Did Marilyn Monroe like Judy Garland?

A beloved figure whose warmth and spirit, together with her rich and energetic singing, kept theatergoers thrilled with a variety of entertaining musicals, Judy Garland was one of the brightest, most tragic movie stars of Hollywood’s Golden Era.

The youngest child of vaudevillians Francis Avent “Frank” Gumm and Ethel Marian (Milne) Gumm, she was born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, 1922 in Minnesota.

With the release of The Wizard of Oz (1939), in which she played Dorothy, an orphaned child living on a farm in the arid plains of Kansas who is transported to the mythical land of Oz at the end of a rainbow, Judy became an instant success.

Did Marilyn Monroe like Judy Garland?

Two of the biggest Hollywood stars of their time, the actress and Marilyn Monroe, were revealed to have been close friends and confidants in a new book by Judy Garland’s third husband, Sid Luft.

According to People magazine, Luft reveals new information regarding their less-publicized friendship and the fact that Monroe once sought Garland’s assistance before she passed away from an accidental overdose in 1962 in his unfinished biography, Judy and I.