Garland's third husband Luft dies

Judy Garland and Sid Luft had two children, Joey and Lorna

Judy Garland's third husband Sid Luft, a film producer and amateur boxer who helped revive her career, has died.

Luft, who was 89, produced Garland's 1954 comeback movie A Star is Born, which earned six Oscar nominations.

Garland had become a star in films like The Wizard of Oz, but Luft became her manager and then husband in 1952 after her private life and career fell apart.

They were married for 13 years but she told a divorce hearing: "He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking."

Luft also produced films including Kilroy was Here and French Leave in the late 1940s, both starring Jackie Cooper.

Oscar battle

After Garland was released by film studio MGM in 1950, Luft set about rebuilding her career with a series of concert tours and her screen comeback.

Garland had been married five times by the time she died from an accidental overdose of prescription pills in 1969. She and Luft had two children - Lorna, an actress, and Joey.

In the 1990s, Luft tried to sell the 1939 best juvenile actress Oscar Garland won for The Wizard of Oz and the replacement she received in 1958 when she claimed the first one was lost.

But he was blocked when he was sued by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.