Does it really matter where she was when she died? Does sitting on a toilet add something special, something delightful about her death. The woman, tired and beaten finally found some peace (I hope). The drugs, the drinking, were a disease, not her fault and really not her choice after a while.
God Bless them both! They were both extraordinary talents, and I still listen to their songs, I will until my dying day!!Anita was a real "character" though!
Can you tell me what this footage is from? Is it from the DVD on Anita O'Day that she actually talks about her own life? I want to know more about her, I love her albums and know she had a fascinating life.
@harrietcraig2: I believe it's an outtake from the interviews with her for the documentary named by harrietcraig2. I didn't see it in the actual film, which focuses on Anita's life.
What happened to Judy is almost a blueprint of what happened to Marilyn: both forgot they had taken a dose of downers--then took another dose--and it overwhelmed these great troubled stars systems. Drug counselors say this happens often to addicts addled memories. So probable cause of death for both icons: accidental over dose. Could happen to the rest of us too after a really tireing day on pain pills--Add stress, add. behavior & you've got a recipe for disaster. A.'s one hell of lady!
Lorna's movie placed Judy in London on her 47th b day and she was in the states. Lorna's movie had many discrepancies. Esp when Judy made AStar is Born and liza read the reviews in the bio pic it was an actress playing a teen ager when Liza was really around 8 yrs old when the movie was made. Judy deserves a bio film that is accurate and is perfectly portrayed. Why these producers & writers who attempt to tell the story of this legend & not doing it the right way is a waste of money.
@NFitalianGuy According to Gerald Clarke, Judy was in London in her last birthday. Actually I quoted his book in a comentary that is at the top of the page.
@nandesneto Judy Garland spent herlast birthday in NY and left for london on June 17th 1969. I seen pictures of her at JFK airport just 6 days before her death returning to london ..
@nandesneto Judy was in NYC around her 47th B day. There is a picture of Judy & Mickey Deans at Kennedy airport on her way to london 6 days before her death. It's Sad that Lorna & Gerald Clarke both had Judy in London on her last birthday. Liza was estranged from Judy. Liza had Peter Allen, screening calls from Judy when she tried to reach Liza. Liza should never have shunned her mother esp when Judy was broke & Liza was making 400K a yr then . PPL behave irrational sometimes when they're broke.
@haberman18 I agree, Nothing good ever came from bad mouthing a dead. person.Judy Garland' & her talent gave so much us & She was a living legend because of it. Judy wasn't perfect & her private life did make headlines but that's the price of stardom.Who believes 100% of what they read or hear? Judy gave so much when she sang that it's impossible to be expected to sound like the Carnegie Hall album. These Ppl are forever repeating the Pill/booze stories & these ppl never even knew her first hand
Does anyone find it odd that so-and-so is taking her to the airport, so-and-so is taking her to some hotel, to some bar, to some concert, etc, etc, etc....Why weren't any of these people taking her to the hospital? I don't get it. She deserved to die with dignity--not like this. She didn't deserve that.
that's a pretty cold story and i don't know if i buy it. hanging out with an irish drunk. you know your in trouble. saw o'day twice before she died. didn't suspect much. but now i see she had skin thicker than my nad sack. sorry to say. but i don't buy her story one fuckin bit
@grai O'Day is in the first major Judy bio by a respected author, Gerold Frank, and when that occurs it is often referenced for other stories and bios. O'Day is old here, a reformed addict, and her memory imperfect. I guess that the interviewer had read that O'Day had known Judy at the very end of her life, and so asked O'Day about it. Cochran played a central part. In 1966, Judy panicked when she ran out of amphetamines. She enlisted Cochran to find her a dealer. He did: Deans.
@defundthewar Its the old reformed addict with the imperfect memory that I was picking up on - I hate when people talk a load of crap about the death of a legend like Garland just to boost their own z-list celebrity
@grai Anita is on all the lists of great jazz singers, and there's lots of her on youtube. She was not photogenic enough for films, occasionally was on TV, but was much sought for live performances, a big draw for US jazz fans, even more internationally. She was excellent, especially in the 50s and 60s. If the old gal needed $ and did interviews and mentioned Judy, I understand. I am less sympathetic toward her children, mostly Lorna, who stopped growing as a performer, just sells Judy.
