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For my first video on my second Channel.
iv'e decided to upload the 1978 TV Biopic about the early years of Judy Garland. this is a restored version of the TV biopic. this film stars Andrea Mcardle who at the time was fresh from Broadway from playing "Annie" in 1977.
aside from Mcardle, this movie Has a great Cast! you have Piper Laurie as Ethel Gumm. who 7 years after this film portrayed Aunt Em in the "squeal" of The Wizard of Oz, Return to Oz. Rue McClanahan who most notable for playing Blanche Deberrow
on The Golden Girls. Martin Balsam, plays Louis B. Mayer but is also known in many roles but most notably as O.J in Breakfast at Tiffany's. and Donna Pescow is most notifiable for her role as the mom in Even Stevens.
The Soundtrack has many songs of Andrea Mcardle singing classic Garland songs such as "Dear Mr. Gable" Zing Went The Strings" and her most memorable "Over The Rainbow"
CAST:
Andrea McArdle as Judy Garland
Don Murray as Frank Gumm
Michael Parks as Roger Edens
Piper Laurie as Ethel Gumm
Rue McClanahan as Ida Koverman
Jack Carter as George Jessel
Nicholas Pryor as Bill Gilmore
Donna Pescow as Jimmie Gumm
Martin Balsam as Louis B. Mayer
Johnny Doran as Jackie Cooper
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