Wen | wild away
That year, someone invited Temple to star in "The Wizard of Oz", but she was rejected in disguise by the Fox company she was working for at the time, so Judy Garland had the opportunity to star in the movie that made her a hit.
Later, everyone knows that "The Wizard of Oz" has been a huge success, and Temple's company has made a wrong choice, which has made Judy Garland and indirectly weakened Temple's fame.
Both are very well-known child stars in Hollywood, and in their careers, they are competitors with each other, but in terms of life encounters, the two people have striking similarities.
I've written about Temple before, and here, I want to focus on Judy Garland.
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Unlike Temple, Garland was born into a family that was not wealthy, and she had two older sisters, who were forced to make ends meet, and the three sisters "worked" in the small theater run by their father very early on, that is, formed a sister group and performed on stage.
Because her mother is an actor, Jialan, who is only 2 years old, will perform on stage, and Jialan, who grew up in this environment, can't really say if he doesn't cultivate some artistic bacteria in the day after tomorrow.
Therefore, at a very young age, Jialan can sing and dance, the typhoon is also very stable, after many tours, the sisters have also accumulated a small reputation, and the father began to intentionally raise his daughters.
Before a dream comes true, the most important thing is to dare to dream.
The opportunity came, when Garland was 13 years old, she was photographed by Meyer, the boss of the well-known American film company MGM, a veteran of countless people, who had a premonition in her heart that this seemingly unassuming girl would become another cash cow of the company in the future.
But objectively speaking, although Jialan sings very well and has sufficient stage experience, in terms of appearance conditions, in Hollywood, where beautiful women are like clouds, she really does not carry a fight, and she is only one meter and five years tall.
Just entered the company, coupled with the innate appearance conditions are not very good, she often suffers from the malicious ridicule of the boss around her, only a teenage girl, sensitive and fragile, in this malicious environment, with a hint of stubbornness and humility, tenacious survival.
If you know how to be patient, you have the opportunity to come forward, and this opportunity is to star in "The Wizard of Oz". But at that time she was 17 years old, to play a girl a little old, what to do?
How does her developed body fit into children's clothing? This is not difficult for those masters who have seen the big wind and waves, good at changing their faces, put on body-shaping clothes and chest wraps, and then paint children's clothes, plus she herself is not very tall, it is easy to solve.
Once the film was broadcast, it swept the United States and then spread to other countries. Jialan's cute and cute image is deeply rooted in people's hearts, and the song she sang "Crossing the Rainbow" was sung in the streets.
Because of this outstanding performance and the perfect interpretation of the character image, Garland also won the Academy Award for Best Young Actor.
Garland's money-making machine seems to have been activated, and the capitalists are happy and begin to calculate how to make more money in this machine and how to squeeze her value dry.
For Jialan, this popularity is heaven and purgatory.
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Striking iron while it is hot has always been a common means used by capitalist bosses, and in order to maintain The image of Jialan in the hearts of the audience, her living and eating are strictly required.
For example, the full work schedule will seriously squeeze sleep time, huge physical and mental consumption, but in the name of weight control, appetite control, and even be reprimanded for drinking an extra glass of milk.
The body not only issued a warning once, but also could not sleep, then take sleeping pills. If you are overweight, then give her diet pills. Not only did the boss ask for this, but even Garland's mother asked her to do so.
This can easily lead to drug addiction.
What is even more unacceptable is that as her health deteriorates, in order to stimulate her to be in good shape during work, the company will give her stimulants.
It's not about destroying her, it's about trying to use her while trying to destroy her.
Garland became an uncompromising medicine pot, which was also a stumbling block in her feelings, and once a composer who Garland liked and wanted to start a family with her mocked her for this:
If we get married, then you'll have a sleeping pill out, not a child.
In the colorful Hollywood, there is also a phenomenon that is easily overlooked but real and exists in large quantities, that is, psychologically abnormal people with pedophilia, hiding in dark corners, and staring at those child stars.
Temple was targeted, and Garland was not spared.
Temple once pointed out:
The number one problem in Hollywood is pedophilia.....I didn't know until I was growing up that the people around me were like vultures.
And the vulture that surrounds Garland is her boss, Meyer.
Temple had a choice and a way out, she died at the age of 22, but Garland did not, her father died, her mother was a cash cow, and the boss did not want to let her go for the time being.
Is there another way out, will there be a savior?
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I don't know if Garland really can't see the man's eyes, or if he is too eager to grab a man's hand and use the other party's strength to save himself in the bottomless swamp.
But who knows if this hand that is reaching out to himself is trying to pull himself along, or whether he is pushing deeper into the abyss?
Garland has never been so lucky.
Her first marriage happened when she was 19 years old, shortly after she became popular, how could the company allow her to get married and have children when her career was in full swing? Besides, at that time, Jialan was really pregnant.
In the face of the company's opposition and her mother's interference, Garland had an abortion, and the marriage of less than three years came to an end.
In the year of divorce, Garland met the famous director Vincent Minnelly on a movie. Two people always seem to have a lot to talk about together, and a year later, they are married.
Soon after marriage, there was a lovely daughter, with a deeper understanding of each other, Jialan also gradually found that the other party is actually a homosexual, married to Jialan, perhaps to cover up, to put it bluntly, this is the form of marriage.
Having already experienced a failed marriage, this time Jialan has children with her husband, and she really doesn't know where to go after this.
Restlessness and serious uneasiness from within plunged her into a great mental vortex.
This led to her relying more on drugs to maintain a relatively normal life, but in the film business, she could no longer make a bigger wave, and she kept on a slippery slope, and MGM was no longer willing to continue working with her, and then fired her.
Nine months later, Garland was also relieved from this unsustainable marriage.
After falling into the abyss and being reborn from the fire, Jialan put his energy and focus on the tour, and the performance for 19 consecutive weeks ushered in another peak of his career.
It is said that this performance at the Grand Theatre broke box office records and won a Tony Award, and she also gained love, which was her tour manager Sid Luft.
The two soon married and had two children, and the 13-year marriage was Garland's longest-lasting marriage.
What caused the marriage to break up was West Germany's excessive gambling and domestic violence, and also took away Garland's performance income, resulting in the family's life in embarrassment.
It is said that it is not more than three, but after Garland falls into the spell of marriage, whether it is life or mental state, it slides into the unfathomable valley.
The two marriages after this also brought more pain than joy to Jialan, and even people doubted that since Jialan began to get married and last divorced, how many days did she have been happy?
She survived on drugs and alcohol, and even cut her own throat with a blade.
There is no savior in this world, and if there is, it is the drug that makes her love and hate.
In the early morning of June 22, 1969, Garland died on the toilet in the bathroom of her home due to an overdose of sleeping pills.
Perhaps, the drug is really the savior who takes her out of this miserable world and into the world of Elysium.
She was 47 years old.
In 1999, she was selected by the American Film Institute as the 8th "Greatest Actress of a Hundred Years."
At that time, Temple was still trying to climb on the road to politics.
And enjoy the sweetness and happiness brought by this second marriage and family.
Temple once said: If I could live again, I would not make any changes to my life.
Her life was full, rich, and magnificent.
I don't know the same question asked Bygaran, what kind of answer would she make?
If there is an afterlife, I hope the world will be gentler to her.