The best Judy Garland’s drama movies

Judy Garland

Judy Garland

10/06/1922- 22/06/1969
Today we present the best Judy Garland’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Judy Garland’s movies.
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Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis
7.5/10
In the year before the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.

Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg
8.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 18/12/1961
  • Character: Irene Hoffman Wallner
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicRomance
  • Release: 01/10/1954
  • Character: Esther Blodgett / Vicki Lester
A movie star helps a young singer/actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Ziegfeld Girl

Ziegfeld Girl
6.7/10
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.

Thousands Cheer

Thousands Cheer
6.2/10
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.

Listen, Darling

Listen, Darling
6.5/10
To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road. They then get the idea to find Dottie a financially secure husband whom both she and Pinkie would like.

A Child Is Waiting

A Child Is Waiting
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/02/1963
  • Character: Jean Hansen
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.

The Clock

The Clock
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/05/1945
  • Character: Alice Maybery
A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.

Words and Music

Words and Music
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 31/12/1948
  • Character: Judy Garland
Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood. We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers' collaboration - elaborately staged numbers from their plays, characters' visits to night clubs, and impromptu performances at parties. We also see Larry's scattered approach to life, his failed love with Peggy McNeil, his unhappiness, and Richard's successful wooing of Dorothy Feiner.

I Could Go on Singing

I Could Go on Singing
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 07/03/1963
  • Character: Jenny Bowman
Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had. When David returns, Matt is torn between his loyalty to his father and his affection for Jenny.

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
6.3/10
Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan. A young English gentleman comes to town convincing Donovan to ride his horse in a high stakes race.

Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy

Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 01/01/1998
  • Character: (archive footage)
In a deconstruction of classic Hollywood codes, using repetitive single frame images, the re-editing of teenager movies produces an intense Oedipal drama.

March of Dimes

March of Dimes
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1938
  • Character: Judy
Judy and Mickey make a plea for folks to send in money to help fight polio.

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