Here, I found something on Gerald Clarke's Get Happy: "Thus it was that Judy spent her 47th birthday, June 10, in bed, with Mickey nowhere in sight and with only two callers, Charles Cochran, in whose East Side apartment she was staying, and one of Cochran's friends"
One thing she is wrong about is that was not the END of Judy.. in the physical.. but she lives on thru her children, grandchildren and fans. Mickey's story was a bit different ....
@grai In all the biographies I have read, it is mentioned the fact that Mickey had to climb over the outside of the apartment, because Judy was locked in the bathroom...
@nandesneto But they never have mentioned that Deans was on the phone to Cochrane at the time of discovering her - according to Anita the reason Deans found her is because Charlie rang the house and asked Deans to go and bring her to the phone (it must have been Deans - he was alone with Judy in the flat at the time of her death)
in the process Deans discovered she was dead and came back to the phone and told Charlie
@grai The phone conversation is in biographies by Frank, Shipman, Clarke, Edwards and Mickey Deans himself. One thing varies: Deans stated that Judy was not feeling well, and they both went to bed early. Deans slept soundly and the next thing he knew it was morning, he got the phone call from Cochran, then found Judy dead. Others stated Judy and Deans had a fight the night before, she ran out of the house and drove off, that was the last time he saw her alive. We may never know for sure.
@defundthewar even now people are still trying to jump on the Garland bandwagon with the most negligible of connections with her that they blow out of all proportion to make it look like they were at the centre of Judy's life
no-one was at the centre of Judy's life by this point - and that includes her crazy daughters who are still milking way beyond its sell-by date
anita was one tough lady. this is a very interesting clip. what age is she here? i wonder if she got her wrinkles through smoking? i cant imagine her being bothered with cosmetic surgery, not her style.
I used to wait on Anita O'Day at Bank of America when she lived in San Jacinto, California. She was a trip! I knew her for several years. One of a kind!
@nandesneto@nandesneto@ericlovesjudy Sorry...I went through hell to get it and I do NOT make copies. Do like I did. Be 43 years old, start collecting Judy when you are five, use the internet to buy and sell and collect, make contacts with other collectors, get your name in some books and CD's of Judy's work and you will eventually find a copy. No one made it easy for me.
@nandesneto@ericlovesjudy Sorry...I went through hell to get it and I do NOT make copies. Do like I did. Be 43 years old, start collecting Judy when you are five, use the internet to buy and sell and collect, make contacts with other collectors, get your name in some books and CD's of Judy's work and you will eventually find a copy. No one made it easy for me.
Are you guys sure she died in the bathroom? I heard they found her in a fetal position on top of a cabinet in the kitchen near the pantry. It wasn't pretty.
If you'd ever been to The Apple, you'd know why people do that. Now get your Midwestern ass to the greatest city in the world and check it out, because you haven't lived until you do, man...
@hsbrent The Apple it's called the Big Apple is a waste of your time, breathe & money. if you want to be another tourist sucker who gets a thrill from get brow beaten by mass transit and visiting voids of places with no class or history, velcomenn to new york. if that's what the Apple was. for me, never trust an irishman, drunk or not, and anita was a pothead. don't really think she cared too much for judy anyway possible jealousy. botton line nobody care for JG her husband he's dead
I ALWAYS thought she died sitting actually on the toilet!!! I recall reading several biographies which stated Judy was found sitting on the toilet, her head bowed down and her arms cradled in her lap, but DEFINITELY sitting ON the toilet.... I think you are getting mixed up with the Mini-Series by Lorna Luft "Me And My Shadows" which shows Judy dead on the bathroom floor. this was wrong, I think they portrayed this out of respect for Judy???
@Videotheque You're right, like Elvis, she was found on the toilet, rigor mortis had set in for several hours, and so didn't move. Lorna didn't dare go there in her book, and sanitized the place of death for ABC-Disney, which is understandable. Anita forgot she received a Jazz award from Judy decades earlier, and also forgot that her pal Charlie Cochran knew Judy's husband Mickey Deans very well, and did not send her to "some place in London," but to Judy and Mickey's flat.
@defundthewar (Part Two) Anita also graciously forgets what Judy actually sounded like at the end. But she is right on when she describes Judy's weight- or lack of it- and how she was clearly near death. What had happened was that Judy still took her batch of drugs with a little booze on the side- but had stopped eating months earlier. And so the result was predictable.
@defundthewar Judy Garland was actually in great voice this night. I have heard a recording. She was rested and always sang better when she wasn't stressed about touring or anything else. Have YOU heard this recording?
@ericlovesjudy sorry...I went through hell to get it and I do NOT make copies. Do like I did. be 43, start collecting Judy when you are five, use the internet to buy and sell and collect, make contacts with other collectors, get your name in some books and CD's of Judy's work and you will eventually find a copy. No one made it easy for me...I simply cannot make it easy for anyone else.
@ericlovesjudy Yes, please post that recording for us. The reason I know she was not in great voice was firstly because of what the club's owner wrote about that night, which differs from Anita's account, and I believe him, and secondly, it defies logic that at her fragile weight, she could produce a good sound. She was enormously stressed- she felt she had to flee the US because of her debts, had no work lined up, and fought constantly with her unemployed husband.
@Videotheque Yes, according to the written testimony of the man who found her- her husband Mickey Deans- she was seated on the toilet. What is wrong with being totally accurate? Certainly this is nothing against Judy herself that she died in that way.
@Pectoris4 I think it's meaningful to know Judy- like Elvis- did, in fact, die on the toilet. Especially in Judy's case, it is conclusive proof that it was not suicide. Anyone who knows a little about Judy would know that for suicide she would get all made up, hair done, put on one of the new mod outfits she favored at the end of her life, and be found in a more glamorous pose than on the toilet. But some fans deny it, as if defending her honor, and say she was found on the floor.
@Videotheque At ABC-Disney, nobody dies on the toilet, and so Judy wound up on the floor. A lot of things were made more palatable for home tastes, but very strangely, the miniseries broached the issue of Vincente Minnelli's homosexuality, plus Judy's own affair with Kay Thompson... two things Lorna surely knew about, but didn't put in her book.
@Videotheque Yes, she WAS found on the toilet,I believe that version. When Presley died, they hushed that up for a few days. He had so much blocked colon when he died-not a pretty thought.
just like Presley, all the greats die on the can. well, physiologically, you figure it out. her heart was weak because she was being poisoned. being homeless doesn't kill you, i'm sure she didn't starve to death. and i don't think she drank a bottle of JD everyday. the pills killed her and obviously it had nothing to do whatsoever with an overdose. now grab the pitchforks and the torches and find the villian.
@up2space Judy died of an overdose of barbiturates - that is a fact. Elvis died of a supposed heart attack brought on by an overdose of codeine (he had a tooth procedure done beforehand and was prescribed codeine for the pain).
Just look at Judy in the later 60s. whatever she was taking was killing her. Perhaps if her system was stronger, she wouldn't have died of a supposed od. More to the point, it wasn't a suicide in which case she would have taken the whole bottle. her supposed od was a matter of taking just one more pill. by today's standards, that would be considered medical malpractice.
@up2space It wasn't what she was taking that killed her. She had been off of hard drugs for a year (went through rehab in 1968). She worked with a doctor in NY to get down to 2 sleeping pills per night. But she was malnourished and underweight. Add to that the overdose. That's what killed her.
When Judy did impromptu performerances like that, She'd always rise to the occasion. I just wish I was born earlier to have experienced a Garland Concert. At least we have her movies, TV series & recordings. I met Judy's ex husband Sid Luft in1997 along with their two children Lorna & Joey in Grand Rapids, MN at the annual Judy Garland festival commrating her 75th birthday. Sid Luft was very friendly down to earth & had the pleasure of hanging out w/Sid, having drinks he told some great stories.
@gwin1962 She was onthe toilet...her husband Mickey Deans at the time and the coroner, etc have made statement saying he found her on the toiler (not goins to the bathroom or anything).
I really wished that there would have been some sort of tape or filming of that last song she sang... oh boy would that have been great.
RMHebert100 14 hours ago
What she says is simply not true. Anyone that does research can pic this story apart line by line.
whatwouldjudydo 3 months ago
Anita was the best Jazz singer of all times...
mk181818 5 months ago
Anita sounds like she's from the south side of Milwaukee!! (ie 'd's' and 'd'oes') Wonder where she grew up?
windstorm1000 6 months ago
Does it really matter where she was when she died? Does sitting on a toilet add something special, something delightful about her death. The woman, tired and beaten finally found some peace (I hope). The drugs, the drinking, were a disease, not her fault and really not her choice after a while.
sfmarklh 7 months ago 2
Wow, what a tragic yet moving testament. You can feel the sadness in Anita. Thanks for posting such a timely accounting.
sfmarklh 7 months ago 2
Hey fran9860, please don't type the f-word on the internet, children don't need that, Ok?
tellingthetruthagain 7 months ago
I have checked out Anita's performances from the 60's; and all I can say is WOW! WHAT A FUCKEN TROLL. She had no respect for musicians or the music.
fran9860 8 months ago
JUDY'S IN DA HOOOUUUUSE!
mistamowgli 10 months ago
God Bless them both! They were both extraordinary talents, and I still listen to their songs, I will until my dying day!!Anita was a real "character" though!
