In California, he found the unpublished memoir of Judy's makeup woman and closest confidante, a memoir centered almost entirely on Judy herself.Get Happyis, however, more than the story of one woman, remarkable as she was. In a Tennessee courthouse, he came across a thick packet of papers, unopened for ninety years, that laid out the previously hidden background of Judy's beloved father, Frank Gumm. To tell her story, Clarke took ten years, traveled thousands of miles across two continents, conducted hundreds of interviews, and dug through mountains of documents, many of which were unavailable to other biographers. Here, more than thirty years after her death, is the real Judy.
Yet much of what has previously been written about her is either inaccurate or incomplete, and the Garland the world thought it knew was merely a sketch for the astonishing woman Gerald Clarke portrays inGet Happy. The woman of a half-dozen comebacks, a hundred heartbreaks, and countless thousands of headlines. The brightest star of the Hollywood musical and an entertainer of almost magical power.
The girl with the pigtails, the symbol of innocence in The Wizard of Oz.
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