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...child or that I was a poor little waif, a vagabond gypsy kid." Neither was true. Or both. "I may have been reared strangely compared with other kids, but I had a swell time growing up. Really." Childhood was visiting movie sets where Judy was filming or where Liza's father, Vincente Minnelli, was directing. It was enormous birthday parties, "all with the same hired clown." It was on the set watching Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse dancing, being spoiled by Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker while visiting her father on location, being fascinated not one whit...
Outside the Door. Liza herself comes equipped with much the same kind of versatile and volatile talent. She can belt out a song with the best of them, Judy Garland included. Her dancing is spirited and ceaseless. Her acting has been known to bring on spontaneous bursts of applause from the movie crew. She can move people to laughter and to tears with equal ease-sometimes simultaneously...
...other's arms, crying and carrying on. But one day she did it and I took her up on it. I went to New York. I had my plane fare and $100, and I've never taken a penny since. Perfect." After a few nights with friends, Liza moved into the sheltered, regimented Barbizon Hotel for Women. Liza says: "I went bananas!" After that-two nights on a park bench in Central Park and then onto another friend's couch for two years...
...myself about the reasons success happened so easily for me: my mother and the curiosity factor," says Liza. When she was 18, her mother asked her to share the bill at a Judy Garland comeback at the London Palladium. "That was terrifying," says Liza. "First of all, Mama was so adored. It's hard to buck that orgy of emotion. Second, Mama suddenly realized that she had a grown-up daughter, that she wasn't a kid herself any more. She became very competitive with me." By 19 Liza had the lead in a Broadway musical, Flora...
...Five years ago her mother introduced her to Australian Rock Singer Peter Allen. Two years later, they were married. For Liza, there are no doubts whatsoever about this marriage of hers: it will work. It is working. "Peter is my rock," she says. "I love him. In fact I like him. I really like him." Though she loves to be with friends, talking, talking, talking, she claims, "I'm a little shy, especially in crowds. Except when I'm wafting." Wafting? "That's when you pretend you're not really you. It's like when...