Editing Judy Garland (section)

=== 1950–1952: Radio appearances and stage comeback ===
Garland was a frequent guest on ''[[Kraft Music Hall]]'', hosted by her friend [[Bing Crosby]]. Following Garland's second suicide attempt, Crosby, knowing that she was depressed and running out of money, invited her on his radio show – the first of the new season – on October 11, 1950.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}} {{Blockquote|text= She was standing in the wings of it trembling with fear. She was almost hysterical. She said, "I cannot go out there because they're all gonna be looking to see if there are scars and it's gonna be terrible." Bing said "What's going on?" and I told him what happened and he walked out on stage and he said: "We got a friend here, she's had a little trouble recently. You probably heard about it – everything is fine now, she needs our love. She needs our support. She's here – let's give it to her, OK? Here's Judy." And she came out and that place went crazy. And she just blossomed.|sign=[[Hal Kanter]], Writer for Bing}}Garland made eight appearances during the 1950–51 season of ''[[The Bing Crosby – Chesterfield Show]]'', which immediately reinvigorated her career. Soon after, she toured for four months to sell-out crowds in Europe.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Bing Crosby Rediscovered |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/bing-crosby/full-film-bing-crosby-rediscovered/3605/ |series=American Masters |network=PBS |date=December 26, 2014 |season=28 |time=30:00 minutes in |language=en |access-date=August 23, 2015}}</ref> In 1951, Garland began a four-month concert tour of Britain and Ireland, where she played to sold-out audiences throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland.{{sfn|Frank|1975|p=304}} The successful concert tour was the first of her many comebacks, with performances centered on songs by Al Jolson and the revival of vaudevillian "tradition". Garland performed complete shows as tributes to Jolson in her concerts at the London Palladium in April and at New York's Palace Theater later that year.<ref name="Radano">{{cite book |title=Music and the Racial Imagination |date=2000 |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |isbn=9780226702001 |editor-last=Radano |editor-first=Ronald |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=135}}</ref>[[File:Judygarland astarisborn warnerbros publicitystill 19542.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Garland in a publicity still (1954)]]Garland said after the Palladium show: "I suddenly knew that this was the beginning of a new life ... Hollywood thought I was through; then came the wonderful opportunity to appear at the London Palladium, where I can truthfully say Judy Garland was reborn."<ref name="Radano" /> Her appearances at the Palladium lasted for four weeks, where she received rave reviews and an ovation described by the Palladium manager as the loudest he had ever heard.<ref>{{cite news |date=April 10, 1951 |title=British Give Judy Garland Big Ovation |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=MacPherson |first=Virginia |date=April 10, 1951 |title=Judy Garland in Comeback with Palladium Contract |publisher=UPI}}</ref>

Garland's engagement at the Palace Theatre in Manhattan in October 1951 exceeded all previous records for the theater and for Garland and was called "one of the greatest personal triumphs in show business history".<ref>{{cite news |last=Garver |first=Jack |date=February 24, 1952 |title=Judy Garland Ends Triumphant Vaudeville Run |agency=[[United Press International]]}}</ref> Garland was honored with a Special Tony Award for her contribution to the revival of vaudeville.<ref>{{cite web |title=Judy Garland |url=http://www.tonyawards.com/p/tonys_search |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160831204617/http://www.tonyawards.com/p/tonys_search |archive-date=August 31, 2016 |access-date=December 24, 2007 |publisher=American Theatre Wing}}</ref>

Garland divorced Minnelli that same year.{{sfn|Juneau|1974|p=108}} On June 8, 1952, she married Sidney Luft, her tour manager and producer, in Hollister, California.<ref>{{cite news |last=Garver |first=Jack |date=June 12, 1952 |title=Judy Garland Married With Simple Ceremony |agency=[[United Press International]]}}</ref> On November 21, 1952, Garland gave birth to daughter Lorna Luft, who became an actress and singer. On March 29, 1955, she gave birth to her son Joey Luft.{{sfn|Edwards|1975|p=166}}