450984 10 months ago
blessings
Love Judy....Life!
tubetoad 11 months ago
Can you tell me what this footage is from? Is it from the DVD on Anita O'Day that she actually talks about her own life? I want to know more about her, I love her albums and know she had a fascinating life.
harrietcraig2 1 year ago
@harrietcraig2 Anita O'Day - The Life of a Jazz Singer DVD
nandesneto 1 year ago 2
@harrietcraig2: I believe it's an outtake from the interviews with her for the documentary named by harrietcraig2. I didn't see it in the actual film, which focuses on Anita's life.
aarfeld 7 months ago
@harrietcraig2 wonderful lady
AceOfDiamondsDJ 1 month ago
Anita had a tough life with alcohol and drugs too, which you can see and hear in this interview.
hebneh 1 year ago
I've never seen this...so sad to watch this...but interesting at the same time...so sad what happened to Judy during the last months of her life.
MrKingsRow 1 year ago
What happened to Judy is almost a blueprint of what happened to Marilyn: both forgot they had taken a dose of downers--then took another dose--and it overwhelmed these great troubled stars systems. Drug counselors say this happens often to addicts addled memories. So probable cause of death for both icons: accidental over dose. Could happen to the rest of us too after a really tireing day on pain pills--Add stress, add. behavior & you've got a recipe for disaster. A.'s one hell of lady!
windstorm1000 1 year ago
Lorna's movie placed Judy in London on her 47th b day and she was in the states. Lorna's movie had many discrepancies. Esp when Judy made AStar is Born and liza read the reviews in the bio pic it was an actress playing a teen ager when Liza was really around 8 yrs old when the movie was made. Judy deserves a bio film that is accurate and is perfectly portrayed. Why these producers & writers who attempt to tell the story of this legend & not doing it the right way is a waste of money.
NFitalianGuy 1 year ago
@NFitalianGuy According to Gerald Clarke, Judy was in London in her last birthday. Actually I quoted his book in a comentary that is at the top of the page.
nandesneto 1 year ago
@nandesneto Judy was in the states for her 47th b day they have a picture of her at JFK airport almost a week before her death returning to london.
NFitalianGuy 1 year ago
@nandesneto Judy Garland spent herlast birthday in NY and left for london on June 17th 1969. I seen pictures of her at JFK airport just 6 days before her death returning to london ..
NFitalianGuy 1 year ago
@nandesneto Judy was in NYC around her 47th B day. There is a picture of Judy & Mickey Deans at Kennedy airport on her way to london 6 days before her death. It's Sad that Lorna & Gerald Clarke both had Judy in London on her last birthday. Liza was estranged from Judy. Liza had Peter Allen, screening calls from Judy when she tried to reach Liza. Liza should never have shunned her mother esp when Judy was broke & Liza was making 400K a yr then . PPL behave irrational sometimes when they're broke.
NFitalianGuy 1 year ago
@NFitalianGuy
They should let Judy and Anita rest in peace. Charlie Cochran is a friend of mine and is a wonderful singer it is time that people get over this.
haberman18 1 year ago 2
@haberman18 I agree, Nothing good ever came from bad mouthing a dead. person.Judy Garland' & her talent gave so much us & She was a living legend because of it. Judy wasn't perfect & her private life did make headlines but that's the price of stardom.Who believes 100% of what they read or hear? Judy gave so much when she sang that it's impossible to be expected to sound like the Carnegie Hall album. These Ppl are forever repeating the Pill/booze stories & these ppl never even knew her first hand
NFitalianGuy 1 year ago
Yes, Miss R105 on DL - Anita was said to have been a Lesbyterian!
mrspatrickcampbell 1 year ago
Does anyone find it odd that so-and-so is taking her to the airport, so-and-so is taking her to some hotel, to some bar, to some concert, etc, etc, etc....Why weren't any of these people taking her to the hospital? I don't get it. She deserved to die with dignity--not like this. She didn't deserve that.
