Judy Garland - It's Love I'm After (Pigskin Parade, 1936)

[xander7ful]

Honestly, I don't see a problem with the nose. Who cares? It was that voice and personality and the beautiful eyes that drew you in.

[villageguy13]

DAMN! what a voice!!!

[MrDACooling]

Funny i never looked at her nose ,just her soul , it shone so bright i could'nt see anything else

[LibranWay]

@sissillian1 ain't it the truth???

[patcauch]

She was like a little angel.

[ziggycat999]

A hell of an audience for an college football game.

[mocrg]

@ziggycat999 Not really. In 1936 there was no pro football so college games were the only game in town. Also no baseball or basketball.

[brandonhighgirl]

They had to redo it

because the first time there was too much applause for her

[defundthewar]

What a little cutie, despite the stupid rubber discs in her nose-- the makeup department put them in to turn her nose up more. It was only later at MGM as a star she had the confidence to throw them away. Taller, thinner easier-to-dress Deanna Durbin was Judy's big competition in 1936, and became a star overnight... but Judy's big break would come later. Durbin's still alive, almost 90. Luckily we have clips like this and so many others of Judy.

[waif55]

@defundthewar This is a stunning performance. But...I wonder of the tale of the rubber discs in her nose? I know it appears in one of the more reliable Judy biographies, but I have never been able to detect a difference in her profile over the years. She had an adorable turned-up nose as a youngster and also as a mature woman.

[defundthewar]

@waif55 In the closeup at 2:06, for example, what you see up Judy's nose are two small black disks. In the "Dear Mr. Gable" number she would do later at MGM, they are even more obvious. This little bit of improvement nonsense is found in all the more inclusive Judy bios. It wasn't until when Dottie Pondel became Judy's personal makeup artist- it would no longer change from pic to pic- that Judy used her real nose only. She mocked all this in A Star is Born, in the makeup sequence.

[waif55]

@defundthewar Well, I don't know. If it's obvious onscreen, on TV, it must have been glaring in movies! Considering the care MGM took in the appearance of their actors....I just looked through one of JohnFricke's books--hundreds of pics,and her nose is the same full face and profile. Why use discs? Eventually they became unhappy with LIZ TAYLOR's nose and she submitted to minor surgery. Why not just give J. a nose job? Well, hardly matters. Tho I don't think Dottie's work was so good.

[defundthewar]

@waif55 The disks were most prominent in the earliest part of Judy's career, and what with the corsets, special waist-altering costumes, dieting, exercise and pills, it must have given Judy the heebie-jeebies... the bosses felt that nature couldn't even get her nose right! Of course, there was absolutely nothing wrong with her nose. If you've seen the makeup sequence in A Star is Born, transforming Esther into VIcki, you'll know how she must have felt.

[HelenaKoonings]

@defundthewar I thought her nose looked weird!

[millers3888]

@defundthewar Isn't this the movie where Judy DIDN'T have her nose discs?

[defundthewar]

@millers3888 No, they are here, making Judy's nose look odd. When she became more established and secure- although never totally secure with herself- then she dispensed with them.

[millers3888]

@defundthewar I dunno. Judy's nose WAS odd. One of her nostrils was bigger then the other. Her nose here looks different then in her early MGM movies like Broadway melody or Everybody Sing. You can tell one of her nostrils is larger then the other in Pigskin Parade, making me think that she didn't have them in. Especially since this wasn't an MGM movie. MGM was the ones that put them in. I dunno, I could be wrong. Her nose here looks more like it did after the discs were taken out to me.

[defundthewar]

@millers3888 Lots of things have been said of Judy, but this is a new one for me- 2 different-sized nostrils!

I really don't think so. The practice of using rubber discs almost certainly began at MGM, and Judy may have just packed them up and taken them to Pigskin Parade. She certainly didn't use them in her later MGM years, and we definitely would have noticed them on her TV shows had she used them. In any event, to me, there was no need to "improve" her nose.

[millers3888]

@defundthewar . I'm not sure if one nostril was bigger, or just a different shape. Either way, I definitely noticed her nose was different looking from Meet Me in St Louis until she died. Not necessarily bad, just different then her teen MGM years.

[xander7ful]

@defundthewar The irony of Deanna Durbin being taller & thinner is that, when Mr. Mayer told his secretary to "drop the fat one", she thought he meant Deanna Durbin. So Deanna's contract was dropped instead of Judy's.

[defundthewar]

@xander7ful Like all the ancient MGM stories, there are variations. If the secretary was Ida Koverman, Judy's biggest MGM booster early on, of course she would have Durbin fired and later say she misunderstood. It is more likely Mayer gave the order to producer Jack Cummings or some legal dept. minion. Like the tale of how Judy got named, it is so old, all the principals are long gone, so it becomes folklore. Everyone agrees George Jessel named her, but how he chose "Garland" varies.

[Moonbeamstars]

Go on Judy you belter!

[Moonbeamstars]

Little doll here..so young Judy..xx