LIZ SMITH: Remembering Judy Garland
LIZ SMITH: Remembering Judy Garland. Wednesday, June 10, 2015 The Stonewall Inn, September 1969. The sign in the window reads: "We homosexuals plead with our people to please help maintain peaceful and quiet conduct on the streets of the Village." Wednesday, June 10, 2015 by Liz Smith Remembering Judy Garland on her Birthday, and Recalling What She Didn't Have to Do With The Stonewall Riots. “SOMETIMES, people have too much talent. So much that they can’t live a normal life. That was Judy. She just had too much talent! ” So said June Allyson, MGM sweetheart and a gifted star often put in the unenviable position of being a “threat” to Miss Garland if Judy misbehaved. June and Judy performing together for the first time in 1963. Today is Judy Garland’s birthday. She would have been 93, had she not died in 1969 of an accidental overdose in London at the age of 47. Time w...