The Wizard of Oz
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That's him, officer -- I'm sure of it...police to hunt a killer, has been dubbed the world's worst photo-fit. Some have compared it a child's rendition of the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz. But the mockery seems misplaced: police tracked down two suspects after the photo-fit's... In this article: Wizard of Oz, Bogota, and Colombia |
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Telegraph.co.uk - Top ten stories | 2 days ago
World's worst photo-fit helps capture suspected murderer
...believed the suspect looked like - though many other people have said her drawing resembles nothing more than the scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz. The picture, more reminiscent of a child's school drawing than a piece of forensic evidence,...
In this article: YouTube and Wizard of Oz
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
Author Jeffrey Zaslow finds the words for our ordinary heroes
...people were coming to him with genuine problems. Once he made a house call because the letter writer had mentioned her son could recite "The Wizard of Oz" from memory. He thought that sounded funny; it was only upon arriving that he...
In this article: Jeffrey Zaslow, Randy Pausch, Suicide, Chicago Sun-Times, Cystic fibrosis, Pancreatic cancer, University of Maryland, and Carnegie Mellon
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SFGate: Entertainment | 4 days ago
MOVIES / Ask Mick LaSalle
In this article: Scarecrow, Toto, Cowardly Lion, Auntie Em, Uncle Henry, Glinda, and The Wizard of Oz
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Edwardsville Intelligencer | 5 days ago
Theater group puts new spin on Wizard of Oz
Theater group puts new spin on "Wizard of Oz" Published: Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:30 AM CST The Fine Arts Theatre Group will stage a children's production of "Oz" tonight at 7 p.m. at Lincoln Middle School in Edwardsville. "They...
In this article: Wizard of Oz, Oz, and L. Frank Baum
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Chicago Tribune | 6 days ago
Chicago Symphony goes to the movies
...when there's a chase you feel like the orchestra is pulling you at breakneck speed along with it." For Kaufman's other concert, "The Wizard of Oz" will be shown in its entirety, from Kansas to the Emerald City and back again, minus the...
In this article: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sherlock, Jr, Pacific Symphony, Harry Potter films, Timothy Brock, Harry Potter, and Doctor Zhivago
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Playbill.com | November 17, 2009
BBC Launches Star Search for Wizard of Oz's Dorothy
...via a new primetime reality TV series, "Over the Rainbow," as previously announced, for Andrew Lloyd Webber's new stage version of The Wizard of Oz, to be presented in the West End in 2010. Nationwide auditions for participants for the...
In this article: BBC, Star Search, Over the Rainbow, Lee Mead, Jodie Prenger, Connie Fisher, and The Sound of Music
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The Seattle Times | November 16, 2009
The Wizard of Oz in Florence, in London, and at (no place like) home
...around the dining room table, basket and stuffed doggy in hand, to "Follow the Yellow Brick Road." And now, back home, I see that "The Wizard of Oz" is back in theaters tomorrow, for one night only, letting us all travel to the Emerald City...
In this article: Florence, London, DVD, Over the Rainbow, and Gelato
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Times Online | November 13, 2009
Why Charles Saatchi thinks that he's the Wizard of Oz
Navigation - link to other main sections from here Why Charles Saatchi thinks that he's the Wizard of Oz We all know that Charles Saatchi has shown a prescient predilection for pickled sharks, manky beds, and bloody heads, but who...
In this article: Charles Saatchi, Wizard of Oz, Tracey Emin, Wizard, Nigella Lawson, Simon Cowell, and X Factor
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Gamespot | November 12, 2009
Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road Review
Beyond the Yellow Brick Road has its moments, but the novelty of strolling through the land of Oz soon wears thin. Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road is a role-playing game that attempts to immerse you into L. Frank Baum's...
In this article: Tin Man, Scarecrow, and L. Frank Baum
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer | November 07, 2009
Thoughts on 'The Wizard of Oz' at 70
It's impossible to watch The Wizard of Oz today without feeling, within minutes, some kind of mystical connection to people you will never know. When Judy Garland sings Over the Rainbow, there's the sense of participating, just by watching,...
In this article: Toto, Wizard, Oz, Dog, Over the Rainbow, Frank Morgan, and Billie Burke
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The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical-fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. The film features Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow, Jack Haley as the Tin Man, Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion, Billie Burke as Glinda the Good Witch of the North, Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West, and Frank Morgan as the Wizard.
The film follows schoolgirl Dorothy Gale who lives on a Kansas farm with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, but dreams of a better place "somewhere over the rainbow." After being struck unconscious during a tornado by a window which has come loose from its frame, Dorothy dreams that she, her dog Toto, and the farmhouse are transported to the magical Land of Oz. There, the Good Witch of the North Glinda advises Dorothy to follow the yellow brick road to Emerald City and meet the Wizard of Oz, who can return her to Kansas. During her journey, she meets a Scarecrow, Tin Man and a Cowardly Lion, who join her, hoping to receive what they lack themselves (a brain, a heart, and courage, respectively), all of this is done while also trying to avoid the many plots of the Wicked Witch of the West, in her attempt to get the ruby slippers that Dorothy received from the squashed Wicked Witch of the East. For this movie, MGM used trick photography and illusions to make normal size people look like midgets. So although most people thought midgets were used, they were actually all tall people illusioned to be short.
- Name:
- The Wizard of Oz
- Release Date:
- August 25, 1939
- Directed By:
- Produced by:
- Mervyn LeRoy
- Written By:
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- Novel:
- Screenplay:
- Edgar Allan Woolf
- Noel Langley
- L. Frank Baum
- Florence Ryerson
- Editor:
- Blanche Sewell
- Starring:
- Cinematography:
- Harold Rosson
- Music By:
- Distributed By:
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Length:
- Preview cut
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