Il mago di Oz

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Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...]	D
Many of The Wicked Witch of the West's scenes were either trimmed or deleted entirely, as Margaret H [...]	D
Fanny Brice and Billie Burke were both up for the role of Glinda in the Wizard of Oz. Ironically bot [...]	D
In the scene before where Dorothy meets the Tinman, outside of the munchkin tinsmith Klu-Klip's cott [...]	D
The iconic ruby slippers are now at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Histor [...]	D
When Dorothy and her friends are walking down the hall to see the Wizard, the Cowardly Lion's tail s [...]	D
According to an interview with Friz Freleng he was hired as a consultant on the film but received no [...]	D
The concept of Emerald City was used by John Broome and Gil Kane in order to create Oa, home-planet [...]	D
George Cukor did not actually shoot any scenes for the film, merely acting as something of a "creati [...]	D
The digitally restored and converted 3D version of this film, which was first released in September [...]	D
In 2018, an archive of papers on the origin and development of "The Wizard of Oz" brought in $1.2 mi [...]	D
Mentioned in the song "El Cilindro" by RubÃ©n Blades.	D
The original ending called for the final shot to be camera panning down to reveal Dorothy was still [...]	D
For the film's 1998 theatrical re-release, Warner Bros. considered editing the extended Scarecrow "I [...]	D
Even though the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion wanted a brain, heart and courage, respectively, the tri [...]	D
The Cowardly Lion role was played by Bert Lahr, whose birth date was August 13th, born under the Zod [...]	D
In the first prints the Yellow Brick Road showed up as green,	D
Dorothy seems to be the inspiration for the final girl trope. During the final confrontation with th [...]	D
The horses in Emerald City palace were colored with Jell-O crystals. The relevant scenes had to be s [...]	D
"Over the Rainbow" was nearly cut from the film; MGM felt that it made the Kansas sequence too long, [...]	D
The original concept for the Wicked Witch of the West was to have her resemble a strikingly beautifu [...]	D
As a tribute to the Dorothy Gale character, in Twister (1996) the tornado-catching device was named [...]	D
Owing, perhaps, to the Emerald City's liberal immigration policy, their coach driver has an otherwis [...]	D
During the "Wash and Brush Up Co." scene, the lyrics "We can make a dimpled smile out of a frown/Can [...]	D
L. Frank Baum got the visual inspiration for Oz from the Columbian Exposition also known as the Chic [...]	D
The Wicked Witch of the West never directly speaks to, threatens, or even acknowledges the Cowardly [...]	D
George Cukor not only changed Judy Garland's physical appearance in the film to the way it looks in [...]	D
Celebrated author/illustrator Maurice ("Where the Wild Things Are") Sendak said in an interview once [...]	D
"Over the Rainbow" was ranked #1 by the American Film Institute in 2004 on the 100 Greatest Songs in [...]	D
The Winged Monkeys' uniforms match those worn by the Witch's castle guards.	D
The ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland sold for Â£90,000 in 1988.	D
MGM talent scouts searched the country to come up with over 100 little people who would make up the [...]	D
"Munchkin" was one of the words Baum made up in this story which became a national catch phrase. Dun [...]	D
The wizard's farewell speech includes the Latin phrase "per adua ad alta" ("Through hardship, great [...]	D
At the midpoint of the movie, 0:50:53, Judy Garland is suppressing a laugh at Bert Lahr's blubbering [...]	D
From the 75th anniversary DVD extras, Allen Daviau (director of photography for E.T. - L'extra-terre [...]	D
When the Scarecrow falls from his perch, you can clearly tell that the cornstalks are artificial bec [...]	D
Dorothy's house plops down into Munchkinland at precisely 4:53 in Oz. It is seven minutes from this [...]	D
Walt Disney was the unwitting impetus behind the film getting started. MGM chief Louis B. Mayer was [...]	D
The film started shooting on 13 October 1938 and was completed on 16 March 1939 at a then-unheard-of [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies.	D
Margaret Hamilton appeared on Mister Rogers Neighborhood decades later in an attempt to demistify th [...]	D
Lorna Luft has said interviews that her mother, Judy Garland, was deeply disappointed in the film, a [...]	D
