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Feb 4, 2023 · According to Movie Predators, when 16-year-old Judy Garland kept ruining takes by laughing at the Cowardly Lion 's performance, Fleming, whose valuable time and expensive film was being lost with each minute, didn't just stop filming and start from the top of the scene.
The young actress was also allegedly on the receiving end of abuse from the film's director, Victor Flemming. According to author Michael Sragow's book Victor Fleming: An American Movie...
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- Jello-O Was The Secret Ingredient Behind The Horse of A Different Color.
More so than the braids, the toy Toto, or even the blue-and-white ginghamdress, those sparkly ruby-red shoes are the key to any Dorothy Gale costume. But one of the most important images of the enduring Wizard of Oz mythos did not come from the mind of author L. Frank Baum, but instead from Oz screenwriter Noel Langley. In The Wonderful Wizard of O...
Judy Garland’s Dorothy will always be remembered for her simple farm-girl look (and the subtle Emerald City makeover later in the movie), but when production first began on The Wizard of Oz, Garland was given the traditional Hollywood treatment. That meant a bouncy, blonde wig and tons of makeup. Fortunately, for the film’s legacy, Glam Dorothy did...
Most of the main actors in The Wizard of Ozplayed two roles: A Kansas character and his or her Oz counterpart. This meant Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Man), and Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion) doubled as farmhands, and Margaret Hamilton got wicked in both Kansas (Miss Gulch) and Oz (the Witch). But Frank Morgan, who portrayed the shady Profess...
Margaret Pellegrini, who portrayed one of the Munchkins in the film, said that she was paid $50 a week to work on Oz. In 1939, that was a decent wage for a working actor. Trouble was, Dorothy’s canine companion was pulling in a whopping $125 a week. That had to make things awkward on set.
One day after Germany invaded Poland (thus beginning the Second World War), Iowa’s Mason City Globe Gazette ran an article heralding The Wizard of Oz’s run at the local movie house. As a way to both increase morale and ticket sales, Oz was billed as the perfect escapist fantasy for those worried about the events overseas. The actual headline read: ...
It’s not easy being green, as Margaret Hamilton can attest. The Wicked Witch actress’ sorry excuse for a dressing room was a canvas tent that, in Hamilton’s words, was “simply awful.” But Billie Burke, who portrayed Glinda the Good Witch, had her own thin slice of pink-and-blue-hued heaven on the MGM lot that was probably decorated by Glinda hersel...
At 10 years old, Shirley Temple fit the little-girl profile of Dorothy Gale much more than the teenaged Judy Garland. She was also a box office sensation who could guarantee packed movie houses. So it made good business sense that some of The Wizard of Oz's producers were considering the child star for the role. But the official reason for why Temp...
Today, it would be considered abuse and grounds for immediate dismissal. But 76 years ago, slapping your star across the face was not only condoned, it actually produced results. When Judy Garland couldn’t get her giggles under control when Bert Lahr’s Cowardly Lion made his big entrance, director Victor Fleming didn’t have time to play games. He t...
When Dorothy and her friends arrive in the Emerald City, they take a scenic tour around the fun-filled town courtesy of a cabbie and his Horse of a Different Color. In order to achieve the horse’s purple, then red, then yellow hue, the production team created a Jell-O-based tint that wouldn’t be harmful to the animals on set (yep, the ASPCA was inv...
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Jun 22, 2021 · Outrageously, it was also reported that on the set of the film, director Victor Fleming slapped the actress for having trouble with a scene.
TIL Director Victor Fleming took 17 year old Judy Garland aside and slapped her in the face while telling her 'Now darling, this is serious" because she couldn't stop laughing during the scene where Dorothy meets the Lion in "The Wizard of Oz"
Dec 22, 2008 · On Fleming's way with talent in The Wizard of Oz: "When [Judy] Garland couldn't stop breaking into giggles at the pseudomenacing advance of [Bert] Lahr's Cowardly Lion, Fleming escorted her...
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Aug 16, 2014 · Director Victor Fleming slapped Judy Garland when she wouldn’t stop giggling. Then she kissed him. Judy Garland went the pash with the director, as you do. In Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master, Michael Sragow wrote about the incident:
