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Birthdate: June 10, 1922
Death date: June 22, 1969
Judy Garland
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
3.1567
9
1940s
3.2018
22
1950s
2.5118
3
1960s
2.3996
5
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.1228
3.1228
Judy Garland Movie Rankings
1
3.8475Dorothy and her dog are mysteriously transported through a tornado to the magical and strange land of OZ. With the help of the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion, Dorothy must avoid capture from the Wicked Witch of the West and return home safely. ...more about Wizard of Oz
DVD from $18.56
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2
3.1695Drunken waining movie star Norman Maine meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he literally stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops which blossoms into romance but tensions increase as Esther's career takes off whilst Norman's plummets. ...more about Star Is Born
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $6.10
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3
3.1197The well to do Smith family faces the possibility of moving when Mr. Smith's job is transferred from St. Louis to New York. However, his oldest daughter has fallen in love with the boy next door and it seems up rooting his family may be more difficult than he thought. ...more about Meet Me in St. Louis
DVD from $8.00
(13 sellers)
4
3.0318
Soldier Joe Allen is on a two-day leave in New York, and there he meets Alice. She agrees to show him the sights and they spend the day together. ...more about Clock
DVD from $8.68
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5
2.9862
Andy's girlfriend Polly is planning to spend Christmas at her grandmother's, which puts a kink in his plans to take her to the country club Christmas party. ...more about Love Finds Andy Hardy
DVD from $8.25
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6
2.9229
It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about 4 Judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and cleansing policies. ...more about Judgment at Nuremberg
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $5.99
(13 sellers)
7
2.8684
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the ...more about Ziegfeld Girl
DVD from $5.49
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8
2.8254
Mickey Moran, son of an old vaudeville-team puts on his own show to avoid being sent with other vaudevillians' children to a work farm, but that isn't that easy. ...more about Babes in Arms
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.8169
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style. ...more about Ziegfeld Follies
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10
2.7980
Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but she decides to start a career on her own. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. ...more about Easter Parade
DVD from $17.27
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11
2.7624
A quirky theatrical family and their equally eccentric hired help are the subject of this MGM musical. Dad's a frustrated playwright, Mom's an emotionally unstable actress and the kids sing, so they put on a show. ...more about Everybody Sing
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.7603
Jean Hansen comes to a school for disabled children to work there as a teacher. She becomes especially interested in young Reuben, whose parents have not visited him for several years. But the school principal, Dr. ...more about Child Is Waiting
- Not Available on DVD
13
2.7428
As a favor to her actress sister Abigail, New England farmer Jane Falbury allows a group of actors use her barn as a theater for their play. In return, the cast and crew have to help her with the farm chores. ...more about Summer Stock
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14
2.7416
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate. ...more about Pirate
DVD from $8.68
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15
2.7373
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat' (qv). ...more about Till the Clouds Roll By
DVD from $3.80
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16
2.7259
To stop Pinkie's mother Dottie from marrying a man they know she does not love, Pinkie and her friend Buzz kidnap her in the family trailer to live a life on the open road without worries about how to make ends meet. ...more about Listen
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.6848
Married coaches Slug and Bessie find hillbilly football tosser Amos and the team gets invited to the Yale Bowl. This was Judy Garland's first film. ...more about Pigskin Parade
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.6785
On a train trip West to become a mail order bride Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a " Harvey House " restaurant at a remote whistle stop to provide good cooking and wholesome company for railway travellers. ...more about Harvey Girls
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19
2.6777
Set during WW I, Palmer and Hayden team up as vaudeville artists. Harry Palmer deliberately injures his hand to avoid being drafted to the army. Later, he makes up for this. ...more about For Me and My Gal
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20
2.6688
Tommy Williams desperately wants to get to Broadway, but as he is only singing in a spaghetti house for tips he is a long way off. ...more about Babes on Broadway
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.5630
It's turn of the century America when Andrew and Veronica first meet - by crashing into each other. They develop an instant and mutual dislike which intensifies when, later on, Andrew is forced to hire Veronica as a saleslady at Oberkugen's music store. ...more about In the Good Old Summertime
DVD from $9.99
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23
2.5570
Talented small-town girl Lily Mars hounds producer John Thornway for a part in his new play, but he doesn't want anything to do with stage-struck amateurs. ...more about Presenting Lily Mars
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24
2.4382
Judy Garland stars as the precocious Cricket West, a hopefull actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. ...more about Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
- Not Available on DVD
26
2.3469
Irish colleen Nellie is in love with handsome Jerry Kelly, even though her father objects. Nellie and Jerry soon marry and announce plans to move to New York, which again angers Nellie's father. ...more about Little Nellie Kelly
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.2249
Jenny Bowman (Judy Garland) is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne (Dirk Bogarde) to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to ...more about I Could Go on Singing
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28
2.1552
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. ...more about Thousands Cheer
- Not Available on DVD
29
1.9862
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. ...more about Broadway Melody of 1938
- Not Available on DVD
30
1.9555
Mouser Jaone Tom and housecat Mewsette are living in the French country side, but Mewsette wants to experience the refinement and excitement of the Paris living. But upon arrival she falls into the clutches of Meowrice. ...more about Gay Purr-ee
DVD from $8.63
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31
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home. ...more about Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
- Not Available on DVD
32
Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials want to cancel these concerts. ...more about Every Sunday
- Not Available on DVD
33
Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. ...more about Girl Crazy
- Not Available on DVD
36
This short opens with 'Judy Garland (I)' (qv) singing, and dancing to, the title song. ...more about New Romance of Celluloid: We Must Have Music
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37
In this Columbia entry of the Screen Snapshots series (production number 5855), Ken Murray takes Spike Jones and his family (wife and kids)on a Hollywood tour to see the stars at play. ...more about Screen Snapshots: Spike Jones in Hollywood
- Not Available on DVD
38
A filmed broadcast of the Command Performance radio programs in which various Hollywood stars appeared and performed in accordance with letter requests from American service men stationed around the world. ...more about Strictly G.I.
- Not Available on DVD
39
Jimmy Connors and his girl-friend want to take part in Paul Whiteman's highschool's band contest, but they cannot afford the fare. ...more about Strike Up the Band
- Not Available on DVD
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