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Parsons said Louella Parsons, “Judy Is Given 1 More Chance,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, Nov. 1, 1949.

“That’s all” Joe Pasternak interview, SMU Oral History Collection.

“If you stop” Hirschhorn,
Gene Kelly
, p. 163.

“How dare this look” Davis,
The Glamour Factory
, p. 249.

Drinking too much Saul Chaplin to GC.

As was so often the case Chaplin,
The Golden Age of Movie Musicals
and Me
, p. 128.

“Put her up” Al Jennings to GC.

If she could get Minnelli,
I Remember It Well
, p. 217.

one besotted literary critic Fadiman,
Party of One
, p. 286.

At the conclusion Schary,
Heyday
, p. 215.

Indeed, Judy may well Frank,
Judy
, pp. 279–80.

In what she was later to term Judy Garland, “There’ll Always Be an Encore,”
McCall’s
, Jan. 1964.

“I’ve got an ulcer” Frank,
Judy
, p. 274.

“Oh,” exclaimed Saul Chaplin Saul Chaplin to GC.

“IMPORTANT!” Memo to Arthur Freed from Walter Strohm, the production manager, and other supervisors, July 6, 1950. Freed Collection.

“If she doesn’t” Silverman,
Dancing on the Ceiling
, p. 126. Donen told his biographer (p. 125) that Judy did not come in at all during the week ending June 17. His memory is inaccurate. Though she was late on two of the five days, she worked every day, according to the production notes.

In baseball Hedda Hopper, “Great Garland Talent in Critical Jeopardy,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 22, 1950.

As soon as it heard “Judy Happy over NBC Offer,”
Hollywood Citizen-News
, June 24, 1950.

“Cheer up” New York
Daily News
, June 24, 1950.

Smashing a water glass Florabel Muir, New York
Daily News
, June 21, 1950.

“I wanted” “‘I Couldn’t Solve Anything Running Away,’ Says Judy,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, Dec. 29. 1950.

“Judy Garland Cuts Throat”
Los Angeles Mirror
, June 20, 1950.

“Judy Garland Slashes Throat”
Los Angeles Times
, June 21, 1950.

“Hollywood Heartbreaks”
Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express
, June 21, 1950.

But she was probably Ponedel’s unpublished autobiography, in the author’s possession.

Florabel Muir
Los Angeles Mirror
, June 20, 1950.

Also in Judy’s corner Hedda Hopper, “Great Garland Talent in Critical Jeopardy,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 22, 1950.

“Judy, as everyone” Louella Parsons, “No Intent to Injure Self, Physician Says,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, June 21, 1950.

“Goddamnit,” Alsop bitterly complained Frank,
Judy
, p. 282.

“I tried to do” Louella Parsons, “No Intent to Injure Self, Physician Says,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, June 21, 1950.

“Judy’s the bouncy type” Virginia MacPherson, “Judy Garland’s Suicide Try,”
Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express
, June 21, 1950.

“She apparently”
Hollywood Citizen-News
, June 23, 1950.

After talking to her Hepburn,
Me
, pp. 221–22.

Thus it was “Judy Garland Slashes Throat After Film Row,”
Los
Angeles Times
, June 21, 1950.

“Oh, golly” Judy Garland, “The Plot Against Judy Garland,”
Ladies’ Home Journal
, August 1967.

“You have your job” “Judy Garland Slashes Throat After Film Row,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 21, 1950.

One of Florabel Muir’s readers Florabel Muir, “Friends Cheer Judy Garland… .”
Los Angeles Mirror
, June 21, 1950.

At one of Los Angeles’s evangelical churches Russell,
Jane Russell
, pp. 110–11.

Assuming she would go Ponedel’s unpublished autobiography, in the author’s possession.

“We’re all” “Times Square Crowds Cheer Judy Garland,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, Sept. 6, 1950.

Another outpouring “Judy Garland’s Brave Triumph,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, Nov. 12, 1950.

What they said
Los Angeles Examiner
, June 30, 1950.

Fifteen years Hedda Hopper, “Judy Garland Obtains Release from Studio,”
Los Angeles Times
, Sept. 30, 1950.

“In an oblique” Billy Rose, “Pitching Horseshoes,” New York
Daily News
, Sept. 1, 1950.

Anslinger knew Anslinger and Oursler,
The Murderers
, pp. 164–66. In his book, Anslinger mentions neither Judy nor Schenck by name. In 1969, however, he confirmed that Judy was indeed the anonymous star mentioned in his book. (Art Petacque, “Ex-Narcotics Chief Tried to Get Judy Off Drugs,”
New York Post
, June 20, 1969.) The executive to whom he spoke, the “head of the studio” in New York, could therefore have been no one but Schenck.

