JUDY GARLAND: HER INTERVIEW WITH JACQUELINE SUSANN, 'VALLEY OF THE DOLLS' .
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- This rare clip includes commentary, an interview with Jacqueline Susann, & the wardrobe test. I reduced the speed for the test footage & the audio is an excerpt of Judy singing 'Me & My Shadow'.Judy was originally cast as Helen Lawson, but she was replaced by Susan Hayward.
Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 September 21, 1974) was an American author known for her best-selling novels. Her most notable work was Valley of the Dolls, a book that broke sales records and spawned a 1967 film and a short-lived TV series.
"Me and My Shadow" is a 1927 popular song. Officially the credits show it as written by Al Jolson, Billy Rose, and Dave Dreyer.
Shades of night are falling and I'm lonely
Standing on the corner feeling blue
Sweethearts out for fun
Pass me one by one
Guess I'll whined up like I always do
With only
Me and my shadow
Strolling down the avenue
Me and my shadow
Not a soul to tell our troubles to
But when it's twelve a clock
We climb the stair
We never knock
'Cause nobody's there
Just me and my shadow
All alone and feeling blue
And when it's twelve a clock
We climb the stair
We never knock
'Cause nobody's there
Just me and my shadow
All alone and feeling blue
/ michelebell1
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She was so quick with the comebacks! Such wit! 0:45
God it's always sad to see her like this. My parents were big fans of hers. Whenever she was going to be on tv we watched. I was blown away by her powerhouse talent on her tv show. Those were the days of real tv: Benny, Gleason (!), Skelton, etc. No one will every take Judys place. A few have powerful voices but don't have the class.
very well done Michele! Though Judy was very thin during her costume tests for VOTD, she looks glam as always. I especially like the white gown Travilla made for her. There seems to be a flash of the MGM Judy in that brief clip!
They really should have stuck with Judy. She would have been epic in that role.
I disagree, because poor Judy was a complete mess by then and probably would have held up production for months, if she could have even finished filming her part at all.
Barbiturates and amphetamines ruined this poor soul. Up down up down up down. Completely fkd her central nervous system. You just can't get out of the hamster wheel. Numbed by alcohol to smother the side effects. Hence the suicide attempts. Suicide ideation. Side effects from all that chemical shit.
Not long after being removed from this, She was a complete success at the Palladium in Europe.
@@kayt9576 After 1967, Judy appeared at the London Palladium once in Feb. 1969, for several minutes, as part of the Sunday Night at the Palladium live broadcast. The audience loved her, but commentary at the time was negative.
I once heard an interview with Patty Duke talking about Judy Garland being selected for the part of Helen Lawson. It wasn't promoted as such, but the character of Neely O'Hara was actually based on Judy Garland.
So true she does look a very sad 70 here, not to be cruel, but it is what loneliness, drugs, & alcohol can do to a person. She was like an exposed nerve ending & a very broken heart.
Judy looked good in the wardrobe tests
If Judy had it together, she would have been great in this role.
None of us truly know what twists and. turns remain in our lives.She did what she knows so well .She sang and what a singer she was.If you ever hear a voice like hers it would be her incarnate.
and a great actress and dancer!!!
Painful to watch. Between her mother and the devils who ran MGM, it's literally criminal what they did to that young girl.
Sorry, but rise is really not 'painful'. If your want to see something more accurately painful, have got ever seen the interview she did with Jack Paar? She was in such bad shape, no one could understand anything she said, and Mr Paar would repeat....'translate' everything me Garland said. THAT is sad.
Judy is a legend.... nuff said
There was a flash of her MGM days there
I can't believe they passed over Betty Davis for this role.
+TheTourmaline57 No kidding. She would have been PERFECT.
she was too old unfortunately
@JoeySharp Have you ever seen a Bette Davis film? OMG she would have knocked the Helen Lawson role out of the park.
Bette was working up until the day she died...she could handle any role...even if it had a shitty script.
