Gerald clarke judy garland

2000 biography by Gerald Clarke

Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland is a biography of entertainer Judy Garland. Published in 2000, Get Happy is author Gerald Clarke's follow-up to his 1988 biography of Truman Capote.

Clarke conducted some 500 interviews,^[1] including some with subjects who had not previously spoken about Garland, and also drew upon tape recordings that Garland had made in the 1960s for an autobiography.^[2] He found Garland's unpublished 68-page manuscript in the Random House archives.^[3] Clarke spent ten years on the book, and only made his final decision to write about Garland after reading the extant biographies.

"I did not want to write a book about her if the definitive book had already been , I sat down and I read the biographies that had already been written and came up with no real impression of was a disconnect between the woman who emerged from the pages and the woman I saw in the m