Judy was treated badly by so many people, including her mother. She was truly the best. So beautiful and so talented. She left us way too soon. There will never be another like her.

@lumiere7216

4 жыл бұрын

So was Marilyn Monroe. She was miserable most of the time. Movie Studios are terrible to the actors & people

@zyxw2024

2 жыл бұрын

@@lumiere7216 You knew Marilyn Monroe?

@user-mx2uc9ue3t

Жыл бұрын

she gave out at least as much as she got with an incredibly foul mouth, terrible temper and worse reputation among her co-workers. An unprofessional drug addict. She was liked by very few people in the film industry and loathed by many although her talent was never in doubt.

I Love the Brutal HONESTY of Ann's Stories..She really KNEW Judy and realized her IMMENSE Talent and LEGEND!! Ann was Also an AMAZING Performer!!! xoxoxo

I miss the early 2000s because so many of the greats were willing to recount their careers and the lives of their deceased colleagues. From about 2000-2004 they were all on TV talk shows.

Ann Miller gave such honest accounts of Judy Garland. I always admired Judy Garland's talent. Judy Garland was one of the best remembered entertainers. Thank you, Ann Miller, for the informative accounts.

She read David Gest to hell and back, love it! An honest soul who survived Hollywood intact. Just incredible.

Ann Miller, such a lovely lady. Just a big heart for everybody.

This woman really captured who Judy was and with honesty and LOVE. She really speaks so highly of her. ❤️

Judy, the greatest performer who ever lived, period.

@dannychavez7876

5 жыл бұрын

I agree 100%

@fbueller

2 ай бұрын

She was good but not professional.

Could tell Ann loved Judy - see it in her eyes , she loves talking about her . Talent loves talent

DEAR ANN MILLER~ YOU'RE JUST FABULOUS TOO!! I HAVE ALWAYS ADMIRED AND LOVED YOU! SEEN ALL YOUR MOVIES FROM WHEN I WAS A CHILD...ON. WHAT A DANCER!!!!! AND WHAT A WONDERFUL, BRILLIANT, GREAT LADY!!! WOWIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@suzannerossiter1682

4 жыл бұрын

Morgan Hull well said

Ann Miller with her heart-shaped face, toothpaste smile, and her long legged limbs , Ann Miller was the most vigorous tap-dancers of Hollywood's Golden Era. She had a friendly cheerleader like presence on-screen. Even some of her non-dancing roles showed that Annie could play a smart cookie who knew the score. Ann Miller as a true professional talent and her films will live on.

@Justin.Martyr

4 жыл бұрын

*& I wiLL MEET UP with Ann MiLLer in the Kingdom & WE WILL BE Friends* *for ALL ETERNITY to come!!!!*

@terrysmith8749

4 жыл бұрын

I've said it once, and I must say it again. Ann Miller has no idea what she it talking about. She is embellishing a lot. I've seen 3 interviews with know it all Ann Miller and Ann's stories are made up. The only song that Judy sang with A cane and a straw hat, was the cake walk (I think) from Meet Me In St.Louis 1944, Liza wasn't born yet, she did it with Margaret O'Brien. Easter Parade 1948 was the lst time and only time Judy and Fred ever worked together. I kept wishing Judy would end up with Peter Lawford not Fred....

@terrysmith8749

3 жыл бұрын

They aren't her films. She was not the top banana, she was second string. Did her name ever appear above the title? Was she ever the STAR of a film?

@esmeephillips5888

3 жыл бұрын

@@terrysmith8749 Not in A product, but she should have been, She made no bones about being Queen of the Bs, and was not always top-billed in those. But they come up fresh as paint.

@williams3631

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Ann was timed at 500 taps per minute ! I've always loved her.

This woman, Ann Miller, was a distant cousin of mine. On her Father’s side. She was estranged from her Dad. My granddad told me about it one night when we were watching tv. She was sure a talented dancer and entertainer.

Ann Miller used to be an electrifying dancer.

