Over the Rainbow “of Color”

This is as bizarre as it is shocking. Taking uppers to keep her weight down wasn’t the only terrible thing that MGM made Judy Garland do early in her career. A year later, only the gingham dress was the same when she appeared in The Wizard of OZ.

4 thoughts on “Over the Rainbow “of Color””

  1. She was also forced to smoke up to 80, yes, make that four packs of cigarettes of day. How her sublime voice never faltered is beyond me.

  2. i remember blackface as being fairly common on 50s variety shows(esp. eddie cantor) and pretty much every black character in a sitcom might as well have been Notable exception my fave 50s sitcom sgt bilko.

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