A movie star who worked steadily for about a dozen years on A-List projects (such as THE WIZARD OF OZ and EASTER PARADE), Judy Garland enjoyed a fairly long film career, when judged by James Dean, Heath Ledger, or even Marilyn Monroe standards. Just as Hank Greenberg, Ted Williams, and Bob Feller (not to mention James Stewart) lost the primes of their careers to WWII service, Judy lost hers to having babies and nervous break-downs brought on by the studio system and Hollywood Lookism harassment. Though this 1961 Hollywood Hist-o-Rama TV episode covers the beginning of this paragraph, it glosses over the second half, knowing on which side its bread is buttered (all of the facts presented above were fairly well-known contemporaneously). So while Ernest Hemingway, the inspiration for dozens of Hollywood flicks right through Woody Allen's MIDNIGHT IN PAR!S (now playing), was blowing his head off around the time Judy's biographical short aired (apparently no connection), Judy would soldier on for about 8 more years, though the output of her later career tapered off at least as much as Hemingway's (and more than Ted Williams').
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