Filmspun

Humphrey Bogart and Allen Jenkins are stopped for speeding on the lot by a Warner Bros studio policeman in 1937.

Judy Garland’s legendary performance in Carnegie Hall happened on April 23, 1961, “the greatest night in showbiz history.” #OnThisDay

Janet Leigh, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball and Maria Montez, c.1940s

📷 Greg Gorman

Judy Garland c.1964, Probably in LA

Frances Gumm made her official stage debut on December 26, 1924 at age two-and-a-half at her father’s movie house, “The New Grand Theater,” in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. She would later become JUDY GARLAND. #OnThisDay

Barba Streisand guesting on The Judy Garland Show. CBS, 1963.

Movie Monday - Buster Keaton was a scene advisor for “In the Good Old Summertime,” 1949, but when no one could successfully manage this fall, he was cast in the movie so that he could do it!

Judy Garland arrives at New York's Carnegie Hall with her hair in curlers the night she gave her historic and iconic concert at the venue in an unpublished photograph taken on April 23rd, 1961. A lifelong insomnia sufferer and wanting to be at the top of her game and in full command of her incredible talents for the celebrity-packed event (which was being recorded for an album by Capitol Records), Garland spent the previous night playing cards with her then-husband Sid Luft, staying up all night and going to bed in the early morning hours when she was tired in order to avoid the need to take sleeping pills (which dried her throat and often left her groggy, then requiring the use of uppers to counteract the effects). Sleeping a full eight hours, she woke up refreshed and ready to go mid-afternoon and delivered a concert that night which had audience members including Rock Hudson, Anthony Perkins, Roddy McDowall, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (the Duke reportedly sang along), Myrna Loy (who stood on her seat and yelled "Go, baby, go!"), Lauren Bacall, Debbie Reynolds, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, Carol Channing, Ethel Merman, and Richard Burton (among others) in the packed concert hall cheering and begging for more (to which Judy replied: "Do you ~really~ want more? Aren't you ~tired~?" and "I'll sing 'em all and we'll stay all night!", prompting even louder cheers from the crowd). Told she'd "never sing again" by doctors two years earlier after spending weeks in a New York hospital having quarts of fluid drained from her body and almost dying when her liver started to fail, the twenty-six song Carnegie Hall concert was an astonishing personal feat and firmly established Judy in the Pantheon of legendary entertainers. Dubbed "the greatest night in entertainment history" by reviewers, the double album of the concert entitled Judy at Carnegie Hall was released three months later and spent thirteen weeks in the #1 position on the record charts, won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and has remained the definitive album of Garland's career, still sold today and not once going out of print in the over six decades since it was released.

(Caption says they are among the guests at Milton Berle’s ‘Old Time Bathing Suit Costume Party’ at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1941.)