Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

From her gradual ascent to stardom in the 1930s to her death from a drug overdose at age 47 in 1969, former vaudeville baby Frances Ethel Gumm, aka Judy Garland, endured a string of personal and career ups and downs that continues to color her reputation as an icon whose tragedies outweighed her ...more

Actresses who play other actresses convincingly are few and far between, but the producers of this hit biopic found not one, but two who could pull it off. The main reasons to watch Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, then, are the wide-eyed, pitch-perfect innocence of Tammy Blanchard and the gradually more ravaged, but still powerful, countenance of Judy Davis. Some of the credit goes to Pamela Roth's stunning makeup design, but even so, both actresses slip into Garland's skin with ...more