Judy Garland: A Biography

✍ Scribed by Edwards, Anne

• Book ID: 107519863
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 9 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781589797871

✦ Synopsis

Edwards's biography presents a complete picture of the late actressand not just the boozing, drug-addicted caricature of a woman central to lesser biographies. We learn, for example, that Garland saw it as her duty to provide for her family financially, a generosity that her mother Ethel exploited with disastrous results. Above all, Judy Garland sought to please, whether it was an audience or a studio head, and therein lies her powerful and heartbreaking story.

Review

Anne Edwards comes the closest yet to evoking that incredibly complex woman I remember as Judy Garland. It is the most in-depth and truthful book we have had so far. (Rod McKuen)

People are complex creatures, and often so very difficult to understand. ''Judy Garland'' is a biography of the famed Hollywood starlet, as Anne Edwards seeks to show a more complete picture of a woman who struggled to serve her family, sought other artistic endeavors such as poetry, in spite of her own demons which Edwards holds get all too much attention when discussing Garland. ''Judy Garland'' is an enticing addition to biography collections focusing on the Golden Age of Hollywood. (Wisconsin Bookwatch)

About the Author

Anne Edwards is an American biographer who specialises in theatre, film and opera (including acclaimed lives of Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn) She lives with her songwriter-husband, Stephen Citron, in Los Angeles, but was resident in the UK and Europe in the 1970s.