. Show, On Broadway Tonight, and The Jack Paar Program. For more information go to www.paleycenter.org.

Here's a summation as to the "ticket" policy at The Paley Center, which will be in effect for their Judy Garland television retrospective:


The entry fee to The Paley Center is referred to on their website as a Contribution.

Members of The Paley Center attend their screenings free. For non-members, there are no advance purchases. The ‘contribution’ fee is part of the general admission to The Paley Center: $10.00 for adults, $8.00 for students and senior citizens; $5.00 for children under the age of fourteen.

Most of the daily screenings begin at 12:30 p.m. (Those shown on the Center's "late night" -- Thursday -- begin at 6 p.m.) Doors open at noon, so there's a half-hour in which to make your contribution and get seated before the onset of a program.

All the Garland packages play either both on weekdays or weekends -- or, for those 12:30pm shows that do not repeat on weekends, they are also shown at 6:00 p.m. Thursday performances. This insures that people who work have a chance to catch every program.

The Paley Center is located at 25 W. 52nd Street, between Fifth Avenue and The Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue).




In the case of the New York Film Society of Lincoln Center retrospective of Judy's films, advance tickets for their Judy Garland motion picture season go on sale on July 14th at The Walter Reade Theatre at 165 West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.

LIZA WITH A KNEE

The 65-year-old actress-and-singer is the daughter of Hollywood film director Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland, who played lead character Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.

Liza, who has undergone surgery to replace both her knees and hips, has joked that her 'false' joint replacements have left her confused about which fictional character she is the child of.

'Between the false hips and false knees ' from here up I am Dorothy's daughter and from here downwards I'm Tin Man's kid,' she laughed.

Liza has insisted that being the daughter of Hollywood royalty wasn't as easy as people assume. The raven-haired star's family life was ordinary and sometimes reminded her of a 'factory' because of the regimented routine.

'What people don't understand about Hollywood is that they worked. Everybody's family, everybody I knew, ouR parents got up in the morning and they went to work and we went to school,' she explained in an interview with BBC Breakfast. 'You came back, had dinner and went to bed. They had to get up at 5.30am. It's a factory. It's like the coalmines. Everybody goes to the coalmines.'

The legendary star has recently put together her latest record, Confessions, and has previously admitted she recorded the album from the confines of her bedroom after recovering from her most recent knee replacement surgery. Each song allows the star to reminisce about her former lovers.

'Do you ever think about the first person you fell in love with? Do you remember the song of your first dance? Each song [on the album] reminds me of a different time in my life and the wonderful men I've known,' she explained.

Liza is happy with her life right now. The iconic star, who has been married and divorced four times, is single and that's the way she intends it to be for the foreseeable future.

i'm happy and healthy. I'm not married. I'm single and I'm not dating anybody. It's not me! I'm so happy,' she gushed.

This article originally appeared in Music.News.com which took it from the BBC Breakfast show.
http://www.music-news.com/

ON THIS DAY IN HERSTORY (June 14, 1945)

Per David Price, "June 14, 1945 ... failing to get away from work at M-G-M soon enough to get to the Marriage License Bureau, Judy and Vincente went to the home of Rosamond Rice, the head of the Bureau, where she allowed them to obtain their Marriage License."

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……

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