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The Wizard of Oz was released on August 24, 1939, making it the 79th anniversary of the film!

The story of a girl, her dog Toto, and the friends she makes while following the yellow brick road is class, and we thought why not share some fun facts with you!

Here are some facts you probably didn’t know about the Wizard of Oz:

1. The cowardly lion costume weighed nearly 100 pounds and was made from real lion pelts!

2. Judy Garland had to wear a corset to appear more childish than Dorothy.

3. The early Technicolor process required more light than normal film production, so the temperature on set often had to be over 100 degrees.

4. In the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s slippers were silver. However, they have been changed to Ruby to take advantage of the Technicolor wow factor.

5. The special effects crew used flavored Jell-O powder to color the horses for the Emerald City scenes.

6. Shirley Temple pioneered the role of Dorothy, but it’s said the producers didn’t believe she cut the right vocals for Dorothy.

7. Buddy Ebsen (Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies) was the first choice for the Tin Man, but he suffered an extreme allergic reaction to the aluminum dust in his makeup.

8. Judy Garland was originally scheduled to wear a blonde wig and heavy baby doll makeup. However, the director opted for a natural look.

9. The Wicked Witch’s makeup was toxic, so actress Margaret Hamilton lived on a liquid diet to avoid accidental ingestion.

10. Wicked Witch actress Margaret Hamilton was badly burned in the scene where she disappears in a puff of smoke.

11. The paint used to colorize the Yellow Brick Road appeared green in a screen test. The crew replaced it with regular yellow industrial paint.

12. Ray Bolger (The Scarecrow), Bert Lahr (The Cowardly Lion) and Jack Haley (The Tin Man) ate in their dressing rooms during breaks because their costumes frightened patrons in the MGM cafeteria.

13. The song “Over the Rainbow” was almost cut from the film because the people in charge thought it would make the film too long.

14. The Tin Man’s Oil Was Really Chocolate Sauce.

15. The girl’s voice in Tin Man’s “If I Only Had a Heart” belongs to Adriana Caselotti, who voiced Snow White.

16. Dorothy’s blue and white dress was actually blue and pink.

17. Dorothy’s hair changes length in the film (most visible in the cornfield scene from Scarecrow). This was due to reshoots and changes in her costume and overall look.

18. The Wicked Witch’s death certificate is dated May 6, 1938, which marked the 20th anniversary of L. Frank Baum’s death.

19. Part of the Cowardly Lion’s prosthetic face was made out of a brown paper bag.

20. When the witch tries to rip off the Ruby Slippers, a fire breaks out. The effect was created with apple juice but then sped up on film to make it look like fire.

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Fictional protagonist of many Oz novels by American author L. Frank Baum

Fictional Character

Dorothy Gale is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum as a protagonist in many of his Oz novels. She first appears in Baum’s classic 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and reappears in most of its sequels. In addition, she is the main character in various adaptations, most notably the classic 1939 film adaptation of the novel The Wizard of Oz.

In later novels, she becomes more familiar with the land of Oz than her native Kansas.[1] In fact, Dorothy eventually lives in an apartment in the Emerald City palace, but only after her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry settle into a farmhouse on the outskirts of town and are unable to pay the mortgage on their home in Kansas. Dorothy’s best friend Princess Ozma, Ruler of Oz, later in the novels officially makes her a Princess of Oz.

Appearances [edit]

In the literature[edit]

In the Oz books, Dorothy grows up with her aunt and uncle in the desolate landscape of a Kansan farm. Whether Aunt Em or Uncle Henry is a blood relative of Dorothy remains unclear. Uncle Henry refers to Dorothy’s mother in The Emerald City of Oz, possibly a reference to Henry being Dorothy’s blood relative. (It is also possible that “aunt” and “uncle” are affectionate terms of a foster family and that Dorothy is not related to either of them, although Zeb in Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz claims to be Dorothy’s second cousin, related through Aunt Em .[2] Little mention is made of what happened to Dorothy’s birth parents, other than a passing reference to her mother’s death.) Along with her little black dog, Toto, Dorothy is swept into the Land of Oz by a tornado and, similarly Alice from Alice in Wonderland, enter an alternate world full of talking creatures. In many Oz books, Dorothy is the heroine of the story. She is often seen with her best friend and ruler of Oz, Princess Ozma. Her signature blue and white plaid dress is admired by the Munchkins because blue is their favorite color and white is only worn by good witches and sorceresses, indicating to them that Dorothy is a good witch.