The famous "Surrender Dorothy" sky writing scene was done using a tank of water and a tiny model wit [...]	D
It is never clearly stated what period the Kansas scenes takes place. For example Dorothy wears a gi [...]	D
Judy Garland said the following about Margaret Hamilton: "What a wonderful woman! And what a perform [...]	D
When Miss Gulch attempts to take Toto away, Dorothy calls her a 'wicked old witch'.	D
The film was not broadcast on Television in the U.S. in 1957, 1958 ,1963, 1992, 1995 & 1997.	D
Interestingly there's a 1933 cartoon short called "The Wizard of Oz" which features a black and whit [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
There was originally meant to be a reprise of "Over the Rainbow" when Dorothy is trapped in the Witc [...]	D
The film has always been shown on Television many times for many years and still now too during the [...]	D
Multiple styles of ruby slippers were tested by the MGM wardrobe department before it settled on the [...]	D
Pictured on one of four 25Â¢ US commemorative postage stamps issued 23 March 1990 honoring classic [...]	D
Herbert Stothart, who scored this film, also scored Maria Antonietta (1938). A recycled piece from t [...]	D
Producer Mervyn LeRoy had originally intended to use MGM's Jackie the Lion in the role of the Coward [...]	D
"Over The Rainbow" became the quintessential and iconic Wish Fullfillment song and directly influenc [...]	D
In 1989, Il mago di Oz (1939) was added to the National Film Registry by the United States Library o [...]	D
The film had five different directors. Richard Thorpe shot several weeks of material, none of which [...]	D
The scarecrow is completely inaccurate with the Pythagorean Theorem. In reality, it is the sum of th [...]	D
A recent study claimed that this is the most watched movie in film history, largely due to the numbe [...]	D
The Scarecrow face makeup that Ray Bolger wore consisted, in part, of a rubber prosthetic with a wov [...]	D
A deleted verse for the song, "If I Were King of the Forest", featured a high-pitched operatic solo [...]	D
Beatrice Lillie was considered for the role of Glinda the Good Witch in the film's pre-production st [...]	D
Over 35 years after the release of this film, Margaret Hamilton revealed her approach to the charact [...]	D
The House of Winston made a pair of real ruby slippers to celebrate the film's 50th anniversary in 1 [...]	D
The Munchkins were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in November, 2007. Eight of them att [...]	D
Early in the film's development, MGM discovered that Walt Disney was working on his own version of t [...]	D
In 1939 Montreal, Canada, lifted its law restricting minors under 16 from admission to theaters, pre [...]	D
The original copyright expiration date of The Wizard of Oz was set to December 31, 1995, 56 years af [...]	D
The lion mentions "Hottentots" in his song "If I Were King of the Forest". ("What makes the Hottento [...]	D
Professor Marvel never returns Dorothy's picture of her and Aunt Em.	D
A heart-shaped leaf can be seen over the Tin Man's left shoulder as he begins singing "If I Only Had [...]	D
If you look closely, the door the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman and Cowardly Lion rescue Dorothy through is [...]	D
The famed Jitterbug number was in actuality a leftover of an abandoned subplot that was discarded in [...]	D
Bert Lahr's costume weighed 90 pounds. It was made from a real lion skin and very hot. The arc light [...]	D
Frank Morgan was a heavy drinker and often would hide liquor discreetly in his dressing room. Despit [...]	D
Dorothy's last name is Gale, which means "a very strong wind". A tornado is a very destructive vorte [...]	D
Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Coroner of Munchkinland, was at one time the shortest licensed pilot [...]	D
In 2007 the American Film Institute ranked this as the #10 Greatest Movie of All Time.	D
At the end of the sequence in which Dorothy and the Scarecrow first meet the Tin Man, as the three m [...]	D
The film, while run on network television, used to be packaged as a special event and, as such, was [...]	D
In 1898 Dorothy Louise Gage was born to the brother and sister-in-law of Maud Gage Baum, wife of aut [...]	D
Originally contracted for six weeks, Margaret Hamilton ended up working for 23.	D
The title role was written with W.C. Fields in mind. Producer Mervyn LeRoy wanted Ed Wynn, who turne [...]	D
