Judy Garland's voice sings "I'll Plant My Own Tree" from Valley of the Dolls

I always wanted to perform a number like that on stage with a mobile.

I was molested.

Why didn't anyone bother to wipe off all those handprints off the colored Lucite on the mobile?

Judy was GIVEN the Travilla created pantsuit by the studio and she ordered two more in other colors from some of the money she was paid IN FULL from her contract.

[quote] from some of the money she was paid IN FULL from her contract.

Thanks to Helen, er, Susan Hayward.

someone needs to use this or the other Whiting version as an opening to clips of Barbara Walters asking celebrities what kind of tree they would be.

Fabulous.

YES, R3! THANK YOU. I always wondered the same thing! No one else has ever mentioned it.

It isn't important to the plot of VOTD, but I wish they'd given a little more insight into just exactly what "Hit The Sky" was supposed to be about.

Who is that queen with Perkins? And why does that Broadway theater look like no Broadway theater that existed in 1967?

God that's a shit song.

Her hiring for the role was just wrong from the get-go. She had to know the script and music were shit. And she never played 'bitches'.

For a major movie adaption of a hugely popular novel, so many mistakes were made in bringing it to the screen.

It sure is a shit song but even in less than great voice Judy manages to sell it.

Very few literary critics thought the book was any good either.

R10 That's actor Paul Burke, playing talent agent Lyon Burke. And it really does look like it was filmed in a high school auditorium.

[quote] And why does that Broadway theater look like no Broadway theater that existed in 1967?

Because it was a pre-Broadway tour stop in New Haven, perhaps? Or did you miss the giant headline at the beginning of the number?

@r11, it sure is and Susan Hayward looks stupid lip-syncing it. The voice doesn't match the person

Am I alone in thinking that I'll Plant My Own Tree" ranks among the stupidest songs ever written?

I always liked the big thread hanging under her right arm at the end of number.....

I doubt even any New Haven house looked like that. It's a cheaply thrown together theater mockup.

shit show

Wardrobe fittings, JUDY! and bitchy anecdotes from Patty Duke. Why read any other threads? This one has it all.

R11 I like it.

Why is Susan posing like that? Oh lord, what a sight!

R2 Why do you post this in so many threads?

The BEST and GAYEST part of the movie is when Anne Welles appears in the Gilmore girl commercials.

R25 The process of healing looks different to everyone.

[quote]udy kept the clothes from VOTD and often wore the sparkly pantsuit in the rest of her performances for I guess the next two years until she died in 1969.

She didn't take all four of her outfits. Garland was gifted the pantsuit by the studio and then spent $3000 having Travilla create one in red and one in white. She wore the white one at the Talk of the Town engagement seen in Judy and I think on the Johnny Carson show. Both came up for auction circa 2000. Not sure what they sold for. Also not sure of what happened to her VOD pantsuit.

I never would have bought that Helen thought Neely was a threat with that voice (even a rough cut).

When I hear this and see her scenes from AGYG I get a sense that Judy got to the set and realized it wasn't going to work and then finagled her way out.

Judy's voice on "I'll Plant My Own Tree" sounds GREAT!!! She was still in top form. It's the way the song should have been sung.

R29 Patty Duke stated that the director of VOTD was very unkind and abrasive with actresses. And it appears that poor Judy got the worst of it. It wasn't her fault that she was fired. She got very shabby treatment. .

Judy was one of the most talented singers ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood. At a time when gay people were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with her struggles and she theirs.

Judy's vocal is amazing, and she really builds to that last sustained note. While her voice might be a thin, she still had it, and knew how to sell a song. Hard to believe she was about 2 years away from her death.

R33 I agree. I also hate that modern pop culture can’t be this unabashedly campy yet serious.

Hayward almost convinces me, until the arm goes in the air a good 10 seconds before it needs to, and then it looks like bad drag.

I'd like to plant my own tree ... up your ass!!!

The scenes of Neely's losing it on opening night were filmed at the 48th Street Theatre in Manhattan where Patty Duke had starred in "The Miracle Worker."

Her alleyway breakdown however was filmed on the 20th Century-Fox lot.

Things were so colorful and pleasant to look at back then. Why is everything so dull and gray now?

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