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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....