Happy Easter! Today's the perfect time to revisit Easter Parade, and look into Judy Garland's bittersweet relationship with holiday movies. annarosemary writes:
Judy Garland’s “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” has taken on so many different iterations that it is hard to feel the song’s coldness rush over you, now worn shiny and frictionless with use. In its original iteration, performed at the end of, it is sung by Esther to comfort her sister Tootie on the eve of their family move.
Garland’s start in the industry is so infamous it is practically synonymous with the trappings of child stardom. Her voice, raspy and mature, boomed out of her childish frame, drawing in a bewildered, entranced audience. Soon she was recruited to enliven the predictable slate of Mickey Rooney collaborations which were predicated on the need to “put on a show” in order to save something .
, a lesser interpretation of the loving-pen-pals-slash-real-life-business-rivals plot, and as such the ugly duckling of thetriple bill. Her rendition of “Merry Christmas” is simple, as she sits at the piano, floating between the piano stool and the crowd of onlookers. The song itself has a melancholic edge, opening with the long, muted notes of organ music, like the start of a funeral dirge. “Dream about your heart’s desire,” she sings, “Christmas Eve when you retire.
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