No, Robson probably didn't want Bette for that role because he knew that it was going to be vinegar and oil on set.
The fabalous and greatly missed Patty Duke said that Mark Robson was a horror story that was difficult to work with.
Now if you mix that with an actress who had been in the industry for a good 36 years at that point and who was notorious for rewriting scripts and would tell a director to fuck off in a hot second, you are going to have hell on a film set.
It was a blessing in disguise that Bette didn't get Valley of the dolls because Robson was not a good director.
Patty said that Robson wore Judy out when she was on set. Robson would want Judy at the studio around 8:00am/8:30am in the morning and wouldn't use her until 4:30pm and the Helen Lawson is actually a very small role in the film.
During that time, Judy would be holed up in her dressing room without much to do and had "certain" people visiting her with their own "medicine" and by the time that Robson did call her, Judy was too doped up to do anything.
So yes, it was actually a good thing in hindsight that Bette was not allowed to play Helen Lawson.
@@mchris65 perfect age for the part
Oh Please! she would have made the film even more "camp" then it became!
Our Judy owned those reporters!
Yeah, she really turned the tables on "filth"!
Love this. Thanks! Jackie was tops.
A rare treat!
Poor Judy, she was so thin but trying her best to do what she always did which is work & take care of everybody else. What a talent she was & screw the Director.
I loved Judy but she looked so much older than 44 at this point in her life.
God she looks wonderful!
She looks rail thin.I wouldn't say wonderful.
Judy had such talent.Besides being the great singer she was she could dance(She was so graceful with Fred Astaire in Easter parade) and act.It’s always talked about what a sad life she had,she had to have had some happy times.I don’t want to see her a tragic figure anymore.
mark robson knew what he was doing in how he treated judy in the short few days she was on the set. yes, she was having her troubles, but he upset her greatly by keeping her waiting all day, causing her great frustration. she of all people needed a director that was more attentive and caring. she deserved a comeback, and could have had one with the right support
It would have been wonderful to see Judy in this role, but we have the benefit of the distance of time. Back then people were exasperated with Judy. They knew they would be taking on an enormous talent, but an equally enormous headache. It was well known that she was difficult to work with. But yet magically it was also equally known that at the last minute she would pull it out flawlessly. She had a strange karma in show business.
Those strange gestures were suggested to Susan Hayward by the lady who dubbed the voice. Perhaps Judy heard them too, and an understudy was ready for the vocals? Dunno. I thought Hayward was great and was sorry to see her get bottom billing. Garland was fascinating and I like her cuz she's a June 10 and I'm June 9. She was a "leatherlungs" like Piaf, also another complex one. Very good video, thank you. Fascinating.
Just watched the movie "Judy". Sad ending for an icon.
Why is this called Judy Garland interview with Jacqueline Susann?
I think it alluded to the press confrence/interview they did together in the clip
Def a bit misleading though.
What a VOICE! I wonder if she ever released this song?
Michele, what is the "Me and My Shadow" performance you used for this video? Her singing is operatic here. Such lengthy phrasing and beautiful tonal changes. It's perfect. Do you know what year/venue it is?
where and when is this "me and my shadow" from?
thank you?
Ms Garland would've been anchor. The outfits are to die for, and the 'fall' (1:30) she had on is wild.
Judy shone the brightest & looked her best when she was correctly lit & had the best makeup artist on hand. Dottie Ponadel who is responsible for Judy's "new look" around the time she began filming Meet Me in St.Louis in 1944. Vincente Minnelli knew how to bring out Judy's beauty even more so than in her earlier films. Maybe when being a guest on a tv show & when Judy the guest starred on a show, they didn't seem to light her as good. Judy was always beautiful & had a unique face. a real star.
Can someone clarify for me...wasn't all the things in Susann's book supposedly true, or shades of the truth that occurred in the 1940s..."Neeley" being the young Judy Garland, "Helen" being Ethel Merman, the Sharon Tate character being Carol Landis, etc? Did the real Judy ever understand that Neeley was HER?
