Was Judy Garland the most talented performer who ever lived? — Page 2

One of the best singers and song interpreters ever. Excellent actress, as displayed in A Star Is Born. Good dancer, but I wouldn't call her a triple threat. I think Liza was a better dancer than her mother.

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I don't think there's any denying she was great, but her status as maybe THE gay icon to an entire generation or two makes her greater than she probably was. But there's no way that any one human being could be considered the "most talented". It's far too subjective a topic to have a difinitive winner.

I stumbled on a couple of his albums at my public library when I was a kid, and I flipped.

You could certainly make the argument that he was the most talented comic ever. But performer (if by that we mean, as Joe does, actor/ singer/dancer)? I don't see how, but I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Updated On: 6/22/14 at 08:10 PM

The problem with Carlin was the last two decades of work, which grew increasingly unbearable. By the end it wasn't even comedy, and even worse it wasn't anti-comedy.

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Does the most talented performer o all time have to be a triple threat?

"Click on the dancing link in my post above. Your eyes go to Judy the whole time and not Gene."

She's no Ann Miller.

Your eyes go to Judy because you can't help but wonder why the costumer put her in such an ugly brown dress.

The dancing Judy does in that scene is good but it's not anything an average dancer couldn't do.

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"Does the most talented performer o all time have to be a triple threat?"

Yes. It's why Meryl Streep keeps trying to do musicals despite the fact that she is mediocre musically.

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Cher can dance and is an amazing actress. Is she the most talented performer ever? Bette Midler can dance, too.

I've based my life on that premise.

But he doesn't make 70 year old gay men cream their panties like Judy does.

"George Carlin was very funny. But he couldn't Dance. He couldn't sing or act much. Judy Garland was funny and a serious actress and first-rate singer and so on and so on.."

So??? Again, that's your definition of what it means to be the most talented. not mine. There are many folks who are so gifted in one or two of these areas, they simply don't have a need to venture into the third. Carlin developed and wrote all his own comedy, did Judy write all her own songs, choreograph all her own dances, write the screenplays for the parts she played on screen?

I don't believe George Carlin is the most talented performer ever. Truth be told as much as I enjoyed Carlin, I enjoyed Robert Klein even more. I'm just trying to suggest there are many definitions of what it means for a performer to be talented and your definition is one possible definition, not "THE" definition. With the limited knowledge any of us can possibly possess about the history of humanity and performance from the beginning of time, I think assuredly proclaiming anyone the most talented performer of all time is kind of silly. But if you insist on using that definition, I still think it's Celine Dion.

Yes she most certainly was.