Judy Garland random trivia

Originally screen-tested and signed to play in Valley of the Dolls (1967); ultimately replaced by Susan Hayward. Sister of Mary Jane Gumm and Virginia Gumm. Her funeral was held 27 June 1969 in Manhattan at the Frank E. Campgell funeral home at Madison Avenue and Eighty-first Street. Twenty-two thousand people filed past Judy's open coffin over a twenty-four hour period. Judy's ex-husband, 'Vincent Minnelli' did not attend the funeral. James Mason delivered the eulogy. Her body had been stored in a temporary crypt for over one year. The reason for this is that no one had come forward to pay the expense of moving her to a permanent resting spot at Ferncliff Cemetary in Ardsley, New York. Liza Minnelli has the impression that Judy's last husband, Mickey Deans has made the necessary arrangments but Deans claimed to have no money. Liza then took on the task of raising the funds to have her properly buried. Death was caused by an "incautious self-overdosage of Seconal" which had raised the barbiturate level in her body beyond its tolerance.