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Article: Judy Davis shines in Garland role.(Arts & Entertainment)(Television)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 24, 2001
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The casting seems so improbable - Judy Davis playing Judy Garland. This is a very contemporary actress with no known musical talent playing an old-school diva with one of the century's most distinctive singing voices.
But once you've seen how the difficulties are handled in "Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows," a two-part TV movie showing on ABC tomorrow and Monday, it actually seems half-sane. The four-hour work based on the biography by Lorna Luft, one of Miss Garland's daughters, skirts the problems of nonmusical actors through lip-synching.
While all the scenes from her movies and concerts were re-created, and we never see a shot of the ...
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...DAVIS, Garland Nelson Sr., 66, of Salem ... Robert C. and Ann Mabry Davis and was preceded in death ... survived by his wife, Adna L. Davis of Salem; daughter, Debra ... and Cathy Lamb of Bedford, Garland N. Jr. and fianc, Mary ...
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