Judy Garland (1922-1969) was a renowned American Actress, singer and vaudevillian. She had received numerous awards and had been nominated a lot throughout her life. She had been honored a special Academy Juvenile Award in 1940, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1962 and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. In addition, she had won Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in 1955, Album of the Year and Female Solo Vocal Performance in 1962.
She first appeared in Vaudeville with her two older sisters, which had led her to be signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. After being signed to MGM, she started to be well-known by filming lots of films and the one that brought her to be most identified was being the main role as Dorothy Gale in "The Wizard of Oz" in 1939. Her performance had led her to receive an Academy Juvenile Award. After that, she was called as one of MGM's most bankable stars due to this recognition. In addition, she had starred "Ändy Hardy Meets Debutante", "Strike Up the Band" and "Little Nellie Kelly" had made a huge success which secured her position at MGM as a major property.
Although it seems that Garland had a successful career life during her life, there were some stories behind her ac一tress face. Garland was always criticized her appearance as unattractive by film executives. Her self-image had then been influenced since she was young.Although she became more fashionable and glamorous, she was still in lack of confidence of her appearance and could not escape the image of "girl-next-door"which had been created for her. Apart from that, when it comes to her death, she died at the age of 47 and mainly on the grounds of her long battle with drugs and alcohol.