Dorothy has a sincere and responsible character, shows no fear when she beats the Cowardly Lion and organizes the Winkies’ rescue mission for her friends who were dismembered by the winged monkeys. She is not afraid to anger the Wicked Witch of the West, as shown when the witch stole one of Dorothy’s slippers, and in retaliation Dorothy hurled a bucket of water at her, unaware that water was deadly to the witch. She brazenly rebuffs Princess Langwidere’s threat to take her head for her collection – “Well, I don’t think you will.”[3] (Adapted from Anna Laughlin’s portrayal of the character in the popular Broadway version of The Magician of Oz” by Baum dictates Dorothy speak in childlike contractions to Ozma of Oz, which she continues to do throughout the series). This aspect of her character was somewhat diminished by her company with Ozma, in whom Baum placed the greater measure of wisdom and dignity. But even that is complicated by her relationships with her cousin Zeb from Hugson’s Ranch, a hardy, manly boy who doesn’t like Oz and can’t think of anything more interesting than defeating the Munchkins’ wrestling champion, which he can’t do.

Dorothy has several other pets including her white/pink/purple kitten, Eureka, and Billina, a lively talking hen. Popular in crossword puzzles is Dorothy’s cow Imogene from the 1902 stage version implied, albeit unnamed, in the 1910 film. Eric Shanower’s novel The Giant Garden of Oz is about a cow named Imogene.

In Baum’s sixth Oz book, The Emerald City of Oz (1910), when Uncle Henry and Aunt Em are unable to pay the mortgage on the new farmhouse built at the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, brings Dorothy her to dwell Oz; The plot features a tour of Oz as a wonderful, utopian land, escaping the troubles of Kansas. She becomes Princess of Oz.

Dorothy is a standard character who has at least one cameo role in thirteen of the fourteen Oz books written by L. Frank Baum (although she did not appear at all in The Marvelous Land of Oz, she is referenced several times in that story when it was her actions in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that led to the events in the former) and is at least a common character in the nineteen followed by author Ruth Plumly Thompson, and got at least one cameo appearance in all of her books except for Captain Salt in Oz (in which neither Oz nor any of its residents appear, although they are mentioned). Major subsequent appearances by Dorothy in The Famous Forty include The Lost Princess of Oz, Glinda of Oz, The Royal Book of Oz, Grampa in Oz, The Lost King of Oz, The Wishing Horse of Oz, Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz and The Magical Mimics in Oz. Most of the other books focus on various child protagonists, some Ozites, some from other Nonestani realms and some from the United States, and as such their appearances in the main series are becoming increasingly limited. In Jack Snow’s The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946), Ozma places Dorothy on the throne of Oz while visiting Queen Lurline’s fairy band.

The magic of Oz keeps Dorothy young. In The Lost King of Oz (1925), a Wish Way carries Dorothy to a film set in Hollywood, California. She begins to age very quickly into her late 20s, making up for at least some of the years that have already passed. The wishpath takes her back to Oz and restores her younger self, but she then learns that it would be unwise for her to ever return to the outside world. Baum never states Dorothy’s age, but he states in The Lost Princess of Oz that she is a year younger than Betsy Bobbin and a year older than Trot, whose age was given as 10 in Ruth Plumly Thompson’s The Giant Horse of Oz Age 11 when she lives in Oz.

Thompson’s Oz books reveal a certain intolerance in Dorothy. In The Cowardly Lion of Oz, circus clown Notta Bit More arrives in the Emerald City “disguised” as a traditional witch, and Dorothy immediately begins throwing buckets of water at him without provocation (although she reacted that way because she assumed that the “witch” Notta was a wicked witch like her old enemy, the Wicked Witch of the West). In The Wishing Horse of Oz, she makes unsavory comments about the dark coloring Gloma and her subjects adopt as disguise, making them somewhat resemble black people. This behavior is not characteristic of Dorothy in Baum’s Oz books. In The Patchwork Girl of Oz, she shoves and punches her way through masses of black tottenhots to save the scarecrow they’re throwing about, but this is more an example of her wit than any sort of prejudice, as she’s otherwise friendly and polite to them Tottenhots, and accepts that their ways are different from those who live in the Emerald City.

The authorized sequels to Sherwood Smith, The Emerald Wand of Oz and Trouble Under Oz revolve around child characters Dori and Em, who live with their Aunt Susan. All three are indirect descendants of Dorothy, although their specific relationship to her is unclear.

Philip José Farmer’s 1982 science fiction novel A Barnstormer in Oz tells the story of aviator Henry “Hank” Stover – who is unsurprised when, on a beautiful spring day in 1923, his Curtiss Jenny biplane crashes through a strange green Cloud flies and finds himself in Oz. Hank knows he is in Oz because his mother, Dorothy Gale-Stover, was there in 1890 and later shared her experiences with him. Farmer’s premise is that Dorothy only visited Oz once and told her story to a journalist named Frank Baum. This journalist later created a series of books about Dorothy’s only adventure in Oz. Farmer’s Oz is on the brink of civil war and invasion by the US Army.

