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Judy Garland: Seconals, Benzedrine, and Dexedrine…Oh My

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the stories about

2:48

judy garland are insane

2:51

she began a daily regimen of diet pills

2:53

and downers when she was only fourteen

2:55

years old the subsisted

2:58

on a diet or chicken soup black coffee

3:00

and cigarettes to remain ninety eight

3:02

pounds at the request of mcm

3:04

studios her

3:07

decades long dependence on pills

3:09

caused her liver to swell to four times

3:11

it's normal size nearly killing

3:14

her in her late thirties despite

3:16

all the abuse her body receive from a very

3:19

early age judy garland

3:21

made great else mike

3:23

that clip i played few the top that

3:26

wasn't a clip from agree that

3:29

was a fair use sample from the library

3:31

of congress of the homestead trio performing

3:33

just the baby's prayer at twilight and

3:36

nineteen eighty i

3:38

played you that clear because i can for

3:40

the rights to billy wilder's sunset

3:42

boulevard why would i

3:44

play you that specific slice of

3:46

ready for my close up cheese could i

3:48

afford it because that

3:51

was the number one movie in america on

3:53

september twenty nine nineteen fifties

3:56

and that was the day mcm dissolve

3:58

their contract with juice leaving

4:01

her completely alone for the first time

4:03

i rely on ,

4:05

episode uppers downers

4:08

near fatal diet's mgf

4:11

in their little movie star star

4:13

girl i'm jake brennan

4:16

this is bass

4:19

season

4:48

with

4:54

judy garland was trusts shrink

4:57

the rearview mirror as the car race for

5:00

that was was right

5:04

glide of like a checkered yellow risk swerving

5:07

speed extremely fresh

5:10

spare red lights were

5:12

nearly six and this

5:14

cab wasn't taking any unsolicited advice

5:16

today you'd be hard pressed to

5:18

find an agent's driver of to do any better

5:22

duties , been flagged or a cabdriver

5:24

that day not much was sir sir

5:26

matter who he pissed off or who's new paint job

5:29

he thanked this ride with a matter

5:31

of life or life frankly

5:33

at this it was closer to death

5:36

judy arrested her hands of ours can

5:39

expect the plus

5:42

fabric of a gown series hi

5:46

you imagine the buttons down back bursting

5:48

off one of the time the

5:50

, of her gown cutting into or six sizes

5:53

the state slice

5:57

her third encourage in

6:00

a hand on her name awesome everything

6:04

about the

6:06

body parts even even think it's swell city

6:09

and the receiving like he

6:11

gave her have waited me waited sympathetic squeeze

6:13

it smile the

6:15

wanted gaze drifted to the martini jews

6:18

had a smile on over to

6:20

us

6:22

november nineteen fifty nine

6:25

in , beginning sydney didn't think anything

6:28

to lose weight weight when your current

6:30

your prettier new york roughly

6:32

six york prior in may

6:34

she looked exuberant well as

6:37

exuberant as a woman addicted to a pills

6:39

could want you to a pills

6:41

like candy her fans a the per live

6:44

performances sunni of her renditions

6:46

of seem shoot sydney

6:49

shows she sang the classics

6:51

there was an arrangement the kept judy off movie

6:53

sets and kept are hardcore admirers

6:55

aka the cult of garland the

7:00

by nineteen sixty nine judy had

7:02

repeated this rigorous regiment a performances

7:04

hundreds of times even set

7:06

a new record for most consecutive shows at the

7:08

palace theatre in los angeles he

7:11

wants packed with hours every day twice

7:14

a day for nineteen weeks straight

7:16

no days off dude he singlehandedly

7:19

brought eight hundred thousand people to the powers

7:21

between nineteen sixty one and nineteen fifty

7:24

two making her solely responsible

7:26

for the renewal of america's premier vaudeville

7:28

theater but , was at

7:30

the beginning of the city's this

7:32

was the tail and is a decade decade

7:35

was thirty seven now she

7:37

wore almost twenty five years of showbiz

7:39

in the lines on her face most

7:42

people with deep seated fictions didn't make

7:44

it twenty seven let alone thirty seven

7:47

have , sydney yeah because of their own

7:49

cash to finance promoter performances

7:52

as judy's figure blooded further over

7:54

six for thought return it became

7:56

