Judy Garland, or Frances Ethel Gumm, as she was then called, was born to Frank and Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, on June 10, 1922. Home and business blurred together in the Gumm household, who were vaudeville entertainers and hired their three children to sign up with the act as soon as they were old adequate to hold a tune. Frances, the youngest, was not yet three years old when she made her launching. “The roar of the crowd– that wonderful, terrific sound– is something I have actually been taking in because I was two years old,” the Hollywood legend when said.In 1926, the household transferred to California to pursue further success in showbiz. The Gumm Sis, as their trio was known, had only just recently altered their names when the one who would go on to fill Dorothy’s sparkly red shoes was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1935. At the age of 13, Judy Garland was born once again. But simply a few weeks later, her daddy suddenly passed away of meningitis. The accomplishment, so closely stressed by an excellent loss, would be emblematic of Garland’s life– one loaded with the high low and high lows that featured studio stardom.In her minutes off the studio lot, Garland lived in a wide array of Los Angeles homes, along with in New York and in London. She shared the homes with a series of 5 husbands and three children, two of whom would follow the household custom and end up being stars in their own right. Below, we’re exploring the film icon’s home life in photos.
Judy and good friends in their new lawn.
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A star is born
Seeking a clean slate following the catastrophe of Frank’s death, Ethel and her children moved into a 1920s Tudor on a corner lot in Los Angeles’s Hancock Park area in early 1936, according to biographer Scott Schechter in his book Judy Garland: The Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Legend. Here, a 16-year-old Garland poses with two of her dogs in front of the home in 1938, the exact same year that production started on the movie that would seal her as a bonafide star: The Wizard of Oz.