Dorothy’s last name is never mentioned in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz or The Marvelous Land of Oz, the first two Oz books. It is revealed in the third book, Ozma of Oz (1907). Gale’s surname was originally mentioned in Baum’s screenplay for the 1902 Broadway stage version of The Wizard of Oz, in which it was originally used as a backdrop for a pun. (DOROTHY: “I’m Dorothy, and I’m one of the Kansas Gales.” SCARECROW: “That explains your airy nature.”)

Conception [edit]

An influence on the creation of Dorothy seems to be Lewis Carroll’s Alice books. Although Baum allegedly found these plots incoherent, he identified their source of popularity as Alice herself, a character with whom children’s readers could identify; this influenced his choice of a protagonist for his own books.[4]

Dorothy’s character was probably named after Baum’s own niece, Dorothy Louise Gage, who died in infancy. Baum’s wife was very attached to her and was deeply saddened by her death, so there is speculation that Baum included her name in his stories as a memorial. Elements of Dorothy Gale’s character may have been derived from Matilda Joslyn Gage, Dorothy Gage’s grandmother. Dorothy Gage is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Bloomington, Illinois.[5]

Lee Sandlin writes that in May 1879, L. Frank Baum read a disaster report about a tornado in Irving, Kansas, which included the name of a victim, Dorothy Gale, who was “found buried face down in a puddle of mud.” [6]

In the movie[edit]

In Baum’s 1902 stage music adaptation, Dorothy was played by Anna Laughlin. In 1908, L. Frank Baum adapted his early Oz novels as The Fairylogue and Radio Plays starring Romola Remus as Dorothy. This was followed by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a short film that Otis Turner, one of the directors of Fairylogue, made without a tree as part of a contract fulfillment. In this 1910 film, Dorothy was played by Bebe Daniels. Two sequels followed (in the same year), Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz and The Land of Oz, both of which featured Dorothy, but whether Daniels took part in them is unknown. Baum subsequently loosely adapted The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into a 1914 film directed by J. Farrell MacDonald entitled His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, starring Violet MacMillan as Dorothy.

Dorothy does not appear in The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914), although some film books claim that Mildred Harris, who had not yet signed her contract with The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, played the role. The character is actually eliminated from the film version despite playing a fairly large role in the novel.

Anna Laughlin as Dorothy in the 1902 musical

Romola Remus (far right) with the cast of The Fairylogue and radio plays

Violet MacMillan

Dorothy Dwan

Dorothy Dwan portrayed Dorothy in the 1925 film Wizard of Oz. In this film, on her eighteenth birthday, Aunt Em (Mary Carr) informs her that she has been left on her doorstep and is in fact a Princess of Oz destined to To marry Prince Kynd (Bryant Washburn), who has currently lost the throne to Prime Minister Kruel (Josef Swickard), in a story similar to that of His Majesty the Scarecrow of Oz, only with Dorothy as the love interest. In the end, the story turns out to be the dream of a little girl who fell asleep hearing the story of Kynd and Kruel, which is said to be the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The film also introduced the idea that the Farmhands are also the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion, albeit as costumes they wear to hide out in Oz.

In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy was played by Judy Garland, who received an Academy Juvenile Award for her performance. Being sixteen at the time of filming, Garland’s adolescent character was bound in a corset that concealed the character. Since fantasy films were generally unsuccessful at the time, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer portrayed Oz as a head trauma-induced delirium rather than a real place. It is implied that Oz is just Dorothy’s dream as she ends up waking up in bed, although Dorothy is convinced her journey was indeed real.

One of the first films to be shot in Technicolor, the director had the famous magic slippers changed from silver to red because the ruby ​​slippers were more visually appealing in the film.

She is reunited with Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, their three farmhands (the alter egos of Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion) and Professor Marvel (the alter ego of The Wizard) when she awakens from her unconsciousness at the end of this film, back home, safe and proclaiming the film’s theme and moral: “There’s no place like home” (which also fulfills the numerous foreshadowings earlier in the story).

Dorothy’s characterization in the 1939 film is more of a damsel in distress, somewhat different from the adventurous, outspoken, and brave Dorothy of the books.

In Disney’s 1985 fantasy adventure film Return to Oz, which is a more faithful adaptation of the original Oz books, Dorothy is played by then-child actress Fairuza Balk.

