Presenting Lily Mars
Presenting Lily Mars is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog, produced by Joe Pasternak, starring Judy Garland and Van Heflin, and based on the 1933 novel by Booth Tarkington.[2] Also, in Little Nellie Kelly, released in 1940, she plays her character's mother, dying in childbirth.Lily Mars (Judy Garland) is a small-town girl with big-city ambitions.She then heads to Broadway hoping to convince him to cast her, but after a series of disappointments, the best she can manage is an understudy job.[1][5] An April 30, 1943, New York Times review bylined T. S. praises Judy Garland's “blithe talents” but concludes: “For all its sweetness, "Presenting Lily Mars" is uninviting fare; it is glorified monotony.
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