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...Australian Singer Lana Cantrell. Clarke too can be nimble. Though he switched from TIME Essays to Show Business and Television only last month, he managed to finish his cover story on Flip Wilson for the Jan. 31 issue just in time to meet the challenge of getting to know Liza Minnelli...
WHEN you are Judy Garland's daughter, you don't grow up as other children do. Liza Minnelli, the only child of Judy's marriage to Director Vincente Minnelli, was born into a bizarre fairy tale in which she was destined to be both the princess and the scullery maid. Her life had a careening plot line with glittering characters and fantastic reversals of fortune. At one moment she was a pampered Hollywood brat; at another she was holding together a disintegrating ménage, playing nurse to Judy and Judy's sliding career, hiring servants they could no longer afford...
When you are Judy's daughter, performing is almost the only mode of existence you know. From her earliest days, Liza took in her mother's performances and visited her father's sets. She was "on" all the time. Recalls Kay Thompson, Liza's godmother and the author of the Eloise books: "The language of the house was: 'What time is rehearsal? When is the next recording session? The script has to be ready by tomorrow.' And it was all mixed with a great rushing to get to the studio...
Then, too, when you are Judy's daughter you inevitably grow up in your mother's shadow. In her early professional appearances, Liza had to face audiences that came to see her largely because she was "Judy Garland's kid" and were frankly skeptical about whether she could measure up to the name. In time she did?and then some. She played in an off-Broadway musical, starred in one on Broadway, and won roles in three movies. She made records, appeared on TV and went out on the nightclub circuit...
...when many performers are still living in fifth-floor walk-ups, Liza was earning close to a million dollars a year...