@lisafleming9603

5 жыл бұрын

@Mary's Catholics I'm not surprised, she was a natural.

Judy Garland was The greatest and my favorite singer of all-time. Many other fine singers have said great things about Judy!

What I liked about Ann Miller, was she calls a spade a spade!!!! 🐶🐶🐶🐶

ANN MILLER was a wonderful dancer. She was beautiul & had the longest legs I have ever seen. Great Talent.

Poor Judy. Was ever a more beautiful voice loaned to the world?

@scottgauthier6537

Жыл бұрын

Maria Callas said that Judy Garland had the best voice she had ever heard ❤️

I love Ann Miller, but Judy's my all-time favorite singer since I was 12 years old. I'm 62 now.50 YEARS!!!!!! Anyway, Ann Miller is the first star I ever saw in person and met too.I met her in 1973 in Cleveland, Ohio when she came out with her autobiography. I didn't have money to buy the book, but I wanted to see her. I told her I'd seen her in Easter Parade and asked for her autograph. She gave it to me and was VERY nice and polite even though I didn't buy her book. I was 17 and I never forgot how nice she was to me. Also ,she was very beautiful!!!!

@thirabx6954

Жыл бұрын

Easter Parade my favorite movie.

Ann Miller was a delight, such a charming woman! I've never heard anyone (peers and co-stars in other interviews) say a bad word about her. In my opinion she's a success story, she lived through the 'star making' studio system and came out the other end still humble and lovely, so sad she saw so many of her friends ruined by it.

@maya8443

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, Agree with you!

@cmcb09

3 жыл бұрын

Josh Crawford just like her bff Kathryn Grayson, never heard a bad word about either of them class acts all the way.

Very well said. Judy was one of the greatest

Ann is able in a few words encapsulate the essence of Garland or anyone else for that matter . She’d make an excellent dinner guest .

Ann miller should have been a bigger star

@mallorygraf8574

4 жыл бұрын

Apparently LB Mayer wanted to marry her when she was in her early to mid '20s and of course she refused. He told her she would never be a bigger star then she was then. It was in her auto-bio.

@michaelreilly3513

4 жыл бұрын

meh, she never had that X fator, she was ok, but not like a STARRRRRR

@jonlanier_

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelreilly3513 Exactly... Great dancer, but just didn't have that... hey here I am when she walked into the room. Probably because of two things... She was average looking... or maybe just a little better. And she spoke with bluntness.

@michaelreilly3513

3 жыл бұрын

@Um Idk What point are you trying to make in regards to my comment?

@FranklyScarlettFaced

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonlanier_ imagine ann Miller was “average looking”…lmao

Wow. I'm sure Ann Miller has stories on top of stories. She can literally write an encyclopedia on her own life experiences with actors in Hollywood but when it comes to talking about judy there is such sincerity and love in her voice. Judy Garland story is such a great one but so damn tragic at the same time. I guess that's why she still so interesting today and always. God Bless both those Women Souls!!! True Hollywood Legends Truly!!!!

"I love Liza, but there's nobody like Mama." - Debbie Reynolds

@Justin.Martyr

4 жыл бұрын

*Who is Liza? I've Heard of Debbie ReynoLds(but No Experience)!*

@woopwoopwoopwoopwoopwoop

4 жыл бұрын

Justin Martyr Liza is Judy Garland’s daughter , and won best actress for her performance in Cabaret :)

