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Lorna Luft

Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir (English Edition) Edición Kindle

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The question follows Lorna Luft to this day: "What's it like to be Dorothy's daughter?" Although by appearances glamorous and truly thrilling, growing up as the daughter of Judy Garland was anything but a journey over the rainbow.
With unsparing candor, Lorna Luft offers the first-ever insider portrait of one of Hollywood's most celebrated families: a rare story of a little girl, her half-sister Liza, and her baby brother trying desperately to hang on to the mother whose life seemed destined to burn brightly but briefly. Lorna makes an extraordinary journey back into the spiral of love, addiction, pain, and loss that lurked behind a charmed facade.
Filled with behind-the-scenes dramas, hilarious untold stories, and little-known details of Garland family life, Me and My Shadows is a tribute to Lorna's victory over her own past, a story of hope, of love and its limitations, and a deeply moving testament to the healing powers of embracing one's past and charting a course of self-love and discovery.

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The question follows Lorna Luft to this day: "What's it like to be Dorothy's daughter?" Although by appearances glamorous and truly thrilling, growing up as the daughter of Judy Garland was anything but a journey over the rainbow.

With unsparing candor, Lorna Luft offers the first-ever insider portrait of one of Hollywood's most celebrated families: a rare story of a little girl, her half-sister Liza, and her baby brother trying desperately to hang on to the mother whose life seemed destined to burn brightly but briefly. Lorna makes an extraordinary journey back into the spiral of love, addiction, pain, and loss that lurked behind a charmed facade.

Filled with behind-the-scenes dramas, hilarious untold stories, and little-known details of Garland family life, ME AND MY SHADOWS is a tribute to Lorna's victory over her own past, a story of hope, of love and its limitations, and a deeply moving testament to the healing powers of embracing one's past and charting a course of self-love of discovery.

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Lorna Luft made her television debut singing "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" on her mother's 1963 Christmas special. She has appeared on and off Broadway in Lolita, Promises, Promises, and Snoopy; in national tours of Grease, They're Playing Our Song, and Guys and Dolls; at the Rainbow Room, the Hollywood Bowl, and the White House; in the television series Trapper John, M.D., and Caroline in the City; and as Paulette in the movie Grease 2. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, and daughter. --Este texto se refiere a la edición paperback.

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Baltimore Sun A remarkable candid memoir...Luft's own life is testament to her resilience.

Dallas Morning News Entertaining...a clear-eyed but loving account of the adored mother she lost.

Houston Chronicle The first gripping, factual acount of the life and times of the late, great Judy Garland and her children.

New York Post A loving memory of growing up in a dysfunctional household.

People Unsentimental...heartfelt.

USA Today Remarkable.

Newark Star Ledger Other biographies have documented Garland's spectacular descent, but this is the first view from inside the tornado...Harrowing.

Marlee Matlin I couldn't put it down until the last page. Bravo to Lorna for having the courage to break the silence about the pain, laughter, and tears. --Este texto se refiere a la edición paperback.

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Breathless writing, tight structure, and an endless A-list of stars make this memoir by the younger Garland daughter a movie fan's parfait. Daughter of Garland and businessman Sid Luft, Lorna writes this book neither to glorify nor to vilify her family, but to tell ``a truer . . . story'' about ``a group of people who grew up in the public eye and got through it all the best way they could.'' Thankfully, understatement ends there. Beginning with Frances Gunn's first steps onstage at age two and ending with her daughter Lorna's happy second marriage, the book is rife with dramatic events. Skillfully divided into two partslife with Mama, life after her deathit details Garland's decades-long chemical dependency (including her first studio-sanctioned Benzedrine) and Lorna's early life as her caregiver, her emotional swings, and especially her great love for her two daughters and her son, Joe. Lorna also charts Garland's hard-won sobriety and attempts to bring Liza to detoxification programs. Throughout, the book brims with famous friends: Uncle Frank Sinatra, girlfriend's parents Bogart and Bacall, JFK and his sweet-voiced wife Jackie, early love Barry Manilow. Everything is presented in a pleasingly sustained voice that blends once-stylish phrasings, self-help lingo, and quirky if awkward locutions to create a linguistic world in which ``damn straight, ``dysfunctional,'' and the kooky line ``For every camel, there's a last straw, and there was for me'' coexist. It also suits the writer, for as she presents herselfby turns mature, facile, feeling, and graciousshe is a '90s everywoman, the person you'd see yourself being if you had been the child of a troubled movie legend. Confessional yet affectionate, this grants weight and closure to an overdiscussed film family. (16 pages b&w photos, not seen) (Literary Guild selection; author tour; TV satellite tour; ABC-TV miniseries) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --Este texto se refiere a una edición agotada o no disponible de este título.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B018ER7LTI
Editorial ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books (21 diciembre 2015)
Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglés
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Mia83

Not the greatest, but still worth reading.

