We may have watched in awe and amazement as Anne Hathaway joined the 2009 Oscar host Hugh Jackman in a song and dance routine at the awards ceremony in LA, but it certainly didn’t do the actress’s career any harm as it now appears that Hathaway is about to land a momentous role.

The Oscar nominated Anne, is now in line to play Judy Garland both on stage and screen in the upcoming film and legit adaptations of Gerald Clarke’s 2000 biography “Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland.”

Hathaway, who is 28 years old, is 20 years younger than Judy was when she died, and 10 years older than Garland when she played her breakthrough role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.

In her current acting career, Anne was nominated for an Oscar for her role in the 2008 movie, Rachel Getting Married. Garland only received an honorary Oscar for her role in The Wizard of Oz in 1939 having missed out on the main piece of gold ware in 1954 in A Star is Born to Grace Kelly who won for her role in The Country Girl and again in 1961 Garland was nominated for her supporting performance as a witness in Judgment at Nuremberg, but again she lost out to Rita Moreno for West Side Story.

In 1997, Garland was posthumously awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and several of her recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 1999, the American Film Institute placed her among the ten greatest female stars in the history of American cinema.

Along with seven other previous actresses, such as Cate Blanchett for Katherine Hepburn in Aviator and Reese Witherspoon for June Cash in Walk the Line, who have won lead actress Academy Awards, they have done so with roles as real life people which would definitely leave Hathaway well positioned for an Oscar for the role of the famous Judy.

Garland herself never actually won an Oscar.