![]() ![]() |
| |
| |
|
>
The Wizard of Oz (1939) |
|
|
|
Directed by:
Victor Fleming
Starring:
Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale
Frank Morgan as Professor Marvel/Emerald City
Doorman/The Cabbie/Guardian of the Emerald City
Gates/The 'Wizard of Oz'
Ray Bolger as Hunk/Scarecrow
Jack Haley as Hickory/Tin Woodsman
Bert Lahr as Zeke/Cowardly Lion
Billie Burke as Glinda, the Good Witch of the
North
Margaret Hamilton as Miss Almira Gulch/The Wicked
Witch of the West
Charley Grapewin as Uncle Henry Gale |
| |
|
- At the beginning of the "We're off
to see the wizard" sequence, there is
a disturbance in the trees off to the left.
This was rumored to be one of the crew hanging
himself, but is in fact an animal handler
recapturing an escaped animal.
- When Dorothy first meets the wicked witch
and the witch goes in to the cloud of smoke
the flames burned the witches face and shooting
was called of for a few weeks.
- Also the Wicked witch was a kindergarten
teacher before she was the witch.
- Addition:
Kids who had seen the movie alway asked
her why she was so mean to Dorothy. -
Webmaster
- The man who was originally supposed to do
the tin man was hospitalized when he got poisoned
from silver spray paint. - Vic
- Correction:
Not silver spray paint, aluminum powder.
When the part was given to Jack Haley,
the makeup was changed to aluminum paste.
- summer
- Addition:
The actor who was poisoned by the aluminium
makeup was Buddy Ebson. (Source: www.snopes.com)
- Spoc42
- Addition:
Ebson stated the following about his poisoning:
"My first symptoms had been a
noticeable shortness of breath. I would
breathe and exhale and then get the panicky
feeling I hadn't breathed at all. Then
I would gasp for another quick breath
with the same result. My fingers began
to cramp, and then my toes. For a time
I could control this unusual cramping
by forcibly straightening out my fingers
and toes. One night in bed I woke up screaming.
My arms were cramping from my fingers
upward and curling simultaneously so that
I could not use one arm to uncurl the
other. My wife tried to pull my arm straight
with some success, just as my toes began
to curl; then my feet and legs bent backward
at the knees. I panicked. What was happening
to me? Next came the worst. The cramps
in my arms advanced into my chest to the
muscles that controlled my breathing.
If this continued, I wouldn't even be
able to take a breath. I was sure I was
dying." Ebson died in pneumonia
in 2003. (Source: Full
Moon) - Webmaster
- Info:
pneumonia: Respiratory disease characterized
by inflammation of the lung parenchyma
(excluding the bronchi) with congestion
caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants.
(Source: WordWeb) - Webmaster
- Did you also know that the man who got
poisoned who was originally supposed to play
the tin man played "Jed" in the
TV series "The Beverly Hillbillies"?
- Meg
- Actor Frank Morgan played many different
roles in The Wizard of Oz, including the Wizard
himself. He also portrayed Professor Marvel,
a Kansas resident who Dorothy meets just before
the twister hits. The coat that Professor
Marvel wore was supposed to be grand yet old
and past its heyday, so costumers bought a
bunch from a nearby secondhand clothing store
and chose from among them. The coat they picked
worked well, as can be seen in the movie,
and also contained a surprise. Sewn into the
inner pocket was the name of the previous
owner; L. Frank Baum. Baum is the man who
WROTE The Wizard of Oz! Naturally, people
checked to make sure that it was the same
one, and Baum's ownership was backed-up by
both the tailor who made him the coat and
his widow.
- Comment: Actor
Frank Morgan is not the only person to
play more than one role in this movie.
All of six significant characters from
Kansas are six other characters in Oz.
That's the entire point. - jane
- Ok, we've all heard about Pink Floyd's Dark
Side of the Moon the having some similarities
to Wizard of Oz. Here's what I found when
I tried it: In the beginning when Dorothy
is running from the old lady, the song playing
is titled On the Run. The Great Gig In the
Sky is full of rising and falling voices that
in time with the house rising and falling
in the tornado. During Us and Them, the midgets
are all dancing in perfect time to the song.
