Anne Hathaway takes on Judy Garland

[Timon-n-Pumbaa Fan]

From the Advocate....

March 24, 2009

Anne Hathaway Takes on Judy Garland
By Michelle Garcia

Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway is reportedly on board to star as Judy Garland in Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, both on-screen and onstage.

The film and stage adaptations are based on the biography by Gerald Clarke, who used as source material hundreds of interviews and Garland's own unfinished autobiography, commenced during her childhood and continued through the end of her life.

Hathaway's credits include The Princess Diaries movies, Brokeback Mountain, and The Devil Wears Prada, as well as Rachel Getting Married, which earned her an Academy Award nomination.

The Weinstein Company will produce both the film and stage versions.

Clarke's book was first published in 2001.

I am really looking forward to this one.

 

[Tony-NJ]

Me too - I wonder how well it would do in the movies though?

I remember a TV special a few years ago aboutJudy and that was well done.

 

[zeitzeuge]

I LOVED the TV movie that came out a few years ago. Those two women played Judy perfectly in my opinion. I'm not sure about Hathaway. She's an amazing actress so maybe she can pull it off. She's going to be a very TALL Judy Garland, who was only about 5'.

 

[jenn&nelsonrego]

I don't remember her in Brokeback... who did she play?

 

[Saxton]

I LOVED the TV movie that came out a few years ago. Those two women played Judy perfectly in my opinion. I'm not sure about Hathaway. She's an amazing actress so maybe she can pull it off. She's going to be a very TALL Judy Garland, who was only about 5'.

I agree, I just can't see her as Judy ... maybe she'll surprise me but I'm not expecting this to be great. I was surprised that her signing voice was good when she did the number with Hugh Jackman at the Oscars but she doesn't have the power or the same 'tone' (can't think of a better description) as Judy.

 

[Timon-n-Pumbaa Fan]

She was the wife of Jake's character. Her dad owned the farm equipment business.

 

[jenn&nelsonrego]

She was the wife of Jake's character. Her dad owned the farm equipment business.

Oh! The rodeo one????

 

[zeitzeuge]

I agree, I just can't see her as Judy ... maybe she'll surprise me but I'm not expecting this to be great. I was surprised that her signing voice was good when she did the number with Hugh Jackman at the Oscars but she doesn't have the power or the same 'tone' (can't think of a better description) as Judy.

There have been movies about singers that have been made where the actor didn't sing and pulled it off amazingly well. What's Love Got To Do With It, the Tina Turner life movie comes to mind. Maybe they're not going to have her sing, but lipsync.

Who knows. I haven't heard enough yet.