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Is Judy Garland Making a Mistake?
from Screen Guide Magazine,
June 1942
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A decision to change the color of her hair isn't usually considered an important step in a woman's life, but in Judy Garland's case, it is significant. By changing her golden brown hair to night black, sometimes sweeping it high on her head, she is trying to create an illusion of dignity and sophistication.
Actually, her new coiffure gives her away as a little girl at heart. She will always have this quality, like many charming women. As youngsters, they are impatient about growing up. They're the ones who dress up in mother's gowns and high-heeled pumps, dabble in powder and rouge - and fool nobody.
By this time, Judy should have accepted the fact that her essential youthfulness is her most endearing trait. Newcomers who make their first screen appearances at Judy's age are quick to capitalize on their youth. But Judy started as a child star - and she's eager to make her fans forget that. If they won't forget, if they continue to see and love the little girl in Judy, the woman - then Judy will have to admit that she has made a mistake in her efforts to appear sophisticated.
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As a home-maker, Judy has started to take everything more seriously. She plans all meals, always cooks Sunday breakfast and even attempts other meals when on vacation. But she still calls her mother often for advice.
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With a home of her own, a successful marriage, a flourishing career, Judy has certainly grown up, even if she does worry, little girl fashion, about whether she looks the part. She doesn't in this informal shot - lucky Judy!
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Just puttering around the house this way is fun; but Judy and her husband, Dave Rose, follow a schedule of leisure time like this, when both are working: Monday and Tuesday evenings they play records or work on songs together; Dave's radio program is on Wednesday; Thursday they have dinner with Judy's mother; Friday they go to the movies or entertain at home; Saturday they step out like most working people; Sunday they just relax.
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Nightclubbing once or twice a week, Judy and Dave still go out with the "kids" - Ann Rutherford, Mickey Rooney, John Payne and his wife (Anne Shirley), Bob Stack, Jackie Cooper and Bonita Granville - a congenial crowd.
Her impersonation of Sarah Bernhardt, the great French actress, in a sequence of "Babes on Broadway," undoubtedly is the toughest job Judy has tackled. Her fine work would do credit to a much older, more experienced actress.
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