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Judy Garland at 100: Still ‘The World’s Greatest Entertainer’

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Jon Burlingame editorJudy Garland, who would have turned 100 years old this week, wasn’t just billed as “the world’s greatest entertainer” – in her time, she really was.Garland was much more than just little Dorothy Gale from Kansas who once had an adventure in far-off Oz.

She spent 45 of her 47 years in show business, eventually making 34 feature films and more than 200 radio appearances, releasing 80 singles and 12 albums, making 60 TV appearances (including 30 of her own shows), and doing 1,100 concerts.“She had the amazing ability to convey joy and pathos and humor and sincerity and honesty,” says author and Emmy-winning producer John Fricke (“Judy Garland: A Portrait in Art and Anecdote”), “yet by giving of herself on that level, she had no guard, no protective shield.

She was a million percent vulnerable.” SEE MORE: Judy Garland: Her Life in PhotosJust watch 16-year-old Judy sing “Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) for that honesty; or “Get Happy” from “Summer Stock” (1950) for sheer joy; or the filmed-in-a-single-take “The Man That Got Away” from “A Star Is Born” (1954) for the undeniable pathos.

Add “A Couple of Swells” from “Easter Parade” (1948) for that inimitable sense of humor and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” from “Meet Me in St.

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