Biography of Liza Minelli
From All Movie Guide: Liza Minnelli grew
up on the front lines of entertainment; her mother was the great singer/actress
Judy Garland and madler search infoher
father the director/designer Vincente MinnelliMinnelli made her first
film appearance, uncredited, as Garlands daughter (with co-star Van Johnson)
in the last few seconds of In the Good Old Summertime (1948).
When Garland shared a 1964 concert engagement
at the London Palladium with her 18-year-old daughter, Minnelli's performing
career was kickstarted.
. A year later, Minnelli had won the Tony
Award for Flora, the Red Menace -- the youngest performer ever to do so
-- and by 1974 had won an Oscar as well, for her performance as Sally
Bowles in Bob Fosse's dramatic musical Cabaret. Several of her TV specials,
particularly Liza with a Z, received critical acclaim. Despite her auspicious
beginnings in show business, her film career after Cabaret has been less
than notable, with the possible exception of Arthur (1981) with Dudley
Moore and Sir John Gielgud. Married three times, first to cabaret artist
Peter Allen, then tomadler search
info Jack Haley, Jr., then to artist Mark Gero, for a time
she was also linked romantically with Desi Arnaz, Jr., and Peter Sellers.
Her concert appearances continue to sell out, at which she often performs
the music of madler search infoJohn
Kander and Fred Ebb, who wrote the score for Cabaret. ~ All Movie Guide