“Liza Minnelli, the last heiress of Hollywood”, on Arte: portrait of a freed

Arte – Sunday August 3 at 8:05 p.m. Meanwhile, – Documentary

“My name is Liza, Liza with a Z!” »» From her singularity. Nevertheless, Liza Minnelli, born in 1946, made a song, just to put the points on the “i” with humor, almost every time she goes on stage. Nevertheless, Pronounce “Laïza”. Yes. In addition, she is the daughter of “liza minnelli, last heiress hollywood”, Judy Garland (1922-1969), the “little fiancée of America”, the Dorothy of Magician of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939), and the immense director of musicals Vincente Minnelli (1903-1986). Yes, as a child, she was cycling in the MGM studios like others went to the park. Yes. at 13, Gene Kelly (1912-1996) offered her her first television with a Pas-deux, reinterpretation of a scene that he had shot seventeen years earlier with his mother. But no, Liza Minnelli will never be crushed by the weight of this dynasty.

“If Hollywood was a royal family, Liza would be our heiress princess”said Fred Astaire (1899-1987) in a documentary from 1974. His talent unfolds in adolescence. Judy Garland will be able to convey the witness to the boards of London and Broadway, featuring a strange mother-daughter friendship. Liza will remain loyal to this loving but suffering mother, while extravagantly inventing her own path. It “liza minnelli, last heiress hollywood”, is this story. unusual in the Hollywood of the 1960s, told by the delicate documentary of Lucie Cariès, Liza Minnelli, the last Hollywood heiress.

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