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Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland
Gerald Clarke
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Description for Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland
Paperback. * Definitive biography of Hollywood's brightest musical star - Judy Garland (1922-1969). Num Pages: 528 pages, 16 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 36. Weight in Grams: 410.
Judy Garland, the girl with the pigtails in THE WIZARD OF OZ, was an entertainer of almost magical power. The woman of half a dozen comebacks and a hundred heartbreaks. To tell her story, Gerald Clarke took ten years, travelled thousands of miles across two continents, conducted hundreds of interviews, and combed through mountains of documents, many of which were unavailable to other biographers. Combining a novelist's skill and a movie director's eye, Clarke re-creates the golden age of Hollywood with cinematic urgency: Louis B Mayer, the patriarch of MGM; sexy Lana Turner, Judy's ... Read more
Judy Garland, the girl with the pigtails in THE WIZARD OF OZ, was an entertainer of almost magical power. The woman of half a dozen comebacks and a hundred heartbreaks. To tell her story, Gerald Clarke took ten years, travelled thousands of miles across two continents, conducted hundreds of interviews, and combed through mountains of documents, many of which were unavailable to other biographers. Combining a novelist's skill and a movie director's eye, Clarke re-creates the golden age of Hollywood with cinematic urgency: Louis B Mayer, the patriarch of MGM; sexy Lana Turner, Judy's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780751531602
SKU
V9780751531602
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About Gerald Clarke
Gerald Clarke has written for many magazines, including Esquire and Time, where for many years he was a senior writer.
Reviews for Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland
[A] masterful biography.
SUNDAY TIMES
A Hollywood biography in the classic mould...[it is the] deep insecurity allied with greatness that Clarke explores so well. This is a sympathetic biography in that it seeks explanations, although Clarke properly makes no attempt to gloss over the Garland
GLASGOW HERALD
This biography carries us through Garland's show-stopping highs and ... Read more
SUNDAY TIMES
A Hollywood biography in the classic mould...[it is the] deep insecurity allied with greatness that Clarke explores so well. This is a sympathetic biography in that it seeks explanations, although Clarke properly makes no attempt to gloss over the Garland
GLASGOW HERALD
This biography carries us through Garland's show-stopping highs and ... Read more