Judy Garland, a legend of the silver screen known for her breathtaking voice, was devoted to her children: Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft and Joey Luft.

The Wizard of Oz star and her second husband, director Vincente Minnelli, welcomed their daughter Liza on March 12, 1946. After they divorced, Garland remarried producer Sid Luft, with whom she had daughter Lorna, born November 21, 1952, and son Joey, born March 29 1955.

In total, the actress has been married five times, and as adults her children have reminisced about their Hollywood upbringing. Lorna has shared stories about growing up surrounded by movie stars, such as the night she woke up to see Marilyn Monroe sitting on her bed and looking at her.

“I know this is going to sound strange, but I’ve said it so many times, it was our normal,” she said Entertainment tonight in 2022. “We didn’t know they were famous; we didn’t know they were different. They were friends of our parents. That was the neighborhood.”

Sadly, Garland died at the age of 47 from an overdose of barbiturates on June 22, 1969. At the time of their mother’s death, Liza was 23, Lorna 16, and Joey 14.

Although Joey lives a more private life these days, both Liza and Lorna have had stellar careers as performers on both stage and screen. Liza won her first major award when she was just 19 years old, and Lorna has honored Garland with music, books and an award-nominated show.

Now, decades later, Garland’s legacy lives on in modern variations of her work, including the Bad live action movie. Ahead of the premiere on November 22, Lorna attended a screening and she described it as “everything I wanted it to be.”

Here’s everything you need to know about Judy Garland’s kids: Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft, and Joey Luft.

They made their Hollywood debut in Garland’s projects

Garland brought her children into the spotlight early in their lives and involved them in her various productions.

Liza’s first film appearance was at age 3, in her mother’s 1949 film Good old summer time. By the time she was 13, Liza was singing and dancing with Gene Kelly on TV. In the 1960s she often performed with her mother The Judy Garland Show and accompanied her during concerts in London.

Lorna’s first performance was also underway The Judy Garland Show when she performed “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” at age 11 in 1963.

She later appeared with Joey in Garland’s 1967 shows at the Palace Theater on Broadway. Both the concerts at the Palace and in London were released as albums.

They continued Garland’s sense of humor

Despite Garland’s personal struggles and untimely death, Lorna told PEOPLE in 1998 that she was more than her public image. Throughout her career in Hollywood, Garland dealt with drug and alcohol addiction, which began when she was 16.

“People would like my mother to be unloved and tragic, but she wasn’t,” Lorna said, adding that she saw her mother as a victim of addiction. “No one could have saved her but herself.”

Since then, Liza and Lorna say their mother’s sense of humor has shaped their coping mechanisms when life gets tough.

“There’s a good side to it too,” Liza said The Guardian in 2008. “I think that’s the greatest gift you can have: a point of view. You know? I’ve come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it. … Rewrite it for yourself and it becomes funny. It’s up to you, how you feel, what you watch and what you focus on.

Lorna echoed this sentiment during a conversation with Entertainment tonight in 2022.

“Our mother had such an extraordinary sense of humor, and that was her survival guide,” she explained. “We just find it funny because I think that’s the way we were raised and raised and we looked at a woman who thought it was funny.”

Liza is an EGOT winner

As a child, Liza was well on her way to a career as an actress. By the time she was 19 in 1965, Liza had already won a Tony Award for her role in Flora the red danger.

In 1972 she won an Oscar for her role in the film Cabaret; her performance as Sally Bowles on stage and screen has become one of her most lasting legacies.

The following year, Liza won an Emmy for Liza with a Z. After earning another Tony for The lawshe appeared in modern classic films such as Arthur and released several albums of both Broadway standards and pop music.

After being awarded a Grammy in 1990, she became one of only 27 people to earn an EGOT for winning every award. In subsequent years, Liza also won a Tony and three Golden Globes.

Lorna is a Broadway star and author

Lorna has also had a successful career on stage and screen, despite the pressures of their family legacy.

“When your mother was the best, I mean, it was a little tough,” Liza told PEOPLE in 1980. “Lorna has to deal with that, and with me.”

Since Lorna first stepped into the spotlight at the age of 11, she has continued to perform for different audiences.

She made her Broadway debut in Promises, promises in 1971 and followed it up with Grease in 1980. Lorna later joined touring productions of shows like Boys and dolls, gypsy And White Christmas from 1992 to 2007.

Amidst her live performances, Lorna also landed roles in shows like Murder she wrote And Trapper John, MD She has also written books, including the 1998 memoir Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir.

Joey pursued a career behind the camera

Despite being in front of the camera at a young age, Joey chose a career behind it.

He studied photography and sound and worked on various film sets. “I’ve been behind the camera more,” he told the newspaper Los Angeles Times in 2014.

Still, Joey has childhood memories that have stayed with him. “I have a life that has been fascinating. I can tell stories for days,” he added.

While thinking about who his mother was, Joey said he wanted to remember her in good times.

“She was an artist. She was a mother. She loved people,” he said. “She was the most caring person. She had the greatest sense of humor.”

Joey wrote a one-man show about Garland

Joey made his debut in 2014 A Judy Garland concert with Joey Luft at the Pasadena Playhouse, outside Los Angeles.

“They know ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ but people don’t even know Judy,” he told the newspaper Los Angeles Times. “The show is intended to educate and show people who she was, what she did and what she was all about: one of the greatest entertainers in the world.”

Although it took him until he was 59 to get the project going, he’s glad he did it.

“It’s so nice to just get out there and talk about her and let people know, ‘This is what really happened,'” Joey explained.