clear why no insurance company wants to

7:58

touch sydney

8:00

new his wife he knew or way fluctuated

8:03

who's did but something was different

8:06

this time this didn't seem like

8:08

extra pounds something was

8:10

very wrong so , devised

8:12

a plan he rang up a doctor palaces

8:14

invited him to stop backstage before so

8:17

sydney insert the doctor insert the

8:19

him and judy away from the crowds and why

8:22

was back there he needed to get a good glimpse

8:24

of juice he was to report back

8:26

to city under the radar the

8:29

doctors discreet diagnosis was

8:31

worse and sydney a match nguyen

8:33

and gained weight not in the norms

8:36

instead her body was flush

8:38

with toxic fluids and after

8:41

factor for daily pill popping the went

8:43

back to her formative years as a teenage

8:45

access that when mcm

8:47

pumped full of chemicals like a lab the

8:50

build up met that something a judas body

8:52

was functioning properly crisply

8:55

or pancreas either liver maybe

8:58

all of her condition

9:00

was so severe doctrine for city

9:02

the judy kids to cover any

9:05

moves in there was no doubt he is

9:08

the ice cream but not

9:10

as grim as with to be demanded next parents

9:14

the earth inner harbor

9:21

when she didn't try to coerce him into a cow

9:23

judy's there

9:25

was a surface smothered

9:28

inside that transatlantic as she

9:31

, going anywhere anywhere

9:34

associate a associate city

9:37

wanted to snap right back she was

9:39

a sucker for incapable class

9:43

but arguing with news city

9:46

seat too eager to mock two

9:48

years in the back

9:52

cluster drink one gloved hand and have

9:54

to carry on the shoulder this year she

9:57

instructed him to school within his hospital

10:00

and avenue and fucking stuff

10:04

you didn't slip into a coma the backseat

10:06

miraculously her liver held out for

10:08

the ride as she does it was more alcohol

10:11

more poison on top of the poison she was already

10:13

back this you weekly

10:16

sauntered into the hospital doctors drain

10:18

twenty courts of talks on

10:22

five gallons five

10:24

gallons of poison swishing

10:26

around and your body inflating her limbs

10:29

her stomach her face every

10:31

day for god knows how many months the

10:33

turns out you to deliver had grown

10:35

to four times it's normal size

10:38

undoubtedly the results to past decades

10:40

of pill and alcohol abuse judy

10:44

will it in a hospital bed for nearly two

10:46

months the whispers on the

10:48

other hand

10:50

girl and might not make duty girl

10:53

and and already performed final show the

10:56

duty signature stubbornness resurfaced

10:59

seven weeks she pulled through perhaps

11:01

if only despite the naysayers when

11:04

he regained or strike the doctors

11:06

shared one final earth shattering

11:08

discovery he would likely never

11:11

perform again after

11:13

such a close brush with death judy

11:15

was bound to live the rest of her life as a quote

11:17

unquote semi invalid the

11:19

, was at the only time she would appear

11:21

on screen says for a rerun of the wizard

11:23

of oz oz at least it was a regular

11:26

gig in the pre table error the wizard of

11:28

oz was broadcast on cbs at least

11:30

once a year for year but

11:34

the doctors but first few

11:36

performers had ever spent more hours

11:38

on a set or on and agree she

11:42

was born far this talk

11:44

was just far short lived surprised if

11:47

anything was going to bring if the curtain to determine

11:50

it would be the one to and or license

11:53

age forty not

11:55

movies not status it

11:57

will be the tablet second and

12:00

a dream an accessory

12:26

judy garland felt the their chest first

12:28

the delicate pitter patter of a heartbeat graduate

12:31

to thoughts last found

12:33

lots of be to get rid of

12:36

blood drops energy

12:39

surge through her veins sure

12:47

you didn't know what time it was silly

12:49

know how long she had knocked down either she

12:51

never knew much of anything when she jolted awake

12:53

from the smog wash to her brain courtesy

12:56

of money to snap south judy

12:58

so to speak course through her nerves

13:00

striking her lives like folks like she

13:03

, one of her braids a she meandered back

13:05

on the set set to land was

13:07

got so the literal thousands

13:09

