the wizard of oz

     

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Trivia about the wizard of oz

  • In this classic film, one of the characters tries to quote the Pythagorean theorem but gets it wrong
  • A 35-foot-long muslin stocking was used to create the cyclone for this 1939 film
  • Chapter 1 of this book describes "a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of thoseā€¦ whirlwinds arose"
  • 1939:"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"
  • Frank Morgan played this 1939 movie title character who is revealed as a humbug
  • Gale Sondergaard wanted to play the Wicked Witch in this 1939 film as a glamorous woman in a tight sequined dress
  • A house falls on a Kansas girl & the evil woman inside must find her way back to a magical land in this '39 film
  • The Wicked Witch had a nitwit son, Bobo, in one of the scripts for this 1939 film; he was later written out
  • ("Over the Rainbow")
  • "Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead!" is a song from this famous movie
  • 1900:"Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies..."
  • 1939:"I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"
  • 1939:"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"
  • Movie in which Margaret Hamilton cackles, "Well, my little pretty, I can cause accidents, too."
  • 1939:"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"
  • The girl clicked her heels. Nada. She wasn't going home! What a practical joke! Oh, how Glinda loved to laugh!
  • (1939)Ray Bolger:"Oh, no!"
  • A pair of magic ruby slippers is at the center of this classic 1939 film
  • "Oh, Auntie Em. There's no place like home."
  • As the coroner in this 1939 film, Meinhardt Raabe said, "She's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead"
  • This 1939 film is the highrst-ranking musical on the AFI's list of the 100 greatest American movies
  • "If I Were King Of The Forest" (1939)
  • In a 1902 production of this musical, Imogene the Cow was Dorothy Gale's playmate
  • 1939:"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"
  • The twister in this 1939 film was so severe it threw the film into color
  • 1939 movie that included the line "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain...."
  • Of the first 4 classic films (all from 1939) honored with U.S. stamps in 1990, the only one that was a musical
  • In the book he was discovered behind a screen that Toto knocked over; in the film, behind a curtain
  • In the New Yorker--"Displays no trace of imagination, good taste or ingenuity... I say" this 1939 twister pic is "a stinkeroo"
  • An apple tree angrily slaps the hand of a Kansas girl trying to pick from it in this film
  • 1939:"The Cornfield","Poppies"
  • Charley Grapewin who played Grandpa Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath" played Uncle Henry in this 1939 classic
  • In the children's classic titled "The Wonderful" this, a character named Henry says, "There's a cyclone coming, Em"
  • "Aaah! You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting, melting!"
  • (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque.) In a classic 1939 film, this title character asecends in a balloon
  • (Before the clue is given, Kate Reinders from the Broadway play Wicked helps with the clue.)"Popular /You're gonna be pop-u-lar /I'll teach you the proper ploys /When you talk to boys /Little ways to flirt and flounce--woww! /I'll show you what shoes to wear /How to fix your hair /Everything that really counts to be /Popular /I'll help you be pop-u-lar /You'll hang with the right cohorts /You'll be good at sports /Know the slang you gotta know /So let's start /'Cause you've got an awfully long way to go""Wicked" is based on a modern novel inspired by this classic L. Frank Baum book that took us "over the rainbow"
  • This show, two of whose stars are seen here, was a Broadway smash in 1903
  • The Horse of a Different Color in this film was actually 6 different horses colored with Jell-O powder
  • (Hi, I'm Neil Patrick Harris.) My first acting break was in elementary school when I played the dog in the musical version of this novel turned 1939 film
  • (Hi, I'm Greg Proops.) I once performed my own version of this 1939 film for Radio Scotland; I played all the parts, even the winged monkeys
  • Chapter 8 of this popular L. Frank Baum work is entitled "The Deadly Poppy Field"
  • Margaret Hamilton played Miss Gulch & the Wicked Witch in this film
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sony Pictures Studios.) It's easy to see why Stage 15 here at Sony Studios, the largest soundstage in the Western hemisphere, was used to film hits like "Men in Black" I & II, the "Spider Man" films, & this 1939 magical classic MGM musical
  • The Baum Bugle is the newsletter of the international club for fans of this tale
  • "...No trace of imagination, good taste or ingenuity", the New Yorker said of this '39 film set in Kansas