For her, she said Judy Garland, as told to Joe Hyams, “The Real Me,”
McCall’s
, April 1957.

Nor did she consider Silverman,
Dancing on the Ceiling
, p. 126.

About Schary Marion,
Off with Their Heads!
, p. 321.

Less than a year Crowther,
Hollywood Rajah
, p. 287.

“I know how you and Nick” Schary,
Heyday
, pp. 235–36.

In Hollywood Memo from David Kapp, of Decca Records, to Isabelle Marks, Nov. 15, 1950. USC film collection.

“The slate” Judy Garland, “an open letter from judy garland,”
Modern Screen
, Nov. 1950.

“What I want to do” “Judy Garland Plans Long Screen Absence,”
The New York Times
, Oct. 2, 1950.

“Freddie,” Judy said Frank,
Judy
, p. 289.

“Judy needed” Shirley Emerson, “Made for Fame,”
Motion Picture
, date unknown.

“I’d obviously failed” Minnelli,
I Remember It Well
, pp. 238-39.

“So characteristic”
Los Angeles Examiner
, Dec. 25, 1950.

Her new love’s name Sid Luft to GC.

“She thought” Ibid.

“I don’t want” Frank,
Judy
, p. 291.

As surprised as her friends Norman Garrett, “The Unvarnished Facts About Judy Garland’s Husband,”
Top Secret
, Dec. 1955.

On two occasions “Bari Husband in Club Fight,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, May 11, 1950.

Now, back in Los Angeles The fight with the manager of the New York bar is detailed in Frank’s
Judy
, p. 295; the fight outside the Mocambo was reported by the
Los Angeles Examiner
(“Starr’s Nose Broken in Luft Fight,” Nov. 1, 1950).

“Boy, 12” Frank,
Judy
, p. 309.

“Hey, Jew” Sid Luft to GC. Most of the details of Luft’s background come from GC’s conversations with Luft himself.

“And if you keep” Ibid.

“A professional” Joe Mankiewicz to GC.

Pleased with her acquisition “Take a Letter, Mr. He-Man,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, Jan. 12, 1938.

“A slicker” Eleanor Lambert to GC.

“During our marriage” “‘I Was Only Breadwinner,’ Lynn Bari’s Reply to Luft,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, Aug. 29, 1947.

This time “Divorce Won by Lynn Bari,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, Dec. 27, 1950.

“Judy, don’t mess” Frank,
Judy
, p. 296.

“Judy was so crazy” Ponedel’s unpublished autobiography, in the author’s possession.

“What is happening” Jimmie Tarantino, “Judy Garland Victim of Hollywood Turmoil,”
Hollywood Life
, Jan. 6, 1951.

“The history of my life” Introduction to her Palladium act, April 9, 1951.

Reviewing the performance Minnelli,
I Remember It Well
, p. 249.

“Good lord, girl” A. E. Hotchner, “Judy Garland’s Comeback,”
Today’s Woman
, Aug. 1952.

“Honestly, I’ve hit” Magazine unknown, March 1951.

“Plump and jovial” “Judy Garland’s Weight Intrigues British Press,”
Los Angeles Times
, April 6, 1951.

“I may be awfully fat”
Time
, April 16, 1951.

She felt, she said Buddy Pepper, “No Sad Songs for Judy,”
Photoplay
, July 1951.

And what of a Judy Garland Unknown London newspaper, Oct. 13, 1957.

“That’s one of the most” “Judy Garland Falls on Stage but Gets London Ovation,”
Los Angeles Times
, April 10, 1951.

Even before she concluded “British Cheer Judy Garland Despite Fall,”
Los Angeles Times
, April 10, 1951.

Her eyes misting “Judy Garland Gets Ovation in London Stage Debut,”
New York Herald Tribune
, April 10, 1951.

“I doubt” Milton Shulman,
Evening Standard
(London), May 2, 1951.

When she had finished Buddy Pepper, “No Sad Songs for Judy,”
Photoplay
, July 1951.

“Where do I go” Unknown London newspaper, April 15, 1951.

Though Sid did not know it “Judy Can Net 15G… .”
Variety
, Aug. 29, 1951.

“Sid,” said the eager Schwartz Frank,
Judy
, p. 328.

On October 4 Spitzer,
The Palace
, pp. 212–18.

At the Palace Green and Laurie,
Show Biz
, pp. 275–76.

“The Palladium experience” Dorothy Kilgallen, “Rainbow for Judy,”
American Weekly
, Dec. 30, 1951.