Although most of screenwriter Noel Langley's ideas were used in the finished film, and he is credite [...]	D
When MGM bought the rights to L. Frank Baum's novel, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," it also purchased [...]	D
The film came out on VHS for the first time in 1980.	D
Ogden Nash wrote an unused screenplay.	D
Judy Garland had to wear a painful corset-style device around her torso so that she would appear you [...]	D
Judy Garland never saw her film premiere until a year after the film was released.	D
Judy Garland's portrayal of Dorothy was the main inspiration for the character of Mary Ann on L'isol [...]	D
No mention is ever made about what happened to Miss Gulch after Dorothy wakes up.	D
Margaret Hamilton, a lifelong fan of the "Oz" books, was ecstatic when she learned the producers wer [...]	D
When it first opened in 1994, the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas had extensive decor related to this [...]	D
The film began its legendary run on network television on November 3, 1956, as the series finale of [...]	D
L Frank Baum was a sickly, daydreaming child born to wealthy parents living on a large estate in ups [...]	D
The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.	D
Ultimately it took 14 writers and five directors to bring L. Frank Baum's story to the screen.	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of the top 100 America's Greatest Music in th [...]	D
The Cowardly Lion is the exact opposite of Aslan from the Chronicles of Narnia. (It would be interes [...]	D
Ray Bolger and Jack Haley are buried just 2 1/2 miles from the MGM studios.	D
Throughout the rest of his career, Jack Haley denounced the idea that the making of this film was en [...]	D
Fred Stone, who played the Scarecrow in the 1902 stage musical of "The Wizard of Oz," was briefly co [...]	D
Edna May Oliver was considered for the role of the Wicked Witch of the West.	D
Some versions shown on TV in the UK since 2013 are edited to drop the song, "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is [...]	D
Riffed by the guys from MST3K under the Rifftrax name; Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Mur [...]	D
The movie was named as one of "The 20 Most Overrated Movies Of All Time" by Premiere. Most critics a [...]	D
Some of the lines from this movie were sampled in the Aerosmith song "The Farm", the eighth track on [...]	D
Shirley Temple was considered but her vocals were not up to requirements,	D
Margaret Hamilton was reluctant to do the scenes where Miss Gulch attempted to take Toto away to be [...]	D
There was a tornado in Kansas on the day of Judy Garland's death.	D
To compensate for the extreme make-up demands on this film, MGM recruited extra help from the studio [...]	D
Frank Morgan posed for a test for The Wizard, made up to look as the Wizard looked in the book; this [...]	D
Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch of the West, was burned when her clothes caught fire during the [...]	D
The set was a major safety hazard. The Tin Man, who was to originally be played by Buddy Ebsen, who [...]	D
To make her seem younger and more modest Judy had to wear a corset to make her seem younger and more [...]	D
The music and vocal tracks for all the deleted sequences have survived and can all be heard on Rhino [...]	D
In the book "The Making of the Wizard of Oz" the author mentions that following the accident in whic [...]	D
Bea Wain, who began performing on the radio when she was only 6, was a vocalist of prominence, among [...]	D
Dorothy's hair changes lengths throughout the course of the film, most noticeably in the Scarecrow c [...]	D
The movie garnered two more achievements when it was reissued in 1949 (first in a limited release in [...]	D
The Tin Woodsman costume worn by Jack Haley was reportedly so stiff that he had to lean against a bo [...]	D
MGM would later produce a live action anthology series which aired on ABC in during the 1967-1968 tv [...]	D
The color of the yellow brick road first showed up as green in early Technicolor tests. It was adjus [...]	D
The green-shirted member of the Lollipop Guild became the center of a cult of celebrity based on thi [...]	D
In the song "If I Only Had a Heart," the girl who says "wherefore art thou, Romeo?" is Adriana Casel [...]	D
The movie's line "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." was voted as the #24 of "The 100 [...]	D
When filming first started, Judy Garland wore a blonde wig and heavy, "baby-doll" makeup. When Georg [...]	D
