![]() Making her screen debut when she was only two and a half - she appeared for a few seconds at the end of In the Good Old Summertime - she had virtually grown up in M-G-M's magic factory, spending much of her time there even after Judy was fired. Liza had, in fact, been preparing to wow audiences all her life. "Liza's a Girl Riding a Whirlwind," declared one admiring paper, and while the folks on Rockingham Avenue were scrounging for dollars to buy chili, a fresh, slim Liza was pictured on the front page of the New York Daily News, cavorting on a Riviera beach as she prepared to wow an audience in Paris. But how could she have guessed that she herself was destined to stumble? Or that, through a cruel and unsparing irony, her own spectacular decline would be matched, headline for headline, by the no less stunning ascent of her own daughter? For that was, indeed, what happened. ![]() Judy knew it - it was, after all, the theme of A Star Is Born - and so did everyone else. ![]() ![]() For every star that rises, another must fall. ![]()
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