Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

The remarkable, true story of a Hollywood family and the young woman who lived in the shadows of two Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. 16-page photo insert.

Me And My Shadows: A Family Memoir by Lorna Luft (1998-05-03)

Biographies & Memoirs

Luft, Lorna

Arts & Literature

Pocket_Books

Me and My Shadows: A Family Story

Adapted for a two-part mini-series, nominated for 13 Emmy Awards, this is the memoir of Lorna Luft - a remarkable woman and talented performer - her half-sister Liza Minnelli and baby brother Joe, as they desperately try to hang on to their legendary mother, Judy Garland. With wit and candid detail, this is an account of survival in a world of dizzying contradiction. By learning to embrace her past, Lorna Luft has managed to emerge out of the shadows.

Me and My Shadows : Life With Judy Garland

Pan/Macmillan

The daughter of Judy Garland describes how it felt growing up in the shadows of her famous mother and half-sister, Liza Minnelli, as well as the painful experience she endured watching Garland succumb to her drug and alcohol dependence.

Me And My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Humor & Entertainment

Atria

The question follows Lorna Luft to this day: "What's it like to be Dorothy's daughter" Although by appearances glamorous and truly thrilling, growing up as the daughter of Judy Garland was anything but a journey over the rainbow. With unsparing candor, Lorna Luft offers the first-ever insider portrait of one of Hollywood's most celebrated families: a rare story of a little girl, her half-sister Liza, and her baby brother trying desperately to hang on to the mother whose life seemed destined to burn brightly but briefly. Lorna makes an extraordinary journey back into the spiral of love, addiction, pain, and loss that lurked behind a charmed facade. Filled with behind-the-scenes dramas, hilarious untold stories, and little-known details of Garland family life, Me and My Shadows is a tribute to Lorna's victory over her own past, a story of hope, of love and its limitations, and a deeply moving testament to the healing powers of embracing one's past and charting a course of self-love and discovery.

GALLERY BOOKS

New York Times bestselling author and daughter of Judy Garland tells the story of A Star Is Born -- at once the crowning achievement and greatest disappointment in her mother's legendary career. This is a vivid account of a film classic's production, loss, and reclamation. A Star Is Born -- the classic Hollywood tale about a young talent rising to superstardom, and the downfall of her mentor/lover along the way -- has never gone out of style. It has seen five film adaptations, but none compares to the 1954 version starring Judy Garland in her greatest role. But while it was the crowning performance of the legendary entertainer's career, the production turned into one of the most talked about in movie history. The story, which depicts the dark side of fame, addiction, loss, and suicide, paralleled Garland's own tumultuous life in many ways. While hitting alarmingly close to home for the fragile star, it ultimately led to a superlative performance -- one that was nominated for an Academy Award, but lost in one of the biggest upsets in Oscar history. Running far too long for the studio's tastes, Warner Bros. notoriously slashed extensive amounts of footage from the finished print, leaving A Star is Born in tatters and breaking the heart of both the film's star and director George Cukor. Today, with a director's cut reconstructed from previously lost scenes and audio, the 1954 A Star is Born has taken its deserved place among the most critically acclaimed movies of all time, and continues to inspire each new generation that discovers it. Now, Lorna Luft, daughter of Judy Garland and the film's producer, Sid Luft, tells the story of the production, and of her mother's fight to save her career, as only she could. Teaming with film historian Jeffrey Vance, A Star Is Born is a vivid and refreshingly candid account of the crafting, loss, and restoration of a movie classic, complemented by a trove of images from the family collection taken both on and off the set. The book also includes essays on the other screen adaptations of A Star Is Born, to round out a complete history of a story that has remained a Hollywood favorite for close to a century.

A Star Is Born: Judy Garland and the Film that Got Away (Turner Classic Movies)

Vance, Jeffrey

Turner Classic Movies

Running Press Adult

ME AND MY SHADOWS: A Family Memoir

The daughter of Judy Garland describes growing up in the shadows of her famous mother and half-sister, Liza Minnelli, as well as the painful experience of watching Garland succumb to her drug and alcohol dependence

Thorndike Pr

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Me And My Shadows: A Family Memoir by Lorna Luft (1998-05-03)

Me and My Shadows: A Family Story

Me and My Shadows : Life With Judy Garland

Me And My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

A Star Is Born: Judy Garland and the Film that Got Away (Turner Classic Movies)

Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir