Liza Minnelli says mother Judy Garland would have 'laughed' at the new 'A Star is Born'
Judy Garland appeared in the first remake of A Star is Born and her daughter thinks she would have laughed at the latest one.
Liza Minnelli said as much during an interview with Entertainment Tonight when she was asked about the new version starring Lady Gaga in Garland’s role and Bradley Cooper.
“She would have laughed,” Minnelli said. “And then she would have gotten into it. “I can hear her saying, ‘OK, let’s go!
“Great to the end!”
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Garland's movie was released in 1954 where she played Esther Blodgett, an aspiring singer with a band, who is taken under the wing of former matinee idol Norman Maine whose career is in the early stages of decline.
It was an adaptation of the original 1937 film, directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell.
It starred Janet Gaynor as an aspiring Hollywood actress opposite Fredric March as a fading movie star who helps to launch her career.
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The 1976 and 2018 versions centre on an aspiring pop singer and a fading rockstar who takes the former under his wing though has serious problems with alcohol.
Garland died at the age of 47, in Chelsea, London, due to years of substance abuse and this year Renee Zellwegger will be playing her in a new biopic.
Judy, set for release on 4th October, will focus on the legendary performer as she carried out a series of sold-out shows in the British capital during the winter of 1968.
“I just hope they don’t do what they always do. That’s all I’ve got to say,” Minnelli said of the adaptation.
