Have you ever wondered what it would be like to act in a movie? Judy Garland has acted in at least 21 movies. Judy’s life from the start to the end is unique. Judy Garland was born on June 10, 1922. She lived in Lancaster, Grand Rapids, and Chelsea. Her real name is Frances Ethel Gumm. She is the youngest child in her family. Judy Garland was an American singer. She sadly passed away on June 22, 1969. Judy Garland got married to Mickey Deans, Sidney Luft, David Rose, Mark Herron, and Vincente Minnelli. In 1939, she scored one of the greatest on-screen movie roles with The Wizard of Oz. Judy Garland went to Meglin Dance Studio and Hollywood High School for collage. Judy was 4’11’’ when she died. Judy had two girls and a boy. Their
names are Liza Minnelli, Joey Luft, and Lorna Luft. They were so nice and caring to each other. Judy’s mom’s name is Ethel Marion Milne. Judy’s dad’s name is Francis Avent Gumm. Judy Garland was only 17 when she performed Dorothy on Wizard Of Oz. Judy started to sing lovingly to her sisters when she was young. She got paid $500 because of the performance of Dorothy. Judy Garland has two older sisters. Judy’s dog Toto died at the age of 13. Judy got married to five different people. In conclusion, Judy Garland was an ordinary woman. I would like to act as a girl at the age of 17. Just think of being on T.V. at age 17. That would be ordinary to be Judy Garland.
Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz artist and artist musician with a vocation traversing almost thirty years. Nicknamed "Woman Day" by her companion and music accomplice Lester Young, Holiday affected jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, firmly propelled by jazz instrumentalists, spearheaded another method for controlling stating and rhythm. She was known for her vocal conveyance and improvisational aptitudes, which compensated for her restricted range and absence of formal music instruction. There were other jazz vocalists with equivalent ability, however Holiday had a voice that caught the consideration of her crowd.
Ella was born in Newport News, Virginia on April 25, 1917. When alled “The First Lady of Song” by some fans. She was known for having beautiful tone, extended range, and great intonation, and famous for her improvisational scat singing. Ella sang during the her most famous song was “A-tiscket A-tasket”. Fitzgerald sang in the period of swing, ballads, and bebop; she made some great albums with other great jazz artists such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Louis Armstrong. She influenced countless American popular singers of the post-swing period and also international performers such as the singer Miriam Makeba. She didn’t really write any of her own songs. Instead she sang songs by other people in a new and great way. The main exception
Judy is now married to George Cooper, who is also a writer. Judy currently has three grown up children. Judy has a single grandchild which makes her a grandmother. Judy lives on the east coast. Judy has a blog, her last post talked about her experience with breast cancer. Judy still get mails from fans and reads them all.
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein were both writers and producers in the theatre, but, their collaborative venture in the 1940’s introduced a new era of musical theatre. First, they wrote the first musical in which every element: music, lyrics, narrative, and even dance contributed to telling the story, each part blending and woven into the whole. Their new idea was a huge sensation with audiences, and brought with it, new recordings of shows with albums and records to follow and revival productions around the world. The duo changed the fate of musical theatre practically overnight, but, it couldn’t have been done without the projects, big or small, that got them there, their
Ros married her first husband, Robert Ellis Siberstein, a union that produced two children, Tracee (from girlfriends) and Chudney Ellis. In 1972 Diana Ross made her first debut portraying the late jazz singer Billie holiday in “ lady sings the blues”. The film was successful, and Ross was received an Oscar nomination for her performance.
At the age of nineteen she met and married Louis Jones. Together they had two children Gail and Teddy (who later died in 1970 from kidney failure). While trying to get used to raising a family and having a career, she received a call from an agent, who had seen her at the Cotton Club, about a part in a movie. Her controlling husband allowed her to be in “The Duke is Tops” and also the musical revue “Blackbirds of 1939."
John Wayne Gacy was married for the second time in 1972 to Carol Hoff. He set up a business as a renovation contractor at this time. This marriage also ended partly because Carol was frightened of he husband's temper.
