The Wizard of Oz (1. Background. The. Wizard of Oz (1. MGM during its golden years. It was first. re- released in 1.

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TV as a prime time event (its. CBS television on November 3, 1. December, 1. 95. 9). The movie soon became a classic institution. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and/or Easter. According to the Library of Congress, the musical fantasy. Initially, however, the film.

All of its images (the Yellow Brick Road, the Kansas. Auntie Em, Toto, Dorothy, the Wicked.

Witch), dialogue (e. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!", "We're not in. Kansas anymore," "Follow the Yellow Brick Road," or. There's no place like home"), and. Over the Rainbow") have become indelibly remembered. TV shows. (such as HBO's dramatic prison series Oz), references in other. Elton John with his Goodbye.

Yellow Brick Road album, or Pink Floyd's 1. Dark Side. of the Moon). The film's plot is easily condensed: lonely and sad.

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Kansas farmgirl Dorothy dreams of a better place, without torment. Toto from a hateful neighbor spinster, so she plans.

During a fierce tornado, she is struck on the head and. Kansas life transformed within her unconscious. After travels down a Yellow Brick Road to the Land of. Oz, and the defeat of the Wicked Witch of the West, Dorothy and her. Wizard of Oz with their hearts' desires.

Dorothy is enabled to return home to Kansas. All of the featured actors and actresses - Judy Garland. Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Margaret Hamilton, Frank Morgan. Billie Burke, Charley Grapewin and Clara Blandick - had successful. Garland's career was overshadowed. Oscar nominations (A. Star is Born (1. 95.

Judgment in Nuremberg (1. This was the sole film for which she received an Oscar, albeit an. Garland had just completed the successful. Love Finds Andy Hardy (1. Babes in Arms. (1.

Mickey Rooney.)The popular film was brilliantly adapted from L. Frank. Baum's venerated children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (written. Noel Langley. Florence Ryerson, and E. A. Woolf, and a team of many uncredited scriptwriters. Arthur Freed, Herman Mankiewicz, Sid Silvers, and Ogden. Nash). Langley insisted that the fantastical characters have real- life.

Dual Roles. Many of the film's characters play two roles - one in Kansas. Land of Oz, the locale of the young heroine's troubled dreams. Kansas Role Oz Role(s)Actor/Actress. Hunk. Scarecrow. Ray Bolger.

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Hickory. Tin Man. Jack Haley. Zeke. Cowardly Lion. Bert Lahr. Miss Almira Gulch. Wicked Witch of the West. Watch Cold Souls HDQ.

Margaret Hamilton. Professor Marvel. Emerald City Doorman/Cabbie/The Wizard's. Guard/The Wizard of Oz. Frank Morgan. The first line of the book follows: "Dorothy lived. Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who.

Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife." The. Wizard of Oz was first performed as an on- stage musical in 1. Chicago and New York.

It premiered at the Grand Opera House in. Chicago on June 1. David Montgomery (the Tin Woodman) and Fred Stone (the Scarecrow). On January 2. 1, 1. Broadway at the Majestic. Theatre in New York.

The show was so popular (the production tallied. Much. more recently, New York City's Radio City Music Hall presented an. MGM musical.]The book was made into films (and other creative works).

Note: Archivist Mark Evan. Swartz' book Oz Before the Rainbow(2. Baum's work with all its. MGM musical version. More Than A Century of Oz, Based on Baum's. Oz(chronological order) Type Title Description.

Book. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - 1. The first of 1. 4 Oz- set fantasy books, by. L. Frank Baum. Stage Musical The Wizard of Oz - 1.

The first stage- musical version, debuting in Chicago. It ran on Broadway for almost 3. Multi- Media Production The Wizard of Oz (1.

Fairylogue and Radio- Plays, produced. The Radio Play Company of America. It was the first film adaptation. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and several of its sequels. Composed of a combination of live- action, slides, and film. Shown. only in roadshow engagements for a few months as part of a live.

