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Get Happy : The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clarke (2000, Hardcover)

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Judy Garland. The girl with the pigtails, the symbol of innocence in The Wizard of Oz. Judy Garland. The brightest star of the Hollywood musical and an entertainer of almost magical power. Judy Garland. The woman of a half-dozen comebacks, a hundred heartbreaks, and countless thousands of headlines. Yet much of what has previously been written about her is either inaccurate or incomplete, and the Garland the world thought it knew was merely a sketch for the astonishing woman Gerald Clarke portrays inGet Happy. Here, more than thirty years after her death, is the real Judy. To tell her story, Clarke took ten years, traveled thousands of miles across two continents, conducted hundreds of interviews, and dug through mountains of documents, many of which were unavailable to other biographers. In a Tennessee courthouse, he came across a thick packet of papers, unopened for ninety years, that laid out the previously hidden background of Judy's beloved father, Frank Gumm. In California, he found the unpublished memoir of Judy's makeup woman and closest confidante, a memoir centered almost entirely on Judy herself.Get Happyis, however, more than the story of one woman, remarkable as she was. It is a saga of a time and a place that now seem as far away, and as clouded in myth and mystery, as Camelot-the golden age of Hollywood. Combining a novelist's skill and a movie director's eye, Clarke re-creates that era with cinematic urgency, bringing to vivid life the unforgettable characters who played leading roles in the unending drama of Judy Garland: Louis B. Mayer, the patriarch of the world's greatest fantasy factory, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Arthur Freed, the slovenly producer who revolutionized the movie musical and gave Judy her best and most enduring parts. Sexy Lana Turner, Judy's friend and idol, who had a habit of trying to snatch away any man Judy expressed interest in. And what men they were! Oscar Levant, the wit's wit, whose one-liners could all but kill. Artie Shaw, whose sweet and satiny clarinet had a whole nation dancing. Handsome Tyrone Power, who caused millions of hearts to pound every time he looked out from the screen with his understanding eyes. Orson Welles, Hollywood's boy genius and the husband of a movie goddess, Rita Hayworth. Brainy Joe Mankiewicz, who knew everything there was to know about women, but who confessed that he was baffled by Judy. Vincente Minnelli, who showed what wonders Judy could perform in front of a camera and who fathered her first child, Liza-but who also, with an act of shocking betrayal, caused her first suicide attempt. Charming, brawling Sid Luft, who gave her confidence, then took it away. And the smooth and seductive David Begelman, who stole her heart so he could steal her money. Toward the end of her life, Garland tried to tell her own story, talking into a tape recorder for hours at a time. With access to those recordings-and to her unfinished manuscript, which offers a revelation on almost every page-Clarke is able to tell Judy's story as she herself might have told it. "It's going to be one hell of a great, everlastingly great book, with humor, tears, fun, emotion and love," Judy promised of the autobiography she did not live to complete. But she might just as well have been describingGet Happy. For here at last-told with humor, tears, fun, emotion and love-is the true, unforgettable story of Judy Garland.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375503781
ISBN-13
9780375503788
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1586512

Product Key Features

Book Title
Get Happy : the Life of Judy Garland
Author
Gerald Clarke
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
528 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Weight
31.4 Oz
Item Weight
31.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ml420.G253c58 2000
Publication Date
2000-03-28
Reviews
Praise for Gerald Clarke'sCapote "Mr. Clarke has taken on a subject whose life we are used to reading about in the most sensational and superficial terms and has produced a book of extraordinary substance, a study rich in intelligence and compassion. . . . Heartbreaking though it is, one can't put the book down." --Bruce Bawer,The Wall Street Journal "Capotethe biography is more than worthy of Capote the man. The book transcends gossip, falling short of tragedy only to the extent that Capote himself fell short of greatness." --Larry Lee,San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "This is literary biography the way it should be written, as rich and densely textured as a novel." --James Atlas,Vogue "The book reads as if it had been written alongside the life, rather than after it, like a car following a train, the driver picking up passengers as they alight, always catching the right people at the right time. . . . [An] enthralling, novel-like biography." --Molly Haskell,The New York Times Book Review, Praise for Gerald Clarke'sCapote "Mr. Clarke has taken on a subject whose life we are used to reading about in the most sensational and superficial terms and has produced a book of extraordinary substance, a study rich in intelligence and compassion. . . . Heartbreaking though it is, one can't put the book down." --Bruce Bawer,The Wall Street Journal "Capotethe biography is more than worthy of Capote the man. The book transcends gossip, falling short of tragedy only to the extent that Capote himself fell short of greatness." --Larry Lee,San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "This is literary biography the way it should be written, as rich and densely textured as a novel." --James Atlas,Vogue "The book reads as if it had been written alongside the life, rather than after it, like a car following a train, the driver picking up passengers as they alight, always catching the right people at the right time. . . . [An] enthralling, novel-like biography." --Molly Haskell,The New York Times Book Review
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-036285
Dewey Decimal
782.4/2/164/092
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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by dedelq-0Dec 23, 2019
Get Happy
Great Read! Gerald Clarke is a great writer.
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by greatstuff555bpOct 14, 2019
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by grandmajanet53Apr 13, 2009
Great book, fast read.
This was a great book, couldn't put it down. Only wished it would have had more pictures. Such a talent, but quite a messed up life.
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by nQmTs73RTpi@Del...Jun 09, 2006
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The book had gotten great re-views and I have always been a Judy Garland fan....the price was right...

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