Reseñado en los Estados Unidos el 18 de mayo de 2012

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I haven't finished reading the book yet, but I'm more than half-way through. I've read other memoirs and autobiography's similar to this, and while I wouldn't say it's the greatest thing ever, it is still worth reading. It saddens me that others have compared this book to "Mommie Dearest" and I feel that is far from the truth. Yes, she exposes that her mother had a serious prescription drug problem, but she points out that her addiction is genetic AND at the time when her mother was alive they didn't know how to help people deal with addiction. They could get you clean, but they couldn't keep you clean.

Another thing to keep in mind that this is from Lorna's point of view. When Liza is ready she will write her own book and give her perspective. Once again keep in mind that there is a seven year age different and Lorna and her brother Joey were around their mother a lot more than Liza during all of this because their mother had sole-custody of them and by the point Judy was getting seriously ill, Liza was an adult living on her own.

I do recommend this book to anyone interested in knowing more about Judy, but if you're looking for Dorothy you're sadly mistaken. This is Judy Garland, a real person who had demons that over-took her career and eventually her life. I personally have more respect for Judy Garland, but also sadness for her because she was such a HUGE talent, but at the end of they day she was still human. If anything Judy Garland is just one of many stars we've seen that have been over-taken with trying to stay #1 and please everyone and the pills won in the end. Elvis, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston just to name a few that just like Ms. Garland tried to keep up with the hype and fell hard in the end.

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Courtney Rabideau

Very Interesting Life

Reseñado en los Estados Unidos el 4 de enero de 2004

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The book starts off with the story of Lorna Luft's grandparents (Judy's parents) Frank and Ethel Gumm and tells the story about how they met and the family they raised. The book then goes into the story of Lorna's mother Judy Garland growing up baby Frances Ethel Gumm. Lorna tells how her mother loved to perform and loved living in Grand Rapids, Minnesota (were she was born) and hated living in Lancaster, California where they moved when Judy was 4.
Lorna then goes into the story of the MGM years of Judy's life going from a radio singer to the star of The Wizard of OZ, one of the greatest hits of MGM's history all in the space of a year. After that, it was all pretty much down hill as far as MGM goes for Judy according to Lorna. Judy started on drugs to help her lose weight and help her sleep, and they soon controlled her life. Lorna tells that when Judy was 18 she got married to David Rose and after only a short period of time divorced him. She did this to get out of Ethel's hair because she could not stand being near her after the death of Frank, and Ethel's marrying a man exactly four years to the day after her father's death.
Lorna then goes into the sorted affair that was Judy's marriage to Vincent Minnelli and the birth of their daughter Liza. After only a few years though they divorced and Lorna goes on to talk about the next man in Judy's life, Lorna's father Sid Luft.
Lorna tells the story about her father being raised by a bon-vivent and a Russian Jewish designer in New York City. Lorna also tells a ridiculous story that her father once heard his father tell his mother about a mysterious note a woman wrote to him when his family was in Europe one summer.
Lorna tells about her parent's early relationship and how she never knew that she was actually on the way when they decided to get married. She describes the story about her early years in the house and then the hubbub of having little Joey come into the world. Lorna also writes about how when Joey was a little boy she actually went into his crib and scratched him so hard that to this day there are still scratch marks on his face, because she did not want him in the house anymore
This leads into the story about Lorna's own life. She writes about her early life at first staying at one house, but by the age of nine being shuffled from England to New York to California. She then elaborates about her parents separation and how a Psychiatrist used Lorna's fear of needles to get her to admit that she did not want to live with her dad, that she did not even love her dad. After this thing got a little better but she was still going from one step-father to another constantly moving, never being able to see her father, until at the age of 15 she moves in with her dad and several months later finds out that her mother was dead.
After her mother died, Lorna moved to New York to work in plays and things and had some love affairs (one with Barry Mataloe.) She tells about her dabbling with cocaine for several years and the diabolical that was her relationship with Burt Reynolds until she found the absolute wrong man for her-her husband Jake Hooker.
Lorna vividly details her relationship of almost 20 years with her husband. She tells about at first they were fine, and then after their son was born it was more like they were client and clientele instead of husband and wife and their daughters birth only made it worse. She details how their marriage broke up when their daughter was an infant and how only a week later she met the next man she was to marry.
Last, but not least Lorna describes her relationship with her sister Liza Minnelli. She tells that because Liza was seven years older than her she does not really have any memories of her when they were young, but she has a lot when they were older. Lorna details the struggle Liza had with drugs that culminated in Lorna virtually kidnapping her sister and taking her to the Betty Ford Center in about 1984.

