Word: liza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe not, but it certainly helped her to develop what she had. When Liza was born, Judy was still at the height of her career. It was 1946, and for postwar Americans she still evoked the simpler times when Andy Hardy was in love and the Land of Oz was rainbow hued. Meanwhile, Liza's father, a courtly, cultivated man whom she still idolizes, was busy creating such polished movie musicals as Ziegfeld Follies and Meet Me in St. Louis. Though sometimes frenetic, family life was full of laughter, flowers and music. It was also somehow unreal...
...Bergen, another childhood friend. "Our birthday parties, for example, were organized follies. There had to be trained-dog acts, magicians, cartoons, triple screenings of new movies?every imaginable extravagance. One of our friends even had an electric waterfall. It was all highly surrealistic, like living in a big playroom." Liza adds: "I remember a picture flashed through my mind, like a painting, at one of the parties. I had a feeling: This is not the average. This isn't the ordinary life...
That is the least that could be said. Liza's friends liked coming to her house because they could play dress-up better there than anyplace else in Hollywood?or the world. Their dresses might be miniature versions of costumes from movies, for example a replica of a waltz gown worn by Deborah Kerr in The King...
After school Liza would run over to MGM to watch the shooting, the way any other kid might go to her father's office. "It seemed like a factory to me," she says. "I loved it. I got so that I knew every inch of it, all the short cuts to different stages and all the underground passages. And all the people there knew me." Minnelli let her ride the boom with him when he was lining up a shot, giving her a view of film making that very few actresses have had. "What really interested me, though, was watching...
Little Drama. Judy had been released from her MGM contract in 1950, after her increasingly erratic emotional behavior made her a truant from work on several pictures. A year later Judy and Minnelli were amicably divorced, and although Liza continued to see a great deal of her father, her young life was becoming complicated. Judy soon married her manager Sid Luft and embarked on a nomadic life. By the time Liza was 16, she had been to a score of schools, from Chadwick School in Palos Verdes, Calif., to suburban New York's Scarsdale High, to Whittingham in London...