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  • Two Businessmen Tried To Stop Her From Performing on Random True Story Behind 'Judy' And Judy Garland's Final Years

    (#10) Two Businessmen Tried To Stop Her From Performing

    On December 28, 1968, Garland stepped off a plane at Heathrow Airport where she was served with a writ by a private investigator. Amid camera flashes and questions from reporters, Garland learned two American businessmen who had bought her Group Five contract were barring her from performing at London's Talk of the Town nightclub. They claimed the performance broke her contract with them, but Garland said she knew nothing about the contract.

    The case was eventually dismissed, and the businessmen were forced to pay the court costs.

  • She Was Deeply In Debt on Random True Story Behind 'Judy' And Judy Garland's Final Years

    (#2) She Was Deeply In Debt

    Garland performed a successful run of concerts in 1967 that were tarnished by her significant financial woes. After netting $227,602 for 27 performances, the money was immediately taken by the IRS as payment for back taxes. 

    In 1967, the star would eventually have to sell her beloved Brentwood mansion to help pay off her debts. She would never own another home after that.

  • Her Passing Is Said To Have Caused The Stonewall Riots on Random True Story Behind 'Judy' And Judy Garland's Final Years

    (#13) Her Passing Is Said To Have Caused The Stonewall Riots

    A fight broke out between New York police and members of the LGBTQ community at the Stonewall Inn during the early hours of June 28, 1969. The timing of the riots coincided with Garland's public funeral, held the day before. Garland was known to be accepting of her gay fans, and members of the community reported being extremely upset by her passing. When the Stonewall Inn was raided, it wasn't an unusual occurrence. What was unusual was that the bar patrons fought back against the police and caused a riot.

    While it's debated whether Garland's tragic end really inspired the riots, her timing, as always, was uncanny.

  • She Had A List Of People Who Controlled Her Meds on Random True Story Behind 'Judy' And Judy Garland's Final Years

    (#6) She Had A List Of People Who Controlled Her Meds

    In the final years of her life, Garland began a near-obsessive habit of making lists to keep track of her daily life. One of the more ominous lists was written at the end of 1967, after canceling her final three concerts of the year due to laryngitis. The list consisted of people she trusted to be in charge of her medication, which consisted of roughly 20 pills per day, including four Seconal tablets to help her sleep at night. The list included her daughter Lorna, ex-husband Sid Luft, and her physician. The list seems to indicate that while Garland had a dependency on pills, she wanted to make sure that she never took too many, and that people she trusted knew how many she took.

  • She Was Fired From 'Valley of the Dolls' on Random True Story Behind 'Judy' And Judy Garland's Final Years

    (#1) She Was Fired From 'Valley of the Dolls'

    On March 2, 1967, a press conference was held to announce Garland's starring role in the film adaptation of Valley of the Dolls. The actress had misgivings about the film, including song selections, and filming got off to a bad start. Garland refused to come out of her dressing room for two days, then lost the caps to her front teeth on the third day. By the end of the week, no usable footage for the film had been shot. She was fired on April 27, 1967, less than two months after announcing she would star in the film.

    The studio claimed Garland resigned, which she vehemently denied.

  • She Remarried Before Her Divorce Was Final on Random True Story Behind 'Judy' And Judy Garland's Final Years

    (#8) She Remarried Before Her Divorce Was Final

    Garland married her fifth husband, Mickey Deans, in a secret ceremony at the St. Marylebone Parish on January 9, 1969, during her string of shows at London's Talk of the Town. However, the marriage wasn't legal. Though Garland would bring Deans on stage and introduce him to the audience as her husband, her divorce from her fourth husband, Mark Herron, wasn't finalized. This left the January 9 wedding void.

    Garland and Deans officially married at the Chelsea Registry Office in March 1969.

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During her more than 40 years of career, Judy Garland became an international star for her roles in musical theatre and performance on the musical stage. In 1935, MGM Films discovered her talents and signed her. In 1938, Judy Garland was lucky to get the role of The Wizard of Oz and won many awards and praise. However, Judy Garland underwent tremendous pressure behind her success. She relied on illegal drugs to control her weight, divorce, dismissal, and career, all of which led to her illness.

Judy Garland died in 1969 due to an overdose of sleeping pills, at the age of 47. She is a great actor and has also suffered tremendous psychological pressure. You could know more about the true story behind Judy Garland's final years with the random tool.

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