In the video for Blues Traveler’s 1994 hit “Run-Around,” Dorothy tries to get into a club where the band is performing. She is portrayed by actress Diana Marquis.[7]

In Disney’s 2013 film Oz the Great and Powerful, Dorothy’s maternal lineage is hinted at when Annie (Michelle Williams) tells her boyfriend Oscar Diggs that her fiancé’s last name is Gale.[8]

Dorothy appears in the animated film Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (which is based on Dorothy of Oz), voiced by Lea Michele.

Dorothy had a cameo in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, voiced by Maya Rudolph. You, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion are transported from the Land of Oz to Harmony Town in the Systar system.

Dorothy appears in the South Korean animated film Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs, voiced by Katie DiCicco.

On TV[edit]

A little-known version of the original story filmed for British television in 1995 starred Denise Van Outen as Dorothy. Among other variations of the story, she showed them as wealthy, spoiled socialites and the characters using sexual innuendos and curses. It combined elements from the original books, the 1939 film version, and 1985’s Return to Oz. At the end of the film, she wakes up from her sleep and dismisses her trip to Oz as a crazy dream.

The 2007 Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Tin Man adapted her into DG, a descendant of Dorothy, and is played by Zooey Deschanel. In this iteration, the trademark dress is actually a diner waitress uniform; the rest of the time she wears a leather jacket and jeans and rides a motorbike. When she is taken to Oz, she learns that she is actually the Princess of the Kingdom of Oz who was sent to another world and raised by androids who protect her after her sister was possessed by the spirit of an old witch who accidentally killed her had unleashed.

In the 2012 TV miniseries Dorothy and the Witches of Oz, Dorothy (played by Paulie Rojas) is shown as an adult writer and begins to recover repressed memories of her actual adventures in the Land of Oz when the Wicked Witch of the West plots to destroy the Land to conquer Land of Oz and the whole earth.

Dorothy appears in the ninth season of Supernatural, portrayed by Tiio Horn. This version is Dorothy Baum. Dorothy is a Huntress whose father was L. Frank Baum, a member of the Men of Letters. Desperate when it became apparent that the Wicked Witch could not be killed, Dorothy used a spell to bind herself and the Wicked Witch, keeping them both captive in stasis in the Men of Letters’ bunker for decades. They were eventually freed by Sam and Dean Winchester. After Charlie Bradbury killed the Wicked Witch, she and Dorothy went to Oz to continue fighting the Witch’s forces.

Dorothy appears in the third and fifth seasons of the TV series Once Upon a Time. In this show, Dorothy is from a fictionalized version of Kansas rather than from Earth (referred to as the Land Without Magic in the show). She is portrayed as an adult by Teri Reeves and as a child by Matreya Scarrwener. Dorothy, trapped in her Kansas farmhouse during a raging cyclone, is washed up to Oz. She is taken in by the Protectors of Oz, the Sisterhood of Witches, and begins to come to regard them as family. One night she is confronted by Zelena, the witch of the west (Rebecca Mader) while she is fetching water from a well. Zelena intends to get rid of Dorothy, believing the girl is destined to usurp her place in the sorority. In defense, Dorothy tosses Zelena a bucket of water; melt the witch. Glinda the Witch of the South (Sunny Mabrey) then seems to offer her to take Zelena’s place as the Witch of the West, but Dorothy declines; just want to return home. With Glinda’s help, she is taken to the magician and given a pair of silver slippers that allow her to travel to any world. Dorothy thanks the Wizard of Oz (Christopher Gorham) and proceeds to click the heels of the slippers three times to send herself home. Only after the girl’s departure does Glinda discover too late that Zelena has disguised herself as a wizard to guide Dorothy out of Oz.

After returning to Kansas, Dorothy tells her family about her experiences in Oz. However, her family doesn’t believe her and tries to put her in an asylum. Her aunt Emily Brown (Gina Stockdale) is the only person who believes her and refuses to let her in. However, Aunt Em dies and gives Dorothy a puppy named Toto before she does. Years pass and Dorothy returns to Oz. When Dorothy learns from the Munchkins that Zelena is still alive and no longer fears the witch, she storms the palace in time to stop Zelena from stealing the Scarecrow’s (Paul Scheer) brain for a timing spell. Dorothy taunts Zelena by saying she has one thing she will never obtain, the love of humans, while Zelena prepares a fireball to destroy her. Toto jumps out of the bag and trotts to the palace curtains while Dorothy ducks to avoid Zelena’s fireball, which hits an approaching guard. Toto then pulls a string, causing the curtains to fall on Zelena, who fumbles to free herself. While she is busy, Dorothy escapes from the palace with the scarecrow and her dog. Later, she and her companions hide in a cabin, but Zelena eventually finds them after casting a locator charm on Dorothy’s old bicycle. Dorothy does her best to protect the Scarecrow, but Zelena ends up ripping his brains out. Dorothy fearlessly faces the witch and challenges Zelena to do her worst while bragging that she will never be afraid of her again. Zelena briefly shows interest in her bold stance, wondering what made her change. In the end, Zelena leaves Dorothy unharmed so the people of Oz can see that their great hero has failed them for once.

