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Instant Bestseller!

(The New York Times, Sunday, April 22, 2000)

Praise for Get Happy

"We asked Biography Book Club members what they wanted to read next and we got our answer loud and clear. More than 35% of you voted for our June selection, Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, by Gerald Clarke."
Biography Magazine, June 2000

"...a phenomenal job chronicling Garland's 47 years on Earth...Clarke describes Garland's glorious voice and natural ability on screen and on the concert stage so vividly that you can hear her singing as you read...It's a triumph of Get Happy that Clarke makes you care about Garland even when you want to slap her around. He has written a compelling, tragic book, a story like a runaway train that you ride to the end, knowing it's going to crash, unable to jump off."
Ellen Jaffe-Gill, Hollywood Reporter, April 17, 2000

"Judy Garland—again? Is there really anyone left who still gives two hoots in Oz about her sad life and squalid death? Y

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Very inspiring!! FANTASTIC

I can't say enough about Get Happy. Just what a doc should be. Something one doesn't know much about and at the end are more interested that you imagined. You can't make up this kind of story! The family is fascinating. Mark's grandmother and mother are hero's! The story has universal appeal. I saw it in Arkansas with a very conservative straight audience and people were riveted. Every parent should see this film and they should show it in schools. I noticed it has won many awards. It should be nominated for an Academy Award it is that good. A great look at the maturing of an artist who had support and understanding from his mom and grandmother. It left you wanting more!!!

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An Interview With Gerald Clarke, Recorded on April 4, 2000.

By JANET MASLIN

GET HAPPY
The Life of Judy Garland.
By Gerald Clarke.
Illustrated. 510 pp. New York:
Random House. $29.95.

hat do Odysseus, Sir Galahad and pigtailed little Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz" have in common? Answer: lonely quests through hostile territory. But this is no parlor game. It's the high-minded desperation that serves as ballast for "Get Happy," Gerald Clarke's scandal-seeking yet curiously wan biography of Judy Garland. In the long shadow of the author's splendid portrait of Truman Capote, "Get Happy" recalls James Agee's complaint that "The Clock," a Vincente Minnelli film in which Garland starred, "inspires ingratitude for not being great."

Clarke puts himself at a serious disadvantage in moving from a fresh, witty, reasonably unexamined subject like Capote to a woman whose entire adult life unfolded in a climate of sob-sister press scrutiny. Her triumphs and calamities were chronicled with tireless vigor.