At the premiere of A Star is Born

Judy Garland, Jack Warner, and Lauren Bacall at A Star is Born Premiere September (1954, George Cukor). 
Check out Rupert Friend for Interview Magazine here

Judy Garland by William Claxton

Judy Garland photographed by William Claxton.
Check out this Japanese poster of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre.

Judy Garland in rehearsal for her TV show, 1963

Judy Garland in rehearsal for her TV show in 1963.
Check out Patricia Arquette by David LaChapelle right here

Mickey Rooney pays the set of “The Wizard of Oz” a visit

Mickey Rooney visiting Judy Garland and the dog Terry on the set of The Wizard Of Oz (1939).
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Check out behind the scenes of Bob Fosse’s famous “Cabaret” right here

Judy (Garland) seen by Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon (1923-2004) is one American photographer whose work I find inspiring. I am particularly fond of the way he shot Judy Garland (1922-1969) throughout the 50s and the 60s. The Wizard of Oz (1939), Meet me in St-Louis (1944) and A Star is Born (1954)  actress and singer surely was not “over the rainbow” throughout her life: She met her untimely death due to an overdose of barbiturates, the drug that made her suffer throughout her life. I suppose these images capture her sense of youth, glamor and eventually desperation beautifully, very far from the typical “Dorothy” we all know and love.

Here are the photos I dug up of her, shot by Avedon. All rights go to the photographer. I am not the author of these images.

Judy Garland, 1951.

 

Judy Garland, 1951

Judy Garland & Richard Avedon, 1956

Judy Garland, New York, 1961

Judy Garland, 1963

NB: Check out Richard Avedon’s portrait of Carl Th. Dreyer here: https://kinoimages.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/dreyer-copenhagen/

& Truman Capote: https://kinoimages.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/tribute-to-authors-screenwriters-three-portraits-of-truman-capote/