December 19, 2016
Despite giving some of the best performances of her career, the executives at this network hated this permanent A lister who has a permanent A list offspring. The network executives hated her and when a project turned out to not be the ratings bonanza they thought it would be, made her life miserable. They cut her budget and had writers create more and more skits that made her look awful. The reveled in destroying her.
Judy Garland/CBS
I think I wrote on the original post, she was doing a very good job of destroying herself by then.
ReplyDeleteThere had to be some reason for the hate, which I wish would be explained. Was it the addiction issues? Personality clashes? She had dirt on Paley? I can't imagine there was an initial meting of the CBS higher-ups wehere it was said - "We hate Judy - let's hire her and destroy her, mwahahaha."
ReplyDeleteIf you've ever dealt with an addict, you can understand.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to Tricia13!
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts too. Although, there are a lot of immature people with long memories floating around H'wood...who knows, maybe she slept with somebody's daughter's BF back in the day.
ReplyDeleteVaguely remember the show and could not understand how Dorothy and Judy were the same people. I think it was the drug use that pissed them off.
ReplyDeletePretty hypocritical to be pissed off about her drug use when they were the ones who got her addicted as a child.
ReplyDeleteWhen you are disrespected and mistreated like she was, it's easy to start down a self-destructive spiral... not everyone has a good support system.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm gonna say it wasn't these TV executives who were the ones who got her addicted as a child. You do know a lot changed in Hollywood between the 1930s and the 1960s?
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