Judy garland gerald clarke

  • 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.
  • Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland is a biography of entertainer Judy Garland.
  • Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland is a biography of entertainer Judy Garland.

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    Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

    She lived at full throttle on scen, screen, and in real life, with highs that made history and lows that finally brought down the gardin at age forty-seven. Judy Garland died over thirty years ago, but no biography has so completely captured her spirit -- and demons -- until now. From her tumultuous early years as a child performer to her tragic gods days, Gerald Clarke reveals the authentic Judy in a biography rich in new detail and unprecedented revelations. Based on hundreds of interviews and drawing on her own unfinished -- and unpublished -- autobiography, Get Happypresents the real Judy Garland in all her flawed glory. With the same skill, style, and storytelling flair that made his bestselling Capotea 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 fryst vatten compassionate. Here are her early years, during which her parent

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    Praise for Get Happy

    "We asked Biography Book Club members what they wanted to read next and we got our answer loud and clear. More than 35% of you voted for our June selection, Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, by Gerald Clarke."
    Biography Magazine, June

    "a phenomenal job chronicling Garland's 47 years on EarthClarke describes Garland's glorious voice and natural ability on screen and on the concert stage so vividly that you can hear her singing as you readIt's a triumph of Get Happy that Clarke makes you care about Garland even when you want to slap her around. He has written a compelling, tragic book, a story like a runaway train that you ride to the end, knowing it's going to crash, unable to jump off."
    Ellen Jaffe-Gill, Hollywood Reporter, April 17,

    "Judy Garland—again? Is there really anyone left

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    Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

    biography by Gerald Clarke

    Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland is a biography of entertainer Judy Garland. Published in , Get Happy is author Gerald Clarke's follow-up to his biography of Truman Capote. Clarke conducted some interviews,[1] including some with subjects who had not previously spoken about Garland, and also drew upon tape recordings that Garland had made in the s for an autobiography.[2] He found Garland's unpublished page manuscript in the Random House archives.[3] Clarke spent ten years on the book, and only made his final decision to write about Garland after reading the extant biographies. "I did not want to write a book about her if the definitive book had already been writtenSo, I sat down and I read the biographies that had already been written and came up with no real impression of JudyThere was a disconnect between the woman who emerged from the pages and the woman I saw in the movies

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