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.
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.
I did not know that! DJ’s used to smoke to deepen their voices.
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.
‘Leave it to Beaver’ creators Connelly and Mosher were ‘Amos ‘n’ Andy’ writers.
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.