Who would play Judy?

According to Great Britain's The Guardian (which picked up the item from Variety), the Weinstein brothers have picked up the rights to a Judy Garland biography and plan to adapt it for the screen. The biography, Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, is by Gerald Clarke, who also wrote the biography of Truman Capote that was turned into the fine film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The book is pretty juicy. It claims two of Ms. Garland's five husbands were probably gay and that one of them, Mark Herron, was having an affair with Peter Allen, who, at the time, was married to Ms. Garland's daughter Liza Minnelli. The book also details Ms. Garland's own sexual dalliances.

So, who do you pick to play Judy Garland? An unknown or someone already established? Right now I am at a loss, although I might be able to picture Kate Beckinsale in the part.