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Judy Garland, was the assumed name of Frances Gumm (1922-1969). She made her stage debut at age three, spent several years in vaudeville, then at thirteen signed with MGM. She made many memorable movies, most famous of which was The Wizard of Oz, where she played a role originally intended for Shirley Temple. Garland’s personal life was usually in turmoil. The studio put her on diet pills, and before long she also needed pills to sleep and others to stay awake. By age twenty-one she was seeing a psychiatrist regularly. She married five times, and endured several career disasters. On June 22, 1969, she was found dead on the floor of her London apartment, the coroner attributing her death to an accidental overdose of sleeping pills. Actor Ray Bolger, the scarecrow from Oz, commented, “She just plain wore out.”
About the AuthorWard Kelley is the Asst. Vice President of Logistics for TruServ, the parent company of True Value Hardware, Servistar, and Coast to Coast, a co-op of 10,500 hardware stores. Formerly, he managed distribution centers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Arizona and Illinois. He lives with his wife and their adopted daughters outside of Indianapolis. Fairly new to publishing, Ward Kelley has been published by Melting Trees Review, Beauty For Ashes, Small Garlic Press (among many others), and has been the featured Poet of the Week on Poetry Super Highway. Most recently he has been selected to serve as a contemporary poet to a junior year writing class at the University of Massachusetts.
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