That's a great question. Surely she knew. Everyone at the time knew Neely was based on Judy. BUT... I didn't know Sharon Tate's character was based on Carol Landis. That's news to me. Thanks for the context. I always wondered.
I didn't know this either...makes sense!
Carole Landis - her birthname was Frances, and she died of a barbituate overdose,also....same as Judy
The reason Patty is not good in this role is that she is completely miscast.
Judy never read the script. But Liza Di after Judy started working on the film. After Liza told Judy the bowas beneath her and told her about it. Judy wanted out telling the director “ I don’t want to be in your dirty little movie. . Susann told her she could keep half of the 75 grand if she were fired but if she quit she’d keep nothing. . So Judy get drunk and didn’t get fired so she tore up the billiard table in her dressing room and left a little present in the waste basket . “ that should do it” then played the victim to the press. Smart move because the movie ended dukes career, did not thing for Tate , Perkins became unhirable with her monotone soap actress delivery and was not asked to stray in the business . re Even Susann retired to her cabin on the yacht where the movie premiered because the movie was laughably bad .Susan was battling cancer and took “dolls” she was so depressed movie . Thank god liza protected Judy and she got 35 g
During the wardrobe shots, you can get a sense of how tiny she was. Even though her personality was larger than life, in person, she couldn't have been any taller than 4'10 or 4'11".
SUCH A SHAME JUDY DIDN'T FILM THIS MOVIE IT WOULD OF BEEN SENSATIONAL...SUSAN HAYWOOD WAS MISCAST THE POSITIVE THING WAS JUDY GOT TO KEEP THE STYLISH GOLD TROUSER SUIT AND SHE WORE IT MANY TIMES FOR CONCERTS INCLUDING LONDON'S TALK OF THE TOWN
Poor Judy went from such a beautiful person to a very diseased person that needed help for drug dependency. So sad. She looks awful and it was a wonder she really didn't pass sooner. I love who she was. She will always be precious little 'Dorothy Gale' from Kansas that needed to get over her rainbow.
Helen Lawson was supposedly based on Ethel Merman (with whom Jacqueline Susann had an affair); Neely O'Hara was based on Betty Hutton. No performer EVER had a Judy song cut from a performance, but Ethel cut one of Betty's songs when they appeared on Broadway together. Fascinating stuff.
The fasting to lose all the weight in 30 days and pills made her look much older . Its also hard on organs and that's why she was so frail.
Vic M.
Her legs are like sticks.
Could this be any more misleading? No interview. Wtf
Hard to believe she's only 44 here.
This movie was universally panned by critics -
"It tries to raise itself to the level of sophisticated pornography, but fails. And it is dirty, not because it has lots of sex in it, but because it firmly believes that sex is dirty." ~ Roger Ebert
"It's an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and Peyton Place adumbrations." ~ New York Times
Her fans should be glad she didn't get the part.
Patty Duke said the director was the meanest SOB she'd ever met in her life.
Valley of the Dolls is so bad, it's good. Two words:"NEELY O'HARA!!!!" And poor Judy was a wreck at this point.
And yet VOD was a box office success. It made more money then Rosemary’s Baby, Romeo & Juliet, Oliver and Bullet. Evidently no one was listening to the critics then & no one is listening to them today. This movie is loved by many.🥰
The movie was nothing like the book. It should be done in a miniseries and true to the book.
I agree.
Even today, with the right director and the right script, a miniseries for "Valley of the Dolls" could be done. HBO or Netflix should get the rights. Someone like Sofia Coppola or Greta Gerwig (hot off the success of "Lady Bird" and currently working on a film adaptation to "Little Women") could direct. I picture Brie Larson or Saoirse Ronan as Anne. Anna Kendrick or Elle Fanning could be Neely. Brit Marling or Margo Robbie could be Jennifer. Allison Janney (since she has stage experience) or Julianne Moore could be Helen. I thought of Sarah Paulson as Miriam. A part of me wonders what a faithful screen adaptation to "Valley of the Dolls" would look like given the novel starts in 1945 and ends in 1965. It would be an interesting experiment.
