She was so pretty when she was young, beautiful...  her eyes,  she had such pretty eyes,  Soulful eyes...  I don't know how anybody could call her ugly? she was natural, had an innocence.

I thought I was the only one obsessed with her performance of old man river!!!  When she sang "I'm tired of living but scared of dying" I  FELT THAT!

it’s crazy how judy doesn’t have to hit the highest notes or anything like that her voice is just pure power and beauty

I would love to see an analysis of Kathy Bates' win for Misery. She was an unknown who won for a horror film (and a Stephen King adaptation no less). It seems unprecedented in this category or the Oscars in general.

Omg, that video of Judy singing the hell out of Old Man River is one of the best things I've ever seen.

Damn that ending gave me chills. She was one of the real ones.

This is by far one of the best channels on youtube. Scholar-level research, perfect editing, always fascinating and informative. Your writing has style and voice, and your passion for film history is so apparent without overriding the professional tone of your analysis. I'm a huge, huge fan.

Anne Hathaway fought for a damn long time to bring Judy Garland's life to the screen. As she, like you and me, stans Judy and has given amazing vocal performances and has Oscar calibre acting chops I wish this would happen.

I’ve never understood how she wasn’t seen as “that kind of beautiful”. Since I was a child I’ve found her breathtakingly beautiful and mesmerising - and still do.

i saw a doc about her where she was filming harvey girls..she was getting makeup for the atkinson train number and the whole time she was getting makeup the director was telling her what he wanted from her in the scene..she would say yes ...she got up and did the whole scene in one take.  she had a photographic memory.  one look at a sheet of music or script and she had it.  this was said by the director by the way.  i  loved her.

From how you’ve described the structure of the biopic, it sounds like they couldn’t get the rights to 90% of her life story.

Tired of living and scared of dying...
That song, those words are so haunting.

18:15 Seeing Judy's films as the best way to honor her legacy is exactly what her daughter, Lorna Luft, said about this new film. "...I feel that if you really want to know about my mom, go see her movies, go listen to her recordings, and go watch her television shows, and that's how you'll know about her."

This is an intelligent angle for a review: less a critique, but an assist to understand a movie further.

Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf - great performance without singing. Some voices just cannot be replaced

She should have won the Oscar for  'A Star is Born '

It’s possible that Judy’s estate didn’t want the worst of her years (or her true fall from grace) portrayed honestly.

There never was, isn't, and never will be anything like Judy Garland in her prime. She held the world in the palm of her hand. Her voice was absolutely unbelievable. Her acting broke your heart or had you laughing til you cried. She could dance with the absolute best of them. She was, without question, the greatest American entertainer of all time. Thank you for this. Made me cry in all the right ways.

I saw the movie a few days ago and I walked out saying "I feel like the directors wanted to do a full biopic but were either told no by the studio or they didn't want to be compared to the Judy Davis TV Movie."

Having Renee Zellweger sing as Judy Garland kind of reminds me of when they had Reese Witherspoon singing as June Carter in the film Walk the Line. I mean, yes, that's a tough, virtually impossible act to follow! But it doesn't make it any less disappointing to know how hard it must have been to try.

In June Carter's case, they did a lot better replicating her sound in the made-for-Lifetime movie Ring of Fire, I guess because they hired a singer (Jewel) and had her act rather than hiring an actor and asking her to sing. I mean, both Witherspoon and Zellweger have sung in musical films, but for June Carter or for Judy Garland, you really need to hire someone who can belt it out. These are LOUD women with BIG, lived-in voices!