Judy Garland: By Myself
- L'épisode a été diffusé 25 févr. 2004
- TV-14
- 1h 56m
ÉVALUATION IMDb
8,5/10
308
MA NOTE
Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueActress Judy Garland tells her own story through recordings she made while preparing to write her autobiography.Actress Judy Garland tells her own story through recordings she made while preparing to write her autobiography.Actress Judy Garland tells her own story through recordings she made while preparing to write her autobiography.
Photos
June Allyson
- Self - Actor
- (voice)
Desi Arnaz
- Self
- (archive footage)
Lauren Bacall
- Self
- (archive footage)
Lucille Ball
- Self
- (archive footage)
Wallace Beery
- Self - Actor
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Ray Bolger
- Self - Actor
- (archive sound)
Jackie Cooper
- Self - Actor
- (voice)
George Cukor
- Self
- (archive footage)
Mike Dann
- Self - Head of Network Programming
- (voice)
- (as Michael Dann)
Buddy Ebsen
- Self - Actor
- (voice)
Roger Edens
- Self
- (archive footage)
George Fisher
- Self
- (archive footage)
Arthur Freed
- Self
- (archive footage)
Clark Gable
- Self
- (archive footage)
Judy Garland
- Self
- (archive footage)
Leonard Gershe
- Self - Songwriter
- (archive sound)
- …
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe episode won 2 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) and Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming.
- ConnexionsFeatures The Big Revue (1929)
Commentaire en vedette
Fascinating and Also Painful to Watch
Director Susan Lacey made this film for the Public Broadcasting Corporation's American Masters series. I saw it tonight at the Jacob Burns Film Center in the Westchester (N.Y.) County village of Pleasantville. The director engaged in a spirited conversation with the audience after this fine documentary was shown.
I've always been a fervent Judy Garland fan. She was one of the most talented actresses and singers ever produced in this country. I have seen all of her films, I own some on VHS or DVD, and I have a number of CDs of her singing. Her legendary Carnegie Hall concert is the highlight of my collection of this "take no prisoners" stage giant.
"Judy Garland - By Myself" is aptly titled. As a child she was more or less separated from any normal life by mogul Louis B. Mayer and made a contract slave to the studio system, in this case the property of MGM. I'm not stretching the analogy to indentured servitude at all. As shown here with stills, film clips and spoken narration she was put into an inhuman pressure cooker where every last bit of pressure was exerted and all possible profit was extracted by a heartless machine.
As a teenager scoring one success after another she was given pep pills to make her work harder and longer followed by sleeping pills so she could get some rest before the cycle repeated itself the next day. Any studio trying that with a kid today better have a legion of very good criminal defense lawyers.
As shown in this penetrating biography, Judy Garland was recognized for extraordinary ability almost from the get-go with, of course, "The Wizard of Oz" propelling her to world acclaim.
In the process she slowly began to lose her sense of self, succumbing to studio entreaties (and when that failed, threats did the job). She became involved in one doomed relationship with a man after another disappointing one, a lifetime pattern. Sickening and chilling is the account of how both Mayer AND Judy's mother virtually forced her to abort her first pregnancy because it was the "wrong" time for her to have a child.
There are many clips of her powerful acting and incredible singing in this almost two-hour film. While sympathetic to her travails, Ms. Lacey deserves credit for showing the price she paid, a price that ended in her death at age 47 from the very drugs she depended on for decades to get her through an up and down career.
Until the fatal end Judy Garland wasn't simply a survivor, she was a hugely talented and ambitious woman who, like water, carved out a new course when an earlier one was blocked. To her fans she seemed irrepressible and the film makes the point that the people who made up her audience were her principal motivator. She's quoted as saying she knew she always wanted to please audiences and fans. It's truly tragic that so many in show business who profited from her incomparable talent didn't have the decency to want to please her. And, probably, save her life.
A terrific addition to one of PBS's best series.
10/10
I've always been a fervent Judy Garland fan. She was one of the most talented actresses and singers ever produced in this country. I have seen all of her films, I own some on VHS or DVD, and I have a number of CDs of her singing. Her legendary Carnegie Hall concert is the highlight of my collection of this "take no prisoners" stage giant.
"Judy Garland - By Myself" is aptly titled. As a child she was more or less separated from any normal life by mogul Louis B. Mayer and made a contract slave to the studio system, in this case the property of MGM. I'm not stretching the analogy to indentured servitude at all. As shown here with stills, film clips and spoken narration she was put into an inhuman pressure cooker where every last bit of pressure was exerted and all possible profit was extracted by a heartless machine.
As a teenager scoring one success after another she was given pep pills to make her work harder and longer followed by sleeping pills so she could get some rest before the cycle repeated itself the next day. Any studio trying that with a kid today better have a legion of very good criminal defense lawyers.
As shown in this penetrating biography, Judy Garland was recognized for extraordinary ability almost from the get-go with, of course, "The Wizard of Oz" propelling her to world acclaim.
In the process she slowly began to lose her sense of self, succumbing to studio entreaties (and when that failed, threats did the job). She became involved in one doomed relationship with a man after another disappointing one, a lifetime pattern. Sickening and chilling is the account of how both Mayer AND Judy's mother virtually forced her to abort her first pregnancy because it was the "wrong" time for her to have a child.
There are many clips of her powerful acting and incredible singing in this almost two-hour film. While sympathetic to her travails, Ms. Lacey deserves credit for showing the price she paid, a price that ended in her death at age 47 from the very drugs she depended on for decades to get her through an up and down career.
Until the fatal end Judy Garland wasn't simply a survivor, she was a hugely talented and ambitious woman who, like water, carved out a new course when an earlier one was blocked. To her fans she seemed irrepressible and the film makes the point that the people who made up her audience were her principal motivator. She's quoted as saying she knew she always wanted to please audiences and fans. It's truly tragic that so many in show business who profited from her incomparable talent didn't have the decency to want to please her. And, probably, save her life.
A terrific addition to one of PBS's best series.
10/10
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- 8 avr. 2004
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- Durée1 heure 56 minutes
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