![]() ![]() ”My researcher said, ‘Oh, by the way, there’s also an autobiography,”’ he says. Coming across gossip-column clips that said Judy Garland was doing a memoir, he sent his researcher to look in the Random House archives at Columbia to see if any letters existed about the project. ![]() ![]() Clarke discovered the papers by accident while researching another book (a collection of Truman Capote’s letters). Get Happy is, however, more than the story of one woman, remarkable as she was. ”I knew that had tried to sign, but the fact that a manuscript existed, I don’t think it was general knowledge,” says the book’s editor, Bob Loomis. And for nearly 40 years, no one - not one newspaper reporter, magazine scribe, or Garland biographer - had unearthed the late star’s unfinished memoir, on which Garland collaborated with ghostwriter (and Meet Me in St. Surprisingly, Gerald Clarke makes it work in Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland.He shows us why the girl who taught us what a good time we could have in Kansas if we got unconscious and. With the same skill, style, and storytelling flair that made his bestselling Capote a landmark literary biography, Gerald Clarke sorts through the secrets and. Ensconced in Columbia University’s collection were 68 pages of an unpublished Judy Garland autobiography originally (and rather ironically) commissioned by Clarke’s publisher, Random House, in 1959. ![]()
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