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She decided “The New Miss Show Biz: Liza Minnelli,”
Time
, Feb. 28, 1972.

Peter answered Nancy Barr to GC.

“Miss Minnelli” Alma Cousteline to GC.

When Judy was able John Carlyle to GC.

“She doesn’t want” Alma Cousteline to GC.

After hearing Lorna Doug Kelly to GC.

“Liza has a lot” John Carlyle to GC.

With no one else Frank,
Judy
, p. 584.

Anybody but Sid
U.S. v. Raymond R. Filiberti
, No. 63 CR 295, District Court for the Southern District of New York, March 27, 1963, and subsequently.

She undertook Vincent Canby, “Judy Garland Sets the Palace Alight,”
The New York Times
, Aug. 1, 1967.

“It was as if” Ernie Santosuosso, “Familiar Blockbuster Magic,”
The Boston Globe
, Sept. 1, 1967.

“We have taken” Min S. Yee, “100,408 Hear Judy on Common,”
The Boston Globe
, Sept. 1, 1967.

Though Judy initiated Thomas Pugh and Paul Meskil, “Judy Flies to London, Steals Home,” New York
Daily News
, Oct. 12, 1967; Frank,
Judy
, p. 595.

“Almost a classic” Rowland Posey to John Carlyle, Feb. 22, 1968. I am indebted to Carlyle for a copy of this letter.

Unless her bill Tom Green to GC.

Hauled off Tom Green, “Judy Garland Put Me in Jail,”
Photoplay
, April 1969.

Once unleashed Nancy Barr to GC.

“I loved Judy” Ibid.

Probably not knowing Luft,
Me and My Shadows
, p. 210.

The result Ibid., pp. 198-99.

That was followed Ibid., pp. 211–13.

“I’m a great star” Nancy Barr to GC.

The woman who had always John Carlyle to GC.

John Carlyle put her up Tucker Fleming and Charles Williamson to GC.

New candidates Meyer,
Heartbreaker
. My account of Judy’s affair with Meyer is largely based on his memoir, which details their weeks together day by day and often hour by hour.

Within days Ibid., p. 156.

“She can be greater” Ibid., p. 50.

Jackie Scott Jackie Scott to GC.

For Meyer, the exaltation John Meyer to GC.

“I finally got” Earl Wilson, “It Happened Last Night,”
New York Post
, Dec. 17, 1968.

“A cool cat” John Springer to GC.

“If I was dead broke” Unless otherwise noted, Mickey Deans’s statements were made to GC.

Given to blunt talk Mickey Deans to GC.

With a new man James Green, “Judy Wows ’Em with Songs to Remember,”
Evening News
(London), Dec. 31, 1968.

“If you can’t” “Jeers Rout Judy Garland on Hostile London Stage,”
Hollywood Citizen-News
, Jan. 24, 1969.

“God is” Mickey Deans to GC.

“I can’t understand it” Clive Hirschhorn, “Judy Weds but Stars Stay Away,”
Sunday Express
(London), March 16, 1969.

“Of course”
Expressen
(Stockholm), exact date unknown. I am grateful to Francis Gallagher for providing me with Judy’s Scandinavian reviews and their English translations.

“She was almost broke” David Wigg, “Judy Garland Gets 500 Theaters as Wedding Gift,”
Memphis
(Tenn.)
Press-Scimitar
, March 15, 1969.

To reap Ibid.

“I don’t know” Clive Hirschhorn, “Judy Weds but Stars Stay Away,”
Sunday Express
(London), March 16, 1969.

That was the vista Matthew West to GC.

“Mickey takes care” Arthur Helliwell, “Happy at Last!”
The People
(London), Jan. 5, 1969.

“Judy was in love” Robert Jorgen to GC. Jorgen also made the trip to Garfield, N.J.

Other times, West Matthew West to GC.

“I’ve got to get away” Tucker Fleming and Charles Williamson to GC.

“Look, Madame Gumm” John Carlyle to GC.

Thus it was Charles Cochran to GC.

“If you’d only come” Deans and Pinchot,
Weep No More, My Lady
, p. 217.

Thrilled to have become Robert Jorgen to GC.

After her ebullient performance Review by Sven Borre,
Ekstrabladet
(Copenhagen), March 26, 1969.

“I have a husband” Matthew West to GC.

The life she had led Meyer,
Heartbreaker
, p. 204.

One witness Allan Davis to GC.

“I’ve lost” John Carlyle to GC.

“Take very good care” Robert Jorgen to GC.

“You take a couple” Judy Garland, “The Plot Against Judy Garland,”
Ladies’ Home Journal
, Aug. 1967.

Following the inquest My account of Judy’s funeral is taken from the numerous stories in the New York newspapers.

“And now abideth” I Cor. 13.

If she had a choice Arthur Helliwell, “Happy at Last!”
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_____.
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