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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Change? Unlike Dorothy of Oz, Judy Garland never really had a backyard to call her own. Born Frances Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn., Judy was a vaudeville trouper at the age of five. Her father died when she was twelve, and her mother, as Judy remarked bitterly years later, "was no good for anything except to create cha os and fear. She was the worst - the real-life Wicked Witch of the West." The nearest thing to a home that Judy had was the MGM lot in Hollywood, where - between long agonizing hours before the camera - Louis B. Mayer sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: End of the Rainbow | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...experience won fierce affection from her fans despite sometimes erratic performances; in London, where her body was discovered in a bathroom of her house in Chelsea. "I've been through a lot," she once explained after a tardy appearance. "We love you, Judy," the audience replied. Born Francess Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn., to parents in vaudeville, she made her stage debut at 3 and became a national legend at 17 in the film The Wizard of Oz by singing of her longing to be somewhere Over the Rainbow. She attempted suicide in 1950 but then had wildly successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 27, 1969 | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* All of a sudden, it's a fearless foursome when The Green Hornet and Kato join forces with the Dynamic Duo to bring down the villainous Colonel Gumm (Roger Carmel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema: Mar. 3, 1967 | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

Sothern Lake. The largest group is the Readily Understandables. Issur Danielovitch lacks, well, euphony. So the name was shortened to Kirk Douglas. It is also understandable why Tula Ellice Finklea would want to change her name to Cyd Charisse, Frances Gumm to Judy Garland, Bernie Schwartz to Tony Curtis, Sarah Jane Fulks to Jane Wyman, Emma Motzo to Lizabeth Scott, Judith Tuvim to Judy Holliday, Doris Kappelhoff to Doris Day, Aaron Chwatt to Red Buttons, Zelma Hedrick to Kathryn Grayson, Eunice Quedens to Eve Arden, Natasha Gurdin to Natalie Wood, Barney Zanville to Dane Clark, and William Beedle to William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egos: Melting the Pot | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...Harry Gumm Sr. (circus clown), K6MDD

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: HAMS' WHO'S WHO | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

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