June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California Norma Jeane Mortenson was born. She never knew her father and her mother is Gladys Baker, Gladys has psychiatric problems and was placed into a mental institution. One of Monroe's earliest memories of her mother is Gladys trying to smother her with a pillow in her crib (“Marilyn Monroe.”). As she grew up, she spent most of her time in eleven foster homes and one orphanage. (“18 Things...Monroe.”). Until she was seven she was in foster homes until her mother got her back but soon after her mother was declared insane and had to go to a psychiatric hospital (Bradshaw, Lauren). While Monroe was in foster homes she was sexually
In the early twentieth century, Judy Garland made quite an impact as this multi-talented star became known around America. Her fame started at an early age. Born Frances Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, she joined the family act at the age of three. (Judy Garland UXL Biographies). She became known for her stunning voice and performing in her sister act “The Three Garlands” After her fathers death at age 14, the sister act dissolve ,and she started on her solo career. (Judy Garland UXL Biographies). Her mother became a very dominant factor in her career but also a destructive one. With the help of her mother and her talents ,by her teenage years, she became very popular and even signed a contract with MGM Studio...
Judy Garland definitely had her ups and downs on her way to stardom. Garland was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Her real name is Frances Gumm, which later changed when she became a star. Her childhood was not what you could call perfect, she was forced into singing and acting by her mother. Her mother was very gifted and had many talents, when Garland was only 2 her mother saw that she had talent and made her perform all around the country. They had many other family problems due to her father's homosexuality and were many times forced to leave certain areas because of this, they sometimes even had to live out of their car because they had no where else to go. Finally Garland was signed by MGM and this was a huge step in her life and also her families. Soon after getting signed her father passed aways and this took a huge toll on Garland’s family life and career. After her father’s death and she got back to working she was faced with the problem of people telling her that her weight was a problem which s...
Lucille Ball, on of the best comedians in America who was born on August 6, 1911 Jamestown, New York. She started dating the guy called Johnny DeVita who was a 23-year-old local hood. But her mom, dede, wasn't happy with the relationship with her boyfriend but she couldn’t separate them, therefore she figured an idea to let 14-year-old Lucille to for the show business to separate them. Although her family did not have lots of money, her mom DeDe still arranged for Lucille to go to the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in NYC where she also met Bette Davis also as a fellow student. She returned to NYC in 1928 and tried to find a job. But at the same time either with, rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis and all kinds of an unknown
Agatha Cobourg Hodgins was a true anesthesia pioneer. She was one of courage, intelligence and determination. She wouldn’t let anything stop her from carrying out her dreams.
On January 17th, 1922, Betty Marion White was born in a nearby Oak Park hospital in Illinois. She was an only child to her parent Horace and Tess White. Her father was an Electrical Engineer and her mother was a homemaker. When White had turned 2 her small family had moved from their Illinois home to Los Angeles. She knew from the start that she had wanted to act and or, produce a television show. Betty got her start working as an assistant at a local TV station, and by the early 50’s she had launched her first Television show, Life With Elizabeth, which was developed with George Tibbles. White’s life was just beginning at this time, and she never knew that her life was going to change so much over the next few years. Her spouses, occupations, and rise to fame had all changed in the matter of years!
People are influenced by everything from jobs, music, fashion, certain people, even to different cultures. Chefs never seemed like the group of people one would expect to have an impact on the world, but they do. They change the way people see food and show that it is far more than just a way to stay alive it is sort of like a new way of life to say. There was one woman who changed the scene entirely, by graduating from the Parisian cooking school Le Cordon Bleu, publishing 19 books, airing 13 television shows, and having 8 DVD releases. Julia Child has been an inspiration for many cooks but has also influenced society as a whole while changing the way people thought about food and at the same time, revolutionizing the professional cooking industry for women.
Also during the post war era mental illnesses start to come into play and start to change the outcomes of the stars such as Judy Garland who attempted suicide. Judy was known for her “rich and exuberant voice” (“Judy Garland Biography”) in musicals also known as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Louis Mayer signed her from studio MGM after he had heard her sing. He then changed her name from Frances Gumm to Judy Garland after a song called “Judy” and a film critic Robert Garland. Changing the stars name was a common thing that Hollywood did since it was also done to Villi. Judy became a very busy teenager at the age of fourteen. Her teen years being filled with musicals, films and songs. She was so busy that she was given a numerous amount of