SteveZeGreat 1 year ago
that's a pretty cold story and i don't know if i buy it. hanging out with an irish drunk. you know your in trouble. saw o'day twice before she died. didn't suspect much. but now i see she had skin thicker than my nad sack. sorry to say. but i don't buy her story one fuckin bit
up2space 1 year ago
O'Day is not mentioned in any of the Garland biographies at all so why she thinks she played such a central part in Judy's death I dont know
grai 1 year ago
@grai O'Day is in the first major Judy bio by a respected author, Gerold Frank, and when that occurs it is often referenced for other stories and bios. O'Day is old here, a reformed addict, and her memory imperfect. I guess that the interviewer had read that O'Day had known Judy at the very end of her life, and so asked O'Day about it. Cochran played a central part. In 1966, Judy panicked when she ran out of amphetamines. She enlisted Cochran to find her a dealer. He did: Deans.
defundthewar 1 year ago
@defundthewar Its the old reformed addict with the imperfect memory that I was picking up on - I hate when people talk a load of crap about the death of a legend like Garland just to boost their own z-list celebrity
grai 1 year ago
@grai Anita is on all the lists of great jazz singers, and there's lots of her on youtube. She was not photogenic enough for films, occasionally was on TV, but was much sought for live performances, a big draw for US jazz fans, even more internationally. She was excellent, especially in the 50s and 60s. If the old gal needed $ and did interviews and mentioned Judy, I understand. I am less sympathetic toward her children, mostly Lorna, who stopped growing as a performer, just sells Judy.
defundthewar 1 year ago
Hearing her reminds me of Sonny Rollins, the same accent and the same speaking way.
jazzman1988 1 year ago
Here, I found something on Gerald Clarke's Get Happy: "Thus it was that Judy spent her 47th birthday, June 10, in bed, with Mickey nowhere in sight and with only two callers, Charles Cochran, in whose East Side apartment she was staying, and one of Cochran's friends"
nandesneto 1 year ago
@nandesneto very different from Deans being on the phone then leaving the phone finding Judy and coming back to the phone and saying "she's dead"
I just don't believe her
grai 1 year ago
One thing she is wrong about is that was not the END of Judy.. in the physical.. but she lives on thru her children, grandchildren and fans. Mickey's story was a bit different ....
sassygarland 1 year ago
is she saying this Charlie guy sent Judy to London on her own? Where was Mickey Deans? They were inseperable at that point
Is she saying at the actual moment of Garland's death Deans talked to Charlie and came back saying "oh she's dead I just found her" ??
Why wasnt the phone conversation mentioned in any of the biographies?
grai 1 year ago
@grai In all the biographies I have read, it is mentioned the fact that Mickey had to climb over the outside of the apartment, because Judy was locked in the bathroom...
nandesneto 1 year ago
@nandesneto But they never have mentioned that Deans was on the phone to Cochrane at the time of discovering her - according to Anita the reason Deans found her is because Charlie rang the house and asked Deans to go and bring her to the phone (it must have been Deans - he was alone with Judy in the flat at the time of her death)
in the process Deans discovered she was dead and came back to the phone and told Charlie
you'd think that would have come up somewhere
I don't believe a word
grai 1 year ago
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MichaelSxe555 8 months ago
@grai The phone conversation is in biographies by Frank, Shipman, Clarke, Edwards and Mickey Deans himself. One thing varies: Deans stated that Judy was not feeling well, and they both went to bed early. Deans slept soundly and the next thing he knew it was morning, he got the phone call from Cochran, then found Judy dead. Others stated Judy and Deans had a fight the night before, she ran out of the house and drove off, that was the last time he saw her alive. We may never know for sure.
defundthewar 1 year ago
@defundthewar even now people are still trying to jump on the Garland bandwagon with the most negligible of connections with her that they blow out of all proportion to make it look like they were at the centre of Judy's life
no-one was at the centre of Judy's life by this point - and that includes her crazy daughters who are still milking way beyond its sell-by date
grai 1 year ago
anita was one tough lady. this is a very interesting clip. what age is she here? i wonder if she got her wrinkles through smoking? i cant imagine her being bothered with cosmetic surgery, not her style.
johneunson 1 year ago
It's amazing that Judy and Elvis, two of the great American icons both died in the loo.
