On the set of “The Judy Garland Show.”
“I spent a month with Judy Garland. We went from Toronto to Washington DC on
tour with her show, then to Los Angeles for the taping of her television special
‘The Judy Garland Show’ with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, back to New York,
and then to Berlin for the world premier of ‘Judgment at Nuremberg.’ Judy was
nervous about her comeback, and worked extremely hard performing while
showing great affection for the people around her.”
“A young Norman Jewison was filming a special called ‘Judy,’ and I spent days
around the set filming the making of the show. This was a typical day on set and
little did I know at the time that this image would become such a testament to a
long gone era.”
Douglas Kirkland was born in Toronto, Canada. He joined Look Magazine in his early twenties, and later Life Magazine during the golden age of 60’s/70’s photojournalism. Among his assignments were essays on Greece, Lebanon and Japan as well as fashion and celebrity work, photographing Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlene Dietrich among others.
