if we flip the medallion to its other side... our sweet little dorothy, judy garland, endured 6 months of filming with a painful corset to make her belly look flat and bandages wrapped around her chest to make her look younger. throughout this time, she was bound by a harsh contract with mgm, which kept her on diet pills and a strict diet program to lose weight, energy pills so she could work longer hours, and sleeping pills so she wouldn't lose sleep. as a result of all this, judy garland ended up addicted to pills. her drug-dependent metabolism would crash by the age of just 49. but the blame here shouldn't fall on mgm alone; it should also fall on judy's mother, because she pushed her da…
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