by Herbie J Pilato
A couple of movies after she went off to see The Wizard of Oz, and a few films before he became one of the Strangers on A Train, Judy Garland and Robert Walker (father to Robert Walker, Jr. Charlie X of original Star Trek fame) co-starred in a beautiful little motion picture titled, The Clock (released in 1945).
Garland played the sweet Alice Mayberry of New York City, and Walker played a soldier named Corporal Joe Allen, who visited (by train) the Big Apple on furlough.
They met when she broke her high heel by the escalator he was standing next to.