Tag: Frank Sinatra
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Judy Garland: The Blue Bird Has Flown
As a kid I watched her early movies—the cheesy faux-America Andy Hardy ones—on an old TV I stole from the attic. I had a special routine for watching Judy Garland (June 10, 1922-June 22, 1969): lying on my bed, propped up on my elbows and peeling a McIntosh apple with the rusted bean peeler from…
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To Hell with God Damned “L’Amour” (A Letter from Noel Coward)
By 1956, Noel Coward and Marlene Dietrich had been friends for over two decades. One day, Coward received a letter from his old pal in which she lay out her broken heart and told a tale of humiliation. What should she do? How could she go on? Immediately, the playwright sat down to write an…
Dana Dunbaugh Burnell 