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Liza (Continued from previous page) to help her. Garland died at the age of 47. Liza Minnelli was educated at New York City’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts and the Chadwick School. At 16 she was an apprentice at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis, Massachusetts. At 17, at her mother’s invitation, she performed with her at the London Palladium. And at 19 she became the youngest woman ever to win a leading actress Tony Award for her role in the Broadway show Flora the Red Menace. Simultaneously with her acting career on Broadway, she also became a nightclub singer, performing in Las Vegas and elsewhere At 19, Minnelli in the returning hit comedy “Arrested Development” Capitol Records released her first music album Liza! Liza! and then two more in subsequent We were so far away from Hollywood, he could years, all great successes. Periodically, since do what he wanted. We did things we would then, she has released more than a dozen never be allowed to do in Hollywood.” “Such as what?” albums. She had a hit record with “New York, “The movie is dark and mysterious. There New York,” and two years later, Frank Sinatra covered it and it was a hit again. is this divine decadence. We’d have a singing She is, of course, best known for her role sequence, and then there would be this quick in the movie version of the Broadway show cut and he would do this harsh scene of Nazis Cabaret. She won an Academy Award for Best beating people up. This is not how things were Actress in a Leading Role performance in that done at that time in the American cinema. film. “I remember Fosse assembling the cast. He’d And she told me an interesting story about sent a print of the film home. And he got all the making of that film. these requests for changes. He read the letter “We went to Germany to make a movie about to us. We were doing too much smoke. All this Nazis. It’s in the 1930s before the war. Hitler is smoking in the cabarets, it will break up on the rising to power. And it all takes place in smoky drive-in screens.” “What did that mean?” cabarets and clubs. As it turned out, Bob Fosse, “On a regular theater screen, the smoky our director, was in this wonderful situation.
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