Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

Life with Judy Garland Me and My Shadows is a 2001 twopart, fourhour biographical television miniseries based on the 1998 book Me and My Shadows A Family Memoir written by Lorna Luft, the daughter of Judy Garland. The production is notable for its meticulous recreations of her films and concerts, and verisimilitudinous impressions of her by Tammy Blanchard and Judy Davis. However, Judy Garlands original recordings are used to dub Daviss singing. The miniseries was originally broadcast on ABC on Februaryand 26, 2001.

Christmas 1924 Twoyearold Frances Gumm performs in public for the first time, singing Jingle Bells. Her mother, Ethel, watches from the audience while her father, Frank, watches from backstage. Ethel is unhappy with her marriage because of her husbands homosexuality. To help herself cope, she moves the family to Hollywood with the hope that her daughters will break into the movie business.1935 Frank Gumm takes Frances, now using her stage name of Judy Garland, to the studios of Metro Goldwyn Mayer to audition. MGM chief Louis B. Mayer is not impressed with her rendition of Zing Went the Strings of My Heart, but when she sings a different song an impressed Mayer says, Little girl. Big voice. Thirteenyearold Judy played by Tammy Blanchard signs an MGM contract but, because of her age, the studio does not know what to do with her and keeps giving her radio appearances. Tragedy strikes one night when she is told her father has been rushed to the hospital. She is also told that doctors have put a radio beside his bed, so he will be listening. While her sisters, Suzy and Jimmie, are in tears over their ill father, Ethel shows no emotion at all. He dies the next day. ........

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