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* Read * Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clarke ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland TO BE HAPPY OR NOT After reading the positive and negative reviews I hesitated quite a while before reading this book because I am quite a Judy Garland fan. I didn't want garbage but I am interested in fact. I can say after reading I can see the point in both the negative and positive reviews. So I thought I would add my two cents worth. The negative - There are low points in this book, particularly at the beginning and also somewhat at the end. You are left feeling like what you are reading is
| Title | : | Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.27 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385335156 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
Here are her early years, during which her parents sowed the seeds of heartbreak and self-destruction that would plague her for decades the golden age of Hollywood, brought into sharp focus with cinematic urgency, from the hidden private lives of the movie world's biggest stars to the cold-eyed businessmen who controlled the machine and a parade of brilliant and gifted men -- lovers and artists, impresarios and crooks -- who helped her reach so many creative pinnacles yet left her hopeless and alone after each seemingly inevitable fall. Judy Garland died over thirty years ago, but no biography has so completely captured her spirit -- and demons -- until n
TO BE HAPPY OR NOT After reading the positive and negative reviews I hesitated quite a while before reading this book because I am quite a Judy Garland fan. I didn't want garbage but I am interested in fact. I can say after reading I can see the point in both the negative and positive reviews. So I thought I would add my two cents worth. The negative - There are low points in this book, particularly at the beginning and also somewhat at the end. You are left feeling like what you are reading is probably not really the truth. On the otherhand the author had to sort through the fact a. "If only" according to TundraBee. The drawback with biographies of favourite people is that the reader knows how it all ends before beginning. So I approached this book with trepidation - preparing to be depressed. I was not disappointed.For Judy, there were glorious highs - and lows that would have decimated most people although Judy "recovered" from all but the last. This book is an amalgam of previously published resources and new information including the author's interviews and Judy's own autobiographical musing and ranting into a tape recorder for a book that never was. The book is sometimes. "A Biography that reads like a novel" according to Jenna Stiles. Gerald Clark has an uncanny ability to see into the heart and soul of his subject, Judy Garland. His thorough research through interviews and articles results in an insightful and riveting narrative. Garland is my favorite singer of all times. Her enigmatic emotional highs and lows I now fully understand.On the down side, I learned more about Judy Garland's sexual habits than I ever want or needed to know about.
Mayer did paw her teenage breasts, exacerbate her insecurity by calling her "my little hunchback," feed her uppers and downers ("bolts and jolts"), and repel the U.S. Most people in this book deserved to go up in flames, but only nice Margaret Hamilton, playing the Wicked Witch of the West, actually did so in a filming accident. She recovered; Judy didn't. Judy's heart belonged to her daddy, a kindly theater owner cursed with pederastic yearnings that evidently got the family run out of various towns, once by a man named Doc Savage. But for a jolt of joy afterward, I prescribe the CD Judy at Carnegie Hall. Yes, MGM's Louis B. Her first best girlfriend in Hollywood (and probable lover) turned out to be a studio spy. "P
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