Here are her early years, during which her parents sowed the seeds of heartbreak and self-destruction that would plague her for decades. With the same skill, style, and storytelling flair that made his bestselling Capote a landmark literary biography, Gerald Clarke sorts through the secrets and the scandals, the legends and the lies, to create a portrait of Judy Garland as candid as it is compassionate. Based on hundreds of interviews and drawing on her own unfinished - and unpublished - autobiography, Get Happy presents the real Judy Garland in all her flawed glory. Judy Garland died over thirty years ago, but no biography has so completely captured her spirit - and demons - until now.įrom her tumultuous early years as a child performer to her tragic last days, Gerald Clarke reveals the authentic Judy in a biography rich in new detail and unprecedented revelations. She lived at full throttle on stage, screen, and in real life, with highs that made history and lows that finally brought down the curtain at age forty-seven.
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