In Emerald City, as an adult, Dorothy is brought to Oz, where she works as a nurse. She still lives with Em and Henry, but here they are identified as her adoptive parents, her birth mother left her with them as a baby and has only recently reconnected with Dorothy. Months after receiving the letter, Dorothy makes her first official visit to her birth mother when the tornado that takes her to Oz hits. Confronted with an Oz who, at the Wizard’s command, is increasingly opposed to magic and is accused of the death of the Witch of the East – which was first an accident and later self-defense when the witch survived her injuries – Dorothy learns more about her true ties to this world while searching for answers, accompanied by a police German shepherd she calls “Toto” and the amnesiac Lucas. The TV series ends with her returning to Earth after the wizard’s forces are forever decimated by the beast, but she is subsequently contacted by Lucas and Toto – both of whom she left behind in Oz – who appear to her in Kansas to ask for help.

While not a direct adaptation of the literature itself, the 2013 Super Sentai series Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger features the members of Deboth’s army themed after the characters in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The then merry knight Canderrilla is designed with the motif of Dorothy Gale.

In video games[edit]

Wizard101[ edit ]

Dorothy Gale appears as an NPC in the 2008 MMORPG Wizard101. Unlike other adaptations of the character, Dorothy traveled to Wizard City from her family farm in Kansas to become a balance wizard at the Ravenwood School of Magical Arts. In the Yellow Brick Road and Not in Kansas Anymore side quests, players meet Dorothy at her house, who tells them to check on her friends she had for dinner, Mr. Toto and the Tin Man. Mr. Toto tells the player that they are running late because Tin Man can’t find his oil can and asks the player to tell Dorothy that they are running late as usual.

LEGO dimensions [ edit ]

Dorothy Gale is one of the non-playable characters appearing in the 2015 toys-to-life video game LEGO Dimensions.[9] Along with Toto and her three companions, they meet Batman, Gandalf and Wyldstyle on their way to the Emerald City. Batman believes the Scarecrow to be the eponymous supervillain from his world, although the interrogation is short-lived as Dorothy and her gang are sucked into a maelstrom where they are captured by the game’s central antagonist, Lord Vortech. Lord Vortech imprisons Dorothy and uses the Ruby Slippers as one of the basic elements needed to create his “perfect world”. What becomes of Dorothy after Vortech’s death is up for debate.

Representations [edit]

Impact on the LGBTQ community[ edit ]

In the 1950s, the phrase “boyfriend of Dorothy” came into use as a slang term for homosexuals. This term is attributed to both American author and gay icon Dorothy Parker and Judy Garland’s prominent role as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz.[10] Also known as “FOD”, this gay slang term means a gay man;[11] and more generally any LGBTQ person. Someone was a friend of Dorothy’s as such was a euphemism used to discuss sexual orientation without others knowing its meaning.[12] James Deutsch, program curator at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, researched the origin of the phrase, noting scholars who argued that Garland became a “magnet” for what the community claimed was “gay culture,” arguing that the phrase this demonstrates “several of the most important functions of folklore serving members of the LGBT community.”[13] However, Dee Michel, an Oz scholar, said that there are certain beliefs about the connection between the film and LGBTQ people that “continue despite the lack of clear historical evidence.”[14] Additionally, a Dorothy dollar is described as any business generated by “the provision of goods and services to the gay community.”

In L. Frank Baum’s Land of Oz from 1900 to 1920, Dorothy and Ozma were described as living in a close friendship. In the series Once Upon a Time, Dorothy, who appears in seasons 3, 5 and 6 of the series, has a friend named Ruby, the latter waking her up with a kiss in her final episode.

See also[edit]

Dorothy Hamill, the 1976 Olympic figure skating champion, was known for her wedge haircut. The classic Dorothy Hamill haircut became an instant fad, and many young American girls cut their hair short so they could look like Dorothy. After winning the Olympics, Hamill had many endorsements, including White Rain hair products. TV audiences admired her skating but also loved her short, springy wedge.

