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Interviews and Encounters
Edited by Randy Schmidt
Musicians in Their Own Words
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
480 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: PDF, EPUB, Mobipocket, Trade Paper
EPUB, $15.99 (US $15.99) (CA $21.99)
ISBN 9781613749487
Rights: WOR X UK
Chicago Review Press (Sep 2014)
Overview
"It's going to be one hell of a great—everlastingly great—book with humor, tears, fun, emotion, and love," Judy Garland said of her plans to tell her life story. But she died at the age of forty-seven before seeing it through. Judy Garland on Judy Garland is the closest we will likely come to experiencing and exploring the legend's abandoned autobiography. Collecting and presenting the most important Garland interviews and encounters that took place between 1935 and 1969, this work opens with her first radio appearance under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and concludes with her last known interview, one taped for Radio Denmark just months before her death. What makes this collection unique and distinguishes it from the plethora of Garland biographies is that it places Judy in the role of storyteller. She wrote a number of essays for various publications and sat for countless print, radio, and television interviews. These and the other autobiographical efforts she made are proof that Judy Garland wanted her story told, and wanted it told in her own words. Finally, here it is.Reviews
"Who was the 'real' Judy Garland—the diminutive woman who lived a life away from the camera? Judy Garland on Judy Garland is an intriguing and seductive look at the icon through the eyes of the fragile woman who lived in the shadow of her own stardom. At last, we can read what Judy Garland thought of her talents, her struggles, her achievements, and her life. This is the true story of an international superstar whom the public never really knew. Flirtatious, defiant, sympathetic, contradictory, funny, sad, and charming—Judy Garland." —Michael Gregg Michaud, author of Sal Mineo: A BiographyAuthor Biography
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