I Could Go On Singing (1963) was Judy Garland’s final film, as Jenny Bowman, a celebrated singer who returns to London and reunites with an old love.
Opposite Dirk Bogarde, Garland played Jenny with a mixture of glamour and vulnerability. The film’s concert scenes gave her a chance to perform as herself, in a sense, and her singing remains its greatest strength.
Although the film’s story was not a great success, Garland’s performance was widely praised. Jenny Bowman remains a fitting final screen role, a singer who, like Garland herself, could go on singing.
Image: Judy Garland singing Over the Rainbow, Wikimedia Commons, CC0 / public domain. Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Judy_Garland_Over_the_Rainbow_2.jpg