With her innocent face and good attitude, Judy Garland was considered to be the brightest star of her age.

Garland previously starred in The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), where her pure looks served her well. However, in a later interview, Garland complained that even as she got older, audiences never stopped seeing her as the child who had appeared in so many of their favorite film.

“That’s the only legitimate one I have to pick with Hollywood,” said Garland during an interview with The Waxahachie Daily Light. “Anywhere else in the world, once you’re out of high school, have celebrated your nineteenth birthday, and drive a car, you just automatically step out of the Junior Miss class. But in Hollywood, people can’t forget how you looked when you were that age, because half the time the corner movie house is showing revivals of the pictures you were in.”

Though Garland was careful to mature into a hardworking and talented adult, she didn’t necessarily blame her audience for keeping a childlike image of her in their heads.

“The complexities that people have put around me are the complexities of themselves,” said the actor. “The ones that had surrounded me - I didn’t surround myself with these people - they sort of made me sound peculiar. I’m about as peculiar as I was when I was Frances Ethel Gumm, singing Jingle Bells.”

There were also great benefits to aging; Garland became more confident and sure of herself.

“There has never been a mystique,” said Garland. “A lot of curious publicity was created about me, and that made an audience a bit apprehensive. And therefore it transmitted to me, and maybe I was a bit shy. But now, the hell with it. We’ve all settled down and realized that I’m an entertainer.”