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The Documentary Podcast

Judy Garland: The final rainbow

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Judy Garland's last concerts at London's the Talk of The Town in 1969 is the subject of a new feature film. Weaving together newly restored archive recordings and eye-witness accounts, we separate the woman from the myth, examine her exceptional talent, exploitation and troubled relationship with Hollywood.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're either freezing at the top and lonely or else you're surrounded by people who are not truthful,

0:09.2

just use you, you know, and if you're as unaware as I am and you're a woman it can get pretty rough sometimes.

0:19.0

This is a story of what it is to be a legend.

0:24.0

Not the social media flash of fame, but a lifetime in the blaze of Hollywood lights.

0:30.0

Every balcony of the Paramount Theatre has about four rows of people overhanging into the lobby

0:36.8

and they all wanted to greet Judy and they all wanted her to look up at them and say hello, didn't

0:41.4

say? This is Judy Garland, the final rainbow on the BBC World Service.

0:47.0

Cline, kind, kind with the trolley.

0:50.0

Ding, ding, ding with the bell.

0:52.0

Fire, boy! D'Ding, ding with the bell. Fire boys!

0:54.0

What I like to hear?

0:58.0

Judy Garland was the best performer I've ever worked with, I'll tell you that, meticulous.

1:02.0

I'm going to love you like nobody's love you.

1:09.0

What would you like to hear?

1:11.0

We'll do them all and we'll be here all now.

1:17.0

Because when you're crying, don't you know that your makeup starts to run.

1:28.0

Judy Garland was one of the greatest entertainers ever.

1:34.0

Forgets your troubles have yourself a little fine.

1:38.0

Nothing that ever happened can ever take away from that.

1:50.0

She had a past and the audience knew every inch of her past

1:56.2

from the Wizard of Oz onwards when she was a kid and they knew all the trouble she'd been through drinking drugs whatever terrible hospitals and there was a great empathy with you. I'm Rosalin Wilder and I have my own part in this story of Fame, glamour and I have my own part in this story of fame, glamour and tragedy.

2:34.0

In 1969, I was the production assistant at the talk of the town,

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