JUDY GARLAND ON FIRE! at THE PIRATE PART 2 - One of the unfortunate aspect effects of the camping from Judy Garland by her 'followers' is that we've lost sight of her because the really luscious, sexually alluring feminine star that she was in her heyday. Judy as bombshell merely sounds perverse now--either we predict of her as Dorothy in pigtails (or no matter her hair was in "Wizard") or we predict of the later, stage-bound, cigarette and vodka drag-queen idol. however in her youthful maturity (1942-50) Judy was conjointly simply a helluva hot dame. Minelli, her second (or third?) husband was clearly in love together with her through a lens--it's in "Meet Me In St. Louis", "The Clock" and "The Pirate" (all of that he directed) that the camera gazes at her the foremost lovingly. And she, in turn, gets naked in these movies during a approach she merely does not when being directed by Charles Walters.
This past summer, I had the chance (briefly) to figure on a pitch for a movie regarding Judy's life--her best biographer, Gerald Clarke, conjointly wrote the Truman Capote bio that "Capote" was primarily based on and therefore the plan was to require a thread from his Judy bio and fashion an identical form of bio-pic. I spent plenty of your time learning her life, her movies etc. and thought of writing a movie primarily based solely on her wedding to the nice thug, Sid Luft--the man who made her finest movie "A Star Is Born" and who, a technique or another, helped resurrect her career from mothballs once MGM fired her in 1950. (This bang-up idea--wouldn't you prefer to ascertain such a movie starring, say, Hilary Swank as Judy and Vince Vaughn as Luft?--died stillborn as completely NO COMPANY IN HOLLYWOOD EVINCED THE SLIGHTEST INTEREST IN EVEN HEARING SUCH A PITCH. Eyes rolled, calls went unreturned. We do, alas, live within the era of "Spiderman 3"). In any event, I had the pleasure of speaking with Gerald Clarke on the phone and he said one thing that I found terribly true and extremely haunting. "Everybody thinks they own Judy. everybody thinks she belongs to them." I dont recognize another star who you'll say one thing quite that broad--and however accurate--about.
Below is my favorite variety from "The Pirate", "Mack the Black". the good youtuber who posted it graciously left within the long however necessary lead in--the variety begins virtually four minutes into this eight minute clip. Judy is electrical during this, pulsating with want and sexual energy...and the kiss with Kelly at the top reaches well past the same old boundries of MGM family entertainment of the time. i do not assume the word "Macoco" got nearly the maximum amount play once more till last year when that unfortunate Senator used it to insult a dark-skinned journalist and was promptly retired from public life as a result. What was that Senator's name, anyhow?...
