Who was involved in a 1941 musical and later married Judy Garland?
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as "Meet Me in St. Louis", "Gigi", "The Band Wagon", and "An American in Paris".
 In addition to having directed some of the most famous and well-remembered musicals of his time, Minnelli made many comedies and melodramas.
 He was married to Judy Garland from 1945 until 1951; they were the parents of Liza Minnelli.
Babes on Broadway
Babes on Broadway is a 1941 American musical film starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland and directed by Busby Berkeley, with Vincente Minnelli directing Garland's big solo numbers.
 The film, which features Fay Bainter and Virginia Weidler, was the third in the "Backyard Musical" series about kids who put on their own show, following "Babes in Arms" (1939) and "Strike Up the Band" (1940).
 Songs in the film include "Babes on Broadway" by Burton Lane (music) and E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (lyrics), and "How About You?
" by Lane with lyrics by Ralph Freed, the brother of producer Arthur Freed.
 The movie ends with a minstrel show performed by the main cast in blackface.
List of Judy Garland biographies
Judy Garland has been the subject of many biographies.
 Since her death in 1969, she has been the subject of over two dozen books.
 The first of these was Brad Steiger's "Judy Garland", published shortly after her death, which includes information on Garland's astrological chart, analysis of her handwriting, numerology and biorhythms. Most of the books are entirely about Garland, but some, including Patricia Fox-Sheinwold's "Too Young to Die", "Some Are Born Great" by Adela Rogers St. Johns and Jane Ellen Wayne's "The Golden Girls of MGM", merely feature a chapter about her.
 Two volumes, "Rainbow's End: The Judy Garland Show" by Coyne Steven Sanders and Mel Tormé's "The Other Side of the Rainbow: On the Dawn Patrol With Judy Garland", focus on Garland's television series, "The Judy Garland Show".
 Garland's last husband, Mickey Deans, co-authored an early biography in 1972 and Garland's daughter Lorna Luft wrote a family memoir in 1988. List of recordings by Judy Garland
This article is a list of recordings made by Judy Garland.
 Throughout her career Garland recorded numerous soundtracks for her films, as well as studio recordings for Decca, Columbia and Capitol Records.
 In addition to these soundtrack and studio recordings, Garland would also perform numerous songs on her 1963—1964 CBS television series, "The Judy Garland Show", with an array of famous guest performers.
 Garland also performed countless times on the radio and gave hundreds of concerts throughout her career, many of these performances were recorded and have survived in audio format. Connie Champagne
Connie Champagne, née Kelly Kay Brock, born November 23, 1959 is an American singer, song-writer and actor.
 She won the "SF Weekly" Wammie Award for Outstanding Cabaret/Lounge Performer.
 She is known for performing the character of actress, Judy Garland including "Christmas With the Crawfords" in 2001 and "Imagine Judy Garland: An Evening With Connie Champagne" in 2003.
 She won a 2007 San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award (BACTC) for her role in "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road".
 Specializing in numerous styles of music and theater including cabaret, swing, jazz, rock and roll, and musical theater, Champagne performed in numerous venues throughout the US and Europe. Bobby Cole (musician)
Bobby Cole (September 8, 1932 – December 19, 1996) was an American musician, known for his jazz singing and piano playing.
 He was also a jazz composer and arranger.
 He worked as a musical arranger for "The Judy Garland Show" hosted by Judy Garland, succeeding Mel Tormé.
 He also conducted the orchestra for her 1967 "Palace" concerts and album, and was the conductor and musical director on her last tour. The Judy Garland Show
The Judy Garland Show was an American musical variety television series that aired on CBS on Sunday nights during the 1963-1964 television season.
 Despite a sometimes stormy relationship with Judy Garland, CBS had found success with several television specials featuring the star.
 Garland, who for years had been reluctant to commit to a weekly series, saw the show as her best chance to pull herself out of severe financial difficulties. It's a Great Day for the Irish
"It's a Great Day for the Irish" is an Irish-American song that was written in 1940 by Roger Edens, one of the many musical directors at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios under the leadership of Arthur Freed for inclusion in the film version of the George M. Cohan 1922 Broadway show "Little Nellie Kelly", directed by Norman Taurog.
 The rights of the show were sold to MGM by Cohan as a starring vehicle for Judy Garland.
 The song was partly written to capitalize on Garland's identification with her Irish roots (Garland was a quarter Irish through her maternal grandmother Eva Fitzpatrick).
 The new song was to be used in a recreation of New York's famed annual St. Patrick's Day Parade marching up Fifth Avenue.
 It was to be a major production number requiring the "New York Street" set on the backlot to be enlarged, involving the main characters of the film and showcasing Garland's enormously strong voice and engaging performance style as she sang and danced up the avenue with her father, played by George Murphy, her stereotypical grandfather (played by Charles Winninger) and her boyfriend (Douglas McPhail).
 The movie was well received, but is now most remembered for the rousing song it introduced into Irish-American culture and as Garland's only death scene on film. F.D.R. Jones
"F.D.R. Jones" (sometimes "Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones"; originally titled "Man of the Year") is a 1938 satirical song written by Harold Rome.
 It was first recorded and released as a single by Ella Fitzgerald in 1938 and was performed by Judy Garland in blackface in the 1941 musical picture "Babes on Broadway".
 The song satirizes the then contemporaneous practice of African American parents who named their children after Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States. Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland is a biography of entertainer Judy Garland.
 Published in 2000, "Get Happy" is author Gerald Clarke's follow-up to his 1988 biography of Truman Capote.
 Clarke conducted some 500 interviews, including some with subjects who had not previously spoken about Garland, and also drew upon tape recordings that Garland had made in the 1960s for an autobiography.
 He found Garland's unpublished 68-page manuscript in the Random House archives.
 Clarke spent ten years on the book, and only made his final decision to write about Garland after reading the extant biographies.
 "I did not want to write a book about her if the definitive book had already been written...So, I sat down and I read the biographies that had already been written and came up with no real impression of Judy...There was a disconnect between the woman who emerged from the pages and the woman I saw in the movies and heard on the records...I knew that "the" book had not yet been written."