Judy Garland's experience while filming "The Wizard of Oz" was a tragic example of the harsh realities young actors often faced during that era. When she was only 16, she was put on a strict diet of mainly chicken soup and coffee. Additionally, she was encouraged to smoke approximately 80 cigarettes a day, a common practice in the entertainment industry during that time.
@fasc1nate Judy Garland with her baby Liza Minelli (ca 1945)
@HundredHistory @fasc1nate Sweet I remember seeing Lisa at the Talk of the Town venue London c. 1972 Great! like her mother
@HundredHistory @fasc1nate Learned something today, thanks
@HundredHistory @fasc1nate Weird that Minelli was born in 1946 though, so this must be 1947... Also weird that Garland was 25 in 1947 and already on her second marriage, to a second secretly gay man
@HundredHistory @fasc1nate That’s a real woman right there! She is a legend!
@HundredHistory @fasc1nate She was born in 1946...