Judy Garland

Edwards’s biography presents a complete picture of the late actress—and not just the boozing drug-addicted caricature of a woman central to lesser biographies. We learn for example that Garland saw it as her duty to provide for her family financially a generosity that her mother Ethel exploited with disastrous results. Above all Judy Garland sought to please whether it was an audience or a studio head and therein lies her powerful and heartbreaking story.<br><BR />