Judy Garland
Born Frances Gumm in Minnesota, 1922, Garland and her sisters changed their name in an effort to boost their Gumm Sisters Kiddie Act. A year later, aged nine, Frances changed her first name to Judy. When one sister married, Judy, pushed on by her mother w
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Filmography Highlights
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I Could Go on Singing
1963- Rated:
- U
Judy's last movie contained autobiography within a fictional story. She plays a famous singer, in London for concerts, who visits her former lover (Bogarde), father of their son, Matt (who believes h
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Child is Waiting, A
1963- Rated:
- X
Taken away from Cassavetes by not very nice producer Kramer for some Hollywood-style re-editing, this is nevertheless clearly the work of one of cinema's greatest talents. Garland is the new teacher
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Judgment At Nuremberg
1961- Rated:
- PG
Stanley Kramer directs Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster and Maximilian Schell in this dialogue-heavy courtroom drama about the 1948 Nuremberg Trial
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A Star Is Born
1954- Rated:
- U
An alcoholic movie star on the way down falls for a showgirl on the way up
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In the Good Old Summertime
1949- Rated:
- U
Exuberant and entertaining musical starring Judy Garland and Van Johnson as pen-pals who unwittingly work in the same music shop. Their harmonious and romantic correspondence is not matched by their
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Words and Music
1948- Rated:
- TBC
Wilfully cheerful Rodgers and Hart biopic, which chooses to draw a veil over the sorry end to their story: how Richard left Lorenz for Oscar Hammerstein, how Lorenz died two years later, frustrated a
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Pirate, The
1948- Rated:
- TBC
This is a lavish and brightly coloured MGM musical based on a play by Behrman. Garland is the prim Caribbean beauty who is wooed by a wandering singer (Kelly) impersonating a dastardly pirate. Direct
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Easter Parade
1948- Rated:
- U
A much-loved musical, Easter Parade is the story of a successful dancer dumped by his partner. He vows to replace her with the next dancer he meets, and make her a star whatever her limitations. The
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Ziegfeld Follies
1946- Rated:
- TBC
An excuse for MGM to get as many of its stars as possible on screen. What plot there is hangs on Powell as Flo Ziegfeld dreaming up an ideal Broadway review. This ranges from the godawful comedy sket
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Harvey Girls, The
1946- Rated:
- TBC
Classic MGM musical starring Judy Garland as the leader of a group of beautiful Harvey House waitresses bringing refinement, good food and romance to a Wild Western town.
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Meet Me in St Louis
1944- Rated:
- U
The dawn of the MGM musical in the dark days of the Second World War. Stars Judy Garland as a singing, dancing and romancing member of a middle-class St Louis family in 1904, year of the World's Fair
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For Me and My Gal
1942- Rated:
- U
Kelly hoofed on to the big screen for the first time in this, as an ambitious song-and-dance man in pre-First World War America who wants to avoid the draft and become a star. He joins Garland and Mu
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Ziegfeld Girl
1941- Rated:
- TBC
Full-throttle MGM musical, all big production numbers and improbable melodrama, which follows the lives, loves, frocks and strops of a trio of chorus-line gals. Turner is Sheila, the seduceable ingen
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Babes on Broadway
1941- Rated:
- TBC
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland star in this 'let's put on a show' musical. Rooney is a member of a song-and-dance trio seen working in a small New York spaghetti joint by producer's assistant Fay Bai
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Strike Up the Band
1940- Rated:
- TBC
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland team up once more for this effervescent musical about a school band trying to enter and win a national competition in Chicago. The songs in this typically grand MGM mus
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Little Nellie Kelly
1940- Rated:
- TBC
Romantic comedy-drama with songs starring Judy Garland in the dual role of her Irish-born mother who dies in childbirth in New York and her daughter who grows up under the influence of her stubborn g
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The Wizard Of Oz
1939- Rated:
- U
Exuberant landmark of children's entertainment and Technicolor filmmaking. Inventive, fantastical, colourful - and a surprisingly dark and complex tale about economics and the miseries of childhood
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Babes in Arms
1939- Rated:
- TBC
One strictly for Rooney and Garland fans, this has the children of vaudeville parents put on a show to prove that the spirit of the variety show is still very much alive. This adaptation of the Roger
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Love Finds Andy Hardy
1938- Rated:
- U
The further entertaining adventures of the Hardy family in which Andy, Mickey Rooney, finds himself entangled with three girls - Judy Garland, Lana Turner and Ann Rutherford at Christmas.
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Broadway Melody of 1938
1937- Rated:
- TBC
The third of the MGM Broadway Melody series, this is essentially a rehash of Broadway Melody of 1936 in that it once again has Taylor as the producer-writer of a new musical and Powell as the leading
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