![]() ![]() She sat in Vincente's lap as he rode his director's boom she made friends with the actors and technicians and she spent rapt hours in studio rehearsal Spending much of her time there even after Judy was fired. ![]() Making her screen debut when she was only two and a half-she appeared for a few seconds at the end of In the Good Old Summertime-she had virtually grown up in M-G-M's magic factory, Liza had, in fact, been preparing to wow audiences all her life. On a Riviera beach as she prepared to wow an audience in Paris. "Liza's a Girl RidingĪ Whirlwind," declared one admiring paper, and while the folks on Rockingham Avenue were scrounging for dollars to buy chili, a fresh, slim Liza was pictured on the front page of the New York Daily News, cavorting ![]() But how could she have guessed that she herself was destined to stumble? Or that, throughĪ cruel and unsparing irony, her own spectacular decline would be matched, headline for headline, by the no less stunning ascent of her own daughter? For that was, indeed, what happened. Judy knew it-it was, after all, the theme of A Star Is Born-and so did everyone else. For every star that rises, another must fall. ![]()
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