By age 13, Baby was called Judy and sang with the strong voice of a woman. While Baby had always been sure of her father's love, her mother's interest in her seemed entirely businesslike, and with Hollywood in her sights, Ethel pushed her even harder. It became even harder when her family moved to California. While Baby loved to sing and enjoyed the approval of the crowd, the grueling life of touring was hard on herexhausting enough that her mother introduced her to uppers and downers before she was ten. Baby Gumm, as Judy was known, made her singing debut at her father's theater the age of two, and was immediately acknowledged as the star of the sister act. As a theater owner, Frank Gumm could offer a venue for displaying his daughters' talents as a relentlessly driven, frustrated stage mother, Ethel devoted herself to developing them. Born in 1922 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, she was the youngest of Frank and Ethel Gumm's three daughters. Gerald Clarke's Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland follows Garland's sad lifelong attempts to do just that: to get happy.įrom Clarke's research, it seems clear that Judy Garland's lifelong unhappiness was rooted in her childhood. Judy Garland occupies a unique place in our hearts as the heroine who longed only for home in "The Wizard of Oz." The pink-cheeked Dorothy with the sweet and husky voice wanted only a place where she could find happiness, a place to let go of her cares. Troubles That Don't Melt Like Lemon Drops
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