The movie is based on elements from the first half of the book, only. Once the Wizard is gone, the r [...]	D
Both Dorothy and Miss Gulch have a picnic basket. Miss Gulch uses hers to carry off Toto at the begi [...]	D
Some see L. Frank Baum's story containing political and social satire. The little girl from the Midw [...]	D
MGM had originally planned to incorporate a "stencil printing" process when Dorothy runs to open the [...]	D
L. Frank Baum's novel is considerably more gruesome than MGM's rendition. For example, "Kalidahs" (t [...]	D
Ray Bolger's original recording of "If I Only Had a Brain" had been far more sedate compared to the [...]	D
Contrary to popular belief, the film was anything but a box-office failure on its initial release. A [...]	D
Since Jerry Maren passed away, there are no surviving cast members from the movie.	D
According to John Fricke in the film's commentary, parts of the tornado scene would later be reused [...]	D
Poppies don't usually have an appealing scent, but the red poppy is indicative of the opium poppy... [...]	D
The paint that was finally used on the bricks for the "Yellow Brick Road" was standard industrial ye [...]	D
The name for Oz was thought up when its writer, L. Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw [...]	D
Voted #10 in Channel 4's (UK) "Greatest Family Films."	D
On the set, there was much resentment from Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr that the central rol [...]	D
Deleted third verse lyrics of Somewhere Over The Rainbow: Someday I'll wake and rub my eyes and in t [...]	D
The Wicked Witch's crystal ball was previously used as a prop in The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) and Ch [...]	D
Although it has been long believed that Lorraine Bridges dubbed Billie Burke's singing voice in the [...]	D
Judy Garland was not the studio's first or even second choice for the role of Dorothy although she e [...]	D
In the first take of the scene when the Wicked Witch of the West leaves Munchkinland, the smoke that [...]	D
The basket Judy Garland carried was reused by Elizabeth Taylor in Piccole donne (1949). And the sets [...]	D
A reference to something in the book not included in the script can be seen in the movie. It is the [...]	D
During the Haunted Forest scene, several actors playing the Winged Monkeys were injured when the pia [...]	D
The Wizard was originally supposed to have a song routine in which he hands out the awards to the Sc [...]	D
The film received a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records as the film to which a live-action [...]	D
A scene was filmed in which the Tin Man was turned into a "human beehive" by the Wicked Witch; after [...]	D
There are a striking number of coincidences between events in the movie and musical cues (and lyrics [...]	D
Besides "The Jitterbug" being completely cut, other songs were trimmed. "Lions and tigers and bears [...]	D
There are many alleged lyrics to the "Winkie Chant" performed by the Witch's castle guards, includin [...]	D
Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man meet the Cowardly Lion and Dorothy hits him on the nose for t [...]	D
The "steam" that shoots out of the Tin Man's hat is actually talcum powder. This is obvious because [...]	D
Nikko, the name of the head winged monkey, is the name of the Japanese town which houses the shrine [...]	D
Mervyn LeRoy hired screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz to work on a script. Despite Mankiewicz's notor [...]	D
Writer Salman Rushdie acknowledged "'The Wizard of Oz' was my very first literary influence" in his [...]	D
It took upwards of 12 takes to have Toto run alongside the actors as they skipped down the yellow br [...]	D
In the restoration of the original film, each frame was scanned at 4K resolution and the three Techn [...]	D
The original producers thought that a 1939 audience was too sophisticated to accept Oz as a straight [...]	D
Ray Bolger is the only major male actor not to play a character who cries at some point.	D
MGM paid $75,000 for the film rights to L. Frank Baum's book, a towering sum at the time.	D
After the Wizard is first exposed as a humbug, note the bouquet of flowers visible on the counter in [...]	D
Ray Bolger was originally cast as the Tin Man. However, he insisted that he would rather play the Sc [...]	D
The Cowardly Lion's facial makeup included a brown paper bag. Bert Lahr couldn't eat without ruining [...]	D