Origin of the Wedge Paul Morigi/Stringer/Getty Images The stylist behind Hamill’s haircut was Yusuke Suga, a Japanese-born hair designer based in New York. In her autobiography, A Skating Life, Hamill talks about how and when her hair was cut just before the 1976 Winter Games:

“The night before I left for Europe, I had my hair cut by world-renowned hairstylist Suga. I’ve always hated my short hair. There was a time when I was younger when I grew them out longer and I enjoyed it, but it was easier to keep it short – “wash your hair and wear it”. I had read about Suga in magazines and wanted that he cuts my hair. I was aware of his masterful talent after seeing the chic haircut he gave to Melissa Militano, who was also a Senior Ladies with me. My father had written him a letter asking if he “I could cut my hair for the Olympics. He graciously agreed and stayed in his business for a very long time. Of course I did that, I had no idea this wedge style was going to be so popular. I was just thinking, given that I have short hair anyway If I had to, I could also have something fashionable.”

HAIRevolution exhibit Paul Hawthorne/Staff/Getty Images Hamill’s haircut was all over the place after the 1976 Winter Olympics. Skaters, gymnasts and even non-athletes copied her short bob hairstyle. The wedge evolved and remained a popular style. In 2002, Hamill’s wedge was part of the HAIRevolution exhibit at a mall in Denver, Colorado.

Dorothy Hamill Doll Bettmann/Contributor/Wikimedia Commons A Dorothy Hamill doll was made in 1977. The doll, of course, wore the same hairstyle as Hamill: the wedge.

Her short hairstyle before the Olympics Dorothy Hamill sports her iconic haircut in this 1975 photo. Tony Duffy/Staff/Getty Images Even before she won the 1976 Olympic figure skating title, Hamill wore her hair in a short bob, carefully cut to move with her while she skated but not get in her eyes.

It started as a bowl cut Matthew Stockman/Staff/Getty Images Hamill’s wedge was originally more like a bowl cut that gradually shortened into the wedge. This cut was what most people think of when watching or copying their hairstyle. The flat and angled layering of the cut underneath created a style that encouraged movement and freedom.

Hair of Dorothy Hamill Many figure skaters in the late 1970s wore short hair like Dorothy Hamill. Jo Ann Schneider Farris figure skaters across the US copied Hamill’s haircut. In a 1977 photograph of competitors at the Broadmoor Skating Club, most of the skaters mimicked Hamill’s famous hairstyle.

America’s sweetheart Dorothy Hamill sported her iconic haircut during the ice skating competition at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Tony Duffy/Getty Images Sport/Getty Images After Hamill won the title in 1976, he was considered “America’s darling”. She became the most eligible figure skater for commercial promotion in the history of figure skating.

What is Dorothy’s last name in The Wizard of Oz?

L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) was an American writer best known for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. Although Baum is best known as the creator of Oz, he was a prolific writer and wrote many novels, poems, and articles under a variety of pen names.

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The protagonist of the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is eleven-year-old Dorothy Gale.

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9. Dorothy wore silver slippers

10. The wicked witch was too wicked

– In 1938, when filming began, the Nazi regime in Germany was in full swing. The Nazis had a policy of exterminating “undesirables,” including those born with a physical disability. Some of the tiny actors who played the Munchkins were part of a German troupe and jumped at the chance to escape the Nazis and emigrate to the US Scene introducing the Tin Woodman. The story goes that one of the actors portraying the Munchkins committed suicide over a failed love affair and the moment was captured on film. In reality, it’s just a big bird spreading its wings. The production had a lot of wild birds wandering around the set to make it look more like a forest. – If you need more proof of how badly little people are treated in Hollywood, consider this fact. The actors who portrayed the Munchkins were each paid $50 a week. Terry, the dog who played pools, made $125 a week. The film cost $3 million ($46,990,384.62, adjusted for inflation) to produce and grossed just $2.8 million ($43,857,692.31) on its initial release. It also didn’t have much of an impact on pop culture at the time. The film only became financially successful and a part of American culture when it aired annually on television.- The film famously switches to Technicolor when Dorothy leaves Kansas and arrives in Oz. However, when the film first aired on television, color televisions were so rare that most viewers were watching it entirely in black and white anyway. That was one of the things that made early television broadcasts so popular; Back then there were so few color shows that could take advantage of the relatively new color televisions. – The opening and ending were not originally filmed in black and white. They were filmed on sepia tone film which gave it a more brownish tint. However, from 1949 all prints shown were in black and white. The film was not restored to its original sepia tones until a special 50th anniversary videocassette edition was released in 1989. When it came time to dress Professor Marvel in Kansas for the opening scene, customers wanted a coat that looked aged yet posh. So they went to a thrift store and got a rack of old coats. They finally settled on one, and when Frank Morgan put it on, he saw a tag that read, “L. Frank Baum”. That’s the name of the author of the original novel. Baum’s widow confirmed that (by an amazing coincidence) they did in fact have one of Baum’s real coats. They gave it to Baum’s widow after production was completed. Frank Morgan plays five roles in the film; the taxi driver, Professor Marvel, the gatekeeper of the Emerald City, the wizard’s guard and the wizard himself. The reason he has multiple roles is because they were trying to get W.C. Fields to play the role of the magician and tried to give him more screen time. Fields eventually passed on the role, but the multiple roles gimmick switched to Morgan. – In the original novel, Dorothy’s slippers were silver, not ruby ​​red. However, the producers changed them to ruby ​​color to make them look more interesting in technicolor. – The original version of the film had more scenes with the Wicked Witch of the West, but children in the test audience found her makeup so terrifying that they had to cut or reshoot the scenes to give her less screen time. It only takes a minute and we really appreciate it. Click here

