Category: 14
All Genres: Comedy
Release Year: 1966
Country: USA
Runtime: 26
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Alan D. Courtney
Sound: Mono
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Writing by: Sally Benson – writer

Produced by: Alan D. Courtney – executive producer
Paul West – producer

Cast: Shelley Fabares – Esther
Celeste Holm – Mrs. Smith
Wesley Addy – Mr. Smith
Reta Shaw – Katie
Larry Merrill – Glenn
Morgan Brittany – Agnes (as Suzanne Cupito)
Tammy Locke – Tootie
Michael Blodgett – John Truitt
Judy Land – Faye Morse
Barbara Dodd – Maude
John Clarke – Walter

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 2 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• This TV Pilot is featured on Warner Brothers' “Two-Disc Special Edition” DVD for Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), released in 2004.
• According to executive producer Alan D. Courtney, the network decided not to option the series because one CBS executive said that he “didn't want anything on his network with an ice wagon rattling down the street”.