>> Mike Wallace: JUDY GARLAND DIED 30 YEARS AGO AT THE AGE OF 47, BUT HER FOLLOWING IS GROWING STILL. THERE ARE TWO MOTION PICTURES AND A TV MOVIE IN THE WORKS ABOUT HER LIFE THIS YEAR ALONE. WHEN WE FIRST BROADCAST OUR STORY, JUDY HAD DIED SIX YEARS BEFORE. IN HER SHORT AND TROUBLED LIFE, SHE WENT THROUGH HALF A DOZEN FORTUNES, MARRIED FIVE HUSBANDS, AND TRIED TO COMMIT SUICIDE MORE THAN A DOZEN TIMES. SO, AT THE TIME, WE DIDN'T EXPECT TO HEAR HOW HER DAUGHTER LIZA MINNELLI REMEMBERED HER. >> Minnelli: SHE GOT SO MUCH OUT OF LIFE. SHE'S THE ONLY PERSON I THINK I EVER KNEW THAT REALLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE'S JUST ONE LIFE TO LIVE, SO DON'T PUT IT OFF. IF THERE'S POSSIBLY A WAY OF ACCOMPLISHING SOMETHING, DO IT. ♪♪ >> Wallace: SHE WAS BORN FRANCES ETHEL GUMM, BUT AT THE AGE OF FOUR, SHE HAD ALREADY BEEN IN VAUDEVILLE FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS THANKS TO HER MOTHER, ETHEL-- PROBABLY THE PUSHIEST STAGE MOTHER IN HISTORY. BY SEVEN, SHE WAS ON STAGE WITH HER TWO OLDER SISTERS. ALREADY, JUDY GARLAND, AS SHE WAS RENAMED, HAD SUFFERED ONE IRREVOCABLE LOSS: HER CHILDHOOD. IT WAS SING AND DANCE, ACT AND WORK, ALL THE WAY, ALL THE TIME. ♪♪ METRO-GOLDWYN MAYER FINALLY SIGNED HER WHEN SHE WAS 13. THIS WAS HER FIRST M.G.M. FILM, A SHORT CALLED "EVERY SUNDAY." ♪♪ THAT EXTRAORDINARY VOICE, THE GROWNUP IN A LITTLE GIRL LAUNCHED HER CAREER. >> Minnelli: WHEN SHE MATURED AND SHE, YOU KNOW, SHE DYED HER HAIR RED, I THINK IT STARTED JUST AROUND THE END OF THE ANDY HARDY THINGS AND FROM THEN GOT INTO "MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS." SHE BECAME VERY BEAUTIFUL. >> Wallace: BUT BY THE TIME "MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS" WAS RELEASED, JUDY WAS EITHER OVERWEIGHT OR UNDERWEIGHT, AND SHE HAD INSOMNIA. SHE WAS TAKING AMPHETAMINES TO KEEP HER ENERGY UP, AND SHE WAS TAKING SLEEPING PILLS TO BRING HER DOWN. NO ONE SEEMED TO KNOW-- NO ONE SEEMED TO CARE-- WHAT DAMAGE THEY COULD DO. ♪♪ SHE WAS OVERWORKED, UNSURE OF WHETHER SHE REALLY WAS A STAR, AND SHE WAS TOTALLY HOOKED ON PILLS. ♪♪ "THE CLOCK" WAS JUDY'S FIRST DRAMATIC ROLE. SHE WAS ABOUT TO MARRY VINCENT MINNELLI, HER DIRECTOR, AND SHE WENT INTO PSYCHOANALYSIS TO HELP WITH HER ANXIETIES AND HELP HER DEPENDENCE ON PILLS, BUT SHE HARDLY WORKED AT HER PSYCHOANALYSIS. >> Minnelli: SHE WAS AN ENTERTAINER. >> Wallace: SO SHE WOULD ENTERTAIN HER... >> Minnelli: SO SHE'D MAKE UP THE MOST TERRIFIC STORIES FOR THEM. AND SHE WOULD... WE'D DO IT IN THE CAR GOING OVER THERE. SHE'D SAY, "NOW, WHAT'S A GOOD DREAM? WHAT CAN I SAY I DREAMT," YOU KNOW. AND I'D SAY, "WELL, DON'T YOU THINK