of quote unquote munchkins frolicking

13:11

around in their glittery their mcm

13:14

staff had apparently reset the scenery

13:17

for the wizard of oz you want to do so

13:19

peacefully on so sidelines so

13:21

dead to the world you an assault someone you

13:23

a house who was only

13:25

natural than than another handful of diet

13:28

pills were handful of kickstart spot

13:31

the maxi stem gm

13:33

distances kickstart pills like routine by

13:35

twists back when judy garland

13:37

first think the contract the studio and

13:39

nineteen thirty five she was a

13:41

perfectly healthy thirteen year old she a

13:43

taste for pistachio ice cream for

13:46

perfectly healthy just wouldn't do

13:49

not buy the unattainable standards as the nineteen

13:51

thirties and ice cream would

13:53

resist the studio had strict

13:56

orders from really be mayor and south groom

13:58

that girl and slimmer the studio

14:00

began a regiment of daily diet else for judy

14:02

which was

14:05

every single hot

14:09

sticky brought in the dry town for see

14:11

so much for dinner on christmas

14:14

practically torch but it was tortured

14:16

the provided results and louis mer

14:19

was all about though when

14:22

duty send out the constant stream

14:24

of suits and pills didn't slow down a

14:27

diminutive lady like figure was a top priority

14:30

it's mcm like

14:32

judas best when she was ninety eight pounds

14:34

no more no last the

14:37

the regimen continued a diet

14:39

pills kept in , way way

14:42

a week a him

14:44

to it was unfazed fairly easy

14:47

solution for that solution into

14:50

she was already accustomed the taking photos

14:52

everyday what worse you more the

14:54

studio doctor gradually have to

14:58

, the

15:01

that the can also

15:04

have a duty now need this guy she

15:06

wanted some springer said onset school

15:09

, slumber the second second

15:12

he gave of course a vicious cycle practically

15:14

overnight judy needed downers

15:16

to overpower the purse she reached

15:25

mgm saw the cyclist so effective

15:27

that they started using them with all the course to respond

15:30

to rest on a set needs to be changed the middle

15:32

sixteen hour days if there were two

15:34

or three hours to spare and judy was wide

15:36

eyed and he does that mean it was time

15:38

to metaphorically trips through some poppy fields

15:40

on the way to ask ourselves when

15:43

, scrapped the diet pills reiterated

15:46

her and she was off to see that with erotic

15:49

duty with the life of the nineteen seventies era

15:51

rocks are switching between states of each

15:56

he was how when

15:58

i'm like the troubled rock sioux the way their

16:00

twenties and thirties of justice judy

16:02

garland was sixteen years old

16:05

not she , a full fledged

16:07

fully grown superstar no time time

16:10

was on the up enough so

16:13

was her pills

16:17

judy girl and migraine paul so intensely

16:20

that an almost aligned with are happy the

16:22

stream of california sun peeking

16:24

into a trailer pure service and like shrapnel

16:27

the and

16:31

you snapped obliged to impart onto her

16:33

sofa shielding arise from any extra

16:35

light with apart smeared a swath

16:37

of face pain in the process oh shit

16:40

oh wow or do we do it again after

16:42

lunch break it , a ridiculous

16:45

say a lily white woman dressed

16:47

had to tone of phony native american cars

16:50

cars moccasins the single read feather

16:52

tucked between or brunette braids white

16:54

and yellow lines down on or knows her

16:56

cheeks she was gone and gone

16:59

hollywood stereotypical mind when

17:01

entire race of people race like this

17:04

was not have any open sharpshooter

17:06

of the open west stressed with

17:08

the the folks at mgm producing the soon

17:10

version of producing get your gun it

17:13

was imperative to include a massive

17:15

and wildly races musical number

17:17

cause i am an injustice horrific

17:20

by two thousand twenty two standards but

17:22

reprehensible a normal two nice and forty

17:24

nine as one of the heavy

17:26

hitters at the box office and own james

17:28

golden girl next door she's gone

17:31

with the obvious choice door the road

17:33

to to remarks at least she

17:35

was and so it came time to saw the movie when

17:37

it became time to is very

17:39

much the wrong by

17:43