In the famous "Poppy Field" scene (in which Dorothy and The Cowardly Lion fell asleep) the "snow" us [...]	D
In Jim Steinmeyer's 2003 book "Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learne [...]	D
Billie Burke, who played the Good Witch of the North, was actually 18 years older than Margaret Hami [...]	D
Dorothy says "Jiminy Crickets!" at one point in the Wizard's throne room. That was an early 20th cen [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American M [...]	D
In the earlier drafts of the script, the writers often created new incidents to liven up the story. [...]	D
The pre-release 112-minute version was only seen once, while the film was in test showings before it [...]	D
Both Judy Garland and her daughter, Liza Minnelli, played Dorothy Gale in 'The Wizard of Oz' series. [...]	D
The original Cowardly Lion costume that Bert Lahr wore sold for Â£167,500 in 1998 and then for $3. [...]	D
The film first was screened in a sneak preview on August 8, 1939, in San Bernardino, California. The [...]	D
A sequence in which Dorothy and her companions make a triumphant return to the Emerald City after me [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of the top 100 America's Greatest Music in th [...]	D
The 1926 Hungarian folk opera HÃ¡ry JÃ¡nos, composed by ZoltÃ¡n KodÃ¡ly, has some striking s [...]	D
Production on the bulk of the Technicolor sequences was a long and cumbersome process that ran for o [...]	D
There are two times in the film that Judy Garland is not on camera as Dorothy. It is her stand-in, B [...]	D
Gale Sondergaard was originally cast as the Wicked Witch of the West, but was found to be too pretty [...]	D
Dorothy enters Oz almost 20 minutes into the film.	D
Munchkin Mickey Carroll's agent was able to negotiate the actor's salary so that he was getting paid [...]	D
All the Oz sequences were filmed in three-strip Technicolor. The opening and closing credits, as wel [...]	D
Richard Thorpe, the film's original director, had shot around two weeks of footage before he was fir [...]	D
The scene in which the Wicked Witch tries to take off Dorothy's ruby slippers by using a magic force [...]	D
Final film of Harry Earles.	D
The transition from black and white to color as Dorothy opens the door in the Land of Oz is handled [...]	D
MGM outbid both 20th Century-Fox and Universal for the movie rights to the book. The suits at Univer [...]	D
The first attempt at any type of sequel from the 1939 film was a 1961 syndicated animated tv program [...]	D
Margaret Hamilton played three characters in this movie: Miss Gulch, the Wicked Witch of the West, a [...]	D
The film's running time was originally 120 minutes. Producer Mervyn LeRoy realized that at least 20 [...]	D
Farmhand "Zeke" makes a reference to courage by saying "have a little courage, that's all" (he then [...]	D
E.Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen were given 14 weeks (and a Hollywood bungalow) to come up with the fil [...]	D
Margaret Hamilton, a single mother, got into an argument with the studio over guaranteed time to wor [...]	D
Professor Marvel's horse's name is Sylvester.	D
When the Wizard awards the ticking heart to the Tin Man, the word he struggles on and replaces with [...]	D
The film rights of L. Frank Baum's book were initially sold to Samuel Goldwyn in 1933. Goldwyn hoped [...]	D
The gown that Glinda the Good Witch wears was originally worn by Jeanette MacDonald in San Francisco [...]	D
Billie Burke, who plays Glinda, the Good Witch, played Judy Garland's mother in Everybody Sing (1938 [...]	D
The Munchkins are portrayed by The Singer Midgets, named not for their musical abilities but for Leo [...]	D
Four separate horses were used to create the effect of an animal that changes color from moment [...]	D
The theatrical trailer for the 1998 theatrical re-release (viewable on the 2000 Warner Bros. DVD) fe [...]	D
All of MGM's Technicolor pictures from 1934-1956 opened with Tanner the Lion as the studio's tradema [...]	D
Jack Haley and Bert Lahr are known to have written some of their own dialogue for the Kansas sequenc [...]	D
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60-minute CBS Radio adaptation of the movie on December 25, 1950 wit [...]	D
Final film of Amelia Batchelor.	D
Judy Garland found it difficult to be afraid of Margaret Hamilton, because she was such a nice lady [...]	D
On March 18, 2010, on Celebrity Jeopardy (Jeopardy! (1984)), the contestants were Cheech Marin, Aish [...]	D