@jonathankieranwriter

3 жыл бұрын

Debbie Reynolds is right, and she ought to know. The daughter is/was a completely different type of talent than Garland. Minnelli was not really a very good singer at all-nowhere near her mother’s ability-and she was not as natural an actress or dancer as Garland, no matter how much fuss was made about ‘Cabaret’ (Minnelli was good in Cabaret, certainly, but I don’t think the performance holds up as a work of genius, and I always smelled a whiff of “Guilt Oscar” in the Academy’s fever that year-the mother’s death was still quite fresh in the world’s/industry’s conscience.) I think one area where Liza Minnelli could match (and maybe even surpass, a little) her mother, however, was as a comedienne. Minnelli’s comic timing and sensibilities were absolutely brilliant and tragically untapped, overall. Garland was a wit and had lovely, natural comic talent, but Minnelli was MADE for comedy. I think that’s why Minnelli’s film career fizzled: they kept trying to make her into a leading lady when she wasn’t really a broadly approachable, natural actress. Same with her recording career-not anywhere near a popular stylist/singer. But on New York stages and in comedies (as ‘Arthur’ and the bit on ‘Arrested Development’ demonstrated) Minnelli could be a comic genius. If they’d written some great comedies for her-wow, she would have cleaned-up in both film and stage box offices. As it turned out, they threw a lot of awards at Minnelli for often unmemorable works (The Act? The Rink? CRAP!). I think the memory of the mother was always at play, in those situations. Overcompensation, of some sort. But Minnelli was a genius comedienne actress. She should have played less at Studio 54 in her prime and worked harder at developing projects to highlight her comic brilliance. But she chose to pursue being a plucky but pale imitation of her mother. Even so, her comic nature has always found a way to the surface and she is rightly beloved. She’s a nightclub act, and a treasured one.

@MIKEMINNELLI1

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathankieranwriter minnellis dancing is phenomenal, sorry but judy could never do bob fosse moves not could she dance as technical as minnelli could. liza started dancing school at 2 yrs old, and as for a singing and vocal power, i prefer minnellis to garlands, garland had a midwestern twang, a bit of a sourness, a great singer but again i think minnelli has a better voice, to each his own . lol

@robb7398

2 жыл бұрын

@@MIKEMINNELLI1 This is true about Liza's dancing vs Judy's. I prefer Judy's singing and her voice. I also prefer her acting, though Liza is very good. Judy was much more of a lead actress - romantic lead or dramatic lead - while Liza is more quirky and more of a character actress. I think Judy was brilliant, a genius. Liza probably is not, though she's nonetheless super talented and a great entertainer.

What a legend

Love Ann's comment about David Gest!

legends, all of them

I really liked this interview with Ann regarding MGM and how Judy's personality was her biggest enemy. She had all the talent in the world but she was convinced that she wasn't attractive. I thought she was pretty even the photos of her without her screen make up. She had a very natural look. Even the subject of how Judy's pill problem started. Back then nobody knew that these pep pills and amphetamines were addicting and would eventually destroy you. Judy's sister Jimmie was interviewed in two books about the whole drug thing. She said if their mother thought they were bad she wouldn't have let Judy or her sisters take them. If you were in show business, they really helped you get moving when you were on a busy schedule. So many performers became addicted and it's still happening, only now it's Heroin, Meth and everything else. If they only had rehab centers back then. No guarantee that it always works. I have 2 cousins in my family that have been battling addiction. They're in rehab for 2 months and then they relapse. Remember Judy for the good things she had in her life.

@nanfitzsimonds7302

4 жыл бұрын

My sistr maureen & I were Judy Garland groupies. We saw her at the PALACE THEATRE IN NYC.I saw ALL of Miss Garland's film's over & over again. Two this day I can play "Meeet Me In St. Louis" in my head. When in sat only four rows away from this amazing talent I was almost in tears.! There will NEVER be another talent as greatas she & her sence of humor was a delight.

@sarahholland1375

4 жыл бұрын

It was the studio that convinced Judy she was ugly & got her addicted to drugs , by putting her on diets from age 12 & giving her 'diet pills' which were basically speed.

Ms. Garland, she was a STAR!

The fastest and most glamorous tapper of them all , Annie ! Ohh just one more film one more tap ........if only !

What a gem of a woman!

