Judy Garland was an Academy award-winning American actress of The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, 1954's A Star is Born, and Easter Parade fame. Judy was also the multi-Grammy award-winning singer of Over The Rainbow, You Made Me Love You, Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart, The Trolley Song, and On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe fame.

Full, original or maiden name at birth: Frances Ethel Gumm *

Date, time and place of birth: June 10, 1922, at 5:30 a.m., at Itasca Hospital, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, U.S.A. **

Date, place and cause of death: June 22, 1969, at 4 Cadogan Lane, Chelsea, London, England (Accidental overdose of sleeping pills)

Burial site: Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.

* Judy Garland was not born "Francis" Ethel Gumm as a few sources report.

** Judy was most assuredly not born in "Grand Rapids, Michigan," as the 1994 edition of Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia states. Nor was she born in "Mississippi," or "Missouri," as some other sources claim. Birth records all confirm she was born in Minnesota.


All of the following publications, in some past editions, offered erroneous biographical data on Judy Garland.

Born This Day: A Daily Celebration of Famous Beginnings by Ed Morrow

Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia Yearbook

Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia

Reader's Digest Almanac and Yearbook

World Almanac and Book of Facts

The World Almanac Who's Who of Film


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