Afterwards, the print decomposed, and was. A lost film. Film short The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1.

Silent short film (one reel) from Selig Polyscope. Company, with 9 year old Bebe Daniels as Dorothy. Based upon. the 1.

It is the earliest surviving film. L. Frank Baum's 1. Film short Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz (1. From Selig Polyscope Company. A sequel to the. earlier Selig short film.

Film short The Land of Oz (1. From Selig Polyscope Company. Film. The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1. The Magic Cloak (1. His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1.

The New Wizard of. Oz) All three 1. 91. Baum's own short- lived Oz Film Manufacturing.

Company. The last one was the closest to Baum's original book. Film. The Wizard of Oz (1. Directed by Ray C. Smallwood. Never completed.

Film. The Wizard of Oz (1. The first full- length film version, seven. A silent slapstick comedy film from Chadwick. Pictures and producer- director- star- writer Larry Semon, with. Oliver Hardy of Laurel and Hardy fame portraying. Tin Woodsman. Dorothy Dwan was Dorothy and Charles Murray.

Wizard. Fantasy short The Scarecrow of Oz (1. The Land of Oz)Virtually unknown. Featured a troupe of child. Meglin Kiddies. The fantasy short was based on. Scarecrow from Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Film short The Wizard of Oz (1. A Canadian black and white feature with no dialogue. Technicolor animations.

Directed by Ted Eshbaugh. About 9 minutes in length Film The Wizard of Oz (1. Judy Garland starred in MGM's Technicolor classic.

TV episode "The Land of Oz" This was the first hour- long episode of The. Shirley Temple Show on NBC- TV. It was based on Baum's second. Oz book The Marvelous Land of Oz published in 1. Characters included: Shirley Temple (Tip/Ozma), Jonathan Winters.

Nikidik), Ben Blue (Scarecrow), Sterling Holloway (Jack Pumpkinhead). Gil Lamb (Tin Woodman), and Agnes Moorehead (Mombi). TV series Off to See the Wizard (1.

An animated version for a weekly ABC- TV broadcast. Ran for about a year from the fall of 1. Produced by Chuck Jones.

Film. The Wonderful Land of Oz (1. Low- budget children's color version, based on. Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz. Directed by Barry Mahon. Animated Film Journey Back to Oz (1. Official sequel to the 1. Filmed. in the 1.

US in 1. 97. 4. Liza Minnelli. Dorothy. An ABC- TV version shown in. Bill Cosby as the.

Wizard. 8. 8 minutes. Film The Wiz (1. 97. Director Sidney Lumet's and Universal's Afro- American.

Broadway musical, with New York City. Oz, and singer Diana Ross in the lead role as. Dorothy; also with Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow, Richard. Pryor as the Wizard, and Lena Horne as Glinda the Good. Film Homage The Muppet Movie (1. Resemblances included the.

Kermit to Hollywood (Oz), his meeting with Lew Lord. Wizard), the avoidance of the temptations of Doc Hopper. Witch), and the song The Rainbow Connection - a variation. Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

Film. Under the Rainbow (1. Watch The Facility 4Shared there. A tasteless comedy, directed. Steve Rash, set in 1. Oz that. starred Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, and Eve Arden.

The back- story. behind the chaos and confusion created by the many Munchkin extras. Animated Film The Wizard of Oz (1. Jp.) (aka Ozu no Mahotsukai) By director Takayama Fumihiko. With Bonanza's Lorne. Greene as the voice of the Wizard. Film. Return to Oz (1.

Disney's and director Walter Murch's live- action. Fairuza Balk. as Dorothy.

Stage. The Wizard of Oz - 1. The Royal Shakespeare Company's stage production. TV series - Animated The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1. Short- lived for one season, with 5.

TV series - Animated The Wizard of Oz (1. With 1. 3 half- hour cartoon episodes, premiered. ABC- TV in the fall of 1. Film Homage Wild at Heart (1.