Angela Lansbury was in "The Harvey Girls" with Judy in the late 1940s and although she tempered her criticism in later years, at the time she was angry and frustrated by Judy's chronic lateness. And I can see her point, because there might be 100 people waiting for her, both performers and crew, and sometimes she just didn't show up at all. Of course that pressure of all those waiting people undoubtedly contributed to her mental traumas and made her even more likely to be late - a vicious circle.

I believe that's how Elvis developed his pill addiction. He made 30 movies for MGM between 1962 and 1969. That's more than 3 movies a year. Making musicals was a long a gruelling schedule

@lisag18

4 жыл бұрын

Elvis was in the Army and did guard duty. He had to be up all night in the freezing cold. He was given "medication " to stay up. That's what started it.

Another amazing lady...WOW. What an amazing talent, and an awesome lady.

Got to hand to Ann. Interview her long enough and she tells it like it is- - or was.

@cmcb09

5 жыл бұрын

Steve Hinnenkamp she was a sweet lady, a bit cooky at times but sweet.

There will never be a more talented generation than the MGM gang....basically because there can't be; it's illegal to treat kids, and work people like that now. Plus the studio talent factories and training ground of vaudeville have gone.

@mayaa5048

5 жыл бұрын

Rob Jack - is still happening and worse. Pedophilia, mental abuse, drug addiction and satanism are still very much present. Talent factories are by the handful in hollywood. We think many things have change since the turned of the 20th century till now but no. Do research of the things that are happening in the6 entertainment industry including music. What you see in those mediums are perverted and deviant things. The endoctrination and desensitization of the masses is working because things that weren't moral back 60 years ago are view today as having "rights" just to proved my point have you seen the 11 year old transgender boy named Desmond? Drag queens who are convicted of pedophilia is reading books to children in a public library. Satanism is rampant in hollywood.

Judy was famous for her genius in doing a scene in just one take. So I can see her point about her being late.

Classy Classy Lady Thank-you.... Ms Miller ...RIP 💕

It strikes me that Ann Miller was one of the highest regarded, and most genuinely liked, people in the studios at the time. I've never heard anyone say a bad word against her, and actress Linda Darnell says Ann was the only friend she made throughout her entire career.

Awesome! Do one of June Allyson on Judy too!!

Anne was a fab dancer

Wow she’s terrific. Very positive

Love ann miller, so beautiful

Now this is was the golden Hollywood stars in that era,,,sure they had problems,,,but nothing like today movie people in movies...never again have awesome movie stars back then....

GREAT in SUGAR BABIES on Broadway with Mickey Rooney.

Judy, Marilyn... both beyond talented and always late. Billy Wilder once said he had an aunt who was a very talented actress and ALWAYS on time...and she was worth about 50 cents at the box office...because she didn't have that "special something" that Marilyn Had. Same was true for Judy. Star quality doesn't always arrive with the extras.

The shade she threw at David Guest 😂

I've forever had disdain for Hollywood because of the extreme pressure they put on Judy.

Poor, Judy.💔🙏😢🥀🥀🥀

"Lorna, you don't even know this story" ... Ann puts Ms Luft in her place.

❤❤

Those stars back then like Judy had a hundred people falling over themselves to help them and they rehearse with the best all the time over and over, HELL THEY SHOULD BE GREAT. But she always looked so tall in pictures. Especially in Oz. She never looked 4/11.

@barbarak2836

24 күн бұрын

She was 4'11' in real life.

Ann Miller also left out the part where MGM pushed Judy into getting electro shock therapy.

@debbystardust

5 жыл бұрын

Thomas Donohue much of what we hear about Judy paints her as a victim, undoubtedly true, but after seeing Valley of the Dolls, I understand that the little girl grew up to be a complicated adult. We can’t discount Ann Miller’s views, a peer and eyewitness.

@mayaa5048

5 жыл бұрын

Debby R - she was a victim like it or not, first with the drugs, Judy wasn't looking for drugs when she reached adulthood, she was already an addict when she reached adulthood. Her mother got her hook on those and MGM continue. God knows what she went thru especially being surrounded by pedophiles drug pushers execs in hollywood.