During the rescue scene in the Witch's castle, Modest Mussorgsky's " A Night on Bald Mountain" plays [...]	D
Because Clara Blandick's voice was inaudible during the tornado sequence, one of the Munchkin actors [...]	D
This is one of David Lynch's favorite movies.	D
Dorothy crying after the Wizard's guard told her and her friends the Wizard wanted them to go away w [...]	D
Ironically, in 1938, Billie Burke would play Judy Garland's mother in Everybody Sing.	D
When Aunt Em tells Hickory that "she saw him tinkering with that contraption" (after Dorothy falls i [...]	D
The Wicked Witch of the West is named Elphaba in Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel "Wicked: The Life and [...]	D
Judy Garland could only do 4 hours on set as she was at school at the time and did 3 hours being edu [...]	D
There was an extra scene back in Kansas at the end of the film which got cut. In it, Hunk (the "real [...]	D
Terry was stepped on by one of the witch's castle guards, and had a double for two weeks. A second o [...]	D
The movie's line "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" was voted as the #99 movie quo [...]	D
The Wicked Witch of the West is the only principal in this movie who does not sing anything.	D
The woods where the Tin Man is first discovered is inhabited by a number of exotic birds. Look for a [...]	D
According to lead Munchkin Jerry Maren, the "little people" on the set were paid $50 per week for a [...]	D
The movie was only filmed in Full Screen (4:3)	D
The Wizard only has one close-up; when he is revealed behind the curtain and declares himself to be [...]	D
Despite the fact she played an adversary to Judy Garland's Dorothy, Margaret Hamilton and Garland go [...]	D
The steam shooting from the Tin Man's cap startles Toto, who runs out of the shot.	D
"Over The Rainbow" was inspired by a 1915 Children's Operetta with the same name. Written by "Stormy [...]	D
Judy Garland's feet hurt so much while wearing the ruby slippers that she could only do so for shots [...]	D
Everyone on set called Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch Of the West) "Maggie". That was her nickn [...]	D
The Cowardly Lion was the only character in Dorothy's gang that was not seen being tortured or chase [...]	D
The first (and for several years the only) MGM film to be televised on an entire network, rather tha [...]	D
Danny Peary, author of the definitive study of cult movies, notes that The a Wizard Of Oz is probabl [...]	D
Rick Polito of the "Marin Independent Journal" in Northern California is locally famous for his drol [...]	D
The first hour of this movie is a musical and the last thirty minutes are a straight adventure movie [...]	D
One early script had Aunt Em as the abusive witch who wanted to kill Toto to punish Dorothy.	D
The Cowardly Lion's speech about courage contains the line "What makes the dawn come up like thunder [...]	D
The much quoted line "Fly, my pretties, fly" doesn't actually appear in the movie. The Wicked Witch [...]	D
Whenever Ray Bolger was asked whether he received residuals or other compensation for all of the sho [...]	D
Judy Garland would later refer to the pint-sized Oscar Juvenile Award she won at 1939's Academy Awar [...]	D
Fanny Brice was originally slated for the part of Glinda, the Good Witch.	D
The Ruby slippers originally were silver in the script,	D
In a 1992 article "Over the Rainbow" in the New Yorker noted author Salman Rushdie writes about the [...]	D
A small sign to the left of the door of Professor Marvel's wagon lists "Exhibition Balloonist" as on [...]	D
The Oscar-winning song "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" inspired Paul Williams to write a very similar s [...]	D
The famous line "There's no place like home" was said by Dorothy in the book. Although it was not to [...]	D
MGM announced that Judy Garland would play Dorothy in their upcoming Oz production, only days after [...]	D
The shot of Dorothy's house falling from the sky was achieved by filming a miniature house being dro [...]	D
The gray circle and zig-zag pattern interrupting the yellow brick road outside the main entrance of [...]	D
When the wardrobe department was looking for a coat for Frank Morgan (Prof. Marvel / The Wizard), it [...]	D
The podcast Quantum Recast (2020) took The Wizard of Oz out of 1939 and recast it in the year 1986 w [...]	D
"Over The Rainbow" eventually became Judy Garland's signature song at her concerts as a singer.	D