the end of the nineteen forties judy garland

17:45

had some twenty seven movies and thirteen

17:47

years or them to him he was hooked

17:49

on pills or she filmed every single

17:51

one of the judy and already

17:54

been in and out of rehabilitation center die

18:00

spin off and then citrine

18:03

then citrine packs of cigarettes a day acquired

18:06

to curb the hunger after working

18:08

sixteen eighteen hour days while

18:11

shooting a pirate just year so far

18:14

judy became so thin that mcm

18:16

even after the game the

18:18

diet pills were useless season harmful

18:20

now but the withdrawals not a duties

18:23

acting abilities have

18:25

we are uppers and downers routine just despair

18:27

a former us

18:29

commissioner of narcotics even suggested that

18:32

the judy get a year of rest because of her severe

18:34

drugs and ,

18:36

asked announced they had forty

18:38

million dollars judy

18:41

was going anywhere you can say that

18:43

the shit started to hit the fan when the mr

18:45

narrowing for any just how much

18:47

useless she didn't splattering

18:49

all over mcm said three years this

18:52

is just a breaking point one of many

18:54

to count of the course juice career started

18:58

with that migraine the only

19:01

present stab wound between her eyes

19:03

in or read striking your brain

19:05

a nurse amy the

19:08

being made it difficult for duty to retainer

19:10

lines before the immense amount of coordination

19:13

required to remain in step with choreography

19:15

for complicated musical number then

19:18

it was the southern drawl or judy's

19:21

complete lack thereof the struggle

19:23

to pick up a convincing twain that would hide or

19:25

spray speak the

19:27

most glaring evidence the duty girl

19:30

and had been woefully miscast is the duty

19:32

girl and was afraid of cats

19:34

the movies hero an outlaw with a quick draw

19:37

was terrified to pull the trigger mgm

19:40

find a replacement before they wasted much more

19:42

time trying to sell judaism rifle to

19:44

rough and tumble rascal of the wild west

19:47

for knock on duties trailer roster from

19:49

a position on the sofa she dragged

19:51

yourself over to the door her

19:55

eyes struggled to folks message squinted

19:57

the brief know don't bother to repair

20:00

back to work after lunch because you are dismissed

20:02

from the fish the telecast those

20:05

it's crop of the letter enough distance

20:07

discussed last and on the floor and stopped

20:10

on a with her tacky marks not

20:13

drop them a picture like a hapless has been

20:15

or an underwhelming amateur she was

20:17

judy girl she practically invented

20:19

the grade and gmb skulls what was

20:21

louis the mayor think duty

20:24

collapse back onto the sofa with a half

20:26

this wouldn't sit well with their fans that

20:28

much was so , the public

20:31

the press salivated over there so called scandals

20:33

and choose medical matters she jetted

20:35

to the east coast to try to prior so from

20:38

or pill popping and again again

20:40

checked into the peter bed bring of hospital

20:42

and boss may have nineteen forty

20:44

nineteen in place of the pills

20:46

the saudi provided judy with three hearty

20:49

meals a day chicken soup was

20:51

finally soup many duty

20:53

gained backers spared and some healthy weight

20:55

over the course weight thirteen weeks right

20:58

up until louis be right close to step

21:01

he insisted the duty return hollywood

21:03

difference on restocked mgmt

21:05

next musical starring judean gene kelly

21:08

but according to the hospital staff judy

21:10

still needed another three months of treatment to fully

21:12

recover mayor dangle

21:14

duties contract over shredder as

21:16

be when , let's assume

21:19

that that left behind are harder

21:21

and personal crossed as

21:25

predict summer stock on

21:27

did everything the

21:29

progress with the kitchen of the pills

21:31

her health new figure both gone instantly

21:34

upon arrival in california mcm

21:37

real to do this week the

21:39

, demanded the she dropped fifteen hours

21:41

for for the stuff summer stock judy

21:43

and a

21:46

frightening medical field for a major disappointment

21:49

for engineer last last

21:52

mad recharge duties batters there's

21:55

she says the she

21:57

got happy when she needed a smile on said

22:00