They should of had George Cukor directed it.
44? She looked ten more.
@cutandpaste1 Because she either didn't show up on time or was passed out in her dressing room half the time. She was in no condition to work.
Why did you feel the need to show the most unflattering closeup public photo of our beautiful Judy. It ruined the whole video experience.
opps, sorry for the typo.
HOLLYWOOD DISTROYED HER
We all make choices on what we do and won't do. Judy made her choices and so it went.
No she didn’t put this in perspective she was given prescribed pills in the 30s by the studios in the 30s no one yet knew the dangers of these pills they didn’t start finding that out until the late 60s no other illegal drugs were found on her at any time nor contrary to popular belief did she drink excessively so it was the sleeping pills that she had been given by the studio that she developed an addiction to so in a way she didn’t chose this
@Cynlauperfan its on here,just type in her name n the song n you'll c her singing it
@xander7ful I'm afraid I have to agree with you.
Have they ever thought of a remake with Liza as Helen Lawson?
oh lord Liza is an entirely new bag of tricks .
Im sad! Judy would have honestly been perfect!!!!! Would have made the movie more iconic
I see some of the younger MGM Judy, too. She does look much older than 44 but at certain times you see a much younger looking Judy in certain poses & facial expressions. I'm glad she didn't make the film. Judy no matter how great a performer she was, the scene when Neel rips off Helen's wig & degrading her by flushing it downthe toilet would NOT have been something fans would have wanted to see happen to Judy. Liza told Judy the same thing when Judy said she wanted to do the movie.
the red suit with those brown boot things is hideous
Although I agree that Judy would have been great, I don't think her presence would have made VOTD a better picture. I mean let's face it; Judy Garland was just too good for VOTD. BTW I'd always heard that it was Suzann, not Robson who wanted Judy for the part, which would explain why Robson treated her so badly (allegedly).
44! She looks 70!
I'm glad she didn't do this role. It would have been all wrong for her. I know a lot of people felt that way then and still do.
Betty Davis would have been awesome as Helen Lawson. She couldn't sing but neither did Susan Hayward.
Truman Capote said on TV that Jackie Susann "looked like a truck driver in drag" and after gave an apology to truck drivers. Yes, Judy got the part and was fired. She was stoned. She was a great singer and it is sad that she took a part in a movie where she is being trashed (she was the model for the Patty Duke role). Susan Hayward took over the Garland role which was a parody of Ethel Merman. An awful film from a cheap book.
Truman Capote & many other writers were jealous of the sudden rise of a female writer named Jacqueline Susann. Her book VOD was one of the Best selling books of all time and the film was a box office success. It made more money than Rosemary’s Baby, Romeo & Juliet, Oliver and Bullet. No one listened to what the critics were saying.
She was not in any shape to do a film at this stage in her life She was pilled up and a problem on the set. That's why she was let go from the production of The Valley of the Dolls
this movie could become a cult. too bad the producers didn't understand that.
Very sad for me to watch.
And, Beemerry, you can't write or spell (as we see below) so you are no judge.
painfully thin
the reason she did not get it was cause she had trouble with her lines, due to the drugs she was taking. Anyhow the movie did not do well and it would have hurt Garland's career-. The Helen Lawson character was suppose to be a bitch inducing the audience not to be sympathetic with her. Susan hay worth fit the role perfectly . Judy would have protected too many sympathies to the lawson character.
What is wrong with clothing designers that they would make those hideous costumes for Judy to wear? And the wigs. Good grief. They make her look like she was wearing football gear on her shoulders and had no neck. I am glad she never made that trashy movie. Patty Duke was awful in it, too!
she must've liked them coz she wore some of them in her personal life after getting canned from the production
Garland tended to show up for a shoot and lock herself in her dressing room. That was the official reason she was fired from the movie. On the other hand, it's a crummy movie, anyway.
