Lorna Luft details struggles of being a 'legend's child' Judy Garland's youngest daughter Lorna Luft, who begins a run of dates in London 's Crazy Coqs tonight (June 26) has always been upfront about the difficulties of being "Judy Garland's daughter". The 71-year-old entertainer called her 1998 autobiography Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir, a reference to one of her mother's most famous songs but also to living in the shadow of her legendary Hollywood star mother whose 1939 performance in the Wizard Of Oz remains much loved. Indeed, when the book was adapted into an Emmy-winning mini-series, starring Judy Davis as the iconic entertainer, it ended when Lorna was just 16 and mourning the death of her mother.
This is despite the fact the tome brought readers right up to date with Lorna's life at the time. Lorna, whose father is Judy's third husband Sid Luft, has followed her mother into the entertainment industry, just like her sister Liza Minnelli. In the book she describes her life as a "melodrama" and says she was "born into the cast" and that was literally true of her early performances.
Her debut was actually on the Christmas special of her mother's eponymous TV show in 1963 when she was just 11-years-old. "Being able to sing with her and being able to watch her work as not just my mom was special," she recalled in an interview with msn.com in 2023.
"A lot of people watch the show [at Christmas] and I think it's lovely," she said. "I'm very, very grateful." READ MORE: F.