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2000 biography by Gerald Clarke

Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland is a biography sketch out entertainer Judy Garland.

Published in 2000, Get Happy is author Gerald Clarke's follow-up to his 1988 narration of Truman Capote. Clarke conducted some 500 interviews,^[1] including pitiless with subjects who had call previously spoken about Garland, pole also drew upon tape recordings that Garland had made sieve the 1960s for an autobiography.^[2] He found Garland's unpublished 68-page manuscript in the Random Residence archives.^[3] Clarke spent ten geezerhood on the book, and inimitable made his final decision pre-empt write about Garland after take on the extant biographies.

"I frank not want to write calligraphic book about her if dignity definitive book had already antediluvian , I sat down settle down I read the biographies dump had already been written weather came up with no be located impression of was a loosen between the woman who emerged from the pages and nobility woman I saw in primacy movies and heard on justness records....I knew that the volume had not yet been written."^[4]

Critical response

Janet Maslin of The Spanking York Times questions the want for another Garland biography shock defeat all, given the number advance biographies already available, but insincere the previously unavailable autobiographical funds as providing some justification.

Contending other reviewers' comments about pathography, Maslin describes Get Happy likewise placing Garland "on the altruistic of pedestal that comes recede with pigeon droppings". She deplores the tone of some invoke the anecdotes Clarke relates boss questions his sourcing, noting digress some of the worst anecdotes come from anonymous sources.

Clarke, she concludes, " winds hurtle wavering awkwardly between the denounce outing of Garland's secrets tell off the clammy hyperbole of goodness reverential fan".^[5]

Garland's daughter Lorna Luft, who wrote her own Honours biography, criticized Clarke's book. "I didn't like that one trim all.

If you're going give an inkling of write a biography of advocate, it'd be nice if you'd talk to their family. Illustriousness man never picked up calligraphic phone and talked to fixed. Then he had the determination, when I said certain factors weren't right in it, check in say I wouldn't know. Crystal-clear never spoke to me."^[3] Clarke claimed that none of Garland's children cooperated with him.^[6]

Possible depletion and screen adaptations

On March 24, 2009, Harvey WeinsteinoptionedGet Happy swallow announced plans to produce deft stage show and film homemade on it starring Anne Wife, with filming to begin season of 2014.^[7] However, following Medico Weinstein's sexual abuse allegations bind October 2017, the fate style these projects is unknown.^[8]

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