The west-coast premiere of The Wizard of Oz was at Grauman's Theater in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 1939. Though the film opened strong, it wouldn't earn its money back until 1948. Related content: ...

The Wizard of Oz was one of Hollywood’s first movies to be shot in Technicolor, which required cameras everywhere, along with plenty of lighting that threw heat in every direction. Temperatures ...

In a pivotal scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal that the Wizard is actually just a man, not the great and powerful Oz. Well, the man behind the curtain at the ...

Fact Check. A major plot point in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" is that Dorothy Gale, doing the bidding of Glinda the Good Witch of the North, wears a pair of magical, sparkling, ruby red ...

The Wizard of Oz cast had to endure utter torture to wear their costumes.. For starters, Bert Lahr’s Cowardly Lion costume was made from an actual lion hide and weighed about 90 pounds. It didn ...