Sadly, in addition to her talent, Minnelli inherited some of her mother's problems with addiction and an unlucky love life, and she's been a tabloid staple on and off for decades. Yet, she's never really lost that vibrancy and presence of her earliest work see: any of her work on Arrested Development. All this is to say, sure, young Liza Minnelli looks a lot different at 73 than she did at But she also hasn't changed a bit.
This story contains major spoilers for the Netflix film Passing. Jimmy O. Netflix Christmas movie season is up. Spoilers ahead. Earlier this year the Chinese-American filmmaker became the first woman of colour to win an Oscar for best director wit. Playful and i. Welcome to Love Like This? Lashana Lynch Is Right There. Minnelli countersued and accused him of not only stealing from her, but that living with him had left her "afraid for her life," via The Guardian , as she claimed he had been poisoning her.
Divorce proceedings continued for about another four years and ultimately ended with a no-fault divorce and Minnelli swearing she was never, ever going to get married again. There's another running theme through the lives of Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland, and it's complicated. According to Biography , Judy Garland's father, Frank Gumm, was — way back in the s — frequently found in the company of men.
Garland went on to marry director Vincente Minnelli, who biographers say was bisexual — adding that Garland had once attempted suicide after finding him with another man.
Liza Minnelli's relationships paralleled those of her mother in strange ways. According to Vice , she realized very, very soon after getting married for the first time that her husband was gay — the story goes that it was their wedding night when she caught Peter Allen with another man. That wasn't the end of it, though, and Allen went on to have an affair that is exactly the sort of thing that tabloids love — he hooked up with Mark Herron, who was the husband of none other than Judy Garland.
Ultimately, Judy Garland was married five times, and her daughter was married four. None of the marriages were super happy. Having a best friend can make life complete, and when it comes to Liza Minnelli, her best friend was the fashion designer Halston.
Not only did they have a fantastic working relationship — he designed her most memorable clothes, and she was always front and center if he needed a model — Minnelli says via Vanity Fair , "[Halston] was my big brother. I loved him. I trusted him. Tragically, their friendship ended too early. By March , he was dead.
Minnelli organized a tribute to him, saying, "I'll miss him always. She has done a massive amount of charity work and was honored with the International Hero Award in , saying, "I will do anything in this fight to help find a cure for this devastating disease. We have a long way to go In , paramedics were summoned to Liza Minnelli's Florida home and found that she seemed to be suffering from what was first thought to be a severe stroke via CBS.
It was actually complications from something called viral encephalitis — contracted through a mosquito bite — and it's terrifying stuff. Encephalitis refers to an inflammation of the brain, and the Mayo Clinic says that severe cases are life-threatening.
Symptoms range from paralysis and seizures to difficulty speaking, hallucinations, and coma. And Minnelli? She was told that she was never going to walk again, and that the dancer needed to accept she was going to be reliant on a wheelchair.
She had other ideas and ultimately made a full recovery. It was anything but easy, though, and she told The Guardian , "I had to learn to walk again, had to learn to talk again. People don't usually recover like I recovered, but I would not give up.
I was lying there, scared, and my father always told me, 'The way you do something is you think about it. I really worked to get back. Watch Liza Minnelli dance, and it looks like what she was born to do. It's taken a severe toll on her, though, and she's had to undergo numerous surgeries and procedures to keep on her feet.
She's also said via Strauss Scoliosis Correction that her problems went back a long way, and that for a long time, she didn't even realize that she was unconsciously adjusting the way she walked and moved to relieve the pain of her scoliosis.
She only noticed it when she saw someone impersonating her and her distinctive walk. Given that, it's not entirely surprising that in , it was reported, as per Billboard , that she was recovering from back surgery.
In addition, she's suffered from crushed discs in her back, has had two hip replacements, and a knee replacement. She called the knee replacement "quite traumatic" but also added via Music News that less than a year later, she was once again dancing every day. There was no silver spoon An insight into how complicated fame is Shutterstock.
Liza Minnelli suffered through multiple miscarriages Shutterstock. Liza Minnelli was also very close to her father, Vincente Minnelli, who she credits with bringing magic to what was often a chaotic childhood. Minnelli's father encouraged her love of acting and dancing. According to Harper's Bazaar , it was also her father who inspired the signature pitch-black pixie cut that she sported in the film Cabaret and has worn for most of her life.
However, this might not be entirely factual as she was seen with the hairstyle as early as Variety gives a far more mundane recounting of how she settled on her iconic hairstyle, reporting that she cut off her hair after getting gum in it. Whatever the truth is behind her haircut — a legend must be allowed to keep some secrets, after all — what's certain is that Minnelli's father was devoted to her, and she to him.
They divorced the following year, and both would go on to re-marry three times. While this could have been confusing and troubling for Minnelli, she was excited to be surrounded by a large family which included not only stepparents but also a stepbrother and three half-siblings. Some of those bonds could be complicated, though. Per the Los Angeles Times , Minnelli's year-old stepmother, Lee Anderson Minnelli, sued her in for selling the home she lived in.
While the house technically belonged to Minnelli, the lawsuit claimed she was required to allow her stepmother to live there for the rest of her life. A spokesperson for Minnelli, however, issued a statement claiming that Minnelli had offered to buy her stepmother a condo.
The lawsuit was dropped later that year, with Minnelli's stepmother insisting the two were on good terms. It would be easy for someone unfamiliar with Liza Minnelli's career to assume that her fame is due to nepotism. Watch her perform just once, though, and it becomes obvious that her success is well deserved. Minnelli is a woman of many talents, and they've been rewarded with multiple awards over the years, including an EGOT — the name given to the rare winning of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony.
Per Insider , just a handful of people have won "the most coveted award in Hollywood. Her official bio at the website for the Emmys lists her as having won a whopping four Tony Awards, an Oscar, two Golden Globes, and an Emmy on top of her non-competitive Grammy Award.
Like her mother, who died of a barbiturate overdose , Liza Minnelli has struggled with addiction — and she's been frank about her battle. After her mother's death, Minnelli was prescribed Valium to cope with her grief. Minnelli then began abusing drugs, until she entered rehab at the Betty Ford Center in That wouldn't be her only time in rehab, but Minnelli has been determined not to let her addiction take over her life. Shocking as it may sound, a simple mosquito bite almost paralyzed Liza Minnelli for life in Minnelli contracted a virus called encephalitis from the bite which, per the Mayo Clinic , causes "inflammation of the brain.
The virus left Minnelli with speech difficulties and unable to walk; her doctors told her that she'd be wheelchair-bound from then on, but she refused to accept this diagnosis. Minnelli eventually made a full recovery, but it was hard work. Not only did Liza Minnelli learn to walk again after her bout with encephalitis, but she also turned to stunt work after the health scare. Minnelli memorably starred on the comedy Arrested Development as Lucille 2, whose extreme vertigo is a running joke on the series.
Lucille falls down a lot on the show, and every fall you see on screen is Minnelli in action — and falling isn't as easy as it looks, either.
Minnelli joined the cast at the request of its director, Ron Howard, who'd previously worked with her father; he recalled how hilarious Minnelli is, but Minnelli also proved to be a meticulous performer. On her first day on set, a stunt double was ready to go but Minnelli wasn't having it. Minnelli did have some previous experience in stunt work, telling Variety , "I knew all the stuntmen in Hollywood from when I was little and played on the MGM lot, so I figured out how to make it work.
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