Who Is Liza Minnelli’s Mother?
Liza Minnelli’s mother was Judy Garland. Garland was an actress and a singer like her daughter.
Meet Judy Garland
Judy Garland was born on the 10th of June, 1922, and died on the 22nd of June, 1969. She was an actress and singer from the United States.
She is well recognized for her performance as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
She achieved international acclaim as an actress in both musical and dramatic parts, as a recording artist, and on the concert stage during the course of her 45-year career.
She won an Academy Juvenile Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Special Tony Award for her versatility. Garland was the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Judy at Carnegie Hall, which she received in 1961.
Judy Garland Career
The Gumm Sisters enrolled in Ethel Meglin’s dancing school in 1928, the proprietress of the Meglin Kiddies dance ensemble.
They took part in the troupe’s annual Christmas performance.
They made their cinematic debut as the Meglin Kiddies in the short film The Big Revue (1929), in which they performed a song-and-dance routine called “That’s the Good Old Sunny South.”
The following year, she made cameos in two Vitaphone short films:
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, Strike Up the Band, and Little Nellie Kelly was Garland’s three pictures produced in 1940.
In the final, she played both a mother and a daughter for the first time as an adult. George M. Cohan sold Little Nellie Kelly as a platform for her to display both her audience appeal and her physical looks.
Judy Garland’s Private Life
Garland was the mother of Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft. She was married five times. she was married to David Rose (m. 1941; div. 1944) Vincente Minnelli (m. 1945; div. 1951) Sidney Luft (m. 1952; div. 1965) Mark Herron (m. 1965; div. 1969) Mickey Deans (m. 1969).
Garland was found dead on June 22, 1969, in the toilet of her leased Belgravia, London, home in Cadogan Lane.
Her blood contained the equivalent of ten 1.5-grain (97 mg) Seconal pills, according to Coroner Gavin Thurston, who gave the inquest’s verdict: “an incautious self-overdose” of barbiturates was the cause of death.