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The Wizard of Oz has been a beloved classic for generations. The 1939 film – in which Judy Garland plays a Kansas girl who is literally swept away on an adventure to the magical land of Oz – caused a sensation when it was first released. Over the years, and particularly with the rise of home video, it has become one of cinema’s greatest landmarks. But his production is riddled with dark rumors, including one about a possible on-set suicide.

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The Wizard of Oz is famous for its problematic production

While the family-friendly musical fantasy is suitable for all ages, The Wizard of Oz wasn’t as flawless in real life as it appears on screen. Ironically, as the film’s reputation as a classic film has grown, stories about the film’s production — and the appalling treatment of the cast and crew, including Garland — have complicated its legacy.

Even the film’s iconic makeup designs — which helped create indelible characters like the Tin Man and Wicked Witch of the West — wreaked havoc on the film’s stars. Unfortunately, perhaps more than most films, The Wizard of Oz was home to many regrettable film decisions that would never happen today.

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But the film is plagued by a particularly egregious rumor

However, one particular urban legend about the film has persisted for decades without consensus. As the story progressed, viewers spotted what appeared to be a small person hanging in the background of a scene. And somewhere along the way, claims were circulating that an actor portraying one of the film’s munchkins hanged himself during production. But is there any truth to this long-standing — and particularly dark — rumor?

According to Snopes, The Wizard of Oz – for all its problematic production issues – had no on-set fatalities, either on or off the screen. Rather, The Wizard of Oz borrowed several large birds to simulate an outdoor setting on set. And what appeared to be a small hanging person was actually a bird spreading its wings. Over time, quotes were allegedly misconstrued, and an urban legend was born.

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The actors who played the Munchkins found camaraderie

Though many consider The Wizard of Oz a cursed movie, the actors who played the Munchkins reportedly found a sense of community among their ranks. After all, many actors of such small stature are not often together on a set. And the relationships formed in the 1939 film ultimately led to something good.

According to The New Yorker, actor/activist Billy Barty credited The Wizard of Oz with starting an advocacy group. Known today as the Little People of America, the group now has more than 6,000 members. Thankfully, the Munchkin-related rumor is untrue, leaving a silver lining rather than a sad true story.

METRO GOLDWYN MONKEYS: I COULD FLY FURTHER!

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METRO GOLDWYN MONKEYS: I COULD FLY FURTHER!

[Above: Director Victor Fleming (right) stands center stage on the set of The Haunted Forest in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during filming of THE WIZARD OF OZ in January 1939. He’s in the perfect position to see a rehearsal of the incoming flight of actors who were cast in the film’s airborne terror brigade: the infamous Winged Monkeys. (Some of them can be seen above the branches, center and left.) Some forty-four years later—and in the midst of many forewarning publications—ABC aired THE DAY AFTER, a three-hour television film about a nuclear attack on the United States and its aftermath. Parents have been urged to prepare all youngsters for the production’s realistic drama and attendant visual horrors — or to keep their children away from television entirely — to avoid post-program trauma. A week later, a journalist from one of the national news magazines said that yes, the film did have moments that deeply disturbed and horrified many viewers. But with omniscience and wry humor he went on to say that nothing would ever frighten children quite like the winged monkeys in THE WIZARD OF OZ….]

Over the years, it’s probably a historical question as to who or what spooked more people during their first (or early) viewing of the 1939 Metro Goldwyn Mayer film THE WIZARD OF OZ. Is it the evergreen Wicked Witch of the West? the dog canyon Almira Gulch? the fearsome, twisting tornado? the mysterious striped stockings that curl up and retreat beneath Dorothy’s house in Munchkinland? Perhaps it’s best – and most honestly – to split the horror of “honor” between all of these.

However….

It’s also possible that the film’s truly enduring terror stems from that delightful coven of characters created by L. Frank Baum in 1900 for his very first Oz book, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. MGM faithfully brought them to screen in the dramatization of Baum’s story, and there is no question that the Winged Monkeys wield a chilling hold on the imaginations and memories of those who have filmed the Yellow Brick Road for the past eight decades.

