So who would be cast as Tyrone Power? Zac Efron looks a lot like the young Tyrone, except for the blue eyes. But that's why they invented colored contact lenses. :)

New Judy Garland biopic in the works
Weinstein brothers option Gerald Clarke's no-holds-barred 2000 biography
'Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland'

The Guardian London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/feb/04/weinstein-company-plans-judy-garland-biopic

Wednesday 4 February 2009

Hers was a life plagued by substance abuse, failed romances and financial
instability, yet her multiple talents won her Oscars, Grammys, a Golden
Globe and a Tony award, and she remains an icon almost 40 years after her
death. Now the story of Judy Garland looks set to be made into a film for
the first time, after the Weinstein brothers picked up the rights to the
Gerald Clarke biography Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, Variety
reports.

Clarke's book, published in 2000, pulled no punches, suggesting that
Garland's own mother plied her with uppers and downers in order to keep her
energy levels high for a gruelling audition schedule. It also argued that
two of her five husbands were probably gay and revealed that one, Mark
Herron, conducted an affair with Peter Allen, then married to Garland's
daughter, Liza Minnelli.

Other revelations included the suggestion that Garland herself had affairs
with Frank Sinatra, Glenn Ford, Yul Brynner and Tyrone Power as well as with
a number of women, and that she once attacked her young son, Joey, with a
butcher's knife.

Clarke has some cachet in Hollywood: his bestselling 1988 biography of
Truman Capote was the source for Dan Futterman's Oscar-nominated screenplay for the 2005 biopic Capote.

So far there are no casting details for the Weinstein project, which the
former Miramax heads will produce under their Weinstein Company banner, and no attached director.

I guess they're not counting the TV films that have been made about her.

I think Efron would look the part of young Tyrone adding dark contacts for his eyes. I liked him in Hairspray.

It's been discussed from time to time on the forum that George Cooney could be considered for a Ty biopic or portraying Ty for other reasons, though he's maturing and may be a bit old to play younger Ty.

And there's Ty's own son, too. Desi Arnaz, Jr., was in "The Mambo Kings" portraying his own father. Ty, Jr. could be considered.

Ty Jr. is 50, is he not? I think he's too old to play his father at the time Ty Sr. had his affair with Garland. :) He's older now than his father lived to be. :( :( :(

It would have been great if they'd done a Tyrone Power biopic when Ty Jr. was in his 30s -- with the right makeup and lighting, he'd have been young enough to play the young TP and old enough to play the more mature TP too.

Based on seeing "Benjamin Button" yesterday, and the ability to make Brad Pitt like he was in his younger career, they could CGI Ty Jr. into a more youthful look.

Thanks to CGI, make-up may become more and more unecessary! Pretty eerie thought. Kind of computerized "Dorian Grey" effects.