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15 Ways Judy Garland Out-Sex-And-Drugged Most Rock Stars

When you think of rock and roll, you may not think of Judy Garland, but there’s every reason that you should.

15 Ways Judy Garland Out-Sex-And-Drugged Most Rock Stars

August 31, 2022

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Her Tragic Death

Her Tragic Death GRACKED.COM Sadly, it all caught up to Garland in 1969, when she was found dead of what was ruled an incautious self-overdosage with the equivalent of 10 Seconals in her system, ingested over the course of several hours. That might seem like a lot of drugs to for- get you took, but the woman was up to 40 pills a day. We don't even re- member if we took our antidepressant this morning. — Google Books

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Judy Garland

Semi-Nude Serenades CRACKED.COM On a trip to Nassau, the manager re- called putting an intoxicated Garland to bed only to come back and find her on the balcony in her underwear, singing Over the Rainbow to a group of long- shoremen on the street below. It's hard to know what to do in that situation, whether to look away or simply accept the good fortune of a free Judy Garland show and applaud, but it seems the men did the latter. — Google Books

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Not Even a Glass Table to the Face Could Wake Her Up

Not Even a Glass Table to the Face Could Wake Her Up GRACKED.COM The manager of her comeback tour in the early '60s also wrote that one night, as Garland stum- bled to bed, she face-planted into a glass coffee table. Мо- tionless and bleeding profusely, the manager thought she was dead, but it turned out she was just sleeping. — Google Books

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Judy Garland

She Was Constantly Setting Herself on Fire CRACKED.COM Garland had a habit of passing out with a cigarette in her hand, which led to at least two fires, one in 1953 in which she barely escaped the flames when her husband carried her out of the burning bedroom and then a few years later when she suffered burns to her legs af- ter her nightgown caught fire. Even in her delirious state, she managed to quip to her manager, I better wear tights. — Radar

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She Was Probably Bisexual

She Was Probably Bisexual CRACKED.COM Much like those who dress up as her to- day, Garland almost certainly enjoyed same-gender relations. How often and with whom are hard to pin down, but one of her partners was probably MGM publicist Betty Asher, who was so close to Garland that many suspected they were more than just gals being pals. She was also a studio spy, but that doesn't necessarily preclude naked time. See: every James Bond movie. — Mission Mag

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The Singer and the Songwriter

The Singer and the Songwriter CRACKED.COM You know the Frank Sinatra song That Old Black Magic? It's about Garland, written by Johnny Mercer, who she dat- ed in the '40s and also wrote such clas- sics as Moon River and Jeepers Creepers. Then she also banged Frank Sinatra because nobody knew how to make something all about her like Gar- land (though she complained that all he wants is blow jobs). — Google Books

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40 Pills a Day

40 Pills a Day Ritalin OKEY CONTROLLED DRUG POSSESSION WITHOUT AUTHORITY ILLEGAL KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN b NOVARTIS OL Ritalin® 10 AUST R 11052 METHYLPHENIDATE HYDROCHLORIDE 10 mg CRACKED.COM It's no wonder she had to re- sort to such drastic mea- sures -- by 1968, Garland was taking 40 Ritalin pills every day. We took exactly one of those things one time in college, and we're pretty sure she was superhuman. — Medium

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She Robbed Parties

She Robbed Parties CRACKED.COM Perhaps emboldened by her rou- tine tap-dancing heists, Garland soon developed a reputation for shamelessly burgling medicine chests at parties. Van Johnson's wife even got an earful from Rosa- lind Russell after bringing Garland to a party at her house only to leave her medicine cabinet com- pletely empty. — Google Books

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The Gene Kelly System

The Gene Kelly System CRACKED.COM If you were thinking this was going to be another affair, surprise! It's drugs! When not even her mobile pharmaceutical gang could satisfy her, Garland began making semi-frequent stops at the Kelly residence, which was halfway between her own home and the studio, to use the bathroom, which Kelly's wife soon realized was code for steal just enough of their sleeping pills to put them in a newfangled Gaslight situation. — Google Books

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Her Slapstick Affair With Orson Welles

Her Slapstick Affair With Orson Welles CRACKED.COM While she was engaged to Vincente Mi- nelli and he was married to Rita Hay- worth, Garland's affair with Orson Welles reached sitcom hijinks levels of wacky. She once sent him a bouquet of flowers that Hayworth assumed were for her and invited both her fiance and lover to dinner on the same night, but quick thinking relieved her from the ne- cessity of pulling a two dates in the same restaurant. — Google Books

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Her Network of Drug Dealers

Her Network of Drug Dealers SL NDd aps Magnes CRACKED.COM By 1949, Garland had such a well-oiled machine of doctors and pharmacists supplying her with drugs that friends observed each evening, between seven and eight o'clock, something like half a dozen motorcycles brought drugstore deliveries from miles around. Again, that's hardcore, but like ... man, that is hardcore. — Google Books

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She Nabbed Zorro

She Nabbed Zorro TYRUNL THE MARI POWER OF Zorri WITH DARNEI LINDA BASIL из RATHBOI GALE EUCENE In fact, Mank, Jr. was a diversion from Tyrone Power, best known for 1940's The Mask of Zorro and being the Chris Evans of his day, while he was training with the Ma- rines. All three were technically or overtly married at the time, so it was a real mobius strip of infideli- ty. — https://www.google.com/books/edition/Get_Happy/FKtFaIyuInAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=tyrone%20power

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She Got Around

She Got Around CRACKED.COM Contrary to the innocent persona she played onscreen, Garland had friends-with-benefits relationships with her fellow teen idols from the time she was 15. Between (and sometimes during) marriages, she had affairs with some of Hollywood's most desirable men, includ- ing bandleader Artie Shaw (who went on to marry Lana Turner and Ava Gardner), actor Glenn Ford, and screenwriter Joseph Mankiewicz (yes, Mank's brother). What can we say but get it, girl? — Google Books

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She Was Married Five Times

She Was Married Five Times CRACKED GOM Every rock star has a string of short-lived marriages, and Garland was no different. She'd had five hus- bands by the time of her death at 47, only one of which lasted longer than a few years (one lasted only three months), and as she got older, they stayed roughly the same age. Yes, Judy Garland was the Golden Age Matthew McConaughey. — Town and Country

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Judy Garland

MGM Started Her Young GRACKED.COM After signing with MGM when she was just 13, the studio put Judy on the stan- dard regimen of pills to keep us on our feet long after we were exhausted, then they'd take us to the studio hospital and knock us out with sleeping pills ... then after four hours they'd wake us up and give us the pep pills again so we could work 72 hours in a row. That would turn even most adults into Ozzy Osbourne, shuffling around in perpetual disorienta- tion and somehow with a British accent. — History

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