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The Yellow Brick Road is a well-traveled one. Since Judy Garland donned the ruby slippers and first skipped down it in the 1939 film adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wizard of Oz ...
When we think of The Wizard of Oz, we often think of the 1939 blockbuster film starring Judy Garland. After all, it was both ...
Last weekend, the Port Gamble Theatre showed a movie to an audience for the first time since 1956. That movie they chose was the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz.” I had not seen that movie on ...
The real wizard behind Oz: ... At the turn of the century when children’s literature was rife with moral lessons and cautionary violence, L. Frank Baum set about writing a great American ...
The first installment, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) was an immediate success, with its first printing selling out entirely. In quick order, a Broadway musical geared toward adult audiences ...