Depending on what pictures you look at, there is a uncanny physical resemblance between the two actresses. So I guess this, factored in with the combination of her phoney impromptu number at the Oscars and her versatility as an actress in a darker role (Rachel Getting Married) is what might have got Harvey Weinstein thinking “why not”. Right now the Judy Garland biopic Get Happy remains an optioned property, without scribe or director attached, but adding a name like Anne Hathaway might help with the financing and foreign pre-sales interest.
This is based on Gerald Clarke’s book “Get Happy: the Life of Judy Garland” and details how the actress and singer was plagued by personal problems and mistreated by employers, family and lovers. Garland died in 1969 at the age of 47.
