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The curse of the child stars
Judy Garland
The star of the 1939 classic 'The Wizard of Oz' was a celebrity at the age of ten when she won an Oscar for her performance in the classic tale.But her pushy mother gave her pep pills to improve her performance followed by sleeping pills at bedtime. At 13 someone decided she was too fat to appear on film, so diet pills were added to the cocktail. By adulthood Judy was hooked and known as a 'pill head'. She was sacked from films for not turning up, or arriving with flasks of gin. After several attempts at suicide she died of an accidental overdose in 1969.
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