“She’s going to be” Jean Bach to GC.

Fortunately for her Figures from the National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, N.C.

When she was through Bill Smith, “Palace Return to Two-a-Day Is Showman’s Dream; Judy a Smash,”
The Billboard
, Oct. 27, 1951.

Vaudeville, dead Newspaper unknown.

“Who can follow” Harrison Carroll, “Cornel Won’t Raise Picture Price… .” paper and date unknown.

At the end of that final show Phyllis Battelle, “Tears Flow, 3296 Sing N.Y. Tribute to Judy,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, Feb. 25, 1952.

“Shout; for the Lord” Joshua 6:16.

“Where lay” Fadiman,
Party of One
, pp. 286–88.

“I have a machine” Judy Garland, “I’m Judy Garland—and This Is My Story,”
New York Journal-American
, Feb. 28, 1964.

The sound that emerged Pleasants,
The Great American Popular
Singers
, p. 286.

She put the words SMU Oral History Collection.

“I really mean”
Show Business Illustrated
. Nov. 14, 1961.

“The whole premise” Charles Petzold, “Judy Can’t Sing Rock ’n’ Roll,”
Courier-Post
(Camden, N.J.), July 14, 1967.

Nora Bayes Stein,
American Vaudeville
, p. 268.

Her second secret Doug Kelly to GC. Kelly was a friend of Judy’s in the late fifties and sixties.

“It was like breathing” Judy Garland, “There’ll Always Be an Encore” (conclusion),
McCall’s
, Feb. 1964.

“A dominant aspect” From
The Lives of a Cell
. Quoted in Marilyn Berger, “Lewis Thomas, Whose Essays Clarified …”
The New York Times
, Dec. 4, 1993.

Stroke victims For background on this subject, I recommend the following articles: Rick Weiss, “Music Therapy,”
Washington Post
, July 5, 1994; Sandra Blakeslee, “The Mystery of Music: How It Works in the Brain,”
The New York Times
, May 16, 1995; Joel L. Swerdlow, “Quiet Miracles of the Brain,”
National Geographic
, June 1995.

“I’m nervous” John L. Scott, “Judy, Picture of Health …”
Los Angeles Times
, April 20, 1952.

Hundreds waited “Judy Garland Sets Record Ticket Call,”
Los Angeles Times
, April 14, 1952.

Most of Los Angeles Cordell Hicks, “Vaudeville Fans Rub Elbows with Society Folk…”
Los Angeles Times
, April 22, 1952.

The Garland show Ibid.

“If Judy had a dollar”
Motion Picture
, July 1951.

“So Sid Luft” “Rainbow or Rain of Woes?”
Movie Stars Parade
, Sept. 1952.

The first disquieting sign Ponedel’s unpublished autobiography, in the author’s possession, and an interview by GC with Buddy Pepper.

“I had a beer” “Judy Garland Reported in Traffic Crash-Melee,”
Los Angeles Times
, Oct. 2, 1951.

Most of the charges “Luft Fined on Drunk Charge,”
Los Angeles
Times
, Dec. 14, 1951.

Still more ammunition “Rainbow or Rain of Woes?”
Movie Stars
Parade
, Sept. 1952.

“You’re bitter” Ibid.

In 1951 “Judy Garland Pays Heed to Warrant,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 15, 1952.

Sid handled her finances “Lynn Bari, Judy Garland in Battle over Money, Love,”
Los Angeles Herald Express
, May 15, 1952.

Sid had been “Judy Garland Marriage to Sid Luft Disclosed,”
Los
Angeles Times
, June 12, 1952.

“None of this” Joan King Flynn, “Someone to Watch Over Me,”
Modern Screen
, April 1952.

“I want to protect” Ibid.

“I know what’s going on” Ponedel’s unpublished autobiography, in the author’s possession.

“Your artistry goes”
Variety
, Oct. 9, 1952.

“I used to be scared” “Florabel Muir Reporting,”
Los Angeles Mirror
, Sept. 8, 1952.

With most of their money
1997 CCH Index—Standard Federal Tax Reports
, p. 11,549.

“I’m not beautiful” Hugh Martin to GC. The hairdresser, Ernest Adler, told the story to Martin.

Although she seemed The account of her depression and attempted suicide is taken from Gerold Frank’s
Judy
, pp. 359–62.

Forest Lawn’s Little Church “Rites Conducted for Judy Garland’s Mother,”
Los Angeles Times
, Jan. 9, 1953.

Their mother had always been Johnny Thompson to GC. Thompson was Jimmie’s husband; he attended the funeral.

All Judy Johnny Thompson to GC.