Wizard Of Oz

Status Updates

Margaret Hamilton, the actress famous for portraying the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, died from natural causes related to chronic heart disease and atherosclero...

literature-fiction

Aunt Em is Dorothy Gale’s maternal aunt in L. Frank Baum’s original stories and the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz . She lives with her husband, Uncle Henry, on a Kansas farm, a...

Biography

Margaret Hamilton is widely recognized both as the actress who portrayed the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz (1939) and as the pioneering software engineer who coin...

Celebrity Profiles

Glinda the Good, fully established as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), is the archetypal benevolent sorceress who guide...

Celebrity Profiles

The Wizard of Oz refers to both L. Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s novel and the iconic 1939 musical film produced by MGM. At its core, the story follows Dorothy Gale, a Kansas...

culture-and-society

‘Wicked ruins the Wizard of Oz’ is an internet phrase describing how the climactic reveal that the Wizard is a humbug fatally undermines the story’s sense of wonder and au...

Film & Television Lore

The phrase in Wizard of Oz is most often tied to the 1939 MGM film and L. Frank Baum’s original book, where it describes the journey to the Emerald City and the characters’...

Status Updates

The question of whether any Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz are still alive is answered clearly by studio records and news archives: all original Munchkin performers who appeare...

Memorabilia

The ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz (1939) are among the most valuable and recognized movie props worldwide. How much did ruby slippers sell for in practice? The most widely...

Literary Characters

The Witch of the West is a figure rooted in L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and cemented in popular culture by the 1939 MGM film. In Baum’s books, she...