MAYBE YOU SHOULD TELL HIM WHAT YOU REALLY DREAMT? ISN'T THAT WHY YOU'RE DOING, SO HE CAN HELP YOU?" AND SHE SAID, "YEAH, BUT HE ALSO LOOKS SO BORED. I MEAN, I CAN'T... I CAN'T STAND IT IF HE'S BORED. WHAT'S A GREAT DREAM?" SO WE'D START. >> Wallace: FOR YEARS, JUDY GARLAND HAD BEEN LATE FOR WORK OR ABSENT ALTOGETHER, LEAVING STUDIO HANDS AND CAMERA CREWS AND DIRECTORS WAITING. SHE WAS REPEATEDLY SUSPENDED. THE PREVIOUS YEAR SHE HAD UNDERGONE ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY DURING THE FILMING OF "ANNIE GET YOUR GUN." SHE WAS FIRED FROM THE PICTURE. ♪ SO ALWAYS LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING... ♪ JUDY GARLAND, THE WORD SPREAD THROUGH HOLLYWOOD, COULDN'T BE DEPENDED ON. SHE WAS SOMETIMES LATE FOR SHOWS, SOMETIMES DRUGGED, SOMETIMES SHE COULDN'T GET THERE AT ALL. ♪♪ "I COULD GO ON SINGING" WOULD BE JUDY'S FINAL FILM. GARLAND HELPED WRITE MANY OF THE SCENES HERSELF, INCLUDING THIS ONE WHICH WAS A KIND OF PARAPHRASE OF HER BACKSTAGE LIFE AND THE SOMETIME STRUGGLE TO GET HER ON STAGE. >> Garland: I'M NOT GOING OUT THERE. >> Dirk Bogarde: THEY'RE WAITING. >> I'M NOT GOING BACK THERE. I'M NOT GOING BACK THERE EVER, EVER AGAIN. I. >> THEY'RE WAITING. >> I DON'T CARE IF THEY'RE FASTING. >> JUDY, IT'S A SELLOUT. >> I'M ALWAYS A SELLOUT. >> Wallace: DAUGHTER LORNA LUFT RECALLS A REAL-LIFE EPISODE WHEN MAMA REFUSED TO APPEAR BEFORE A GROUP OF WOUNDED VETERANS. >> Luft: AND THEN I GOT ON THE PHONE AND I HEARD, "WHAT?" I SAID, "MAMA, THEY HAVE WHEELED DOWN." AND I WASN'T EXAGGERATING. "ALL OF THE SOLDIERS THAT YOU SANG FOR YESTERDAY, THEY'RE IN STRETCHERS. THEY'RE IN WHEELCHAIRS. CAN'T YOU JUST DO THE SHOW FOR THEM?" Wallace: UH-HUH. AND? >> Luft: THE NEXT THING I HEARD WAS, "WELL, IF THEY CAN WHEEL THEM IN, THEY CAN WHEEL THEM OUT." >> Wallace: NOVEMBER, 1964. ♪ HELLO, LIZA... ♪ AFTER THE LIQUOR AND THE PILLS AND SEVERAL FAILED MARRIAGES, THIS WAS TO BE THE SCENE OF HER GREATEST COMEBACK, JUDY AND HER DAUGHTER LIZA AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM. ♪ YOU'RE LOOKING SWELL I CAN TELL, MAMA ♪ YOU'RE STILL GROWING YOU'RE STILL CROWING ♪ YOU'RE STILL GOING... ♪ >> Minnelli: YOU REALLY FELT THAT NOBODY ELSE EXISTED, THAT NOBODY WAS FUNNIER, THAT NOBODY WAS WISER, THAT NOBODY COULD EVER LOVE YOU MORE, AND THAT YOU NEVER COULD LOVE ANYBODY MORE. IT'S THE MOST... THEY'RE THE DEAREST, DEAREST MEMORIES THAT I HAVE. ♪ WE'RE NEVER GOING TO GO AWAY AGAIN ♪ >> Wallace: NOW, 30 YEARS AFTER HER DEATH, WE WENT BACK TO SPEAK WITH HER DAUGHTERS TO FIND OUT WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THEM IN THE YEARS THAT HAVE PASSED AND TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT THE RENEWAL THEIR MOTHER IS HAVING TODAY WITH A GENERATION THAT WASN'T BORN UNTIL SHE HAD PASSED FROM THE SCENE. FIRST LIZA MINNELLI. >> Minnelli: IT'S EXTRAORDINARY, AND IT'S ABSOLUTELY, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE PERFECT THING TO HAPPEN, BECAUSE HER TALENT AND HER GENIUS AND HER WARMTH IS SOMETHING THAT NOBODY WANTS TO LOSE. >> Wallace: FOR LIZA MINNELLI AND HER HALF-SISTER LORNA LUFT, KEEPING THEIR MOTHER'S LEGACY ALIVE IS A LABOR OF LOVE. FANS STILL COME UP? >> Luft: OH, YEAH. >> Wallace: ALL THE TIME? >> Luft: ALL THE TIME, THANKING ME, SAYING, "THANK YOU FOR CARRYING ON HER LEGACY." ♪ YOU BETTER WATCH OUT YOU BETTER NOT CRY... ♪ >> Wallace: ONE OF THE SWEETEST LEGACIES OF YOUR MOTHER WAS HER OBVIOUS DEVOTION TO HER KIDS. >> Minnelli: YES. >> Wallace: WERE YOU ALWAYS WITH HER? >> Minnelli: YES, IT FEELS LIKE WE WERE. BUT I REMEMBER HER SAYING TO ME, "DO YOU WANNA GO, OR DO YOU WANNA STAY IN SCHOOL AND GET SOME KIND OF GROUNDING AND HAVE A MORE NORMAL LIFE?" AND I SAID, "NO, I WANNA GO WITH YOU. WHEREVER YOU GO, I'M WITH YOU." ♪ WHEREVER I GO I KNOW SHE GOES... ♪ >> BUT LIVING WITH THEIR FAMOUS MOTHER TOOK ITS TOLL. AT THE HEIGHT OR THE DEPTH OF HER ADDICTION, BOTH LIZA AND LORNA WERE THEIR MOTHER'S CAREGIVER, BOTH WITNESSES TO THEIR MOTHER'S UNCONTROLLABLE MOODS. YOU KNOW, I TALKED TO BOTH YOU AND LIE SDACHLT I REMEMBER THIS SO WELL. IN THE FINL THAT WE DID, THAT WAS ABOUT HALF A DOZEN YEARS AFTER YOUR MOTHER DIED. AND THE TWO OF YOU SPOKE VERY LIGHT HEARTEDLY ABOUT THE FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE FAMILY WHEN YOU WOULD MOVE FROM HOTEL TO HOTEL TO HOTEL SKIPPING BILLS. AIN'T WAS HUGE LAUGHTER, BUT IT MUST HAVE BEEN A HARD WAY FOR A KID TO GROW UP. >> NOT FOR US, BUT FOR HER. CAN YOU IMAGINE... CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING ONE OF THE BIGGEST MOVIE STARS IN THE WORLD AND NOT REALIZE... REALIZEDING ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY? THAT'S REALLY DEVASTATING. >> Wallace: WHEN JUDY GARLAND DIED OF A DRUG OVERDOSE IN 1969, LIZA WAS 23 AND LORNA WAS JUST 16. THE SISTERS CLUNG TOGETHER IN THEIR VERY PUBLIC GRIEF. THEN BOTH FOLLOWED THEIR MOTHER'S PATH INTO SHOW BUSINESS, AND UNHAPPILY, BY THE EARLY 1970'S, BOTH HAD FOLLOWED THEIR MOTHER'S PATH INTO DRUG ADDICTION. DID THERE COME A TIME WHEN YOU RECOGNIZED IT AS REPEATING THE PATTERN? >> Minnelli: OH, I THOUGHT, OH, MY NERVES. WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME? I THOUGHT, NO, THIS CAN'T POSSIBLY BE HAPPENING. >> Luft: I SAT THERE AND WAS IN DENIAL, TOO. I USED TO SAY... ONE PERSON SAID TO ME