"The roar of the crowd-that wonderful, wonderful sound-is something I've been breathing in since I was two years old. Frances, the youngest, was not yet three years old when she made her debut, having grown up in a vaudeville family where home and business blurred together as her parents recruited their daughters to join the act."
"At the age of 13, Judy Garland was born again. But just a few weeks later, her father suddenly died of meningitis. The achievement, so closely punctuated by a great loss, would be emblematic of Garland's life-one full of the high highs and low lows that came with studio stardom."
Judy Garland, born Frances Ethel Gumm in Minnesota in 1922, began performing as a vaudeville artist before age three with her family. The Gumm family relocated to California in 1926 to pursue entertainment opportunities. At age 13 in 1935, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, marking her transformation into a Hollywood star. However, this achievement was immediately followed by tragedy when her father died of meningitis weeks later. This pattern of extreme highs and lows characterized her life throughout her career. Garland went on to live in multiple residences across Los Angeles, New York, and London, sharing homes with five husbands and three children, two of whom became entertainers.
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