+unclealand I'm so glad she didn't do it.
Allen M. Quinn Even the young, ungodly beautiful Candice Bergen, who hadn't learned to act yet, backed out of doing "Dolls." One of the funniest remarks I ever heard in a gay bar was from someone explaining that he refused to see the movie of "Valley of the Dolls" because "I heard they ruined the book."
Actually, it's a very fun movie (one of my favorites).
Charlotte Tan
There are better bad movies out there. This one's too obvious and not fun enough.
But so distinctive. Valley Of The Dolls played by its own rules and as we know is a cult classic. Here we are talking about it...
IT IS SUCH A SHAME THE PART EVENTUALLY WENT TO SUSAN HAYWOOD..JUDY WOULD OF BEEN SENSATIONAL
On the set, Judy didn't like the racy script and nudity. Plus who knows how well she did so heavily addicted at this point? She hadn't been on a movie set in a few years. So it wasn't just the studio's fault as to why she left. But it was a studio's fault as to why she ended up addicted :(
This is fucked up ..
Judy Garland and Jackie Kennedy are same image.
I can't find any pictures of Jackie and Judy.
Judy and JFK ...
Jackie and JFK ..
No Judy and Jackie..
They look like twins...
JFK was not shot in Dallas by Oz and magical trajectories.
JFK and Judy ..
JFK and Caroll Burnett.
JFK and Jackie...
But not Jackie and Carol.
No Jackie and Judy...
Jackie and Judy and carol Burnette...
Jackie and Judy never in same room ..
Like Clark Kent and superman...
Never in same photos...
I got the scent of blood and it points to Caroll Burnett and Judy Garland.
And an Os shooting with magical lies ..
I am in this business and getting out because it’s still rotten to the core. They use everyone, it don’t matter if you are in front of the camera or beyond it...
Thanks Dottie but your suggestion is too much for me! There is something haralious about this video. Poor Judy, that pillbox hat was years out of style. It is witty how she deflects the question about drugs, everyone knew she was an addict. As far as Jacqueline Susann goes- the authoress of this trash-I don't know if she is attempting to be Cleopatra or a 45 year old model for a demented Carnaby Street. That wig is frightful!
the movie was filmed in early '67, so this preproduction interview would have been sometime in late '66 . To say the pillbox hat was "years out of style" in late '66 is to show your ignorance
She was always wrong for this role. She might have had fun playing a bitch for once, but she was too frail by then to pull it off. Hayward was still robust and healthy and she nailed it. Judy was desperate for money and a return to movies, but she should have stayed away from this. When she got fired, it just furthered her sad decline.
@MrThesheenster Drugs, alcohol and smoking= deadly combo. Ask Lindsay Lohan....
The gall beemerry has to knock the writing of Truman Capote. See if you could do better. Susann had done a nasty and effeminate imitation of Capote on the radio, so Truman struck back. It was a riot! It is folly for a fan of Susann to call anyone a "homely drug addict". A looker she wasn't and guess how she learned about the worl of pills? We all know ALL her books were trash.
The Wardrobe testing makes me think of Nancy Pelosi playing fashion model after a pitcher of martinis !
HA!
Fancy Nancy!
44 looks 70, can't we let her go. What a tragedy. A bit over hyped, She cursed us with two very very extremely over rated overly hyped daughters. Just give me the Oz,
***** How very unkind you are.
No. No we will not let her go.
Does she look older than 44? Yes, she does. However, she never, ever had it easy! Give her (and her family) a break!
Judy was a legend and will NEVER be forgotten.... At least, that's what Frank Sinatra said. Liza won a Tony, Emmy, and Oscar but I guess you know more about show business than everyone else......how nice for you.
I agree!