Today,Judy Garlandwould have celebrated her 100th birthday.

Rooney is Mickey and Garland is Patsy, two kids with Broadway dreams determined to prove their parents wrong.

Viewers should be aware this film contains a sequence that features Rooney and Garland in blackface.

American actress and singer Judy Garland (1922 - 1969), circa 1945. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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There’s no denying that it’s Garland’s most famous role and with good reason.

Garland lent Dorothy a vulnerability that remains the beating heart of the movie over 80 years later.

They star as performers Jo Hayden and Harry Palmer.

Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland sharing a soda together as they stare into one an others eyes in a scene from the film ‘Babes In Arms’ which was released in 1939. (Photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Metro/Getty Images)

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But after learning the truth of what he’s done, she wants nothing to do with him.

Most famously, this was the origin of Christmas standard, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”

Garland’s rendition is sterling and unmatchable.

1939: American actor Judy Garland (1922 - 1969), as Dorothy Gale, holding Toto the dog for the film, ‘The Wizard Of Oz,’ directed by Victor Fleming. (Photo by MGM Studios/MGM Studios/Getty Images)

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But what Manuela doesn’t know is that her fiance is the real dastardly pirate, long retired.

Plus, she gets to share Cole Porter musical numbers with Kelly, notably “Be a Clown.”

Judy Garland dances with Gene Kelly in a scene from the film ‘For Me And My Gal’, 1942. (Photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images)

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American actors (left to right) Tom Drake (1918 - 1982), Judy Garland (1922 - 1969) and Margaret O’Brien in a promotional portrait for ‘Meet Me In St. Louis’, directed by Vincente Minnelli, 1944. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

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Robert Walker getting close to Judy Garland in a scene from the film ‘The Clock’, 1945. (Photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images)

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Judy Garland in a scene from the film ‘The Pirate’, 1948. (Photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images)

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Gene Kelly and Judy Garland dance in a publicity still for the 1950 film Summer Stock. (Photo by �� John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Judy Garland in a scene from A Star is Born. The film marks her comeback after the termination of her contract by MGM four years earlier.

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