# @clevelandmagazine on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-04-07T13:00:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Cleveland Magazine (@clevelandmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/clevelandmagazine

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Opening Day looked a little different in 1939. The Indians got a special guest for their season opener, as the national anthem was sung by Judy Garland, an accomplished stage and screen star at 16 — with even greater stardom to come soon.

Garland (born Frances Gumm) was part of a vaudeville family, and she broke into movies as a teen, finding fame as the co-star of Mickey Rooney in the Andy Hardy movies. Filming had been completed for The Wizard of Oz earlier in 1939, and Garland was in Cleveland for a two-week engagement at Loew’s State Theatre in what’s now Playhouse Square: the first stage show at the theater in three years.

Her first show was on a Friday evening, April 21. That afternoon was also the Indians’ opener against the Detroit Tigers. It was scheduled to be the home opener, but the entire three-game series that would have begun the series in St. Louis was washed out.

🔗 Click the link in our bio for the full look back to 1959.

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