what year did the wizard of oz movie come out
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50 Things You Didnât Know About âThe Wizard of Ozâ It was a modest box officer winner when it was released on this day back in 1939, but MGM’s grand Technicolor fantasy film, The Wizard of Oz, won the hearts of millions more when it debuted on TV for the first time in 1956.t was a modest box officer winner when it was released on this day back in 1939, but MGM’s grand Technicolor fantasy film, The Wizard of Oz, won the hearts of millions more when it debuted on TV for the first time in 1956.
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The Wizard of Oz movie musical premieres in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin The Wizard of Oz movie musical premieres in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland and featuring words and music by E.Y. “Yip” Harburg and Harold Arlen, receives its world premiere in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, on this day in 1939.
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The Wizard of Oz (1939) The Wizard of Oz was a major hit with audiences; the film earned $3,017,00 for MGM during its initial exhibition. This, however, was not enough to equal the production costs plus the million dollars spent on distribution and advertising.
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The Wizard of Oz (1939) 1 The Making of the Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM and the Miracle of Production #1060. 2  New York, Knopf, 1977. 3  Paul Nathanson. 4  Over the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America.
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The Wizard of Oz: 71 facts for the film's 71st birthday As today's Google doodle celebrates 71 years of The Wizard of Oz, we present 71 things you might not know about the musical classic starring Judy Garland. The Wizard of Oz, which has been awarded a Google doodle to mark its 71st anniversary.
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User Reviews Other films like 'Gone With the Wind', 'Citizen Kane', 'The Godfather', 'Star Wars', have been seen by a lot of people but in each case I can imagine people that might not have seen them. In the case of 'The Wizard of Oz' it's hard to imagine anyone who might not have seen it at some point in their lives.
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Scarecrow ―Wicked Witch of the West (1939) The Wicked Witch of the West (or Witch of the West, or Wicked Witch for short) is a fictional character invented by L. Frank Baum, author and creator of the Oz Legacy. Her first and only appearance is in Baum's first Oz book titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900.
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11 Fun Facts about âSomewhere Over the Rainbowâ and The Wizard of Oz 11 Fun Facts about “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and The Wizard of Oz. Believe it or not, the 75th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz is upon us. The ubiquitous classic that immortalized Judy Garland’s face and voice while simultaneously giving children everywhere sky-ape related nightmares had its Hollywood premier on August 15, 1939.
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- The original release of the Wizard of Oz had a nifty trick of starting in black and white and switching to color when Dorothy landed in Oz. Those of us who grew up with … black and white television were as surprised as the original audience the first time we saw the movie on a color TV.
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- Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, and John Lee Mahin wrote the script to the beloved 1939 movie version of The Wizard of Oz by author and Oz series originat…or Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 - May 6, 1919).
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The Wizard of Oz: 71 facts for the film's 71st birthday The Wizard of Oz: 71 facts for the film's 71st birthday. As today's Google doodle celebrates 71 years of The Wizard of Oz, we present 71 things you might not know about the musical classic starring Judy Garland. The Wizard of Oz, which has been awarded a Google doodle to mark its 71st anniversary.
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The Wizard of Oz  (1939 film) In 2005, The Muppets Studio produced The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, a television film for ABC, starring Ashanti as Dorothy, Jeffrey Tambor as the Wizard, David Alan Grier as Uncle Henry, and Queen Latifah as Aunt Em.
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Trivia The stamp shows Judy Garland as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939), along with Toto (portrayed by Terry). The other films honored were Beau Geste (1939), Stagecoach (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939).
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The Wizard of Oz  ( 1939) Watch Now. From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video. ON DISC. Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home in Kansas and help her friends as well. Victor Fleming, George Cukor (uncredited) | 3 more credits ».
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8 Things You May Not Know About âThe Wizard of Ozâ MGM was inspired to make a silver-screen adaptation of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” following the box-office success of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” the world’s first animated feature film, which was released by Walt Disney in 1937.
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World's Greatest Songsâ (Somewhere) Over the Rainbow It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1939. Ironically, Rainbow, by all accounts one of the best songs ever written was never a #1 song and attained its highest chart position in 2005. The Wizard of Oz had its world premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood on August 15, 1939.
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Gone with the Wind  (film) Turner Entertainment acquired the MGM film library in 1986, but the deal did not include the television rights to Gone with the Wind, which were still held by CBS. A deal was struck in which the rights were returned to Turner Entertainment and CBS's broadcast rights to The Wizard of Oz were extended.
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Abandoned Wizard Of Oz Amusement Park Reopens Once A Year For âAutumn At Ozâ (PHOTOS) Abandoned Wizard Of Oz Amusement Park Reopens Once A Year For 'Autumn At Oz' (PHOTOS) In 1970, two businessmen opened a then-cutting edge theme park in Beech Mountain, North Carolina. Nestled in the mountains, the park was originally opened to keep local ski instructors and workers employed in the summer months.
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The Wizard of Oz debuts A remake with an African American cast, The Wiz, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, was released in 1978 with music arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones. The Wizard of Oz was one of the first 25 films to be put on the National Film Registry, which is reserved for culturally or historically significant movies.
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9 Movies You Might Not Realize Were Remakes The most notable was the first feature film version of The Wizard of Oz released in 1925. Silent film actor and director Larry Semon adapted the film with Baum’s son L. Frank Baum, Jr., as the pair took a more realistic and romantic approach to the 1900 source material.
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?????? ?? title details and video sharing options. now playing Wizard Of Oz, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) If I Only Had A Brain Just begun following the yellow brick road, Dorothy (Judy Garland) meets the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) who has Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg's If I Only Had A Brain all ready, in The Wizard Of Oz, 1939.
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The Wizard of Oz  ( 1939) People talk about The Wizard of Oz as a backdrop to their lives; and how true that is. I just saw it again, DVD, for the first time in--gosh!--20 years. There was a little art house in Lansing Michigan USA that ran it back then, on the popular premise that there's nothing like TWoO on the big screen..
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8 Things You May Not Know About âThe Wizard of Ozâ L. Frank Baum, 1910. (Credit: Interim Archives/Getty Images) Baum was 44 when “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was published and by then he’d tried his hand at a variety of jobs. As a young man in upstate New York, he bred prize-winning chickens, published a trade journal about poultry and was as an actor and playwright.
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Film / The Wizard of Oz 1 In the 1939 movie, the real world scenes are black and white tinted in a sepia tone and the Oz scenes are in color. 2  This is based on the novel, in which Baum makes a point of describing everything in Kansas as gray. 3  Deus ex Machina: The heroes are cornered, surrounded by all the guards of the Wicked Witch of the West.
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The Wizard of Oz Mysteries A Short History of Oz The classic musical film, The Wizard of Oz, was inspired by the book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written in 1899 and published in 1900 by author, Lyman Frank Baum.
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50 Things You Didnât Know About âThe Wizard of Ozâ She was 16 years old when she made the movie. 3. The early Technicolor process required more light than a normal film production, so the set temperatures often exceeded 100 degrees. 4. In L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s slippers were silver. They were changed to “ruby” in order to take advantage of the Technicolor wow factor. Multiple sets were created for the film. A pair of the ruby slippers were stolen in 2005, but several others remain under lock and key. 5.