In this article on Slate, Simon Doonan makes the following comment about this pic of Judy Garland:
Well, he’s right about her face anyway. Does anyone know of a reliable account of what is actually happening in this picture? Perhaps what Doonan states has some basis in truth, but the picture does not back up his assertions about her hands and whether or not she’s just been trying to dip into the rubbing alcohol.
She looks like she’s telling a story about something awful and making appropriate face and gestures to me. The bottle in the background could be anything and she certainly doesn’t seem to be paying any attention to it.
Judy: Do you have any idea how much it hurt to have my tits taped down every goddamned day??? How did they know they needed to be taped down? Because that pencil-dicked little Napoleon Louie B. Mayer used to “measure” them with his hands just like this !!!