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Judy Garland

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian. While critically acclaimed for many different roles throughout her career, she is widely known for playing the part of Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939). She attained international stardom as an actress in both musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. Renowned for her versatility, she received an Academy Juvenile Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Special Tony Award. Garland was the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, which she won for her 1961 live recording titled Judy at Carnegie Hall.

Garland began performing as a child with her two older sisters, in a vaudeville group "The Gumm Sisters" and was later signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. She appeared in more than two dozen films for MGM. Garland was a frequent on-screen partner of both Mickey Rooney and Gene Kelly and regularly collaborated with director and second husband Vincente Minnelli. Other starring roles during this period included Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Harvey Girls (1946), Easter Parade (1948) and Summer Stock (1950). In 1950, after 15 years with MGM, the studio released her amid a series of personal struggles that prevented her from fulfilling the terms of her contract.

Although her film career became intermittent thereafter, two of Garland's most critically acclaimed roles came later in her career: she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in A Star Is Born (1954) and a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). She also made record-breaking concert appearances, released eight studio albums and hosted her own Emmy-nominated television series, The Judy Garland Show (1963–1964). At age 39, Garland became the youngest and first female recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the film industry. In 1997, Garland was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Several of her recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and in 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her as the eighth-greatest female screen legend of classic Hollywood cinema.

Garland struggled in her personal life from an early age. The pressures of early stardom affected her physical and mental health from the time she was a teenager; her self-image was influenced by constant criticism from film executives who believed that she was physically unattractive and who manipulated her onscreen physical appearance. Throughout her adulthood she abused drugs and alcohol. She had financial troubles, often owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes. Her lifelong substance use disorder ultimately led to her death from an accidental barbiturate overdose in 1969, at age 47.

Birth and Death Data: Born June 10, 1922 (Grand Rapids), Died June 22, 1969 (Chelsea)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1935 - 1947

Roles Represented in DAHR: vocalist

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Recordings (Results 1-25 of 80 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Decca 61165 10-in. 6/12/1936 Stornpin' at the Savoy Bob Crosby Orchestra ; Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca 61166 10-in. 6/12/1936 Swing Mr. Charlie Bob Crosby Orchestra ; Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca 72967 10-in. 7/7/1945 On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca 72968 10-in. 7/7/1945 If I had you Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca 72973 10-in. 7/10/1945 You'll never walk alone Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca 72974 10-in. 7/10/1945 Smilin' through Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 280 10-in. 11/27/1935 No other one Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 283 10-in. 11/27/1935 All is well Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 860 10-in. 8/30/1937 Everybody sing Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 861 10-in. 8/30/1937 All God's chillun got rhythm Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 967 10-in. 9/24/1937 (Dear Mr. Gable) You made me love you Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 968 10-in. 9/24/1937 You can't have everything Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 1284 10-in. 4/25/1938 Sleep, my baby, sleep Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 1285 10-in. 4/25/1938 Cry, baby, cry Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 1436 10-in. 8/21/1938 Ten pins in the sky Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 1437 10-in. 8/21/1938 It never rains but it pours Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 1840 10-in. 7/28/1939 Over the rainbow Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 1841 10-in. 7/28/1939 The jitterbug Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 1842 12-in. 7/28/1939 In between Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 1843 10-in. 7/28/1939 Sweet sixteen Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 1850 10-in. 7/29/1939 Zing! Went the strings of my heart Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 1851 10-in. 7/29/1939 I'm just wild about Harry Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 1852 10-in. 7/29/1939 Swanee Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 1853 10-in. 7/29/1939 Fascinating rhythm Judy Garland vocalist  
Decca DLA 1868 10-in. 10/16/1939 Oceans apart Judy Garland vocalist  
(Results 1-25 of 80 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Garland, Judy," accessed March 28, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/317106.

Garland, Judy. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/317106.

"Garland, Judy." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 28 March 2024.

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URI: https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/317106

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