Any Color You Like is on when everyone is
proclaiming "Follow the yellow brick
road". Finally, the spookiest of all,
at the end of the album, as the last song
fades away, it ends with a heartbeat, Just
as Judy Garland puts her ear to the tin man's
chest. I recommend trying it just once. It
is pretty odd if nothing else. - manix
- There's a part in the movie where the Wicked
Witch tells her flying monkeys that, "I'm
going to send them a little insect!"
This is a reference to the next scene, which
was suppose to involve a monster called "Jitterbug"
to Dorothy and her friends to keep them from
reaching the Emerald City. The Jitterbug
scene was latter cut. - one_eyed_beth
- Comment: In
comment to the "jitterbug scene"
that was supposedly cut from the movie.
I saw the wizard of oz on broadway two
years ago, and I remember that there was
a song sung by Eartha Kitt called "The
Jitterbug". I guess even tho it was
cut from the movie, they couldn't cut
it out on broadway. - kris
- Comment: The
Jitterbug scene of the film was cut out
because the trees are moved by people
inside, and when they taped this scene
you could see the person come out of the
tree and move a branch around. - Truxy5
- Comment: The
Jitterbug scene was acctually cut because
the movie was running too long. - chelle
- Comment: The
Jitterbug was cut because the movie was
too long. The film was destroyed. On the
video where we saw the cast dancing to
it was a home video from someone on the
set so thats why you can see people in
the tree costumes. - Grace
- Comment: The
Jitterbug number was cut from the film
because it was thought to be contemporary
to go with the rest of the film. The dance
number has since seen the light of day
and it does seem more 1939. - Dangerous2know
- Comment: I'm
in the middle of doing the Wizard of Oz
at my high school (it closes on Saturday
night, and I'm a munchkin, an emerald
City Citizen, and Doria, one of Gloria's
friends, who's not in the movie), and
in the show we're doing we're donig the
Jitterbug (though I'm not in it.) So I
think that about every stage version of
the Wizard of Oz has the Jitterbug in
it, and the movie is about the only thing
that didn't have it in it's final version
(after the dance was cut). the Jitterbug
is about the biggest dance number in the
show. (The muchkins can't do much since
we're all on our knees). - Donica
- Most of the munchkins were just kids and
not midgets at all. It's very easy to tell
which is which by looking at the faces. Most
people don't know this. - RuThiE
jO jO
- Correction:
False. 47 Women. 66 Men & about 6
Children. So, yes most munchkins were
Adult Midgets. (Source: The Munchkins
Of Oz, Stephen Cox pg 87) - Nate
- Ray Bolger was originally cast to play the
Tinman and Buddy Ebsen was to play the scarecrow.
The roles were switched because Bolger thought
he would be better as the scarecrow. - chelle
- During the scene when Dorothy and her friends
first meet the cowardly lion, the lion is
threatening to hurt Toto. Dorothy picks up
Toto to rescue him and hits the lion on the
nose. While the lion is whining & carrying
on about his nose, Dorothy has to move Toto
close to her face because she is about to
start laughing. I heard that this scene had
to be reshot several times because Judy Garland
kept laughing. - Emily
- Addition:
Even in the final cut, you can see that
Garland starts laughing, then pulls Toto
up to cover her mouth. (Source: The movie)
- King
David
- It was rumored for years that when Toto
died he was thrown in a garbage dump. In truth
he was buried with a sweet marker near the
grave of his trainer in North Carolina. -
Dangerous2know
- When Judy Garland died it is said that a
bunch of tornados touched down in Kansas.
- Angel
- If you listen to "We're Off to See
the Wizard," you can still hear Buddy
Ebsen's voice singing the song. When Jack
Haley replaced Buddy Ebsen as the Tin Man,
he only had time to sing "If I Only Had
a Heart" and could not overdub his voice
on the song. - Chris
- Ever wonder why The Tin Man and The Scarecrow
were unaffected by the poisoned poppies? Well
here's MY theory and a LOT of my friends and
Oz-Fans agree with it! The reason why only
Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion fall victim
to the poisoned poppies is because they are
REAL life things that can live and breathe.
