June 10, 2022 – Happy Birthday Judy Garland!

Happy Birthday Judy Garland! Today would have been the star’s 100th birthday!
She performed vaudeville with her older sisters as a child, and as a teenager signed with MGM. She appeared in over two dozen films for MGM, and was a frequent on-screen partner of Mickey Rooney and Gene Kelley. She was dropped from MGM after 15 years with the studio, amid a series of personal struggles that kept her from fulfilling the terms of her contract.
While she’s best known for playing Dorothy Gayle in The Wizard of Oz, later in her career, she had critically acclaimed roles in A Star is Born in 1954, and Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961. She also made record breaking concert appearances and released 8 albums. Garland was the first female to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, for her 1961 album Judy at Carnegie Hall.  She was also the youngest and first female recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the film industry.
Garland was a very close friend of President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie. She would call the president weekly, and often ended her calls by singing the first few lines of “Over the Rainbow”. She struggled with her mental health and substance abuse from a young age. This ultimately led to her death from an accidental overdose in 1969 at age 47.
To commemorate her 100th birthday, Garland’s daughter Lorna Luft teamed up with Vincenzo Spinnato to create a unisex fragrance called JUDY. It combines the scents of the Judy Garland Rose with dark orchid, coriander, sultry Gourmand and spice notes.
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