Although Garland had gained popularity in her first motion pictures with Mickey Rooney, she became an international star by playing Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939), in which she sang one of her signature songs, “Over the Rainbow,” and for which she won a special Academy Award for “outstanding performance by a screen juvenile.”
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