Judy Garland

Genres:	Comedy • Documentaries • Drama • Holiday & Seasonal • Holiday & Seasonal • Kids & Family • Music Videos & Concerts • Musicals & The Arts • Pop / Rock • Silent Films • Soundtracks • Television • Vocals
Descriptive "tags":	female vocalists • jazz • oldies • musicals • broadway • american • 40s
Decades Active:	1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	Discography • IMDb • Wikipedia

Biography

Frances Ethel Gumm, 10 June 1922, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA, d. 22 June 1969, Chelsea, London, England. The Gumms were a theatrical family. Parents Frank and Ethel had appeared in vaudeville as Jack and Virginia Lee, and later, with the addition of their first two daughters, Mary Jane and Virginia, they appeared locally as ‘The Four Gumms’. ‘Baby Frances’ joined the troupe when she was just over two years of age, and it was quickly apparent that with her arrival, even at that early age, the Gumm family had outgrown their locale. The family moved to Los Angeles, where all three girls were enrolled in a dance school. When Frank Gumm bought a run-down theatre in Lancaster, a desert town north of Los Angeles, the family moved again. Domestic problems beset the Gumm family throughout this period and Frances’ life was further disrupted by Ethel Gumm’s determined belief in her youngest daughter’s showbusiness potential. The act had...

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