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Even at the height of Judy Garland’s fame, to the people of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, she was Frances Ethel Gumm, the two-year-old, frilly-dressed girl known as Baby, who wouldn’t stop singing until she was carried offstage.
John Kelsch, the founding director of the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, recounts the story of Frances’s debut.
“She had a little dinner bell, and she sang ‘Jingle Bells,’” Kelsch says.
Frances ethel gumm biography of mahatma
“Her grandma Eva and her dad were in the wings. She kept singing it over and over again. And they both yelled, ‘Get off, Baby, get off!’ She looked around and said, ‘But Daddy, I like it!’ And the audience just roared. There were people alive here back in the ’80s who remembered being there.”
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The singer’s relationship with audiences followed a similar trajectory throughout her career.
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