Judy Garland received pills to work "72 hours in a row" as a starf
"Half of the time, we were suspended from the ceiling, but it was a lifestyle for us."
There are few movie stars as legendary asJudy Garland, who went from an artist from Vaudeville to achild-star to an adult actor respected on stage and on the screen. However, while her career was massive, she feels even longer than she was - Garland was only 47 years old when she died in 1969. And although the loss of the star of a Accidental drug overdose was tragic, it is just as devastating as her dependence The drugs began when she was only a young child.
It is well known that before laws and union rules to protect them,Wizard of Oz The actor and other artist children from his time received stimulating pills so that they can work long hours without rest. Garland has already said that it had been fed by pills to work "72 hours in a row". Read the rest to learn more about the horrible situation that Garland faced as a young actor who then shaped the rest of his life.
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Garland started taking pills before the age of 10.
According to biographyBe happy: the life of Judy Garland (via biography), Garland's mother,Ethel Marion Milne, was the first to give interpreter pills to keep it awake, then to help her sleep, everything before 10 years old. It would have been before Garland was signed with MGM, while she was still performing with her older sisters as an act of Vaudeville.
Their studio used drugs for the co-star and the co-star Mickey Rooney working.
Garland was signed for MGM at the age of 13. Teenager, she played in several films withMickey Rooney, includingLove finds Andy Hardy,,The thoroughbreds do not cry, andBabes in the arms. The actor attested that she and Rooney received pills during production.
"They had working days and nights," she told the biographerPaul DONLELLEY (Going throughThe life and the time of Mickey Rooney). “They gave us pills to keep us on our feet long after our exhaustion. Then they would take us to the studio hospital and knock us out with sleeping pills - Mickey spread over one bed and I on another. Then four o'clock, they woke us up and gave us the PEP pills again so that we can work 72 hours in a row. Half of the time, we were suspended from the ceiling, but it was a lifestyle for us. ""
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She was also forced to follow extreme regimes.
Garland was also established strict diets and took pills to stay slim while she was a teenage star. It was said that sometimes she could only have chicken pills, coffee, cigarettes and appetite pills.
"Most of her teenage and adult life, she had been on benzédrine or a diet or both," said the third husband of GarlandSidney Luft wrote (Going throughPeople). "Unlike other actresses, she could not succeed in camouflaging additional weight, especially because she danced and sang in revealing costumes. At only 4 feet 11½ inches, she could have an insufficient weight and always seems heavy or out of proportion to the screen. "
Rooney denied Garland's claims.
Garland said thatWe gave him pills under the direct order of the head of the MGM studioLouis B. Mayer, as indicated by PBS. His co-star Rooney shared another story.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"Judy Garland never received a drug by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer," he said, said PBS. "Mr. Mayer did not sanction anything for Judy. No one on this lot was responsible for the death of Judy Garland. Unfortunately, Judy chose this path."
Anyway, dependence has continued.
No matter where the pills came, dependence followed Garland throughout his life and was finally the cause of his death.
According to biography, she said later in life: "Sometimes I was roughly educational advertising for sleeping pills. Even if the pills come to the doctor's prescriptions, like mine, they can be a huge pressure on nervous systems. "