@debbystardust

5 жыл бұрын

Maya A yes, not disputing that she was a victim, but “Dorothy” did grow up and didn’t remain frozen in time, and there was an adult Judy who lived an adult life. At the end, she turned to music and achieved success on her own terms as a survivor taking London by storm at the Palladium

@mayaa5048

5 жыл бұрын

Debby R - see you don't get it, I never mentioned Dorothy, I'm talking about Judy the person you moron.

@CanadianMonarchist

4 жыл бұрын

Electro shock therapy was pretty much all they could do for mental illness back then.

I worked in an antique place and Ann came in and looked at rings. She was tiny with coal black hair. She loved rings with big stones. I think she bought a ring with a big amber. She was tiny.

@piustwelfth

Жыл бұрын

It's funny that you say she was tiny because early in her career she was taller (at 5'7") than many of her co-stars and was forced to dance in flats.

How terribly a couple humans destroyed one of God's most amazing creations. In the end, her incredible gifts endure. All others are forgotten.

Love Annie and Judy- check out my tribute to Ann here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hpmhpNCHksfJeLQ.html and to Judy here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dKqCwbCpZsixY7A.html

Ann told her stoy perfectly. She's missed.

As I'm observing here...It's very sad to read comments about "oh, Judy's fans are lunatics"! "They kept saying that Judy was a victim" and blah, blah, blah...blergh! She was a victim like it or not! Agree or not, she was and you know why? Cause she was only a kid by the time her mother and the studio got her those pills! Yes, they got her right through it and she was only 14 years old! SHE WAS ONLY 14!!! Everyone who think this is no big deal or think that Judy was no studio and "stage mother" victim has to sit down a little bit and think about what you're doing in this life. I mean, really. I'm serious. What can anyone expect from people with this kind of thinking??? What can we expect from people who thinks a 14 year-old child is no victim and that there's no one to blame in this whole situation??? There's no way for me to feel indifferent with all this! My God, if you have a teenage daughter would you like her taking barbs and anphets? Would you consider this a normal thing to let go with your child? Studio execs and her mother are the ones to put on the blame, yeahhh!!! They are guilty, totally guilty about what happened to her! Everyone with a sensible mind knows it! Plus, L.B Mayer refused to let Judy rest the 8 months she needed to take a proper treatment and try to recover. He gave her only 6 weeks cause his business couldn't stop. That dirty lousy verm. Call me lunatic, call me everything! I don't mind...I really don't mind...as long as I can keep my mind sensible and caring about other people's pain, so...I feel fine, very fine.

Mrs Miller is a beauty but sure as shit she's making these stories up as she goes 🤣

@kellycoleman715

Жыл бұрын

Wrong.

They left out the part where Judy's mom was giving Judy pills at the behest of MGM. Judy's mom didn't just pull pills out of her butt. Ann Miller is being dishonest. Every actor and actress that was part of the studio system at that time says the same thing. MGM was handing out pills like candy

@mayaa5048

5 жыл бұрын

Thomas Donohue - you're absolutely right, MGM was investigated by the FBI for having too many drug addict actors. In addition, the execs were a bunch of filthy pedophiles. Shirley Temple didn't have anything nice to say about those guys at MGM, she recounted a bad experience she and her mother had at an interview with them. I feel that her mother sold her to those pigs.

*WHY WAS NO YEAR GIVEN for this???*

I’ve said this before, that story that Ann Miller told about Judy and Deanna was not true. Judy and Deanna were both under contract to M.G.M. At the same. Judy and Deanna made a movie short together called Every Sunday Afternoon, and M.G.M. Knew they had to release one of them, and the one was Deanna. There just wasn’t enough work for two young teenage girls. And Judy didn’t sing get happy while wearing a straw hat. How about Happy Harvest, while driving a tractor. Ann if you don’t know what you’re talking about, don’t talk.