Despite all records, Elvis and Judy did not die on the toilet.
tallpaul521 1 year ago
I used to wait on Anita O'Day at Bank of America when she lived in San Jacinto, California. She was a trip! I knew her for several years. One of a kind!
cristpthomas 1 year ago
Is this Lady alive still??
sahomai 1 year ago
@nandesneto No.
ericlovesjudy 1 year ago
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@nandesneto @nandesneto @ericlovesjudy Sorry...I went through hell to get it and I do NOT make copies. Do like I did. Be 43 years old, start collecting Judy when you are five, use the internet to buy and sell and collect, make contacts with other collectors, get your name in some books and CD's of Judy's work and you will eventually find a copy. No one made it easy for me.
ericlovesjudy 1 year ago
@nandesneto @ericlovesjudy Sorry...I went through hell to get it and I do NOT make copies. Do like I did. Be 43 years old, start collecting Judy when you are five, use the internet to buy and sell and collect, make contacts with other collectors, get your name in some books and CD's of Judy's work and you will eventually find a copy. No one made it easy for me.
ericlovesjudy 1 year ago
Anita was correct; Judy did sing beautifully that night, she was rested and not singing 20 songs.
monroenorma 1 year ago
Are you guys sure she died in the bathroom? I heard they found her in a fetal position on top of a cabinet in the kitchen near the pantry. It wasn't pretty.
kolst8406 1 year ago
Fascinating, And Judy Garland had presented a singing award to Anita O'Day back circa 1944.
Jayee123 2 years ago
i cant believe thats anita oday. reat story. thanks for posting
cjm608 2 years ago 2
If you'd ever been to The Apple, you'd know why people do that. Now get your Midwestern ass to the greatest city in the world and check it out, because you haven't lived until you do, man...
hsbrent 2 years ago
@hsbrent The Apple it's called the Big Apple is a waste of your time, breathe & money. if you want to be another tourist sucker who gets a thrill from get brow beaten by mass transit and visiting voids of places with no class or history, velcomenn to new york. if that's what the Apple was. for me, never trust an irishman, drunk or not, and anita was a pothead. don't really think she cared too much for judy anyway possible jealousy. botton line nobody care for JG her husband he's dead
up2space 1 year ago
Wow, wonderful unheard story. So interesting.
SariaLink987 2 years ago 2
I ALWAYS thought she died sitting actually on the toilet!!! I recall reading several biographies which stated Judy was found sitting on the toilet, her head bowed down and her arms cradled in her lap, but DEFINITELY sitting ON the toilet.... I think you are getting mixed up with the Mini-Series by Lorna Luft "Me And My Shadows" which shows Judy dead on the bathroom floor. this was wrong, I think they portrayed this out of respect for Judy???
Videotheque 2 years ago 2
@Videotheque I believe she was sitting on the toilet seat (not actually USING the toilet). She was most certainly in the restroom.
superhetoric 2 years ago
She was found on the floor. Its imposible for a "dead person" to stay sit on the toilet.
nandesneto 2 years ago
NO IT ISNT
paulsimpson123 2 years ago
@nandesneto UUU..no it's not impossible . That's where I found my Mother who died of a massive heart attack just 4 years ago...
Joeinps 1 year ago
@Videotheque You're right, like Elvis, she was found on the toilet, rigor mortis had set in for several hours, and so didn't move. Lorna didn't dare go there in her book, and sanitized the place of death for ABC-Disney, which is understandable. Anita forgot she received a Jazz award from Judy decades earlier, and also forgot that her pal Charlie Cochran knew Judy's husband Mickey Deans very well, and did not send her to "some place in London," but to Judy and Mickey's flat.
defundthewar 1 year ago
@defundthewar (Part Two) Anita also graciously forgets what Judy actually sounded like at the end. But she is right on when she describes Judy's weight- or lack of it- and how she was clearly near death. What had happened was that Judy still took her batch of drugs with a little booze on the side- but had stopped eating months earlier. And so the result was predictable.
defundthewar 1 year ago
@defundthewar Judy Garland was actually in great voice this night. I have heard a recording. She was rested and always sang better when she wasn't stressed about touring or anything else. Have YOU heard this recording?
ericlovesjudy 1 year ago
@ericlovesjudy sorry...I went through hell to get it and I do NOT make copies. Do like I did. be 43, start collecting Judy when you are five, use the internet to buy and sell and collect, make contacts with other collectors, get your name in some books and CD's of Judy's work and you will eventually find a copy. No one made it easy for me...I simply cannot make it easy for anyone else.
