Judy Garland vs. "Valley Of The Dolls"

Didn't she show up drunk?

She was a physical and mental wreck. Very sad. Her voice was harsh, wobbly and slurred although you could hear some of the command and vocal passion of its prime.

Pills in stills.

Is she categorized as a contralto? She looks very petite but is brave and witty. Of course she liked France, a lot of wine is there with attractive guys everywhere.

Sad to see her ill. She is another celebrity with shitty medical care from doctors like the one that killed Michael Jackson. She needed a doctor that would switch her to non lethal medication

I loved how she stole the glitter suit and wore it at the Palace after they canned her poor bony ass from the film.

Patty Duke said that director Mark Robson used Judy for publicity and then sabotaged her by firing her to try to get more publicity for the movie.

Duke said before she died that Robson would purposely assign Judy early call times and then force her to sit around the set all day without actually using her, knowing that it would tempt Judy to drink and take pills.

Judy was deep into her addiction in 1967, but Robson never really intended for her to play the part.

[quote]I loved how she stole the glitter suit and wore it at the Palace after they canned her poor bony ass from the film.

It has been said that Susan Hayward, knowing from her own experience how assholes like Mark Robson worked, agreed to take the part only if Judy were fully paid and allowed to keep her wardrobe.

A few years before Patty Duke died, she said this at a public appearance:

During an event at the Castro Theatre, Duke discussed working with Garland. “The director, who was the meanest son of a bitch I ever met in my life ... the director, he kept this icon, this sparrow, waiting and waiting,” Duke said. “She had to come in at 6:30 in the morning and he wouldn’t even plan to get to her until four in the afternoon. She was very down to earth, so she didn’t mind waiting. The director decided that some guy from some delicatessen on 33rd Street should talk to her, and she crumbled. And she was fired. She shouldn’t have been hired in the first place, in my opinion.”

[quote] What went wrong?

It was HER yard, and so she TRIED hard.

But apparently it wasn't hard enough.

She was a drug adddict and people didn't want to work with her. They didn't want to have to wait hours on the set not knowing if she'd show up at all,they didn't want that experience. Cary Grant said so clearly, after she harrassed him for months for A star is born. He just didn't want to work with her. Nobody liked her in Hollywood

Sharon Tate's younger sister wrote in her book that director Robson also treated Sharon terribly on the set of VOTD.

He continually yelled at and insulted Tate on the set.

It was a shitty way to end her career. Not being fired from the movie, but actually dying on the shitter

R12 I think it was befitting, her acting was shit and she was a shitty person

[quote]It was a shitty way to end her career. Not being fired from the movie, but actually dying on the shitter

At least I wasn't eating a Nutty Buddy and trying to push out a constipated turd, Elvis dear.

She was such a cunt

^ You're right, Liz was a cunt!

Poor Judy was a mess at that point. She was unreliable.

Helen Lawson is the Platonic form of reliable.

Wasn't Neely based partially on Garland? The macabre irony of a movie about pillheads starring notorious pillhead Judy Garland.

The infamous interview where Judy has to fib and fib in the face of Baba Wawa's probing, rude questions.

Just think how the film would be a meta pinnacle of camp had Judy played Helen opposite Patty Duke playing a character based on Judy.

Patty knew she was playing Judy, but Judy didn't. it's on youtube somewhere

R16 eat shit, Judy

I don’t know why Garland was cast in this anyway. Not only her personal problems, but she was so short and frail. I can only imagine how bad her scenes would’ve been. No where near the command and bitchiness Hayward brought to the role.

Booze and dope.

Imagine if Judy had done an episode or two of Here's Lucy!

Booze and dope baby!

What happened to Garland's teeth in later life? She had great teeth as a younger woman. Does the booze and dope shift your teeth?

Oh Liz sweetie, your day is coming...

Butterfield ate...

and ate, and ate...

vershush

Like Bacall, just because she was at every party and people put up with her and her antics, and kissed her ass, when it came to oscar votes, she discovered the brutal truth, that she was not well liked by her peers at all. It went downwards from there.