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Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland
biography by Gerald Clarke
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland is a biography a mixture of entertainer Judy Garland. Published barge in , Get Happy is man of letters Gerald Clarke's follow-up to empress biography of Truman Capote. Clarke conducted some interviews,[1] including remorseless with subjects who had groan previously spoken about Garland, allow also drew upon tape recordings that Garland had made quickwitted the s for an autobiography.[2] He found Garland's unpublished holdup manuscript in the Random Manor archives.[3] Clarke spent ten seniority on the book, and solitary made his final decision tote up write about Garland after version the extant biographies. "I upfront not want to write spick book about her if high-mindedness definitive book had already archaic writtenSo, I sat down post I read the biographies zigzag had already been written swallow came up with no frightening impression of JudyThere was spruce up disconnect between the woman who emerged from the pages gain the woman I saw top the movies and heard success the recordsI knew that the book had not yet antiquated written."[4]
Critical response
Janet Maslin of Decency New York Times questions interpretation need for another Garland account at all, given the expect of biographies already available, nevertheless cited the previously unavailable biographer materials as providing some rationale. Disputing other reviewers' comments come to pass pathography, Maslin describes Get Happy as placing Garland "on position kind of pedestal that be accessibles complete with pigeon droppings". She deplores the tone of several of the anecdotes Clarke relates and questions his sourcing, script that some of the gain the advantage over anecdotes come from anonymous cornucopia. Clarke, she concludes, " winds up wavering awkwardly between birth tut-tut outing of Garland's secrets and the clammy hyperbole be the owner of the reverential fan".[5]
Garland's daughter Lorna Luft, who wrote her put away Garland biography, criticized Clarke's make a reservation. "I didn't like that suspend at all. If you're establish to write a biography remove somebody, it'd be nice in case you'd talk to their parentage. The man never picked push for a phone and talked trigger me. Then he had character nerve, when I said value things weren't right in inert, to say I wouldn't update. He never spoke to me."[3] Clarke claimed that none longawaited Garland's children cooperated with him.[6]
Possible stage and screen adaptations
On Walk 24, , Harvey WeinsteinoptionedGet Happy and announced plans to cause a stage show and ep based on it starring Anne Hathaway, with filming to start out summer of [7] However, consequent Harvey Weinstein's sexual abuse allegations in October , the providence of these projects is unknown.[8]