ONE NIGHT AT STUDIO 54, "MAN, DON'T YOU THINK THAT YOU MAY BE DOING THE SAME THING?" I SAID, "NO, NO, NO, NO. IT'S DIFFERENT. YOU SEE, I ONLY DO IT AT NIGHT." >> Wallace: FINALLY RECOGNIZING HER OWN ADDICTION, LORNA STOPPED USING DRUGS, ENTERED REHAB, AND SET ABOUT HELPING HER SISTER LIZA. >> Minnelli: OH, YES, MY SISTER IS A WONDERFUL PERSON. AND SHE HELPED HERSELF THROUGH IT. SHE HELPED ME THROUGH IT. WE'VE ALL... YOU KNOW, WE'VE REALLY TRIED, I FEEL, TO STICK TOGETHER AND HELP EACH OTHER. ♪ NOTHING CAN HARM YOU NOTHING CAN HARM YOU... ♪ >> Wallace: BUT THEY HAVEN'T BEEN STICKING TOGETHER FOR QUITE SOME TIME. WHEN WE SAT DOWN WITH LIZA, SHE HAD NOT SPOKEN TO LORNA IN THREE YEARS. SO WE SHOWED HER A VIDEO OF HER AND HER SISTER PERFORMING TOGETHER JUST SIX YEARS AGO. ♪♪ VERY LOVING, ALWAYS BE THERE FOR EACH OTHER, AND YET WHEN LORNA CAME IN, SHE TOLD ME THAT YOU AND SHE HAD NOT SPOKEN IN THREE YEARS. >> Minnelli: YEAH, I KNOW. IT'S SO FUNNY. I THINK THAT'S WHAT EVERY FAMILY GOES THROUGH. I'M NOT SO CLOSE TO LORNA. SHE'S GOING THROUGH WHATEVER SHE'S GOING THROUGH. >> Wallace: BUT FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS, LIZA'S PUBLIC WOES, INCLUDING A DISASTROUS STINT ON BROADWAY AND A STRING OF CANCELED CONCERTS, HAVE PROMPTED LORNA TO WONDER OUT LOUD WHETHER HER SISTER IS ONCE AGAIN HEADING DOWN A PATH OF SELF-DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR. >> Luft: SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO SAY, "IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, THAT'S OKAY, BUT I DON'T WANT TO BE A PART OF THAT." AND THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE YOU KNOW SOMETHING, THE DOOR'S ALWAYS OPEN, AND IT COULD ALL CHANGE IN AN HOUR AND A HALF. IT COULD ALL CHANGE. >> Wallace: DO YOU THINK THAT SHE FEELS THAT YOU'RE GOING BACK DOWN YOUR MOTHER'S PATH AGAIN? >> Minnelli: OH, NO. >> Wallace: NO? >> Minnelli: I'M SURE SHE DOESN'T. SHE KNOWS ME TOO WELL FOR THAT. YOU KNOW, I HAVE MY OWN PATH, AND I HAVE FOLLOWED IT THROUGH TO THE END AS MANY TIMES AS I CAN COUNT. ♪ WHEN YOU'RE FACED WITH GLADNESS... ♪ >> Wallace: IF LIZA AND LORNA HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO RESOLVE THEIR RELATIONSHIP, AT LEAST FOR NOW THERE IS ONE THING THAT THE TWO HAVE ALSO UNDERSTOOD. >> Minnelli: YOU CAN'T EVER GET IN THE WAY OF TALENT LIKE MY MOM'S. NO MATTER WHAT PEOPLE SAID OR WHAT PEOPLE DID OR WHAT DRAMA WAS CREATED OR WHAT WAS GOING ON, THAT TALENT WILL COME THROUGH AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. ♪ YOU MUST KEEP ON TRYING SMILE AND YOU'LL STOP CRYING ♪ YOU FIND THAT LIFE IS STILL WORTHWHILE IF YOU JUST SMILE ♪
