by Anne Edwards
Recognize my love.
Bestow blessings, as should love be blessed.
Recognize its glowing purity.
Not incomprehension, which mars its beauty.
Oh, God, deny not my love to me.
’Tis helpless, ’tis crippled.
Yet, ’tis worthy of thee.
Films of Judy Garland
Records of Judy Garland
SINGLES
ALBUMS
Television Appearances
Radio Appearances
(The Lux Radio Theatre programs have been transcribed on tape and donated to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
The Main Concerts
(There were well over 100 concerts; the following are among Miss Garland’s most famous)
Early Vaudeville
The Meglin Kiddies Circuit (West Coast)
The Chicago World’s Fair
Keith-Orpheum Circuit (West Coast)
Acknowledgments
This book would never have been written without the cooperation and assistance of many individuals. Over a time span of several years I have, in the book’s behalf, corresponded with well over a hundred such individuals and conducted probably as many interviews. My gratitude to all, but especially I would like to thank (in no particular order of contribution): John Milne, Sr. (Judy’s uncle); Dr. James Milne, Jr. (Judy’s cousin); Frank Milne (Judy’s uncle); Mrs. F. Hessevick (Judy’s aunt); Mrs. Irene Mathias (Judy’s cousin); A1 Rosen; Joe Pasternak; Fred Astaire; Gene Kelly; Tom Drake; Mrs. Etta Berkeley; Busby Berkeley; Abe Lastfogel; Barron Polan; Bobby Cole; Dirk Bogarde; Burt Rhodes; Vivian Martyne; Tony Hatch; Jackie Trent; Bryan Southcombe and Matthew West; Judith Heard; Phillip Roberge; I. Blicher-Hansen; Hans Vangkilde; Mrs. Grethe Vangkilde; Hans Jorgen Eriksen; Telle Saaek; Mickey Deans; Robert Jorgen; Leonard Gershe; Victor Angerole; Ed Baily; William Prendergrast; Noel Coward (who was helpful when I was his neighbor in Switzerland); Geoffrey Johnson (Mr. Coward’s secretary); Mrs. Beatrice “Bumbles” Dawson; Lloyd F. Hawe (Capitol Records); Alan King; Norman Mailer; Gerald Griffin (Curator of Museum of City of New York); Ms. Mary MacDonald (once head of the MGM school); Ms. Lorna Smith; E. Schwenter (former manager of the Ritz); Dr. Richard Grundy (of the Carson City Medical Group); Ms. Margaret Hamilton; Frank Bromber (former manager of the Stanhope Hotel); Charlotte Mayerson; Emil Abdelnour; G. A. Grahame (General Manager of the Ritz); John Francis; William Ludwig; Joseph Ruttenberg; Jerome Londin; George Eldridge; Joseph Dempsey; Glyn Jones; Jens Lyngby Jepsen; Mary McCarthy; Robert Blake; Harry Fredericks (Westinghouse Group W); Mrs. Bonnie Boyer (Superior Health Dept.); Ms. Leonore Terry (ASCAP); the staffs of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Lincoln Center Library of Performing Arts, the Stockbridge Library, the New York Public Library, the Bettmann Archive, the Palace Theatre, Time-Life; Ms. Anne Abel Smith of A. P. Watt, Ltd.; Ms. Susan Scott of the BBC; expert researchers Joan Saunders in London, Jay Schlein in Hollywood, and Eleanor Wolquitt in New York; Mrs. Martha Winston; Leon Becker; Harold Schiff; Walter Scott; Howard Shultsinger; Vivian Bell (William Morris Agency); Mrs. Helen Prince (Time-Life); Rachel Fleischman; Gene Callahan; Ms. Nina Digangi; John Behrendt (B.C.S.); Arthur Klur (souvenir book publishers); and Mr. Richard Twarog.
Special appreciation goes to Ms. Monica McCall; Ms. Jo. Stewart; Hilary Rubinstein; and William Ewald; my fine editor, Ms. Freya Manston, and to my two secretaries, Mrs. Marion Thompson and Mrs. Jessie F. Nielson; typist, Mrs. Lorna Sheldon, and my daughter, Catherine Edwards, who helped me with research.
But two people receive my greatest debt of gratitude: Mr. Steve Citron, whose love, encouragement and patience never flagged during one solid year of the book’s writing; and—in deepest humility— Miss Judy Garland, perhaps the greatest entertainer in my generation, or any generation before me.
ANNE EDWARDS
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
1974