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Judy and I: My Life with Judy Garland (Hardcover)
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Judy and I: My Life with Judy Garland (Hardcover)
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The third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man
in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the
final act of Judy's meteoric comeback after she was unceremoniously
booted off the MGM lot: he produced her iconic, Oscar-nominated
vehicle A Star Is Born and expertly shaped her concert career.
Previously unpublished, Sid Luft's intimate autobiography tells his
and Judy's story in hard-boiled yet elegant prose. It begins on a
fateful night in New York City when the not quite divorced Judy
Garland and the not quite divorced Sid Luft meet at Billy Reed's
Little Club and fall for each other. The romance lasted Judy's
lifetime, despite the separations, the reconciliations, and the
divorce. Under Luft's management, Judy came back bigger than ever,
building a singing career that rivalled Sinatra's. However, her
drug dependencies and suicidal tendencies put a tremendous strain
on the relationship. Sid did not complete his memoir; it ended in
1960 after Judy hired David Begelman and Freddie Fields to manage
her career. But Randy L. Schmidt, acclaimed editor of Judy Garland
on Judy Garland and author of Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen
Carpenter, seamlessly pieced together the final section of the book
from extensive interviews with Sid, most previously unpublished.
Despite everything, Sid never stopped loving Judy and never forgave
himself for not being able to ultimately save her from the demons
that drove her to an early death at age forty-seven in 1969. Sid
served as chief conservator of the Garland legacy until his death
at the age of eighty-nine in 2005. This is his testament to the
love of his life.
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