Sloan De Forest is a writer, actor, film historian, and relative of talking pictures pioneer Lee de Forest. She has written about film for Sony, Time Warner Cable, and the Mary Pickford Foundation, and is a contributing author of Natalie Wood: Reflections on a Legendary Life by Manoah Bowman (Running Press, 2016). She lives in Hollywood – mentally, spiritually, and geographically. 
Today, Cukor’s musical version is regarded as a classic, and, due to Garland’s spectacular comeback performance, it has even eclipsed the original. Yet I prefer the 1937 version, primarily because[…]
