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Little Dorothy Gale of Kansas, like so many girls her age,
often dreams of what may lie over the rainbow.
One day a tornado hits her home town and carries her away
to Munchkinland - at the end of the rainbow.
The Munchkins fete Dorothy as a heroine.
Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas and seeks
the help of the kind Sorceress of the North.
Only the great Wizard of Oz, says the Sorceress, can help Dorothy get back to Kansas.
Dorothy persuades three friends to accompany her on the trip to the Emerald City to see the Wizard.
They are Scarecrow, who lacks a brain, he thinks;
the Tin Woodman, who has no heart,
and the Cowardly Lion, who would like to have some courage.
The Wicked Witch of the West vows vengeance on
Dorothy and does all she can to stop the friends getting to the Emerald City.
But they do reach it, and manage to see the Wizard.
He will only help them, he says, if they kill the Wicked Witch of the West,
an apparently impossible task. They do succeed, they get all their
wishes and the Wizard accompanies Dorothy to Kansas in a rocket ship.
LOL, hahaaa, okay okay, Not a Rocket ship just putting in some
trivia for you all, can you remember what the Wizard use to take Dorthy home.
Also, how many songs can you remember that was sung during the whole movie!!
There are 10 of them!
There were actually several pairs of ruby slippers made. Each shoe was covered with red satin and lined with cream-colored kid leather, to which was applied 2,300 sequins. Each leather bow comprised 46 rhinestones, 42 bugle beads, and 3 costume jewels. Red or orange felt on the shoes' soles muffled the sound of footsteps. Typical of the early Technicolor process, the shoes' sequins were a deep burgundy and crimson color in order to shimmer a bright red on film.
Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the Tin Man, but developed a severe allergic reaction to the silver paint make-up, and needed to be hospitalized. Less than two weeks after the filming began, he was replaced by Jack Haley. Some of the group vocals recorded by Ebsen were used for the movie anyway.
The "oil" that was used to lubricate the Tin Man was not really oil.
It was discovered that oil would not photograph well, so they used chocolate syrup instead.
For comic relief, the Cowardly Lion's tail was given a life of its own. When the tail was swinging loose from the costume, it was supported by a fishing line from the catwalk above the stage. If you look closely, you can actually see the fishing line in several of the scenes. For dancing, running, and posing for publicity stills, the line was attached to a small ring on the back of the costume. The tail was also flexible enough for Bert Lahr to wring it in his paws, or wipe away his tears with its tip. But a separate, rigid tail was waved above the rocks for the scene where the Cowardly Lion and his friends are assaulted by the Winkies.
Ray Bolger, The Scarecrow went through several costume changes , but his make-up caused
the most problems. It was alight mask of baked rubber
designed to simulate burlap.
The mask didn't last for more than a day. Bolger went through over 40 masks
during production.
Billie Burke was Fifty-three years old when she played the part of Glinda. The Los Angeles Times raved "[Burke] appears almost like a being eternally young". Years later, in her 1949 autobiography With a Feather on My Nose, Burke exclaimed: "My favorite role was in The Wizard of Oz, directed by the great Victor Fleming, in which I played Glinda, the Good Fairy."
On Aug. 20, Margaret found out that Gale Sondergaard
had been given the role of The Wicked Witch. On Oct. 10, Margaret was
given the role when Gale declined it because of the change in the Witch's character In 1957, she is quoted to have said:
" I've frightened more children than practically anyone else.It always seems to funny to me; too, because I love children so much.
Dorothy's little dog in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is described as a black dog, with long, silky hair. The illustrator W.W. Denslow made him look like a disheveled terrier or Scottie. Later editions illustrated by John R. Neill redrew Toto as a Boston bull. For the MGM movie, Scotties were considered but a Cairn terrier named Terry eventually landed the role.Toto aka "Terry" had barked in the movie 44 times!
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