Featured Actress of the Week: Judy Garland

    This week's featured actress is someone who had a long career that was cut a little short. Though she had a long career Judy Garland (1922-1969) will always be best known for her role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz when she was only 16 years old.

     Judy Garland's career would start at an early age as she was a singer and dancer with her two older sisters on vaudeville. She would eventually be signed by MGM at the age of 13. Three years later she would get the part of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz in 1939. A part in which GMG tried to cast Shirley Temple but 20th Century Fox would decline to have MGM borrow her for the picture.

    Later in her career Judy Garland would be nominated for many different awards for her Hollywood career as well as returning to stage. Her long 40 year career is looked at as a long versatile career. In many of her films she acted, sang, and danced. She left them world in a tragic way in 1969 of an apparent overdose. Even though she left too soon she left a mark on the stage and on camera. Her memory will live on as long as families sit down every year and watch her in The Wizard of Oz, which is a movie that I still enjoy to this day.