Judy Garland – who would be 100 this month – is the featured star of the month on Turner Classic Movies, with 31 of her films being shown on Friday nights.
TCM is showing Garland’s films every Friday in June, including The Wizard of Oz. The classic 1939 film will be shown at 8 pm ET on Friday, June 10 (Garland’s birthday). It will be followed at 10 pm ET by a 1990 documentary about the film, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 years of Magic.
Also featured on TCM in June is “Revisionist Westerns,” with a film selection every Thursday. Films in the series include Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch, and Westworld.
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TCM Star of the Month: Judy Garland
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TCM Schedules
TCM Now Playing Newsletter for June
TCM Alphabetical List of June Films
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Judy Garland 1922-1969
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. She attained international stardom as an actress in both musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on the concert stage. Renowned for her versatility, she received an Academy Juvenile Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Special Tony Award. Garland was the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, which she won for her 1961 live recording titled Judy at Carnegie Hall.
In 1938 when she was sixteen, Garland was cast as the young Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939), a film based on the 1900 children’s book by L. Frank Baum. In the film, she sang the song with which she would be constantly identified afterward, “Over the Rainbow”.
On June 22, 1969, Garland was found dead in the bathroom of her rented house in Belgravia, London. At the inquest, the coroner Gavin stated that the cause of death was “an incautious self-overdosage” of barbiturates. The coroner stressed that the overdose had been unintentional and no evidence suggested that she had died by suicide. Garland’s autopsy showed no inflammation of her stomach lining and no drug residue in her stomach, which indicated that the drug had been ingested over a long period of time, rather than in a single dose. Her death certificate stated that her death was “accidental”.
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