Bad casting. Judy Garland looks nothing like her on-screen family.

The majority of redheads have brown eyes, I think Judy looked lovely with auburn hair - it really suited her colouring. The only fair haired/blonde family member was the older brother who looked a little out of place with his sisters and parents being auburn or brunettes - it's not uncommon for that to happen though.

I thought Rose looked like Mary Astor's daughter, though. In fact, I came on to this site to check if she really was.

Actually I checked because I thought you may have been more correct than anyone realized. Genetically two blue eyed parents can never have a brown eyed child but a brown eyed parent paired with a blue can have either color. Brown is dominant blue recessive. The bottom line is two blues can never make a brown but if one brown is in the equation any color is possible. Mary Astor had brown eyes so did Judy so it's fine.I cringe sometimes when Hollywood makes that mistake, everyone was supposed to learn that in biology.

Ever hear of recessive and dominant genes?

I'm short, heavyset, dark haired, with deep green eyes.

My brother is tall, lean, pale, with rust-red hair and light blue eyes.

Guess we couldn't cast him as my brother, huh?

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Nothing to see here, move along.

I honestly don't give a fµck.

I take it that, the three oldest kids, Rose, Lon, and Esther, with the red hair, take after their mother, and the two youngest, brunettes, take after their father.

Judy Garland's natural hair color was dark red (auburn). So red-haired people obviously can have brown eyes.