"Unlike other actresses, she could not successfully camouflage extra weight, especially because she was dancing and singing in revealing costumes. “Most of her teen and adult life, she had been on either Benzedrine or a diet or both,” Garland’s third husband Sid Luft wrote in his memoir Judy and I: My Life With Judy Garland.
To maintain her weight, Mayer insisted she consume only chicken soup, black coffee and cigarettes, along with pills to reduce her appetite. Mayer and the MGM bosses were reportedly already worried about any extra weight on the diminutive star, going so far as to refer to her as a “fat little pig with pigtails.” Placed on what would be the first of many diets, Garland’s food intake was severely restricted and monitored closely. anthology collective + Wizard of Za Collab Tee A portion of the proceeds from every tee sold will be donated to Harpers Corner Foundation, a non-profit in. Garland appeared in her first feature film in 1936 at age 14, a musical comedy about football coaches called Pigskin Parade. Wizard of Za (Short 2019) - IMDb Wizard of Za 2019 14 m YOUR RATING Short Action A young wizard-in-training accidentally casts a spell on a pizza that turns his family into horrible pizza creatures.