Anne Hathaway to Get Happy as Judy Garland on Stage and Screen

Anne Hathaway is gearing up to play one of Hollywood’s greatest stars. The Academy Award nominee will star on both the stage and big screen as Judy Garland in adaptations of Gerald Clarke’s biography Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland.

The Weinstein Company has acquired the rights to the book, which was published in 2001 and included many never-before-heard details from Garland’s own writings. Honcho Harvey Weinstein said in a statement that Hathaway “will be a true class act in this challenging role.” Frequent Broadway producers, The Weinstein Company is currently represented on Broadway with August: Osage County, Billy Elliot, West Side Story, God of Carnage, Exit the King, Hair and the upcoming 9 to 5.

Hathaway will playing Viola in this summer’s Delacorte Theatre production of Twelfth Night, running from June 9 to July 12 in Central Park. Before achieving movie stardom in films ranging from her Oscar-nominated role in Rachel Getting Married to star turns in Bride Wars, Brokeback Mountain, The Devil Wears Prada, Get Smart, Becoming Jane and two Princess Diaries movies, the actress played the lead role in the City Center Encores! production of Carnival winning the Clarence Derwent Award and Paper Mill Playhouse productions of Jane Eyre, Gigi and Once Upon a Mattress. Hathaway participated in a reading of Promises Promises late last year and joined host Hugh Jackson onstage during the Oscar telecast to sing during a skit. Jackman knows a thing or two about Judy Garland, since he won a Tony playing her son-in-law Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz.

No creative team or timeline has been announced for the projects.