One of the coolest features of the original Wizard of Oz story is the flying monkeys, who serve the Wicked Witch in her quest to defeat Dorothy Gale and her new friends. The creatures appear ...

But there were some big monkeys caught in there too. Margaret Hamilton stars as the Wicked Witch of the West in the MGM film “The Wizard of Oz,” 1939. Here she commands her flock of flying ...

From left: Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Ray Bolger and Margaret Hamilton in' 'The Wizard of Oz'. THA/Shutterstock. The flying monkeys — also known as the winged monkeys — are one of the most famous ...

More than 50 years after Hamilton wore toxic copper-based face paint to appear green in The Wizard of Oz, Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ...