![]() Thirty-one years after America's first lady of victimhood popped her last pill, the publication of Gerald Clarke's Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland is being greeted by enough hoopla to elect a Senator.īut aren't we all tired of pitying Judy? Not just yet. ![]() ![]() "Judy Garland-again? Is there really anyone left who still gives two hoots in Oz about her sad life and squalid death? You had better believe it. It's going to crash, unable to jump off."Įllen Jaffe-Gill, Hollywood Reporter, April 17, 2000 ![]() Tragic book, a story like a runaway train that you ride to the end, knowing Garland even when you want to slap her around. You read.It's a triumph of Get Happy that Clarke makes you care about Screen and on the concert stage so vividly that you can hear her singing as ".a phenomenal job chronicling Garland's 47 years onĮarth.Clarke describes Garland's glorious voice and natural ability on More than 35% of you voted for our June selection, Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, by ![]() They wanted to read next and we got our answer loud and clear. "We asked Biography Book Club members what Instant Bestseller! ( The New York Times, Sunday, April 22, 2000) Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland - Gerald Clarke ![]()
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