Judy Garland played Dorothy in this movie; and Jack Hailey played the Tin Man. Judy Garland's daught [...]	D
A minor hiccup occurred while filming the scenes in The Tin Man's forest. After three days of footag [...]	D
Though not stated, it is strongly implied, that Henry is Dorothy's biological uncle especially as bo [...]	D
While filming the scene in which Dorothy slaps the Cowardly Lion, Judy Garland got the giggles so ba [...]	D
From 1999 onward, all home media releases (DVD, Blu-ray, Digital) of the film would be released thro [...]	D
This was Billie Burke's favorite movie.	D
None of the Kansas scenes (or the tornado scene) were shown in the original trailer, or in any of th [...]	D
Dorothy's blue gingham dress and white blouse is just a variation on Alice in Wonderland's blue ging [...]	D
Harold Arlen and Yip Yarburg wrote the score including the iconic Oscar winning "Somewhere Over The [...]	D
The film underwent about a dozen script drafts and four writers. Early on, the Cowardly Lion was in [...]	D
At the time that CBS purchased the television rights to this film, MGM had sold most of its pre-1950 [...]	D
The only location footage in the entire film is the clouds over the opening titles.	D
Judy Garland's stand-in, Bobbie Koshay, is also seen when Dorothy falls into the pig sty.	D
Herman J. Mankiewicz was the first of 10 screenwriters to work on The Wizard of Oz screenplay. But H [...]	D
The film does not state where in Kansas the Gales lived but it is likely that it took place in Liber [...]	D
Judy Garland had a crush on director Victor Fleming during shooting of the film.	D
At the time, MGM had adopted a technique of recording the musical numbers first, then lip-syncing to [...]	D
Judy Garland's daughter, Liza Minnelli, was married to Jack Haley's son, Jack Haley Jr., from 1974-7 [...]	D
The slippers were silver (like in the book) until MGM chief Louis B. Mayer realized that the Technic [...]	D
This is Brian May favorite movie	D
The first attempted Hollywood follow up to this classic didn't come until 1960 with the Shirley Temp [...]	D
The title of the movie would become the nickname of St. Louis Cardinals' Hall-of-Fame Shortstop Ozzi [...]	D
The Tin Man is frequently being paralyzed by rust, but tin in the real world does not rust. Foreign [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2005 list of 250 movies nominated for AFI's 100 Years o [...]	D
Although Judy Garland was always the favorite to play Dorothy, there were many other actresses also [...]	D
Terry the dog earned $125 a week for playing Toto, which is equivalent to $2,500 a week today.	D
The location of the Munchkins' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is 6915 Hollywood Blvd.	D
Margaret Hamilton said that whenever she saw the scene in which Frank Morgan as the Wizard is giving [...]	D
When Dorothy and her friends are in the Haunted Forest, the Lion has a spray pump with "Witch Remove [...]	D
The Wicked Witch that Miss Gulch transformed into while Dorothy looks out her bedroom window during [...]	D
At the time this film was made, soundtracks were generally quite simple, with most of the sound reco [...]	D
Originally, Mervyn LeRoy's assistant William H. Cannon submitted a brief four-page outline. Because [...]	D
Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley had to eat their meals in their dressing rooms, as the make-up [...]	D
The Wicked Witch of the West's castle guards' chant was later incorporated into the songs "I'm That [...]	D
Forty-four million people tuned into its first television broadcast on November 3, 1956.	D
The "tornado" was a 35-foot-long muslin stocking, spun around among miniatures of a Kansas farm and [...]	D
Ranked #1 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Fantasy" in J [...]	D
No one says the word "twister" in the book, including the author. He and Dorothy both call it a "cyc [...]	D
Producer Mervyn LeRoy considered having a human play Toto.	D
Selected by the Vatican in the "art" category of its list of 45 "great films."	D
The first album of songs from the film, issued by Decca in 1940, featured only Judy Garland from the [...]	D
Oprah Winfrey has said in interviews that The Wizard of Oz "is my favorite movie". She talks about G [...]	D
Jack Haley did not use his normal speaking voice when playing the Tin Man, only when playing Hickory [...]	D
When the film proved popular with audiences, MGM considered re-uniting the original cast for a seque [...]	D

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