1h 40min | Drama, Musical | 7 March 1963 | Color, WS
Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman, Aline MacMahon.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057168/
JG's final film credit, 34 total; she dies in '69.
Penultimate film credit for AM (b. '99), the last is this year. She dies in '91.
This feels like a JG autobiography, but it's not. It's an alternate universe version of her life, where she chose to give up a child to its father without marriage so that she could pursue her concert career. This singer was never a movie star, never a child star, or at least that was never included in the film. But the neediness of the character feels like our impression of JG. As such, it's very difficult yet satisfying to watch.
The way the JG/DB relationship is left at the end of the film confuses me, because I don't understand why it happened.
1 song on the Soundtracks page. Wikipedia lists:
- ch5. I Am the Monarch of the Sea (Judy Garland and Boys) from H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan
- ch8. Hello Bluebird, words and music by Cliff Friend
- ch11. It Never Was You, Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson
- ch15. By Myself, Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz
- ch20. I Could Go On Singing, Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg
I don't feel like investing the time to add to IMDb today. I'd have to do too much research to confirm writing credits, etc.
distr. UA, dir. Neame; 7
