Renée Zellweger can sing -- but for her role as the late Judy Garland in the new biopic Judy, she worked hard to not sing well too
While Garland was viewed as The World's Greatest Entertainer for some time, she was heavily into alcohol and pills by the time her five-week run at London's Talk of the Town started in December 1968. That is the Judy Garland Zellweger plays.
The soundtrack — produced by Matt Dunkley, who is also credited on the album as conductor of the orchestra, and engineered by Geoff Foster — comes out Sept. 27 on Garland's original label, Decca, and features Zellweger on such Garland classics as "By Myself," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "You Made Me Love You," "The Trolley Song," and, of course, "Over The Rainbow.
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