this is a flicks famous musical number demanded

22:02

but summer stock to point judy

22:04

garland she , running on empty once

22:06

again again she missed a handful

22:08

of rehearsals from james next picture royal

22:10

picture studio gave duty to do

22:13

before she had the chance to redeem ourselves another

22:16

failed starring role another telegram

22:18

in telegram final parting message for meme gm

22:20

stray from western union you're fired

22:23

this time for good first

22:26

and gm suspended judas contracting

22:28

june of nineteen fifty the ,

22:31

ripped it up in september september

22:33

gm offered no severance she

22:35

had no retirement funds know residuals

22:37

nowhere to turn from new film work know

22:40

directors to guide to or next steps

22:42

her career within our own shaking

22:44

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22:46

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22:48

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24:26

day nonetheless you're onset of course

24:29

they then stayed in until the scene was picture

24:32

perfect literally this

24:34

musical sequencer the song the man

24:36

get away with far from it from

24:39

across condition duty solely raised

24:41

her eyes to director george too far as

24:43

if to say are we done yet he

24:46

, his head now duty

24:48

almost collapsed now

24:51

but instead she dad the beads perspiration

24:54

from her forehead it went back to recede

24:56

piano bench twelve

24:59

take twenty three he couldn't keep

25:01

track should try especially

25:04

with course three days singing the same

25:06

song for the same see out

25:09

of breath it's a piano and reset her my

25:11

men are voice and her face she

25:13

did was arrested judy garland

25:16

was still was pro even if she wasn't

25:18

making movies with mcm anymore for

25:21

, judy it already proven herself

25:23

out with hundred times over with live performances

25:26

of girl with catalog classics classics

25:29

of thousands of tickets so awesome so

25:32

book a duty silviu for movie tickets

25:34

that was the that cash you're

25:37

only as good you're you asked injured

25:39

, last picture was she

25:41

, kicked out picture last royal

25:43

wedding few years that's

25:46

why are returned royal the screen anything larger

25:48

than life first musical

25:51

magical intricately dotted

25:53

with details vote rise to celebrities

25:55

the the

26:04

the nineteen thirty seven film starring janet

26:06

gainer had been on judy's my for more

26:08

than a decade judy have played

26:10

a leading role of lucky leicester in nineteen

26:12

forty two lux radio production of

26:14

the story but that was only audio you

26:17

yearn to bringer to live in a proper remake

26:20

of a star is born the pick to

26:22

lies and tangled in the nefarious nature

26:24

of fame as one of her rises to the

26:26

hide a celebrity while the other sinks

26:28

from standing ovations into obscurity

26:31

them gm was no longer forcing

26:33

her to tap dance through mind numbing musical

26:35

numbers the project was a real

26:37

possibility now the switch

26:40

studios and secured the rights to make a

26:42

new version of a star is born with warner brothers

26:45

judy could continue her career arrow

26:48

she can make a movie on her oh so

26:50

to speak the girl you do the same

26:52

scene and i mean the same scene scene voice

26:54

and facts and same facial expressions same

26:57

showgirl poise twenty seven times

26:59

over the course three days the

27:01

girl i do anything she

27:04

had that

27:08

was the caviar it it always

27:10

been the caviar nothing oh

27:14

my when

27:16

filming for a star is born began

27:18

judy's has been city created a compromises

27:21

or it's the higher to studio doctor

27:23

from mgs was already familiar with do

27:25

these men helps

27:30

the time it seemed like the most

27:32

you enough to work would still

27:34

get off duty to focus it

27:36

would be no withdrawals to return or performance

27:38

or the doctor could ensure that are encrypted message

27:42

that could escalate really uppers

27:44

downers every day of your life from each fourteen

27:47

and onwards in your tolerance or rocket over the rainbow

27:50

for months you to choose to new

27:52

personal career i've as she still

27:54

to her own my stories to the explosive

27:56