I suspect that Judy would've been a troubled and erratic person even if she'd never performed in her life. That just added stress to an already fragile person. I can see her huddled in the kitchen of a suburban home, worried and unstable, as a complete unknown.

I ran right out and bought the damn soup.

The only movie I remember Judy with a cane and a straw hat was in Meet Me In St.Louis when she did a small dance ( routine ) with Margaret O'Brien. This has to be what MISS KNOW IT ALL was talking about. I don't believe anything Ann Miller said. It really annoys me when a once was entertainer acts like little miss know it all.. Everybody has to get in on the act, so they can remain. Relevant.

Judy knew the business. But she did not love the business. She was easily groomed for the business because all she ever wanted was Love. A mother and father's love. I pray that she wept for The Lord on her deathbed. I would love to come across judy in Heaven.- In Christ, Christina

Maya, you are the lunatic. Everything you have heard or read in your mind is absolutely correct and if someone say something different we are wrong. A huge number of people who are asked about Judy always tend to embellish their story, it gives them one last chance in the spotlight. Again Ann Miller is acting like she’s Judy’s best friend and knows all. ONCE AGAIN JUDY DID NOT WEAR A STRAW HAT AND CARRY A CANE IN THE NUMBER GET HAPPY. DID YOU CHECK IT OUT? PROBABLY NOT BECAUSE YOU ARE THE TYPE WHO CAN NEVER BE WRONG, EVER.

Maya, talk about calling the kettle black. If this conversation isn’t relevant or important, then why are you paying attention to anything I’m saying.

Of course LB Mayer knew Judy was being juiced up to get her on set. Who was paying Dr. Feelgood? Mayer didn't want to be directly involved in all that but he was the moving force behind it.

Josh, here comes the bad words. Ann Miller has no idea what she's talking about. The cane and hat was from Meet Me In St. Louis, and she sang a song with Margaret O'Brien.

@terrysmith8749

4 жыл бұрын

Josh, I'm continuing. Ann Miller doesn't know what she's talking about. One time she talks about Judy being late, but, because she knows her lines, she makes few mistakes so they finished pretty much on time. Then she says Judy arrives on the set late, tells a coupleof jokes, everyone laughs and all is well. And for the final time, Ann's story about Judy and Deanna is completely wrong. Judy and.Deanna were both under contract with M.G.M. at the same time. And they did a short together called Every Sunday Afternoon. After the short, Mayer was going to cut Judy loose and keep Deanna. But, he got talked out of getting rid of Judy and let Deanna go. That's the real story. And Lorna really didn't know it, I don't think.

A lot of people say that Judy was worked to death, and that really isn't true when you compare her to other players or actors at that time. Mickey Rooney and others were making 5, 6, even 7 movies a year during the 30's and early 40's, while Judy was making only 2 or 3 films per year. It was normal for actors to make an average of 5 or 6 films per year during the height of the studio system. As amazing a talent as Judy was, I just don't think she had the stamina or emotional wherewithal to be in that kind of environment during the studio system.

Those movie moguls would be arrested today for child abuse.

Judy didn't have a cane and a straw hat for Get Happy in Summer Stock. just sayin.

Judy Garland (1922-2022)

@millers3888

2 жыл бұрын

1922-1969

That awful LB Mayer gave Joan Crawford hell too. And it's true: Liza is no Judy. She doesn't have mama's talent/artistry.

@deerheart87

4 жыл бұрын

No liza has her own talent

@raymundoyanez3282

3 жыл бұрын

NO SHE HAS HER OWN!!!!!!!! GOD'S GIVEN TALENTS .... LEAVING ! BEHIND A VAST LEGACY ! IN TGE INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT WORLD !....... HOW ABOUT ,????...🙄...YOU ?????

Judy hated her mother.

@annajacob7981

2 жыл бұрын

Based on what I've read, Judy's mother was harsh and controlling, and she showed her daughter very little love. Imho, she treated Judy as a prop and meal ticket. Very sad.

