70th Birthday – Liza Minnelli, gay icon full of self-irony – Süddeutsche.de

70 years ago Liza Minnelli was born the daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli in Los Angeles. The footsteps, in which they should enter, were gigantic. Not because Judy Garland was particularly large – in fact it was often reduced to girlish roles – but because it was a megastar of cinema of thirty and forty. . Their role as Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz” made Judy Garland an icon of pop culture

1974 said Liza Minnelli Dorothy – in the animated film “Journey Back to Oz”, the story of “Oz “further told. In general, the life of Liza Minnelli appears to have taken place to a large extent in the shadow of its larger than life mother: her first husband Peter Allen learned Minnelli as the protégé of her mother know. The marriage ended in divorce. In the seventies she was with Jack Haley jr. Married the son of one of the stars of “The Wizard of Oz”.

In a relationship was Minnelli with Martin Scorsese, Peter Sellers and many other illustrious artists and people of public life.