On June 27th 1970, the Club organised a memorial service in London exactly one year after Judy’s New York funeral and over two-hundred people were in attendance. Reverend Peter Delaney presided over the service at the Parish Church, Marylebone. Dame Anna Neagle, Evelyn Laye, Beatrice Dawson, Hattie Jacques and Danny La Rue were among the celebrities in attendance and Lionel Bart supplied the flowers.

On July 20th 1970 the Club unveiled a photograph and plaque at the London Palladium, the first time such a celebratory gesture had occurred at the famous theatre. The plaque read: "In loving memory of the incomparable Judy Garland – Miss Showbusiness 10th June 1922 – 22nd June 1969." It included all the dates of her Palladium appearances between 1951 and 1969 and recalled a 1951 reviewer’s eloquent observation: ‘It was not only with her voice but with her whole personality that she filled the theatre.’ Richard Attenborough unveiled the plaque.


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