I LOVE BOTH BUT IF I COULD ONLY HAVE ONE............ANNE MILLER❤️❤️❤️❤️ Judy hing on to too many skeletons and had way too much baggage. " On the town" and " Easter parade" ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

No. That's not right. Always always late. Affirming with shifty eyes. I'm sure she had eyes on the prize

Has any one read about Sandra DEE's Mother??? Now this is the mother from Hell!!Gave her daughter at a very early age to casting directors or ANYONE who would further her career.THIS PIG OF A mom FROM NEWARK ,NJ SHOULD HAVE PUT IN LOCK-UP FOR THE WAY THAT CHILD WAS TREATED.

@ronniebishop2496

4 жыл бұрын

Well I heard Sandra say that her step father sexually assaulted her and she slept with him and her mother every night. Wow.

Ann Miller has no idea what she’s talking about. Straw hat and a cane was NOT Get Happy, not even close. Her story about Judy and Deanna wasn’t even close either. Judy and Deanna were both under contract to M.G.M. at the same time. They made a short together Every Sunday or Every Sunday Afternoon. Mayer decided that one of them had to go, because there wasn’t enough work for two young girls. He wanted to keep Deanna, but, he got talked out of it by those who were firmly on Judy’s side. So Universal signed Deanna and put her in a film called Three Smart Girls. It was an instant hit, and so was Deanna. Mayer wasn’t to happy about what happened, he felt as though he looked like an idiot, so he was determined to show everyone that he made the right decision. Another thing one time she says Judy was always late, but she was so up on her part that she only needed a few takes for her scenes that they didn’t have to stay late. Then she says that Judy would always be late and she would always tell a joke and everyone would laugh, and be fine but, everyone would have to stay late, and they didn’t like that. I had more to say but, I’m at work and I must sign off, bye.

@maya8443

4 жыл бұрын

Anna Miller didn't know what she was talking about but you do, right, you were there Ann Miller wasn't. Just because she got a few things incorrect doesn't mean anything. Ann Miller knew Judy way before she got signed to those MGM pedophiles. People like you need to get a life and stop pretending you knew those people better than the people who were actually there! For your FYI, Ann Miller didn't need the attention, she was a star on her own.

@terrygrant2028

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Maya. In this case yes. Before you shoot your mouth off maybe YOU should do a little research. Judy and Deanna were both under contract to to M.G.M. At the same time. As I said earlier. So how could Universal sign Deanna while she was under contract to M.G.M. As was Judy at that time. And Again Judy did not wear a straw hat and use a cane in the song GET HAPPY, CHECK IT OUT. And it is very well known that Mayer knew about the Drugs. All he cared about was getting her IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA. Every die hard Judy fan knows this stuff. Ann Miller was trying to be relevant.

@maya8443

4 жыл бұрын

@@terrygrant2028 - it's you who wants to be relevant you're just a fool thinking you know more than the people who actually were there. Anyways, I don't care to know how things went down is not going to make me or break me.

@terrygrant2028

4 жыл бұрын

Maya, get as nasty as you would like. The story of Judy and Deanna is totally incorrect, whether you believe it or not. Where Miss Miller got that story from is beyond me. Universal got wind that Metro was going to release either Deanna or Judy. And they figured it was going to be Judy, because, Mayer loved Jeanette MacDonald, and if he kept Deanna, he would have someone to take Jeanette’s place someday. But, he got talked into changing his mind by

@terrygrant2028

4 жыл бұрын

Because They thought Judy would have more appeal to the younger generation with her ability to sing swing, boogie, and contemporary songs. I’ve often wondered how Judy’s life would have been if Universal would have gotten her?

