Judy Davis shines in Garland role.(Arts & Entertainment)(Television)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: February 24, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

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 ...

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