List of Awards and Honors Received By Judy Garland - Other Honors

Other Honors

Since 1975, Garland's birthplace of Grand Rapids, Minnesota has held a yearly Judy Garland Festival in June. At the 2006 festival, Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty and lietuenant governor Carol Molnau proclaimed June 22 to be "Judy Garland Day", recognizing and honoring Judy Garland for her dedication and exemplary achievements and to salute her as an outstanding citizen and patron of the Arts. Her children Lorna and Joey Luft were in attendance. Also in 1975, The Judy Garland Museum opened in Grand Rapids. The museum, dedicated to honoring Garland's talent and legacy, is financially supported in part by the Judy Garland Heirs Trust and has the personal support of all of Garland's children. Garland's childhood home in Grand Rapids opened to the public in 1995. The museum claims to hold the largest collection of Judy Garland memorabilia in the world.

Garland has twice been honored with commemorative postage stamps. In 1989, the United States Postal Service issued a series of "Classic Films" postage stamps, to honor the 50th anniversary of films made in the United States in 1939 that were nominated for Academy Awards. These 25¢ stamps featured four films: The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Stagecoach and Beau Geste. The post office issued a stamp in 2006 honoring Garland in the "Legends of Hollywood" series. The stamp depicts Garland as Vicki Lester from A Star Is Born and was painted by illustrator Tim O'Brien. The first day ceremony for this stamp was on June 10, 2006, on what would have been Garland's 84th birthday, in New York City with nationwide availability on June 12. The ceremony at New York's Carnegie Hall featured her daughter, Lorna Luft, Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne, Dick Cavett, Michael Feinstein, Rufus Wainwright, Terrence McNally, and Garland's MGM colleagues Jane Powell and Margaret O'Brien. Garland's daughter Liza Minnelli taped a special greeting exclusively for the ceremony.

The American Film Institute has twice recognized Garland and her talents. In 1999 the AFI named Garland eighth among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time. The AFI in 2004 chose Garland's performance of "Over the Rainbow" as the number one movie song of all time, as part of its "100 Years...100 Songs" list. Four more Garland songs were featured on the list: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from Meet Me in St. Louis (#76); "Get Happy" from Summer Stock (#61); "The Trolley Song", also from Meet Me in St. Louis (#26); and "The Man That Got Away" from A Star Is Born (#11).

Garland's rendition of "Over the Rainbow" was also honored as number one in the 2001 Songs of the Century project, by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. The list was assembled for young people to "help further appreciation for the music development process, including songwriting, musicianship, recording, performing, distributing and the development of distribution and cultural values."

In 2003, the National Recording Preservation Board selected Judy at Carnegie Hall for preservation in the National Recording Registry.

Sigma Chi at the Ohio State University initiated Garland as a Sweetheart of Sigma Chi in 1938. A new breed of rose was introduced in 1977, dedicated to Garland. The Judy Garland Rose has yellow petals with bright red tips. Garland was inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame located in New Ulm, Minnesota in 1991.

Judy Garland has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures (located at 1715 Vine St.) and one for recording (located at 6764 Hollywood Blvd.). Her hand- and footprints were preserved in cement in 1939 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

On what would have been Garland's 88th birthday, June 10, 2010, Madame Tussauds Hollywood unveiled a wax figure of Garland.