This all serves as a prelude to today’s trivia questions, as the OZ Museum Facebook page recently had two requests related to these blurry flying nightmares. Diana Plas has asked, “How did MGM create the flying monkey effect?” and Howie Manheimer wants to know, “How did the studio flap its wings?”

Well, ladies first! And I hope Diana doesn’t mind, but I’ll also add some basic background information.

Though typically inflated studio publicity later claimed there were thirty-six winged monkeys “on screen,” only a dozen or so men actually appeared in those classic (and classically terrifying) WIZARD OF OZ roles. At least two of the actors were from the troupe of short people who had worked in front of the camera in the Munchkinland sequence; a few others were said to be professional jockeys. Regardless, all of the “performing” Winged Monkeys were small, light-weight gentlemen who were harnessed and then, during their OZ scenes, lifted, flown, or laid down by elaborate maneuvers of virtually invisible piano wire. This technique turned them into an assembly of “living puppets”.

[These images feature an actor modeling Winged Monkey’s wardrobe and makeup, as well as actively posing to determine how his “flying” moments might come across when filmed. About a dozen men who actually starred and flew in the film wore art deco jackets designed (like all other OZ costumes) by the legendary Gilbert Adrian. The diminutive players donned his felt robe over their similarly felt-like monkey suits. OZ and Metro makeup expert Jack Dawn created the rubber prosthetics that gave players’ faces the appropriate primate look—then topped them with custom peaked wave-style wigs that reflected and anticipated the Iroquois. Oddly enough, as far as I can tell, only two of the monkeys were outfitted with Adrian’s pageboy-like hats: Nikko, the witch’s constant companion – and the commander of her army.]

Whatever their total number, it’s also worth noting that the acting monkeys “affected” the picture for several hours one morning in January 1939 as director Victor Fleming prepared to film the sequence in which they entered the haunted forest dove in to catch Dorothy and Toto the Wicked Witch of the West. The aerial artists feared they would only be paid a flat “daily rate” for their work—rather than the then-customary $25.00 fee for each actual “take” of their flying tour de force. Years later, Tin Man Jack Haley recalled that a 911 call was made to the Screen Actors Guild, who rushed a representative to the Culver City MGM soundstage to clarify the situation. In the end, the monkeys got their money, since they had every right to charge a stunt salary for the effort. (Ironically, despite being paid in full, two of them suffered minor injuries when they fell to the stage floor after their piano wires snapped as the monkeys dived into or out of the Haunted Forest.)

Meanwhile, it’s also true that OZ has dozens of other winged monkeys on screen – seen in the distance, flying in a swarm past the Wicked Witch’s tower window, or appearing and dispersing on their flight there abduct Judy Garland and Terry/Toto. This larger part of the squad was made in miniature – and rubber. Meinhardt Raabe, who worked as a coroner at the nearby Munchkinland stage, stopped by to have a look at the spooky, parched and branchy woods of the forest; In 1987 he recalled: “The entire ceiling [of this] building was hung with little monkey puppets. You could see the wires going to pulleys on the side, so people on the side of the set could manipulate them to simulate all these little flying monkeys.” (Raabe also recalled doing Judy’s “Double” in one Having seen dishes preparing to be carried into the air as Dorothy Gale was lifted from the Haunted Forest by two of the “living” Monkey actors.)

[Top left: A trio of troublemakers – suddenly friendly between takes, January 1939. Right: A duo of nonchalant actors converse serenely while their miniature rubber counterparts are tested in the background. Pictured below left: The “Lilly”, a 6 x 9 inch white card that is held in the camera at the end of each Technicolor exposure. When the film was developed, the white of the Lilly was a primitive means of determining whether the hues were accurately captured and the lighting correct.)

As for Howie’s question regarding their ability to “flap”, the Metro Monkeys were greatly aided in this activity by something as simple and straightforward as having a rechargeable battery built into each costume. It’s a very short answer, I know, but these are the facts!

Despite the brevity of the answer immediately preceding, I hope all of this proves to be a worthy answer – and I certainly thank Diana and Howie for providing good, solid talking points. By the way, and just to remind you: According to Baum’s book, the winged monkeys were themselves prisoners of the owner of a special, magical Golden Cap. (The Wicked Witch even waves this hat briefly at one moment in the film.) However, in Baum’s full narration, the hat passes to Dorothy after the witch melts – and these nefarious chimpanzees prove gentle and helpful to her in subsequent chapters of the first Oz book.

Or put more directly:

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(And come fly with me/us, Oz style!)

Article by John Fricke