My conclusion at the end of this telefilm is this, she destroyed all the Happiness she had around her! Everything! The artist was phenomenal and the whole world recognized it but the woman was deeply sick, monstruous, selfish, manupilative and crazy.
shareEr...perhaps you missed the whole "she was on drugs" bit.
Personally, I think I have too much bloom. Maybe that's the trouble with me.
It's interesting because I remember Dirk Bogarde saying in a TV interview that as much as he loved Judy, he couldn't handle the amount of love that she demanded from people. She would call him at all hours of the night and want to discuss every facet of her life in miniscule detail and he found her totally exhausting. Eventually he avoided her, which must have been horrible for Garland who probably perceived it as another rejection.
I think having been groomed as a child star is what turned her into probably somebody with an enormous narcissistic personality disorder. I think performers who expect a tremendous amount of love and adulation 24/07 are probably the ones who'll end up disillusioned and end up reaching for the bottle and pills. I often wonder if that's why a lot of movie stars end up as alcoholics and drug addicts...
'Lady Sarah, whose emotions are as frozen as Kidman's forehead'...Australia Review, Times Online
I see Judy someone who was always so low on self esteem. She fell for anyone that told her they loved her. As much of a pig as the NBC guy was in the movie, he summed her up perfectly. And the drugs only enhanced that and made her much worse than what she would have been. To her, the drugs would have been a way of dealing but they only made her worse.
We saw her as a young girl. She seemed happy but grew angry and hateful to those who threw her into the spotlight, and yet she couldn't live without it. She wasn't give the tools as a young girl to deal, to cope, to overcome, to be happy within her self. At such a young age her mother and then the studio execs were telling her how to dress, eat, and look.
It is a very sad case when you think about it. Quite similar to Britney Spears (the controlling aspects I mean.)
Just because she was this phenomenal artist who was loved all over the world does not make you the happiest person in the world.
shareThose drugs were from the dark ages. The "doctors" had no "research" and they were giving them to child actors.
When LB was threatening a teenaged Judy with the morals clause in her contract in the "Ciro's" scene, I wanted to whack him with a lawsuit.
Another child actor damaged by these pharmaceuticals was
Mickey Rooney. In his book, he wrote about his addiction to barbiturates and similar drugs.