ericlovesjudy 1 year ago
@ericlovesjudy Yes, please post that recording for us. The reason I know she was not in great voice was firstly because of what the club's owner wrote about that night, which differs from Anita's account, and I believe him, and secondly, it defies logic that at her fragile weight, she could produce a good sound. She was enormously stressed- she felt she had to flee the US because of her debts, had no work lined up, and fought constantly with her unemployed husband.
defundthewar 1 year ago
@Videotheque Yes, according to the written testimony of the man who found her- her husband Mickey Deans- she was seated on the toilet. What is wrong with being totally accurate? Certainly this is nothing against Judy herself that she died in that way.
Pectoris4 1 year ago
@Pectoris4 I think it's meaningful to know Judy- like Elvis- did, in fact, die on the toilet. Especially in Judy's case, it is conclusive proof that it was not suicide. Anyone who knows a little about Judy would know that for suicide she would get all made up, hair done, put on one of the new mod outfits she favored at the end of her life, and be found in a more glamorous pose than on the toilet. But some fans deny it, as if defending her honor, and say she was found on the floor.
defundthewar 1 year ago
@Videotheque At ABC-Disney, nobody dies on the toilet, and so Judy wound up on the floor. A lot of things were made more palatable for home tastes, but very strangely, the miniseries broached the issue of Vincente Minnelli's homosexuality, plus Judy's own affair with Kay Thompson... two things Lorna surely knew about, but didn't put in her book.
defundthewar 1 year ago
@Videotheque I read many years ago that she died sitting on the commode as well and despite what nandesneto says, it's not impossible.
buddhaman4518 1 year ago
@Videotheque Yes, she WAS found on the toilet,I believe that version. When Presley died, they hushed that up for a few days. He had so much blocked colon when he died-not a pretty thought.
TheDorr71 9 months ago
just like Presley, all the greats die on the can. well, physiologically, you figure it out. her heart was weak because she was being poisoned. being homeless doesn't kill you, i'm sure she didn't starve to death. and i don't think she drank a bottle of JD everyday. the pills killed her and obviously it had nothing to do whatsoever with an overdose. now grab the pitchforks and the torches and find the villian.
up2space 2 years ago
@up2space Judy died of an overdose of barbiturates - that is a fact. Elvis died of a supposed heart attack brought on by an overdose of codeine (he had a tooth procedure done beforehand and was prescribed codeine for the pain).
superhetoric 2 years ago
Just look at Judy in the later 60s. whatever she was taking was killing her. Perhaps if her system was stronger, she wouldn't have died of a supposed od. More to the point, it wasn't a suicide in which case she would have taken the whole bottle. her supposed od was a matter of taking just one more pill. by today's standards, that would be considered medical malpractice.
up2space 2 years ago 9
@up2space It wasn't what she was taking that killed her. She had been off of hard drugs for a year (went through rehab in 1968). She worked with a doctor in NY to get down to 2 sleeping pills per night. But she was malnourished and underweight. Add to that the overdose. That's what killed her.
xander7ful 2 weeks ago
When Judy did impromptu performerances like that, She'd always rise to the occasion. I just wish I was born earlier to have experienced a Garland Concert. At least we have her movies, TV series & recordings. I met Judy's ex husband Sid Luft in1997 along with their two children Lorna & Joey in Grand Rapids, MN at the annual Judy Garland festival commrating her 75th birthday. Sid Luft was very friendly down to earth & had the pleasure of hanging out w/Sid, having drinks he told some great stories.
NFitalianGuy 2 years ago
Fascinating, thank you!
billy3002 2 years ago
@gwin1962 She was onthe toilet...her husband Mickey Deans at the time and the coroner, etc have made statement saying he found her on the toiler (not goins to the bathroom or anything).
Jostynnn 2 years ago
that was sad :(
TheJazzStreet 2 years ago
Wow
Thank you
DIVAS42 2 years ago
whoa
ishredu 2 years ago
Anita is sublime! I appreciate this so much!
damone77 2 years ago 5
Who is this charlie character?
less01 2 years ago
I don't know.... a friend if Anita I guess.
nandesneto 2 years ago
So sad! I love Judy Garland and I always will!
TheHarmonicWheel 2 years ago 3