passion of the character vicky lester

27:59

the those powered or through an unhinged portrayal

28:02

of a new star with witnessing an older star

28:04

crumble and as the hand of hours

28:07

duty to qatar developing her rendition

28:09

of the story giving it the care and attention

28:12

to detail she knew it deserves the

28:14

movies final cut coffin adjust

28:17

amy hours but

28:19

the film that the health of girl and saw on

28:21

opening night in september nineteen sixty

28:24

four was not safe zone

28:26

that the rest of the nation to see later that fault

28:29

with that run time and one hundred and eighty two minutes

28:31

movie theaters could always show the film three times

28:34

per

28:35

so they demanded a shorter cut and

28:37

cut it could show five times every day to

28:39

sell more tickets bringing more moviegoers

28:41

with more cash warner brothers

28:43

wanted to see more ticket sales to since the

28:46

film because some six million dollars

28:48

instead of the two and a half million the originally

28:50

budgeted for the ,

28:52

or cuts to one hundred minutes removing

28:54

almost half of the movie the story

28:57

was ruined jews authentic

28:59

well developed drama was reduced to a shallow

29:02

settings

29:04

the was , a financial

29:06

failure failure a failure controlling

29:08

to be spill be sydney's

29:11

her was in the right place when he i are that studio

29:14

doctor but as common sense was

29:16

not once a couple returned

29:18

to their home somewhere just a stone's throw

29:20

from so hollywood out shots being crosby

29:23

mana turner he suspected things

29:25

were worse than he could have ever the sydney

29:29

realize that the moment he accepted a package

29:32

from saks fifth avenue on juries

29:34

behalf of course under

29:36

normal circumstances the first film star

29:38

receiving star receiving for my improving store

29:40

of my not raising a red flag sydney

29:43

new the judy was an unsettling are where

29:46

she stopped pills from almost anywhere even

29:49

, the receive subsidies subsidies

29:51

now shooting now and

29:53

that mass she had mass she

29:56

a rat pack your mood flowing

29:59

robes and the bar rub the plush

30:01

fabric between his fingers that's

30:03

when he saw a , or capsule

30:05

sewn into lining lining ran

30:07

his hands down the length of the row he felt

30:09

another and another and

30:11

another the unfold the rogue

30:14

to find doesn't skills each carefully

30:16

sewn into the fabric hidden unsuspecting

30:19

male men and snooping husband's sydney's

30:22

cheeks went pale shock and

30:24

then sank with than

30:27

the dark and to read

30:29

the robot sworn started tossing

30:31

open doors with the abrupt students

30:33

year old trump's examining the curtains how

30:36

many pills can one woman possibly ha

30:39

the couldn't fathom the answer not even

30:41

after he saw it was his own eyes there

30:43

were signals buried in judy's bass powder

30:45

straight pills sleeping at the bottom of a cigarette

30:48

act or stashes spread across

30:50

every square inch the house you

30:53

for unique locations less someone find

30:55

one collection it was like was treasure

30:57

a treasure and after

30:59

all a woman who consume forty next

31:02

in a single day and achieve hundreds of tablets

31:04

honors want to keep up with

31:06

a few days god

31:10

a neighbor fucking the city

31:13

sauce he left

31:15

or spill

31:18

this is what oh that

31:21

is a second also secret voice some

31:23

good the humane approach know

31:26

most guys sydney loved

31:29

use fiercely so fiercely

31:31

that he knew we had to be occupied

31:34

the the gloves came off and do to keep

31:36

to sydney

31:39

confronted her for their arms he

31:45

just wanted to scares you it

31:50

only get from jersey city

31:52

was know you

31:54

were ever since and the

31:57

first law a

32:00

hockey game last season

32:06

he stormed out of the house another

32:10

house they did little more than spur

32:12

on rumors and the haters a couple had for

32:14

divorce entire are just

32:18

, the pills

32:20

when off yeah

32:47

call duty girl and a has been in hollywood

32:49

seen his show shoot a three hour masterpiece

32:52

the public will never see color

32:54

a semi invalid and show performers show

32:56

heralded as the greatest night in show

32:58

business is judy

