The basic trajectory of the star's life, from soulful baby precocity (she sang torch songs in childhood) to MGM heyday to descent into drug-addled misery, is thus well known. and This Is My Story" and "Judy Garland Achieves New Level of Poignancy."
Among the newspaper and magazine articles that this book swallows as reliable source material are "The Real Me," "I'm Judy Garland "I must say I never thought I'd live to see the day when anyone would be tossed into the jug for saying Judy Garland had problems," wrote the columnistĭorothy Kilgallen after another reporter was briefly jailed for libel. Her triumphsĪnd calamities were chronicled with tireless vigor. Of the author's splendid portrait of Truman Capote, "Get Happy" recalls James Agee's complaint that "The Clock," a Vincente Minnelli film in which Garland starred, "inspires ingratitudeĬlarke puts himself at a serious disadvantage in moving from a fresh, witty, reasonably unexamined subject like Capote to a woman whose entire adult life unfolded in a climate of sob-sister press scrutiny. It's the high-minded desperation that serves as ballast for "Get Happy," Gerald Clarke's scandal-seeking yet curiously wan biography of Judy Garland.
Hat do Odysseus, Sir Galahad and pigtailed little Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz" have in common? Answer: lonely quests through hostile territory.īut this is no parlor game.
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