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S. Main

Love this memoir. Have read it twice.

Reseñado en los Estados Unidos el 23 de abril de 2018

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Having now read Lorna's very insightful and interesting biography, I thought it was time to add a short review. As most people already know, Lorna Luft is the second daughter of Judy Garland (father is Sid Luft) and is the sister/half sister of Lisa Minnelli who is nothing short of a living legend. Having read some of the other not so favourable reviews, some of which are written by people who feel the need to personally attack and insult Lana, I would like to provide my take on Lorna's autobiography. As Lorna states in her memoir, this is her own story. It isn't her sister's (Liza), brother's (Joey) or her father's (Sid Lift) story. I found Lorna's memoir to be a real page turner. Having been a massive fan of Judy Garland's for many years, I felt that it was about time that we were presented with an insider's look on what it was like to be the daughter of one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century. I agree that there are quite a number of facts which Ms Luft presents which ah felt was too much information (or just did not want to know about one of my all time favourite singers/actresses, however, what stood out for me whilst reading this book was Lorna's unconditional love for her mother. Ms Luft goes into great detail about her mother's addictions, but also devotes ample page time to her mother's achievements (Carnegie Hall triumph just to name). The saddest thing about this book is that not enough emphasis was placed on addiction back in the 40's and 50's. Had there been more awareness back in the day then I believe that Judy would have survived beyond the millennium. What a great job you have done Lorna. I love reading memoirs, biographies and pretty much anything to do with Hollywood's golden age. This book is one of my favourites. By the way, if you love this book then please consider reading Sid Luft's memoir which was published posthumously last year. What a contrast to Lorna's own memoir.

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Sheri Heffner

A family Memoir was an excellent book. Lorna Luft was born on November 21

Reseñado en los Estados Unidos el 2 de julio de 2015

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Me And My Shadows; A family Memoir was an excellent book. Lorna Luft was born on November 21, 1952, to the legendary Judy Garland and Sid Luft. She had no middle name . She was well loved by both parents and her big sister Liza. When he brother Joe was born two years after she was born, she was jealous of him, but later on, after her parents divorced,Sid lost custody of his two children making Lorna become Joe's protector, At the tender age of twelve, Judy married again, his name was Mark Herron. They were spending time in Hawaii and Lorna was startled out of a sound sleep to her mother and step - father fighting violently. Lorna was made to put ice on her mother's swollen and bloodied face and eye. It was then that Lorna had to become a little mother to Joe. After the death of their mother, they both lived with their father Sid and his live-in girlfriend Debbie. Later on, after Lorna grew up and became a singer and actress, she herself became addicted to both drugs and alcohol. She married a man named Jake and had two beautiful children with him, a son Jesse, and a daughter Vanessa. Lorna was best friends with Leslie Bogart, daughter of the legendary Humprey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.She divorced the first husband and married again, this time to a man named Colin.As an adult, Lorna met her aunt Virginia, whom she hadn't seen since she was around six years old. Lorna said when she saw her for the first time she saw her mother alive in Virginia, who they called Jimmy. She sang for an audience and sang like her sister Judy. Lorna's other aunt Mary Jane nicknamed Suzy after the sisters became The Garland Sisters, committed suicide. Her aunt Virginia died of old age. Lorna's two children are now 31 and 25.

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Judith Berg

Over the Rainbow isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be

Reseñado en los Estados Unidos el 31 de agosto de 2020

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I have to say I really knew nothing of Lorna Luft but I was pleasantly surprised I couldn’t put this book done. I’m a huge Judy Garland fan and try to read as much as possible about her so I was pleasantly surprised to find this book by her daughter. The only problem I had is with Luft’s writing about her father Sid Luft. She had a overly inflated view of her father and didn’t of her mother. She made him sound like Mr personality meets Hercules and I’m sorry to say people didn’t share that opinion of him at all. He was said to have lived off Judy’s back and mismanaged her and her money and was a lazy not so trustworthy person by all others I’ve read. Also I read somewhere in the book Lorna quotes her mother as saying she really has the better singing voice and what a better performer she was of all her children. Yea Miss Luft I guess Liza’s three Tonys and her Oscar are a figment of your imagination as well as ours. Other than these two bothersome points in the book I felt her heart and soul and got to know my beloved Judy much better once again in my reading about her. Yes I would recommend this book to any of my old Hollywood fans out there to read.

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