DS, 22 pages, 8.5 x 11, September 26, 1961. Agreement between Judy Garland and Millar/Turman Productions in which she agrees to "render her services as an actress to portray the role of Jenny Bowman in the motion picture photoplay tentatively entitled 'The Lonely Stage'" for fixed compensation of $200,000 plus 10% of gross receipts in excess of $3,000,000. Signed at the conclusion in blue ballpoint by Judy Garland, and countersigned by the producer. In fine condition, with light creasing and the last page detached from the staple.
I Could Go On Singing stars Judy Garland in her final film performance alongside Dirk Bogarde and Jack Klugman. Directed by Ronald Neame, the 1963 musical drama was originally titled The Lonely Stage, but renamed so that audiences would know that Garland sings in it—she had not sung in a film since 1954's A Star Is Born.
Reviewing the film in the New York Herald Tribune, Judith Crist wrote: 'You'll see her in close-up…in beautiful, glowing Technicolor and striking staging in a vibrant, vital performance that gets to the essence of her mystique as a superb entertainer. Miss Garland is—as always—real, the voice throbbing, the eyes aglow, the delicate features yielding to the demands of the years—the legs still long and lovely. Certainly the role of a top-rank singer beset by the loneliness and emotional hungers of her personal life is not an alien one to her.'
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