33:00

held carnegie hall in the palm of her hands

33:03

on april twenty third nineteen sixty one well

33:06

over a year since her incident will be enlarged

33:08

liver and toxic fluids polluting our body

33:11

they're my not speed bump right now that

33:14

was all at the back of duties mind

33:17

headlining carnegie hall was about glistening

33:19

like a newly reborn phoenix under those

33:21

storied stay tonight that

33:23

regaling any the saudi and featuring

33:26

the like sufficient burton and marilyn monroe

33:29

the recording one of the greatest live albums

33:31

of all time a billboard

33:33

best seller and multi grammy award

33:36

the adoration for judy and musical

33:38

reflected off of her cheeks she

33:40

was a revelation she cloud

33:44

but , was not tonight

33:48

tonight in nineteen sixty in

33:50

beauty girl the screen cigarette

33:54

ashes rain down on or from asked for his

33:57

crowd of launched on stay

34:00

the trash , from their seats

34:02

every scattered all across each

34:05

each crouch down to a shrunken position and

34:07

try to collect it collect one second

34:09

cat smart lump sugar across

34:12

piano on state would shatter the glasses

34:14

or the by judy

34:17

is showed up one hour and forty five minutes

34:19

later that evening after relentlessly trying

34:21

to back out of the show her body was

34:23

too weak she protested her voice

34:25

was doing her spirit super duty

34:29

was quite the actress duty she wasn't

34:31

exaggerating by nineteen sixty

34:33

nine her nervous system was shattered

34:35

our her of balance not exist body

34:38

odor sense literally changed symptom

34:40

of mouth she crave

34:42

twenty to thirty riddle and tablets every day

34:44

followed by a second house to see the

34:47

same pills same proper of for decades

34:50

for finally polling around

34:53

when judy garland greeted iranians nearly

34:55

two hours behind schedule or deaths

34:57

related to see or a lady because

34:59

it could finally give her a piece of their mind a

35:02

, to the critics vaulted of self onstage

35:04

i'm it's chaos and swipe the myself

35:06

from judas trembling hands hands

35:09

he can't turn up on time why turn

35:11

up at up years

35:13

ago gee could have at least sparked

35:15

a job market tonight only

35:18

whimpers interludes at least

35:20

emily she protested quietly before

35:22

marching ah stage both

35:25

thirties when out their

35:29

duty girl in the sixties swung like

35:31

a fast moving annual she could

35:33

be a star reborn at one moment smiling

35:35

under the lights carnegie hall recording

35:38

one of the most lauded live albums of all time

35:40

be in a coma the next moment please

35:43

listen or week seventy pound body

35:45

like she did during an unfortunate stop in hong

35:47

kong and nineteen sixty four he

35:49

was unpredictable and so was the

35:51

public spending they loved

35:53

or hated her they loved

35:55

data and the moment

35:58

spies specs two decades

36:00

earlier up down up down

36:04

repeated the same old song and dance to win

36:06

the match to retire there wasn't

36:08

much song left judy garland by night sky

36:11

and dance well her

36:14

role as you're sending singer faded in

36:16

the rearview and i do embrace

36:19

the role of the disintegrating star free

36:21

falling from celebrity status bracing

36:24

for the impact of her inevitable crash

36:26

and burn the very same circle

36:28

of life to detected in a star

36:33

judy the you

36:35

like john

36:39

yourself and barbiturates on june twenty

36:41

second i fifth

36:45

and final husband nikki been stronger

36:47

locked in the bathroom of the rented london our

36:49

map sitting upright a

36:52

lot bodies

36:57

declare that the overdose weeks after

37:00

after finding the equivalent dose of ten

37:02

seconds and judy spots in

37:05

duties final act the masses

37:07

swung into say for one last more

37:10

, twenty thousand people gathered to choose from

37:12

mario pay their respects respects

37:14

the early and have a license destined

37:16

for three or four more four judy

37:20

garland mice mimic the stars born

37:22

right out born place too

37:24

much living crammed into it too short

37:27

for anti if only

37:29

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37:32

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