Mickey Deans

Following Garland's death, Deans co-authored a biography of Garland with Ann Pinchot, Weep No More, My Lady. The book includes autobiographical elements of Deans' pre-Garland life and their time together. The book was published in 1972 by Hawthorn Books with paperback editions issued by Pyramid Books.

Deans played jazz piano professionally, often traveling when not working at New York's Jilly's nightclub. After Garland's death, he worked as assistant to impresario/producer Roy Radin in putting together old-fashioned vaudeville-type revues associated with The Police Conference of New York, a police fund raising organization also associated with Roy Radin. (Radin was found murdered in 1983 in the infamous Cotton Club murder, so named for a film Radin was producing: The Cotton Club.) Later, Deans settled in Cleveland, where, at one point, he opened a "haunted mansion" to paying customers.

He spent time at his summer home getaway in a quiet suburb outside Cleveland, Ohio. There he kept to himself, barely making an appearance in his few-acre hideaway with a swimming pool and three-acre pond. Read Less