THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RAINBOW
“I believe in the idea of the rainbow,” Judy Garland, who died 50 years ago this year, once said. “And I’ve spent my entire life trying to get over it.” In 1968, three decades after delivering her career-defining performance alongside misfits and munchkins in The Wizard of Oz, the screen legend landed in London to kick off a run of shows at the Talk of the Town theatre, hoping to jumpstart a career hampered by years of drug and alcohol abuse, failed marriages and mounting debt. It’s the final act for this Hollywood legend – one brimming with music, hope, strife, even romance – brought to the big screen in Judy, an adaptation of the hit stage musical End of the Rainbow, starring Renée Zellweger delivering her own rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”