GARLAND JUDY: (1922-1969)

GARLAND JUDY: (1922-1969) American actress and singer, Academy Award winner. A fine vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Garland in an appealing semi-profile head and shoulders pose. Signed in blue ink to a clear area of the background, ´Charlie - with love, Judy´. A few very light, minor traces of former mounting to the verso, VG

Provenance: The present photograph was inscribed to Charles Henry, stage director of the London Palladium. In April 1951 Judy Garland performed for four weeks at the London Palladium, the shows centring on the songs of Al Jolson. Garland received rave reviews and an ovation described by the Palladium manager as the loudest he had ever heard. Indeed, the singer herself declared 'I suddenly knew that this was the beginning of a new life…..Hollywood thought I was through; then came the wonderful opportunity to appear at the London Palladium, where I can truthfully say Judy Garland was reborn'.