She was a high strung individual... yeah that was the meth

Miss Miller has no idea what in the heck she's talking about. Her story about Judy and Deanna is completely wrong, it's not even close. Her Statement about Mayer not supplying her drugs is completely wrong, he may not have personally hand her the drugs, but, Dr. Feelgood worked for M.G.M.. Judy was well known for her Photographic Memory. Just thought I'd throw that in. And everything I've read about Easter Parade, she was not a problem because of Charles Walters the director, who Judy Seriously dated at one time, and remained good friends with him. A song with a cane? Not Summer Stock. Miss Miller memory was very bad, if you really don't know something, keep your mouth shut.

@akrenwinkle

5 жыл бұрын

It's possible there was a party in which both Judy and Deanna sang and we don't know about it. Ann was thinking of Meet Me In St. Louis, the cakewalk number with Margaret O'Brien when both had straw hats and canes, and Liza hadn't been born yet. So she gets her details wrong, but it's understandable. Movie fans read accurate accounts of these things and they stay fresh in our minds; the events Miss Miller spoke of were dredged up from experiences decades ago. I do believe that Louis B. Mayer and his subordinates spent more time and effort getting Judy off drugs than on them. Not because they were so moral, but because there came a time when her addiction was costing the studio profits due to lateness, showing up high, or not showing up at all.

@terrygrant3467

5 жыл бұрын

+A Krenwinkle Just remember They fed her all those drugs. They created the problem. And they should have bitten the bullet, instead of kicking her to the curb. And like it or not, if you don't know, shut-up. Thats how all these lies get started. I don't understand how Ann Miller could possibly speak nice about a man who molested the young girls at MGM, and fed the kids drugs to keep them in front of the camera. Mayer should have fired long before he was. How many other lives did he destroy?

@akrenwinkle

5 жыл бұрын

Every reputable biographer wrote that Judy wasn't fired, but in fact, got her wish- to be let out of her contract. It was her idea, and her agent Carleton Alsop arranged it. "My mother loved Louis B. Mayer until the day she died." - Lorna Luft, "Me and My Shadows." "(Louis B. Mayer) couldn't get laid in a whorehouse." - Mayer's friend Lew Wertheimer, quoted in "A CIty of Nets: Hollywood in the 1940s" by Otto Freidrich. Others have attested to his puritan mentality.

@terrygrant3467

5 жыл бұрын

+A Krenwinkle Judy said she was fired, I have never heard anything other than she was fired. And Mayer was a molester of the girls on the lot, including Judy, and one day Judy told him to leave her alone and everyone else or else she would blow the whistle. And Ann Miller is making all this crap up. She wants the attention so badly she lying through her teeth. Judy wasn't in Take me out to the ball game. She's making all this crap up as she goes. She just wants to be the center of attention. I don't believe one word she says. People will say anything to get attention. She's disagreeing with Mickey as well about Mayer, he said the studio supplied the pills.

@akrenwinkle

5 жыл бұрын

Judy saying she was fired is not proof she was fired. I understand you have never heard otherwise because you have never read a book about Judy, or, most likely, a book about anything. I understand if you are either 12 years old, or an adult who has been sheltered all your life, but people on drugs and/or alcohol, confuse their imagination with reality, and say things that are not true. Judy was known for telling whoppers. Only those unfamiliar with Judy take what she said literally. It is true that Judy was suspended, but she was not fired. She was let out of her contract at her own request. It is true that Ann Miller got some things wrong, as senior citizens are prone to do, relying on faded memory.

The unfortunate part is that she's talking about Judy. And that's her claim to fame. So sad.

@feeniix6

5 жыл бұрын

Not true. Shes known for her dancing

@kezzyttid9125

5 жыл бұрын

Blimey an unknown? She was in the first film to be shot on location and easter parade with judy. Fantastic dancer

@mayaa5048

5 жыл бұрын

Have you seen Mrs. Miller dance? You should watch her movies, wow, she was a professional, wonderful dancer.

@mayaa5048

5 жыл бұрын

william5177 - you have no idea what are you talking about.

@kezzyttid9125

5 жыл бұрын

@@mayaa5048 does seem like she's a forgotten stars. With all that talent its such a shame