Christopher Walken Danced with Judy Garland at Liza Minnelli's 16th Birthday Bash, Says She Was 'Very Good-Looking'

Mar. 15, 2025

Judy Garland, Christopher Walken and Liza Minnelli in the 1960s.Photo:R. Stewart/Fairfax Media via Getty; Hulton Archive/Getty; George Greenwell/Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty

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Christopher Walkenis opening up about his past with some of Hollywood’s most legendary stars.

The 81-year-old actor confirmed. “We did an Off-Broadway musical calledBest Foot Forward. 1962. Well, she was 16 years old, I remember.”

Cohen asked, “Could you see it then that she had it?”

“Oh, absolutely,” theDune: Part Twostar said. Then Cohen asked if he interacted with Minnelli’s mom,Judy Garland, at all.

“Her mom gave a sweet 16th birthday party for her,” Walken said, and the actor confirmed that he attended. “I remember I danced with Judy Garland,” he added. He confirmed that she was a good dancer and “very good-looking.”

Liza Minnelli (left) and Christopher Walken in New York City.Robin Platzer/Getty

Robin Platzer/Getty

Way back in 1986, the Queens, New York, native told PEOPLE how he ended up with such a wide array of roles. “I just put one foot in front of the other and take what comes next," he said. “What the heck, a part’s a part.”

Christopher Walken in 1967.Hulton Archive/Getty

Hulton Archive/Getty

Reflecting on his long career in 2022, he toldThe New York Times, “I don’t golf or play tennis. I have no kids. I’ve been married for 53 years,” referencinghis wife, Georgianne. “I sometimes think about writing something, but I don’t have much talent for that. You know, all actors have a trunk full of scripts. A lot of people do. Even my dentist at one point, when he was doing my teeth, told me about a script he’d written. I’ve written things. They’re just not good enough. I start with two people sitting in a room talking and invariably it becomes incoherent. There’s nothing I can be other than an actor.”

Christopher Walken in 2024.John Lamparski/Getty

John Lamparski/Getty

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And his acting, he said, is always infused with a little fun. “Sometimes I do things just to amuse myself,” he told the outlet. “I’ve played scenes pretending that I was Elvis or Bugs Bunny or a U-boat commander. I just don’t tell anybody.”

“Acting is one of those things, you can keep doing it as long as they ask you to do it,” he toldThe Wrapin 2015. “They say you don’t retire from acting — they retire you. And I don’t want to be retired, because what would I do?”

source: people.com