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Why Judy Garland's Blackface Photo Resurfaced Decades Later
Newsweek ^ | 8/18/23 | Sophie Lloyd ON 8/18/23 AT 5:43 AM EDT

Posted on 08/23/2023 4:38:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A photo of Judy Garland in blackface has resurfaced on social media, with fans jumping to defend the late child star.

The image is a still from the movie Everybody Sing from 1938, and shows a teenage Garland painted to have darker skin, large white lips and dreadlocks. Garland played Judy Bellaire in the musical comedy, who joins a music show as a blackface singer to escape her dysfunctional family.

Although the film was released 85 years ago, many people learned of its existence for the first time after the still was shared by X user @browardbully on August 16. Pairing the image with a shot of Garland in the film musical The Wizard of Oz from the following year, @browardbully wrote: "two movies. a year apart. same b****. shoutout to Gen Z for teaching me this."

The post received over 36 million views and caused uproar online, but not due to the blackface. Fans leaped to the actor's defense, calling attention to Garland's infamous abuse at the hands of her parents and studio executives.

"She was a child forced to do this," posted X user Queen Minaj. "It wasn't 2023."

"You think she had any say as a minor or a woman back in the 30s? You think the abusive management she had and her parents would allow her to refuse the role?" wrote Alex Silva.

"A walk in her shoes might bring about some empathy," commented KJ-isms.

"Cancel someone who did it as an adult and is still living," wrote Hozonkai. "Not a former child actress who died 54 years ago."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


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KEYWORDS: blackface; everybodysing; feminazis; godsgravesglyphs; judygarland
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To: nickcarraway
I’ve never been offended in the least by “White Chicks” (2004):


21 posted on 08/23/2023 5:27:59 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Leaning Right

Lest we also forget:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0091991/


22 posted on 08/23/2023 5:28:00 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: nickcarraway

Totally innocent photo of young Judy


23 posted on 08/23/2023 5:28:21 PM PDT by Theodore R. ( )
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To: traderrob6

It might have even been beneficial in those days, when majority audiences may not have been receptive to black characters and actors at once-black characters but white actors was the way.


24 posted on 08/23/2023 5:33:37 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes)
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To: DallasBiff
Murphy and Chappelle:


25 posted on 08/23/2023 5:34:18 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Leaning Right

King was a great man? King plagiarized most of his writings including his Doctoral thesis and he was a whore monger, a serial adulterer and enjoyed beating the white prostitutes he hired on top of being a marxist...


26 posted on 08/23/2023 5:35:19 PM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: TallahasseeConservative

> King was a great man? <

Yes. Sure, King was a VERY flawed man. But here’s the bottom line. In those days, many blacks were advocating violence as a way to address racial problems. Malcolm X and his followers were in the forefront there.

King chose another path, one of non-violence. That was a bold and courageous thing to do. King gave blacks another option. As a nation, we are so much better off for that.

Don’t get me wrong. I see your point. But there are instances in history where a flawed person turns the tide. Lech Walesa in Poland is one of them. Martin Luther King in America is another.


27 posted on 08/23/2023 5:48:41 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real. )
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To: nickcarraway
Hugh Laurie did it in TWO episodes of Jeeves and Wooster.


Mickey Rooney performed alongside Judy Garland in blackface in "Babes on Broadway".
28 posted on 08/23/2023 5:58:05 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Dr. Sivana

Judy just gots a pair O nu shoos. Mickey played a banjo as Mr. Bones.

So what. much ado about nothing.

BTW Everybody Sings is a hilarious film. Great cast. First saw it in the 90’s on a blockbuster vhs rental, and own it on Laserdisc. check it out and also Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry and one of the Broadway Melody flicks with Judy and Buddy Ebsen is also excellent.


29 posted on 08/23/2023 6:21:32 PM PDT by Gasshog (Too often, my cursor jumps to a place I didn’t intend for it to jump and the typing contin)
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To: nickcarraway

The fool in blackface that should never be forgotten is Justin Trudeau.


30 posted on 08/23/2023 6:45:11 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Leaning Right

“Martin Luther King was a great man. He patiently tried to heal the racial device.”

MLK Jr cheated on his dissertation and his wife.

https://www.thevoiceslu.com/2018/04/50-years-on-what-they-wont-tell-you-about-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-like-how-he-plagiarized-the-overly-romanticized-i-have-a-dream-speech/

Was he heroic in some ways? Yes. But a great man? I’m not so sure. I think if he lived he would have ended up like Jesse Jackson.


31 posted on 08/23/2023 6:47:26 PM PDT by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998

> MLK Jr cheated on his dissertation and his wife. Was he heroic in some ways? <

The great WW II Marine fighter ace Gregory “Pappy” Boyington had a saying that I think applies here.

“Show me a hero and I’ll show you a bum.”


32 posted on 08/23/2023 6:55:02 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real. )
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To: nickcarraway

33 posted on 08/23/2023 8:12:06 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: dfwgator
I thought this dude was pretty offensive.


34 posted on 08/23/2023 9:18:35 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: traderrob6

RE: Al Jolson in bygone era....

I am probably the biggest Jolson fan here. Lost count of the cds but believe I have 99.9% of the songs including earliest ones. And books and the dvds. Opera singers used to admire his voice.

Note: Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra among many others had blackface stage appearances. Sinatra: “We were wrong but at the time we didn’t know we were hurting anybody.”


35 posted on 08/23/2023 9:24:02 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Larry Lucido

36 posted on 08/23/2023 10:07:53 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn’t, didn’t already have
And ‘cause never was the reason for the evening
Or the tropic of Sir Galahad


37 posted on 08/23/2023 11:24:35 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: nickcarraway

Because we must not let racism die out!


38 posted on 08/24/2023 5:29:42 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Sufferings are the guardrails on the road to Heaven.)
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To: mikey_hates_everything

I was deeply offended at the fact that someone thought it was funny.


39 posted on 08/24/2023 5:33:15 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Sufferings are the guardrails on the road to Heaven.)
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40 posted on 08/25/2023 10:32:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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