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So today we are going to go into the life of one of my all-time favorites,

and that is actress and singer Judy Garland, who is pretty much objectively one of Hollywood's

most iconic stars. She also starred in a great Christmas movie, Meet Me in St. Louis.

That features one of my all-time favorite Christmas songs, Have Yourself,

a Merry Little Christmas, the prettiest and saddest Christmas song ever.

My main source for this was Get Happy, The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clark.

This will be a two-parter because there is a lot of information, so let's get started.

Frank Gamm and Ethel Milne met in 1911 while they were both working at the Orphium Theatre in Wisconsin.

They had both grown up with dreams of performing on stage and hit it off almost instantly.

But Frank seemed to have cold feet about their relationship and went back and forth on it a lot.

In fact, Frank actually left town completely during one of their breakups,

just one of the 28 states he had moved to in a few short years.

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