Category: 39
All Genres: Biography, Drama, Music
Release Year: 2001
Country: Canada, USA
Runtime: 170
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman
Sound: Stereo
Taglines:

Writing by: Lorna Luft – (memoir)
Robert L. Freedman – (teleplay)

Produced by: Robert Allan Ackerman – co-executive producer
Kirk Ellis – co-executive producer
Robert L. Freedman – producer
Ed Gernon – executive producer
Lorna Luft – co-executive producer
Dave Mace – co-producer
Neil Meron – executive producer
John Ryan – producer
Peter Sussman – executive producer
Philip von Alvensleben – supervising producer
Craig Zadan – executive producer

Cast: Judy Davis – Judy Garland
Victor Garber – Sid Luft
Hugh Laurie – Vincente Minnelli
John Benjamin Hickey – Roger Edens
Sonja Smits – Kay Thompson
Jayne Eastwood – Lottie
Daniel Kash – Arthur Freed
Alison Pill – Young Lorna Luft
Aidan Devine – Frank Gumm
Stewart Bick – Artie Shaw
Tammy Blanchard – Young Judy Garland

Music: William Ross
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Plot Outline: The Judy Garland story from the 1930s until her death.
Plot: The movie starts off at the beginning of Judy Garland's life singing when she was two years old. It jumps to when she was 12 and was signed by MGM and later when her father dies. The movie tells about her early struggles with MGM and with the addiction to barbiturates. It then jumps to the marriage to Vincette Minelli and the struggles with that, and leads into the rest of the movie and her marriages to Sid Luft, Mark Herron, and Mickey Deans and ends when she dies in 1969

Movie Quotes: Judy Garland: I've got rainbows coming out my arse


Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
As the credits roll, a photo montage is shown of the “cast” screwing up and goofing around on various takes, including a boom mike hitting Jane, Daria sneaking up and grabbing Daniel's rear, Daria and Tom holding up Daria's front door, Daria pushing Trent's van, and all the artists from the colony sitting around naked.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: Judy sings the wrong “Eli Eli” to Louis Mayer. We hear her sing an Israeli song that begins “Eli Eli” but had not yet been written at the time. (It's more properly known as “Walking to Caesaria.”) An entirely different “Eli Eli,” one of the most popular Jewish songs in the early days of the phonograph, is what we should have heard.

Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• The character of Lottie was a combination of two people. The chief at the Luft House Linel and a friend and business partner of Sid Luft's, Vern Alves.
• Final film appearance of longtime Canadian actor Al Waxman who played Louis B. Mayer; he died before the film was first broadcast.
• Tammy Blanchard was 23 years old when playing 'Judy Garland' as a teenager.