Judy Garland
\n(1922 – 1969)
\nInducted in 1991<\/p>\n
Frances Ethel Gumm, known to millions of music and movie fans as Judy Garland, was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Judy Garland (1922 – 1969) Inducted in 1991 Frances Ethel Gumm, known to millions of music and movie fans as Judy Garland, was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Garland was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[101,97,65,96,57,45],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-13","category-inductee","tag-101","tag-grand-rapids","tag-inductee","tag-judy-garland","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-music-hall-of-fame"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGarland was the third daughter of vaudeville entertainers Frank and Ethel Gumm. 2 \u00bd year old Judy gave her first public performance at her father\u2019s theater on Christmas of 1924 singing \u201cJingle Bells.\u201d She toured the United States with her
\nsister in a musical act until her screen debut in the short film Every Sunday<\/em>. Achieving
\ncritical notice for the musical film Broadway Melody of 1938<\/em>, she followed with Thoroughbreds Don\u2019t Cry<\/em>, a film that initiated her partnership with juvenile star Mickey Rooney. The Wizard of Oz<\/em> in 1939, based on the novel by L. Frank Baum,
\nbrought Garland international stardom and became an all-time film classic, for
\nwhich she was honored with a special Academy Award. Judy’s musical career also took her to further stardom, with many hits on major label MGM Records. Nobody worked harder than Judy Garland, nobody equaled her magical hold over audiences, and nobody was ever so loved by her public!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"