Judy Garland
& Her Legendary Career
"How do You Measure Miracles?"
[Above: The Gumm Sisters, -- several months prior to Judy's third birthday. From left: Mary Jane, Dorothy Virginia, and "Baby" (Frances Ethel) Gumm]
The five-word quote above is taken from a Toronto TELEGRAM newspaper review of Judy Garland’s December concert at Canada’s O’Keefe Center, and it’s the same basic response she won virtually all of her performing life. As a child in s vaudeville, she was defined as "the little girl with the great big voice." As the preeminent star of musical motion pictures in the s, she was known as "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's greatest asset." In the s -- when she returned to revue work on stage and began appearing on television -- they billed her as "Miss Show Business." And when she began to tour in concert in , the posters simply read, "JUDY/World's Greatest Entertainer."
Even now, decades later, it would be difficult to argue with any of those facts.
Judy Garland celebrates her centenary in , for it was on June 10, , that Frances Ethel Gumm was born in Grand
Judy Garland’s Life and Career in Photos
Birth and Early Years
Born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, , Judy Garland was the daughter of Ethel and Frank Gumm, both vaudeville performers who got together and settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to manage a movie theater. At just 2 years old, Garland began her career on the stage after appearing with her family to sing the chorus of “Jingle Bells” during a Christmas show at the family’s movie theater.
When she was 4, the family moved to Los Angeles County after rumors of Frank partaking in a gay extramarital affair came to light. Shortly after relocating, the family opened another movie theater, and Ethel got to work helping her precocious daughters—Mary Jane, Dorothy Virginia, and Frances Ethel—break into show business as musical trio The Gumm Sisters.
The Gumm Sisters
Following a handful of film roles and a slew of tour performances as The Gumm Sisters, the group officially changed their name to The Garland Sisters after singer George Jessel suggested the trio take on a “more appealing” name. Although the exact origins of the Garland last name remain unclear, by the end of , the three siblings were performing
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Who Was Judy Garland?
Judy Garland signed a movie contract with MGM at the age of In , she scored one of her greatest on-screen successes with The Wizard of Oz. In , MGM dropped her from her contract. In the s, Judy Garland spent more time as a singer than an actress. She died in of an accidental overdose.
Early Life
Actress and singer Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, , in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Garland, the star of many classic musical films, was known for her tremendous talent and troubled life. The daughter of vaudeville professionals, she started her stage career as a child.
Garland was called "Baby Gumm" and sang "Jingle Bells" at her first public performance at the age of two and a half. With her two older sisters, Garland soon began performing as part of the Gumm Sisters.
In , the Gumm family moved to California where Garland and her sisters studied acting and dancing. They played numerous gigs that their mother, Ethel, had arranged for them as their manager and agent. In the late s, the Gumm sisters also appeared in several short films.
The Gumm sisters transformed into the Garland sisters at the World's
Judy Garland Biography
Born: June 10,
Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Died: June 21,
London, England
American actress and singer
Judy Garland starred in films, musicals, and on the concert stage. A superstar who never lost her appeal, she is best remembered for her performance in The Wizard of Oz and for the song &#x;Over the Rainbow.&#x;
Becoming Judy Garland
Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, , in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. She was the last of three daughters of former vaudeville (traveling variety entertainment) actors Frank and Ethel Gumm. Judy began her show business career before she was three years old at her father&#x;s theater, the New Grand Theater. The family soon moved to Los Angeles, California, and to better climates than those found in remote northern Minnesota. By age six she was a veteran performer, appearing with her two older sisters in a vaudeville act. After her father&#x;s health declined, the sisters&#x; act soon became the primary source of income for the family.
Mistakenly billed as &#x;The Glum Sisters&#x; in , the sisters, at the suggestion of a fellow performer, changed their stage name to Garland (the name o
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