The Scarecrow and The Tin Man aren't real-life
creatures that live and breathe so therefore
they'd be unaffected by the poisoned poppies.
- Philthemovieman
- Comment: There
is a hidden reason why only Dorothy and
the Cowardly Lion are affected by the
poppies: The whole Wizard of Oz story
is an allegory about the beginning of
the 20th Century, and the poppies stand
for the opium that screwed up many people
during that time. Dorothy and the Lion
both stand for certain groups of people
(the pure and scared maybe?)but i have
forgotten exactly what they stand for.
This also applies to much more in the
movie I(as well as the book of course.
- John
- You know, the producer of Wizard of Oz actually
wanted a glamorous Witch of the West with
sequined, tighter costumes but he was pressured
by his comrades to make the Witch ugly and
evil. Originally, Gale Sondergard was slated
to play the role, but when she heard she'd
have to look like a hag, she backed out and
they gave the part to Margaret Hamilton. I'm
playing the Witch myself in our school district's
production. They have me done up in a combination
of glam and gross. Most people seem to identify
more with an ugly witch. (Source: research)
- Nadia
- Correction:
The Wicked Witch of the West WAS supposed
to be beautiful. But Sondergard didn't
back out because she wasn't willing to
look like a hag, she was replaced because
the idea to make the witch scary came
about, and Sondergard was simple to pretty.
It was always an inside joke that Margaret
Hamilton got the job, because she was
ugly! (Source: behind the scenes-DVD)
- Wonder
- Shirley Temple was originally cast to play
Dorothy. But some kind of offer to switch
both a Garlow girl (sorry I don't know her
name :) and Clark Gable for Shirley. But tragically
the Garlow girl died and the trade was off.
They picked Judy Garland to play Dorothy.
(Source: website) - Carrie
- Baum came up with the name Oz when he looked
on his filing cabinet. The sections on the
cabinet were A-N and O-Z. - Buck
- Info: L. Frank
Baum wrote the Wizard of Oz novel.
- Shirley Temple was considered to play Dorothy.
(Source: http://www.angelfire.com/ok3/moviesecrets/wizardofoz.html)
- TAZ
- Comment: Shirley
Temple had a contract with another production
company and they wouldn't let her go,
so Judy Garland got the part as Dorothy.
I saw this when I watched The Judy Garland
Story. (Source: The Judy Garland Story)
- T
- Addition:
Shirley Temple was the first choice to
play Dorothy but was contracted to another
studio. Deanna Troy was second choice
but it was decided that at 19 she was
too old. Judy Garland was the third choice.
(Source: media lecturer) - hannah
- In the movie TWOO in the very begging when
you first met the witch in munchkin land you
cant see the witch jump in the hole on the
set while leaving. Also in the movie you can
almost always tell where the wall is. I'm
proforming as the Tinman in a production of
Oz ( different music then the movie same story)
and yes I'm a girl! (Source: Magazine) - Holly~Alissa
- I looked on the trivia page, and this wasn't
listed there: Glinda the Good Witch of the
North, so beautiful and fair... is CHER's
MOTHER! I got this from an interview with
Cher from a TV GUIDE issue, so don't argue
with me! (Source: TV Guide) - Lori
- Correction:
I did some research: Glinda in
Wizard of Oz is played by Billie Burke
(born 1885) and Cher's mother's name is
Georgia Holt (aka Jackie Jean Crouch),
born in 1925. Don't believe everything
TV Guide tells you. - Webmaster
- Judy Garland was paid $35 a week for her
work on OZ. (Source: research) - Wonder
- In the movie there where several scenes
that the witch was in that showed her being
even more menacing that were cut out, one
that showed her turning the Tin man into a
bee hive. (Source: Internet) - chenna
- Judy Garland may have been a 3rd choice
for the role of Dorothy, but the producers
weren't sure she fit the part, since in the
books, Dorothy was around the age of 8 or
9, while in reality, Judy Garland was 14 or
15 and thought to be too old and out of her
prime (considering she was a child star).
Judy may have even gotten the part due to
her overbearing and pushy mother who probably
changed the producers' minds. (Source: The
Judy Garland movie - random knowledge) - Morg
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ![]() ![]() |
