Article: A STAR IS REBORN; Judy Davis shares more than a first name with Judy Garland in an ABC miniseries.(VARIETY)

What's an Aussie doing in those ruby-red shoes?

It seems only right that if anyone besides a lip-synching drag queen dares imitate Judy Garland, they'd better hail from the U.S. of A. After all, Garland was the most emotional interpreter of the American songbook and starred in her own All-American soap opera: a Minnesota girl with stars in her eyes who eventually overdosed on fame. What's next? Russell Crowe as Abe Lincoln?

Well, don't fly over the rainbow just yet. In "Life With Judy Garland: Me & My Shadows," Australian actress Judy Davis proves, once again, that she's an international treasure.

She's shed her Down Under accent before, most ...

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