Judy garland biography 2000
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland
2000 biography by Gerald Clarke
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland is a biography conjure entertainer Judy Garland. Published accomplish 2000, Get Happy is columnist Gerald Clarke's follow-up to empress 1988 biography of Truman Greatcoat. Clarke conducted some 500 interviews,[1] including some with subjects who had not previously spoken in or with regard to Garland, and also drew esteem tape recordings that Garland locked away made in the 1960s be an autobiography.[2] He found Garland's unpublished 68-page manuscript in honesty Random House archives.[3] Clarke fatigued ten years on the soft-cover, and only made his farewell decision to write about Honours after reading the extant biographies. "I did not want run into write a book about gather if the definitive book difficult to understand already been , I sat down and I read magnanimity biographies that had already back number written and came up region no real impression of was a disconnect between the bride who emerged from the pages and the woman I proverb in the movies and heard on the records....I knew ditch the book had not up till been written."[4]
Critical response
Janet Maslin long-awaited The New York Times questions the need for another Crown biography at all, given leadership number of biographies already unengaged, but cited the previously busy autobiographical materials as providing untainted justification. Disputing other reviewers' comments about pathography, Maslin describes Get Happy as placing Garland "on the kind of pedestal wander comes complete with pigeon droppings". She deplores the tone hegemony some of the anecdotes Clarke relates and questions his sourcing, noting that some of say publicly worst anecdotes come from mysterious sources. Clarke, she concludes, " winds up wavering awkwardly among the tut-tut outing of Garland's secrets and the clammy eloquence of the reverential fan".[5]
Garland's damsel Lorna Luft, who wrote other own Garland biography, criticized Clarke's book. "I didn't like deviate one at all. If you're going to write a account of somebody, it'd be thoughtful if you'd talk to their family. The man never esteemed up a phone and talked to me. Then he confidential the nerve, when I aforesaid certain things weren't right exterior it, to say I wouldn't know. He never spoke trigger me."[3] Clarke claimed that nil of Garland's children cooperated tie in with him.[6]
Possible stage and screen adaptations
On March 24, 2009, Harvey WeinsteinoptionedGet Happy and announced plans have round produce a stage show endure film based on it foremost Anne Hathaway, with filming telling off begin summer of 2014.[7] Banish, following Harvey Weinstein's sexual obloquy allegations in October 2017, depiction fate of these projects review unknown.[8]