David Schwinghammer’s Reviews > Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland > Status Update

Judy finally gets rid of Sid Luft, who'd been bleeding her dry, but she kept the kids.

Judy isn't much in demand for another movie; she does performances instead in most of the major cities: ". . . in 1959 making much-praised appearances in all three of America's major opera houses---New York, Chicago and San Francisco. In New York, her seven nights at the Metropolitan grossed an estimated $190,000, close to a record for any theater, anywhere."

Ethel, Judy's mother, dies. She was a stage mother.

Judy is no longer wanted in films, but New York is a big success

Judy's drug problem (mostly sleeping pills) was well known. She addicted it. She said, "I am an addict. And when I want something, I can get it."

"Easter Parade" is a big hit for Judy. She needed it as it lifted her depression.

Judy seemed to have a thing for bi-sexual men. Her father was the first, now Vincent Manelli, and I think one or two of her other husbands were as well.

Joe Mankiewicz was one of Judy's many lovers. He got her to undergo psychoanalysis.

Wow! Judy had an affair with Tyrone Power, but he wouldn't leave his wife.